An’s forays into social media and Internet-based art, including her commissions with the Brooklyn Museum and Media Arts Scotland. This represents An’s ongoing efforts to explore digital identity and social interactivity in the sphere of 21st century communications technology and to understand the underlying human impulses behind Internet usage. “3.0″ is a reference to software upgrades in computers and represents a fusion of An’s literary, conceptual and artistic work into Internet-inspired and Internet-based pieces that are highly conceptual. Click to view.
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Once the province of radicals and hippies, the welfare of the natural world is coming to the fore as a key concern of the 21st century. As evidence of climate change grows, politicians and citizens alike are paying more attention to their actions and policies and their impact on the environment. In this series, An Xiao looks at moments in nature imbued with a poetic impermanence threatened by even subtle changes in the global environment. Click to view.
In the streethaiku series, An specifically seeks to marry the haiku concepts of aware and yugen with Cartier-Bresson’s decisive moment, to at once capture the inherent transience of city life and the moments of awe in which urban dwellers sometimes find themselves. Through her work, she wants to present the idea that life in the worlds’ megacities can be delicate and impermanent, both in day to day reality and over the course of years of gentrification or decay. Click to view.
Ongoing Work
For An, photography is as much a spiritual-meditative practice as it is an aesthetic-intellectual one. She carries her camera with her everywhere in every day, in subways, up avenues, down freeways and all around. On her personal blog, she regularly posts photo essays with her most recent photography and digital art projects, alongside personal life updates and general thoughts about the emerging 21st century culture. Many of the photos from her blog eventually make it into the formal series featured above. Click to view her blog or just the photo essays.