aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) is one of China's foremost digital artists, bloggers and free culture developers. In 2006 he founded the Chinese take on the blog we-make-money-not-art: We Need Money Not Art. Born in 1984 in Xi'an City, he now resides in Beijing.
Having been invited to Documenta in 1997 and 2002, Feng Mengbo is recognised as one of China's leading media artists. As well as expressing socio-political critiques Mengbo's work negotiates intensely personal subject matter. His aesthetics are defined by the style, content and cultural implications of video games.
The experimental artist and musician Benjamin Laurent Aman is founder of the acclaimed label Razzle Dazzle and belongs to the duo Crystal Plumage. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
Originally from North England, Lord Cry Cry moved to Berlin almost 10 years ago setting up a small music studio in Kreuzberg. He has recently released a precious 7'' on Blunt Force Trauma Records, and writes and produces scores for film and documentary.
The composer and musician Charlemagne Palestine is closely affiliated with the minimalist music scene of the 1960s. And yet, his role is of a particular distinction since he is also one of the world's few trained carillonneurs. His pieces evolve gradually, wrapping up their listeners in hypnotic flows and rhythms.
Today Ben Huang is one of the most in-demand DJs in China. After training as a dancer, Huang began to pursue his music career sometimes in the 1990s when club scenes just started to come alive in Peking and Shanghai. Though self-taught he quickly managed to set crucial impulses for these scenes.
FM3 are active members of the Beijing music scene and considered pioneers of electronic music in China. FM3 produce mysterious, meditative and minimalist soundscapes, while subtly adding elements of Chinese folk tradition into a universe abundant in micro-sounds and synthetic glitches.
Martin Messier has a diploma in jazz percussion and a BA in Electroacoustic Composition. Based on strong aptitudes for rhythm, Martin’s aesthetics can be defined as a complex, leftfield and happily strange sound amalgamate constantly playing with construction and deconstruction.
In audiovisual performances and installations Andrea Lange explores the meaning of technologies in relation to our fragile world. She studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Rebecca Horn.
