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8GG is an artist group consisted of Fu Yu and Jia Haiqing. Both are China’ s leading new media artists. They were both born in 1971 and graduated from Beijing Normal University in 1994. Their works feature the interaction with audience by the help of technology. In 2006, their web concept project “Search Your Name” was the first online work the London ICA collected. In this special search engine, anybody who searches their names will find them become super stars with hundreds of thousands of results. In 2007, they had their V.I.P. room project displayed in Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary visual arts and film. The project let audience sit on enlarged computer keyboard, every time they sit down, the action will change the computer’s video play program so that “the story itself comes forth with unexpectable meanings”. The art work 8GG created for Nike Dunk “Be True” art exhibition, “the hearing memory related to colors”, sets up web cameras in certain places to catch and collect the colors from audience. Any color that matches with Dunk color system will lead to enormous chain reaction of screen colors and sounds. Thus every audience can possibly change the rhythm of video and sound, accompanied by the delicate change of lights, so that a spontaneous multimedia performance is formed.
Xu Wenkai, also known as aaajiao, is a computer visuals programmer, website designer and new media artist. He was born in 1984 in Xi’an but now lives Shanghai. In 2003, he founded cornersound.com , a sound art website. In 2006,he got inspiration from Régine Debatty’s blog “
we make money not art” and founded Chinese blog “we need money not art.” He is devoted to promote Processing, an open source software for visual programming, and Dorkbotbj, a non-profit intellectual organization for new media artists to communicate with themselves and the public. In 2006, he attended Chinese Blogger Conference; in 2007, he participated in DEAF 07, Shanghai eArts Festival and Get it Louder Exhibition. His work for Nike Dunk “Be True” art exhibition is based on the localization feature of Dunk shoes. It borrowed techniques from Wii and equipped Dunk shoes with Bluetooth controllers so that audience who wear these shoes can have a virtual walk on Google Earth. They become the controllers of the sound and video on spot. They are also players of the game. They can walk around the world in a second while getting to know the birth background of every Dunk shoes easily.
Chen Feibo, born in 1979 in Zhaoshan, Zhejiang Province. After he got a bachelor’s degree in fashion design, he switched to graphic design and got good performances. At the end of 2004, he founded Bobchen Graphic Design Office. In 2007, he became a partner and creative supervisor of BICO Brand. He works got selected by the 20th International Socio-political Poster Biennale, the 2nd Chinese International Poster Biennale, Get it Louder 07 and got collected by London V&A Museum. For the Nike Dunk “Be True” art exhibition, with another rising graphic designer, Li Jian, who is also from Zhejiang, he designed the visual part of Sports Everywhere, a motion graphics and sound art work. Oxidation, universe explosion, Inverse Proposition, the improvement of people’s living level…, all these are so called new sports. The concept of sports is broadened unlimitedly, and become one and another strong visual symbol exploded on screen. With thinking in a new angle, you will find the dull lessons can also be interesting. Li Jianhong, born in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, made the music for this work. He runs 2pi Records and organized 2pi Music Festival before. He is an important role in China’s experimental music. In October, 2004, he gave a performance in Nuit Blanche Art Festival in Paris and was praised by Zfbigniew Karkowski as “China’s best noise music artist”.
Gao Wendong, writer, independent film director. Born in 1973 in Dalian. His film Xihai City (2006) is a story happened in a small fishing village. A young guy from there sinks himself into the sea after his hometown is swallowed by the expanding economic development zone. The whole film is composed of a 30-minute-long single lens without any stop, very striking. The film was selected by Get it Louder 07 and became the beginning of his “Urban and Rural Trilogy”. The second one of the trilogy Sweet Food City was out in 2007. The background is the semi-slum area in a development zone in Dalian. It shows the life of the lowlifes, prostitutes, drifters …in this once-prosperous-but-now-deserted area. This film helped Gao Wendong get on the New Film Forum of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival. His 10-minute short film Nike Dunk at Sweet Food City continues to show the denizens of this decayed area: chefs, secondhand landlord, drifters, shop assistants….every denizen in Sweet Food City can get a chance for a shoot of the basketball by signing up. Those who shoot the ball into the net can get a pair of Dunk shoes as prize. The game is set up but what impacts and emotions Nike will bring to the residents there are authentic and unpredictable.
