CHIEF CURATOR

TAIKANG

Co-curator of the exhibition. Tang Xin serves as the Head of the Art Collection Department of Taikang Insurance Group, the art director and curator of Taikang Art Museum. She was active in Beijing as an independent curator since 1997, organizing a series of local contemporary art exhibitions while fostering art exchanges with Europe. She joined Taikang Insurance Group in 2003, founded Taikang Space, Upgraded to Taikang Art Museum in 2023, and has led it to be one of China’s most dynamic non-profit art institutions. As Head of its Art Collection Department, Tang has spent over two decades building a corporate collection that is both industry-leading and of significant scale and art historical value.

CO - CURATOR

GOLDSMITHS

William Latham is well known for his pioneering Organic Computer Art created in the late eighties and early nineties whilst a Research Fellow at IBM in Winchester. His book “Evolutionary Art and Computers” on interactive evolutionary art covering the period at IBM is cited as a leading publication in this domain.

From 1993 for thirteen years, initially he worked in Rave Music video production, album cover design and visual stage design and then moved into computer games development leading two development studios games published by Universal Studios, Virgin Interactive and Konami.

In 2007 he became a Professor in Computing at Goldsmiths University of London. From 2016 his Mutator VR Art Experience developed with long term collaborator Stephen Todd, with Lance Putnam and Peter Todd has been exhibited to much acclaim at museums and galleries in Linz, Shanghai, Brussels, Kyoto, Venice, Dusseldorf, London and in St. Petersburg (linked to The Hermitage Museum) and Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

William is an Honorary Research Fellow at The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL and has a BA from Oxford University and an MA from The Royal College of Art.

CO-CURATOR

TAIKANG

Co-Curator of the exhibition. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The Cooper Union in New York in 1999 and a master’s degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia in 2004. Zhou is a senior curator active in Beijing.

ACADEMIC CHAIR AND MODERATOR

GOLDSMITHS

Frederic works on creativity and AI systems, including robots which can perform with artistic skills similar to expert humans.

He also conducts work with specialists in the biosciences, helping to develop interactive computer environments (occasionally in the form of serious games) to facilitate the study of complex biomolecular problems (folding, docking).

Frederic has a long term interest in shape understanding where he combines knowledge from perception, vision science, AI, the visual arts. Frederic joined Goldsmiths in 2004, when he launched an MSc in Arts Computing.

Outside academia, Frederic leads the consulting activity London Geometry in partnership with Prof. William Latham.

CONSULTANT

TAIKANG

Multimedia Artist, Interdisciplinary Researcher. Han Yajuan holds a bachelor's and master's degree in oil painting from the China Academy of Art and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, respectively. She earned her PhD in Art and Computational Technology from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Han Yajuan's work explores the dynamic relationships between humans, non-living entities, and their environments, with a particular focus on the potential of multiagent narratives in future ecologies. Her work spans various media, including painting, video installations, GameArt, AI, and VR. Yajuan excels in adopting computational technology to break the limits of the body and physical space, creating alternative perspectives for audiences within immersive virtual environments. Han Yajuan has exhibited in many art institutions around the world, and also collaborated with multiple leading brands.

LEAD PRODUCER

TAIKANG

Researcher at the Taikang Art Museum in Beijing and a current Ph.D. candidate in the School of Humanities at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (specializing in visual culture studies). Research focuses on cross-media practices, indigenous approaches, and international exchanges in Chinese modern and contemporary art since the 20th century.

许崇宝

北京泰康美术馆研究员，中央美术学院人文学院在读博士（视觉文化研究），

研究方向为20世纪以来的中国现当代艺术的跨媒介实践、本土路径与国际交流

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EXHIBITION DESIGNER / ARTWORKS COORDINATOR for CMB

TAIKANG

Jiarui (Tina) Wu is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, specializing in exhibition spatial design with a focus on AI-driven art. She earned her Master of Design degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a visiting fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the supervision of Professor William Latham.

吴佳芮
展示设计/展品协调
吴佳芮，清华大学美术学院博士研究生在读，专注于以人工智能艺术为核心的展览空间设计研究。她获得了罗德岛设计学院（RISD）设计硕士学位，并曾作为访问学者在伦敦大学金史密斯学院计算机系进行交流学习，合作导师为William Latham教授。

ORGANISER

TAIKANG  

Linlin Wang is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Design at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, and holds a master's degree in Art Theory from Renmin University of China. Previously, she was a  visiting student in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the supervision of Prof. William Latham and Prof. Frederic Fol Leymarie. Linlin is also an Exhibition Organizer for the Creative Machine Beijing 2024. Her research interests include AI and computer art, media culture, and exhibition narrative design and she has published papers in journals such as Art & Design.  

王琳琳是同济大学设计创意学院设计学博士研究生，拥有中国人民大学艺术学硕士学位，曾是伦敦大学金史密斯学院访问学生，导师为William Latham 教授和 Frederic Fol Leymarie 教授。王琳琳也是2024年北京创意机器展览的组织者，她的研究兴趣关注人工智能和计算机艺术、媒体文化和展览叙事设计方向，相关文章发表于《装饰》等期刊。

WEBSITE AND GRAPHICS DESIGN

THE NEW SCHOOL, NY

Daisy graduated from Camberwell College of Art, UAL, continuing her education with an MFA at The New School, New York in 2021. Over the past seven years she has exhibited in the UK, USA, Italy, France and Russia. In 2018, Daisy showed her Augmented Reality interactive work at the Tate’s and BFI pop up shows. In 2019 Daisy showed AR Video Art and Sculptures in St Petersburg, Russia, in an exhibition curated by Russian Media Arts Group Cyland (partnered with Hermitage Museum). In 2020 Daisy was awarded an Artists-Network Grant to support her digital practice-based research. She continues her practiced based research whilst on a year long residency at Blackpool Arts college - using a 360 Igloo Vision and the Hub.

Alongside her art practice, Daisy has taught Fine Art, AI for Creativity and Games Design at leading University institutions: The New School, New York; The University of Brighton; and The University of Cumbria.