i Generation by Ye-Feng Wang

i 時代 i Generation

王業豐 Ye-Feng Wang

i 時代

王業豐

i Generation

Ye-Feng Wang

Art Projects Gallery 9 - 24 August 2014

Unit S510, 5/F, Block A, PMQ 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong Open daily 11am to 8pm

藝途畫廊 2014年8月9日至24日 香港中環鴨巴甸街35號 元創方A座5樓S510 室 每日開放 上午11時至下午8時 3

i Generation

Ye-Feng Wang

CONTENTS Preface

Ray Vees Goh Co-founder of Art Projects Gallery

Artist’s statement

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Works

Well Disciplined Kids

| 12 - 15

Rapid Prototype of A Figure I

| 18 -1 9

A Figure

Rapid Prototype of A Figure II Rapid Prototype of A Figure III

Biography

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| 16 - 17 | 20 | 21

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i 時代

王業豐

目録 序

敖若威

藝途畫廊聯合創辦人

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藝術家自述

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作品

《訓練有素的小孩》

| 12 - 15

《一個人物》

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《一個人物之快速樣板 I》

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《一個人物之快速樣板 II》

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《一個人物之快速樣板 III》

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履歴

| 23 - 27

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i Generation

Ye-Feng Wang

Art Projects Gallery is delighted and honored to have the opportunity to present New York based Chinese artist Wang Ye-Feng’s inaugural gallery solo exhibition, titled “i Generation”.

Prior to this, Ye-Feng’s cutting edge works have mainly been exhibited only in museums and other prestigious academic venues. These include the Co-prosperity Sphere Culture Center in Chicago, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Xuzhou Museum of Art China, The Museum of Luxun Academy of Art (Shenyang, China) and 99 Art Space at Shanghai University.

An innovative artist using the digital media and currently leading the Digital Media Program at Rhode Island College as an Assistant Professor, Wang Ye-Feng’s works feature virtual worlds and imaginary characters created by the artist to raise issues about the real world that are close to his heart. The “i Generation” solo exhibition showcases two of his important video installation works, “Well-Disciplined Kids” and “A Figure”.

“Well-disciplined Kids” is a 6-channels video art (also available in limited edition Archival Pigment Print mounted in Diasec) made in MAYA virtual modeling and animation program. The series feature dehumanized “made in China” children, devoid of facial expressions, personalities and emotions. As a way to reinforce his own identity and seeing himself to be one of the children, the artist digitally mapped his own face and applied it as a facial texture onto the child characters. The juxtaposition of the children characters innocently playing with surreal animal-headed female figures, a broken tv set, jet fighter and military tank set against a backdrop of desolate, barren terrain, reflects the artist’s view of the dilemma facing modern Chinese people’s “psychological world in an absurd environment”.

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In his video art piece (also available in limited edition Archival Pigment Print mounted in Diasec) titled “A Figure�, Ye-Feng took photos of himself in various postures, wearing an animal head that comprises of a pig skull and deer antlers (a combination that constitutes the symbol of a dragon in Chinese culture based on ancient Chinese mythology). The body postures and gestures in the composition took references from Renaissance paintings, as a memory of how the artist was systematically trained in western classical styles at art schools in China.

Digitally making multiple duplicates of his own image, each image becomes his digital avatar carrying the same emotions and thoughts. Composed in a chaotic-looking arrangement, all the figures moving in extreme slow-motion, the artist fabricates a neurotic field in which the viewers can be engaged to participate in this contemplation.