Ray Lei, 22 years old, rising new generation animation artist with his hands on graphic design, illustration, short cartoon, graffiti and hip-hop music also. In 2005, he already founded design group “Raydesign Studio” when still in school and got the golden prize in Zongri Cup design competition. In 2007, he got a bachelor’s degree in animation from Qsinghua University and his animation THE FACE was awarded the Best Art Design in International Animation Festival. Another animation of his, Border Project , was shown in 2007 Shenzhen & HongKong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture. He now continues his study as a graduate student in Qsinghua University. In his work for Nike Dunk “Be True” art exhibition, Moon Landing Plan, the launching process which is supposed to be serious becomes ridiculous due to the exaggerating and distortion of images. The leaders all got so drunk after they made their show before media. The moon landing plan seems more like a stunt. In the gloomy city, everybody is a maniac with a pear as their head. The spaceship is a huge pear also and threw itself into space by a big fart. The pear spaceman with Dunk shoes landed on the moon. One small step for him; one giant leap for mankind.
Li Hu, born in 1973, graduated from Qsinghua University in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. Then he continued study in the US and got a master’s degree in architecture in Rice Univeristy. Since 2000, he has been working in Steven Holl Architects. From 2005, he became partner of its Beijing office and Asian projects. Huang Wening, born in 1973. In 1999, she got a master’s degree in architecture in Princeton University. From 1999 to 2006, she worked at Pei Cobb Freed Architects. As thinking exercise for free time, in 2002, the two founded OPEN Architecture in New York. Yang Chao, born in 1980, graducated from Sichuan Fine Art Institute in 2000. He used to work for Ai Weiwei and Zhu Pei before he joined OPEN Architecture. This time they work together to design the exhibition space for Nike Dunk “Be True” art exhibition. The design itself is a participant work for the exhibition also. The structure of the exhibition space is like a mobius strip. It got bended and folded to form a theatre-like exhibition space. It not only enlarges the scope of the audience but also the exhibition space. The mobius strip will direct the audience to move forward automatically. The audience will never get lost and when they reach the end they find they are back to the beginning again.
Ying Liang, born in 1977 in Shanghai, studied film in Fine Arts Department of Beijing Normal University and then got a bachelor’s degree in directing in Chongqing Film Academy. Such change of locations helps him thoroughly observe and understand the difference of economy, life styles and spirits between the east and the west, which is reflected in his works. In 2005, he made his first narrative long film Taking Father Home. It’s about a 17-year-old village boy who went to town to look for his dad who abandoned the family 6 years ago. The film cost less than RMB 100,000 to shoot but got great success internationally. It has won awards in five international film festivals including the Special Jury Prize of Tokyo FILMeX Film Festival (2005) and the SKYY award of San Francisco International Film Festival (2006). It also got shown in and collected by MoMA in New York. In 2006, his second long film The Other Half was out and has won awards in four international film festival including Jeonju International Film Festival (2007). His third long film Good Cats is just finished. The work Ying Liang takes to Nike Dunk “Be True” art festival is a 10-minute short film I Love Lakers, shot in Zigong, Sichuan Province. It’s about a boy who loves playing basketball gets trouble from both his alcoholic dad and teachers. His dream now faces challenges…
Zhou Hongxiang, born in 1969 in Dongtai, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Fine Arts Department of East China Normal University and now teaches in Shanghai Normal University. He is very active in experimental video field with works widely recognized abroad. In 2002, his experimental film The Red Flag Flies got participated in New Territories part of Venus International Film Festival in 2002 and was nominated for the WERKLEITZ award in the 4th International Media Art Festival in Berlin. There is no story telling in this film, only the mixture of performers shouting slogans and symbolic images. This is a try of new film concepts and language from him and also the beginning of his search for new media art. He has participated in European media art festival from 2004 to 2007, the 9th Friesland Media Art Festival in Netherland and the 51st International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen. In 2007, his new media work in DEAF07, Chinese Portraiture planned over 30 screens on which the video can be initiated by audience. The work he made for Nike Dunk “Be True” art exhibition, Walking Time continues to use conceptual film language to have a new way to talk about the meanings of basketball and skateboard games.
