Published at ARTnews.com, February 2004
With the introduction of digital photography and high-tech printing facilities in China in the 1990s, a new generation of artists immediately embraced photo-based media as the perfect means for expressing the changes taking place around them.
The face of the new China is not the medical masks spawned by the SARS [...]

Delivered at the Zooming into Focus symposium “Envisioning the Future of Contemporary Art from Different Glocal Positions”, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China, March 2004
It was in 1988 when Zhang Peili realized his 30 X 30, one of the first examples of Chinese video art. 30 X 30, a two hour sequence showing the artist breaking [...]

Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, March 2006
The Haudenschild Collection focuses solely on the media of photography and video. In this respect, it is unique among the increasing number of collections of contemporary art from China. Starting in the late 1990s, Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild travelled regularly to China and slowly acquainted themselves with local [...]

San Diego Union Tribune, February 2004
On one wall in SDSU’s University Art Gallery is a video of a crowd moving at a typical pace down the street. On another, a facing wall, we see the image of a woman. She takes in a lot of air and blows hard. Then, life on the streets of [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Photography became art again in China in the late 1970s and 1980s. Whereas this visual technology was largely reduced to a propaganda tool during the first thirty years of the People’s Republic, it reconnected with individual expression after the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was over. The April Photographic Society [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Contemporary art in China reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena. Chinese artists are gaining international recognition for their potent artworks that address a rapidly changing society; influenced by Western ideals and art practice, their creative production nevertheless remains [...]