Goh Ray Vees Co-Founder of Art Projects Gallery

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i 時代

王業豐

藝途畫廊榮幸舉辦藝術家，王業豐，在畫廊的首度個展《 i 時代》。業豐是一名長年定居美國紐約的中國藝術家。

在這之前，業豐前衛的作品僅限於博物館和其他著名的学术场地展出過。其中包括芝加哥的Co-prosperity Sphere Culture

Center 、美國聖達菲的El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe、中國徐州美術館、中國瀋陽的魯迅美術學院博物館和上海大學美術學院 99創意中心。

一位富有創意的數碼媒體藝術家，與此同時目前在美國羅德島學院的數碼媒體課程擔任助理教授；業豐的作品特徵包含了藝

術家所創造的虛擬世界和想像的人物，對心心相關的現實世界提出問題。《 i 時代》展示業豐兩件主要的視頻安裝作品，“訓練 有素的小孩”(Well-Disciplined Kids) 和“一個人物”（A Figure）。

“訓練有素的小孩”(Well-Disciplined Kids) 是採用MAYA虛擬建模和動畫節目製作，由6個視頻組合而成的藝術視頻裝置（

同時也會有限量版檔案質量數碼打印紙本供出售）。這個系列的作品展現了機械化、缺乏面部表情、個性和情感的“中國製造” 的小孩們。為加強自己身份的特徵，同時覺得自己就像是其中的一個小孩，藝術家利用數碼媒體構造出自己的臉孔，並應用於作 為小孩面部的紋理結構。從作品中，可以看到小孩們無知的與各個人物或事物玩鬧，包括超現實的動物頭女性人物、一個破碎的 電視機、噴氣式戰鬥機和軍用坦克穿插荒涼，貧瘠的地形背景播放相拼，體現了藝術家認為現代中國人面對“荒謬環境下的心裏 世界”。 8

在業豐的“一個人物”(A Figure) 的視頻作品（也會有限量版檔案質量數碼打印紙本），他利用自己的身體，帶上豬腦殼加

上鹿角的“頭盔”（豬腦殼加上鹿角的組合在中國文化裏是龍的象徵，源自于中國古代神話），拍下無數個動作和姿勢，再利用 電腦技術將各個動作逐一組合起來。身體動作和姿勢的組合，取自于文藝復興時期的畫作，從中表達作為藝術家，曾在中國藝術 學校學習西方古典風格時，所經歷的系統式培訓。重複性的採用自己的圖像，每個圖像成為他的數字化身帶著同樣的情緒和想法。 看似混亂的組合排列，每個個體在極端的慢動作下移動，藝術家意圖編織一個神經磁场帶引觀眾加入這股沈思的氛圍。

敖若威 藝途畫廊－聯合創辦人

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i Generation

Ye-Feng Wang

Artist’s Statement I work with my two biggest addictions – digital visual culture and the ecstasy of superficiality. The fascination with digital virtual images for art making does not derive only from exploring the alluring possibilities, but also working with its problematic limitations. The digital virtual world is cold and isolated but never lack of fun experiment. The superficiality of consumerism is absurd, spectacle, overwhelming, and actually profound and condensed. Both of them are the sequence of calculation for utmost efficiency; Both of them are the glamour and outrage inherent in the system of mathematical binary.

My digital avatars are the products of the system of mathematical binary, and created as my personal incarnation.They are consistently cold, emotionless, impersonal, aberrant, narcissistic, ecstatic, and mass-reproduced. The fascination with my virtual characters comes from the fact that they eternally pursue a status of peaceful meditation but always end up as neurotic grotesques. They contain fragments from the society I live in, navigate through it, and assist me with the process of exploration. I am able to give my virtual characters the most honest expression of coldness and absurdity with the typical problematic imperfections of the digital media I utilize.

My narrative is an uncanny complex of my Chinese foundational inheritance, a blurred memory of political outrageousness, and the extensive influence of Westernized consumerism. The juxtaposition of these seemingly contradictory facts reflects me as a Chinese who is immersed in the vortex of a social dilemma.

