AN XIAO 3.0

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.

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.