Ziming was born in Hubei Province of China in 1995.
Master Degree
Minor Study
Bachelor of Arts
Education
2019 - 2024
Class of Prof. Bjørn Melhus
2017
Moved to Germany
2014 - 2017
Wuhan University, School of International Education(CN)
Management Studies
2013 - 2017
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (CN)
Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Studio 4
Methodology
In an era where technology not only produces culture but increasingly is culture, a comprehensive interdisciplinary inquiry is essential to examine the evolving relationship between technology and art in the digital age. Technological objects have assumed a quasi-subjective agency, with capabilities in certain domains surpassing those of humans. The direct generation of content by emerging technologies not only fosters novel aesthetic forms but also reconfigures the underlying logic and production processes of art. The objectification of data and the digitization of the object have become explicit realities, while digital images, as an internally integrated form, constitute a unified experiential entity, encapsulating the structural dynamics of the spectacle-driven cultural landscape.
My ongoing artistic practice and theoretical research focus on the mediality of digital images, examining their dual role as technological artifacts and aesthetic constructs. Methodologically, this research conceptualizes creativity as a production process in which both human and technological objects actively participate. Rather than being separate entities, humans and machines operate within an integrated system of creative production, where the human functions as the central processing unit (CPU), directing and engaging with technological processes. This perspective reframes artistic creation as an industrialized practice, blurring the boundaries between human agency and automated production while redefining the dynamics of creative labor in the digital age.
This approach reinforces the subjectivity of cultural creators, orchestrating human and non-human agencies to facilitate transformation. Here, transformation denotes both the process through which science and technology evolve into artistic expression and the assertion of human agency in an increasingly automated and algorithmically driven creative environment.
Photograph: Huizi Yao