Ye-Feng Wang 10

2014

i 時代

王業豐

藝術家自述 我發展兩個我最沉迷的嗜好──數碼視覺文化和對表面性的著迷。數碼虛擬 影像藝術創作的魅力不單可以探索其誘人的可能性，相反的它的問題也正好是 它的局限性。數碼虛擬世界是冷漠和孤獨的，但從來不缺少好玩的實驗。消費 主義的膚淺是荒謬的景象、壓倒性的、深刻而簡明。兩者都是根據計算順序以 達到最大的效率；兩者亦是數學二進制系統固有的魅力和憤慨。

我的敘述是我所繼承的不可思議的複雜的中華民族基礎，對野蠻無理的

政治的模糊記憶，以及西方消費主義的廣泛影響。這些相抵觸的事實的並列， 反映了沉浸在這充滿社會矛盾漩渦，身為中國人的我。

王業豐 2014

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訓練有素的小孩 Well-Disciplined Kids 6 Channels Video Installation Limited Edition of 10 + 2 AP 2012

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訓練有素的小孩 Well-Disciplined Kids Archival Pigment Print, Diasec 42 x 225 cm Limited Edition of 10 + 2 AP 2012 15

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一個人物 A Figure Video Installation Limited Edition of 10 + 2 AP Archival Pigment Print, Diasec 70 x 206cm Limited Edition of 10 + 2 AP 129 x 380cm Limited Edition of 4 2009 17

一個人物之快速樣板 I Rapid Prototype of A Figure I Stainless Steel, 30 x 15 Dia cm Limited Edition of 25 + 3AP 2014 18

一個人物之快速樣板 I Rapid Prototype of A Figure I ABS Plastic 30 x 15 Dia cm Limited Edition of 25 + 3 AP 2012 19

一個人物之快速樣板 II Rapid Prototype of A Figure II ABS Plastic 30 x 20 x 20 cm Limited Edition of 25 + 3 AP 2012 20

一個人物之快速樣板 III Rapid Prototype of A Figure III ABS Plastic 30 x 20 x 20 cm Limited Edition of 25 + 3 AP 2012 21

i Generation

Ye-Feng Wang

About Ye-Feng Wang Ye-Feng Wang is a new media artist. He was born in 1984, in Shanghai, China. In summer 2011, he finished his MFA studies in Art and Technology Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). After graduation, he started teaching and helping develop digital related courses in the Department of Film, Video New Media and Animation as well as Art and Technology Studies at SAIC as an instructor. He currently teaches in the Art Department and leads the Digital Media Program at Rhode Island College as an Assistant Professor.

Ye-Feng actively pursues his artistic career in both China and America, and continues think and work critically across the medias among Experimental 3D, video installation, Performance in Virtual Environment, and Art Game. Ye-Feng has had extensive experience exhibiting and working in prestigious venues internationally, which include InVisible (Co-prosperity Sphere Culture Center, Chicago, IL), Currents 2012, Santa Fe International New Media Festival (El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM), Hypercapitalism – East meets West (Herald Square, NY), Power of Copying (Xuzhou Museum of Art, China), and Impersonal - solo exhibition of Ye-Feng Wang (HEREarts Center, New York, NY), etc. In May and June, 2013, Ye-Feng did There is A Body On Screen! and Post-photography, two exhibitions that feature the latest new media works by him at The Museum of Luxun Academy of Art (Shenyang, China) and 99 Art Space at Shanghai University. He was also a residency artist in New York Artist Residency and Studios Foundation from July to September, 2013.

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i 時代

王業豐

藝術家簡介 王業豐是一位新媒體藝術家。1984年出生於中國上海。2011年的夏天，業豐於芝加哥的School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), 藝術和科技部門，完成碩士學位。繼畢業後，他開始在該校的影片、錄影新媒體和動畫部門以及藝術和科技部門擔任講師及其數碼有關課 程的發展。他目前在Rhode Island College 的藝術部門任教，並在該校的數碼媒體課程擔任助理教授。

業豐活躍於中國和美國的藝術領域，不斷的思考和認真的研討各個媒體創作工作，包括3D實驗、視頻裝置、虛擬環境的表現和藝術遊戲。 業豐與各個國際著名的展館合作並展覽已有豐富的經驗，其中包括InVisible（Co-prosperity Sphere Culture Center, 芝加哥）、 Currents 2012, Santa Fe International New Media Festival (El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe,聖塔菲,美国新墨西哥州)、 Hypercapitalism – East meets West (美國紐約的先驅廣場)、複製的力量（徐州美術館）以及Impersonal –王業豐個展 (Here Arts Centre, 美國紐約)等等。2013年的5月和6月，業豐在中國瀋陽的魯迅美術學院博物館和上海大學美術學院99創意中心分別舉辦了兩個 展覽“There is A Body On Screen!” 和“Post-photography”，展示業豐最新的新媒體作品。2013年的7月至9月，業豐也是美國紐約 NARS Foundation的駐場藝術家。

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WANG YE-FENG 1984

Born in Shanghai, China. Currently works and resides in New York

Educations 2011

Master of Fine Arts, Art and Technology Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2007

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University

2006

Certificate of Summer Design Course, Rhode Island School of Design

Solo Exhibitions 2014

i Generation, Art Projects Gallery, Hong Kong

2013

Yefeng Wang: Impersonal, HEREArts Center, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions 2013

Art Sanya, Hainan Province, China

Constellations, NARS foundation, Brooklyn, NY

Transmutation, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NYPost-Photographies, 99 Art Space of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

There is A Body on Screen!, Museum of Luxun Academy of Art, Shenyang, China

Artwork 6 Faculty Exhibition, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USASolo exhibition: Yefeng Wang: Impersonal, HEREArts Center, New York, USA

2012

ArtExpo Miami, Miami, USA

InVisible, Co-prosperity Sphere Culture Center, Chicago, USA

Currents 2012, Santa Fe International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA

100 Years, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, USA

2011

Mischief, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA

Time and Space, R&D Gallery, Chicago, USA

Asian Artists Art Festival, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea

Videos on the Front, Interstate Projects, New York, USA

Hypercapitalism-East Meets West, Herald Square, New York, USA

Sexier, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, USA

Communicative Commonality, Boomerang space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Displacement, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, USA

Passive Wave, LG space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

2010

Channel, Channel, Channel, Channel, Channel, Channel, Channel, Channel, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, USA

Effervescent Condition, Gallery X at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Power of Copying, Xuzhou Museum of Art, Xuzhou, China

Adhocity, Op Shop, Hyde Park, IL, USA

2009

33 Gallery Annual Exhibition, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, USA

Around the Coyote, Chicago, USA 2008

Spring Show, San Francisco, USA 2007

Shanghai Youth Biennial, Shanghai, China

UBS Great China Conference Gala Evening Exhibition, Shanghai, China

Artists Residency 2013

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New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Honor/Awards 2012

“CAAP” Grant, through the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events 2011

The Leadership Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2010

World Less Traveled Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2009

Enrichment Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2008

The Best Mixed Media Prize, Spring Show, San Francisco

2007

Gangtian Tailiu Scholarship, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University

Selected Publications/Lectures 2013

Artist Lecture and Panel Discussion, Convergence Symposium, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island

There is a Body on Screen: Reflections on Humanity in Contemporary Computer Aided Art, Lecture at Fines Arts College of Shanghai University, Shanghai,China

2013

There is a Body on Screen: Reflections on Humanity in Contemporary Computer Aided Art, Lecture at Luxun Academy of Art, Shenyang, China

2012

Radio Interview: Speaking of the Arts, Santa Fe Radio Cafe Broadcasting, Santa Fe, NM, USA, Interview by Mary-Charlotte

Exhibition Catalog: Currents 2012, Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Parallel Studios, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Exhibition Preview: InVisible, F News Magazine, Chicago, USA interview by Sunglim Han

X Zine magazine, issue 5, X Zine Publication, USA

2011

Exhibition Catalog: Asian Artists Art Festival, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea

Brown Bag Lecture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

2010

Effervescent Condition, Art 21 Blog: How do we Experience Art, by Allison Glenn

Exhibition Catalog: Power of Copying, Xuzhou Museum of Art, Xuzhou, China

Dorkbot Lecture, Enemy Sound, Chicago, USA

A Figure, Pengcheng Evening News, China

2009

The Eroded 10x10’, TimeOut Magazine, Chicago, USA

Report of the Public project Dai Anlan, Wen Hui Daily, China

Report of the Scan Exhibition and the images of Sculpture, Xinmin Evening News, China

Exhibition catalog: The First China Modern Academic Handicraft Exhibition, Beijing, China Artists Residency

2013

New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Academic Experience 2013 – present

Art Department, Rhode Island College, Assistant Professor, Digital Media Curriculum, Providence, Rhode Island

Bannister Gallery, Committee member, Providence, Rhode Island

2011-2013

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty, Department of Film, Video New Media and Animation, Chicago, Illinois, Helped developing and teaching

Experimental 3D courses (Digital Body Performed, Sculpture in Virtual Environment, and Intro to Experimental 3D class)

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty, Art and Technology Studies, Chicago, Illinois (Experimental Game Lab)

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty, Continuing Studies , Chicago, Illinois, Developing and teaching Toy Design/3D Modeling, and Video

Game, Design class

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Co-teaching, Art and Technology Studies, Chicago, Illinois, Co-taught Immersive Environment class; Instructed

students on 3D modeling/animation, Unity 3D, virtual reality and conceptualization

2009-2011

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Teaching Assistant (Contemporary Practice – coreclass)

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Teaching Assistant (Sculpture)

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Advisor of Chinese Artists Association

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王業豐 1984

出生於中國上海，現於美國紐約生活及工作

教育經歴 2011 2007 2006

美國芝加哥藝術學院，藝術與技術研究，藝術碩士 上海大學美術學院，雕塑學士 羅德島設計學院，暑期證書設計課程

個人展覽 2014 2013

《i 時代》，藝途畫廊，香港 《王業豐：客觀的》，HEREArts center，美國，紐約

群展 2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008 2007

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《三亞市藝術》，中國，海南省 《星座》，NARS Foundation，紐約,布魯克林 《蛻變》，肥皂盒畫廊，紐約，布魯克林 《後·攝影》，上海大學99藝術空間，中國，上海 《有一個屏幕在身體上》魯迅美術學院美術館，中國，沉陽 《藝術品6系列展覧》，芝加哥藝術學院，美國 《邁阿密ArtExpo》，美國，邁阿密 《看不見》，共榮圈文化中心，美國，芝加哥 《電流2012，聖達菲國際新媒體藝術節》，聖達菲薩爾瓦多文化博物館，美國，聖達菲 《100年》，Gene Siskel Film Center，美國，芝加哥 《惡作劇》，海德公園藝術中心，美國，芝加哥 《時間和空間》，R&D畫廊 ，美國 ，芝加哥 《亞洲藝術家藝術節》，洪益大學，韓國，首爾 《影片在前面》，跨境項目，美國 ，紐約 《Hypercapitalism-East Meets West》，Herald Square，紐約，美國 《性感》，Zhou B. Art Center，美國 ，芝加哥 《溝通的共同性》，迴旋鏢空間，芝加哥藝術學院，美國，芝加哥 《替換》，33 Collective Gallery，美國，芝加哥 《無源波》，LG電子的空間，芝加哥藝術學院，美國，芝加哥 《通道，通道，通道，通道，通道，通道，通道，通道》，沙利文畫廊，美國，芝加哥 《沸騰的條件》，芝加哥藝術學院畫廊X，美國，芝加哥 《複製的力量》，徐州藝術博物館，中國，徐州 《Adhocity》，Op Shop，海德公園，美國 《33畫廊年展》，Zhou B. Art Center，美國，芝加哥 《周圍的土狼》，美國，芝加哥 《春季展》，美國，三藩市 《上海青年雙年展》，中國，上海 《瑞銀集團中國研討會晚展》，中國，上海

藝術家居留計劃 2013

紐約藝術家居住和工作室基金會，紐約，布魯克林

榮譽/獎項 2012 2011

2008 2007

「CAAP」Grant，芝加哥市文化局和特別活動 領導獎，美國芝加哥藝術學院 World Less Travelled Grant，芝加哥藝術學院 語文獎學金，芝加哥藝術學院 最佳混合媒體獎，春季展，三藩市 Gangtian Tailiu 獎學金，上海大學美術學院

論文/演講 2013

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2010

2009

藝術家講座和小組討論，融合研討會，羅得島大學，普羅維登斯， 羅得島 有一個屏幕在身體上：當代電腦輔助藝術反影人文思考，上海大學美術學院講，中國 座，上海 有一個屏幕在身體上：當代電腦輔助藝術反影人文思考 ，魯迅美術學院講座，中國，沉陽 電台專訪：說到藝術，聖達菲電台咖啡廣播，由瑪麗 - 夏洛特採訪，美國，聖達菲 展覽目錄：電流2012年，聖達菲國際新媒體藝術節，並行工作室，美國，聖達菲 展會預覽：隱形，F新聞雜誌，由Sunglim Han採訪，美國芝加哥 E Zine雜誌，第5期，X Zine出版，美國 年展會目錄：亞洲藝術家藝術節，洪益大學，韓國，首爾 棕色袋子講座，芝加哥藝術學院，美國 ，芝加哥 沸騰的條件，藝術21博客：我們如何體驗藝術，由格倫·阿利森採訪 展覽目錄：複印的力量，中國徐州藝術博物館，中國，徐州 Dorkbot講座，敵人的聲音，美國，芝加哥 一個人物，彭城晚報，中國 侵蝕10×10，TimeOut Magazine，美國,芝加哥 公共工程報告戴安瀾，文匯報，中國 掃描展覽和雕塑的照片報告，新民晚報，中國 展覽圖錄：首屆中國現代手工藝學院展，北京，中國

學術經歴 2013－今

2013－2011

羅得島大學 藝術系，助理教授，數碼媒體課程，普羅維登斯， 羅得島 班尼斯特畫廊 委員，普羅維登斯，羅得島 芝加哥藝術學院，電影，新視頻媒體和動畫系，芝加哥，伊利諾伊州，協助開發和教學實驗的3D課程（數碼人體演出，虛擬環境 雕塑，介紹3D實驗） 芝加哥藝術學院，藝術與技術的研究系，美國芝加哥，伊利諾伊州（實驗遊戲實驗室）

2011－2009

芝加哥藝術學院，伊利諾伊州芝加哥市的學校， 玩具設計/ 3D建模和視頻遊戲開發和教學，設計班 芝加哥藝術學院，伊利諾伊州，藝術與技術的研，聯合教學沉浸環境班;指導學生在3D建模/動畫，結合3D，虛擬現實和概念化 芝加哥藝術學院，教學助理（當代實踐 - 核心班） 芝加哥藝術學院，教學助理（雕塑） 芝加哥藝術學院，中國美術家協會顧問

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i 時代

王業豐

i Generation

Ye-Feng Wang

i Generation by Ye-Feng Wang i 時代 • 王業豐 First published in 2014

by Art Projects Gallery This book was published for the occasion of the exhibition “i Generation” by Ye-Feng Wang at Art Projects Gallery, Hong Kong, 9 - 24 August 2014 Curated by Ray Vees Goh, Anng Tan Designed by Art Projects Gallery © 2014 Art Projects Gallery and Ye-Feng Wang All rights reserved.

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