2016
 
 
Introduction Of 2016 Prize Winners
First Prize Laura Oldfield Ford
Title: DETROIT:TECHNO CITY
Exhibition: DETROIT:TECHNO CITY

Laura Oldfield Ford is a London based artist and writer  concerned with issues surrounding contested space, urbanism, architecture and memory.
Her multidisciplinary practice investigates new forms of socio-political discourse that have arisen as a result of the radical reordering of urban space in the post-industrial era. 
Central to her practice is the dérive , a process of walking in order to map the psychic contours of the city.  She draws on her experiences as political activist and involvement in subcultural scenes, particularly protest movements. More recently the work has shifted into an intense scrutiny of religious zealotry, nationalism and class. 
She completed a BA at the Slade in 2001 and an MA in Painting at the RCA in 2007 .In 2013-2014 she was Stanley Picker Fellow at Kingston University. She is author  Savage Messiah ,Verso 2011 and is currently a researcher at the Royal College of Art.
 
 
Joint Second Prize YAO Mengxi
Title: Display and Escape——
Exhibition: Next Door
YAO Mengxi (b. 1985) lives and works in Shanghai. She involves into various aspects of Art such as curating, art criticism and participation-oriented / project-based practice. YAO co-founded Radical Space in 2014. She is awarded 2015 EMERGING CURATORS PROGRAM by Power Station of Art. She curated projects including All new-formed ones become obsolete before they can ossify (2013), Hidden Energy (2013), Everyday Life (2014). Previously she’s participated in projects such as Deputy Director Project (Xi’an Art Museum, 2015), and Hinterland Project (Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2015). Yao Mengxi is a regular contributor of Artforum China, Artword, LEAP, etc.
 
 
Joint Second Prize Peter Lunenfeld
Title: A  Review  of  “From  the  Archives:  Art  and  Technology  at  LACMA,   1967–1971,”
Exhibition: “From  the  Archives:  Art  and  Technology  at  LACMA,   1967–1971,”
Professor in the Design|Media Arts department at UCLA, also on
the Digital Humanities and Urban Humanities faculties. Writings
include Digital_Humanities (co-­‐author); The Secret War Between
Downloading and Uploading (winner of the 2013 Dorothy Lee Prize
for Outstanding Scholarship); USER: InfoTechnoDemo, Snap to Grid:

A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media & Cultures; and, The Digital
Dialectic (all MIT Press). 2015-­‐16 Dana and David Dornsife Fellow
at the Huntington Library, working on a new book project titled
City on the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Beyond the Screen.
 
 
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Chen Xi’an
Title: Walking on the Stars: The Big Three Angles of the Summer
Exhibition:Summer Triangle
Chen Jia Ying
Title: Dichotomous Narrative
Exhibition:Overpop
Gu Qian Fan
Title: Yunyu “Ayo” Shih: “I must, if I may…”
Exhibition:Yunyu “Ayo” Shih: The Seals Are Shedding Their Coats
Hu Hao
Title: Asia is Still Unfamiliar
Exhibition:Unfamiliar Asia: The Second Beijing Photo Biennial (2015)
Lin San Wei
Title: The Meaning of Life
Exhibition:Don't be too hard to let things happen
Liu Di
Title: What is “Bentu”? A Review of the Group Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese art at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
Exhibition:Bentu, Chinese Artists In A Time Of Turbule
Wang Peng Jie
Title: Art : The Aesthetic Politics and Individual Enlightenment
Exhibition:Liu Weiwei's Solo Exhibition “Lost Comrad”
Zhou Qi
Title: Opposites and Connection: Commentary on Huang Yong Ping’s Solo Exhibition, Bâton Serpent III: Spur Track to the Left
Exhibition:Bâton Serpent III: Spur Track to the Left
Zhang Wei
Title: The Logic of Pleasure and its Ideological Contradictions
Exhibition:Total War or Nothing at all：Hot
  
 
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Adeline Chia
Title: Light Therapy
Exhibition:Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness
Kimberlee Córdova
Title: Misogyny and the Myth of the ’90s
Exhibition:XYLAÑYNU: Taller de los Vierne
Sarah Bay Gachot
Title: The Secret Message in the Image
Exhibition:Julien Bismuth: Steganograms
Alice Ming Wai Jim
Title: RoCH Redux
Exhibition:30 Years of CFCCA – Susan Pui San Lok: RoCH Fans & Legends
Conrad Steel
Title: Extreme Culture: Music, Videos and Video Art at The Infinite Mix
Exhibition: The Infinite Mix: Contemporary Sound and Image
Christel Vesters
Title: A Tapestry of Thoughts
Exhibition:Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art
Lauren Wetmore
Title: Manifesta 11: What Artists and Curators Do for Money
Exhibition:Manifesta 11
Hutch Wilco
Title: The Art of Quiet Speaking
Exhibition:Utopias/Heterotopias: Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition
Saul Williams
Title: A Queer Bend in the Botanical Turn
Exhibition:Inda Peralortega: Lexicon
Gary Zhexi Zhang
Title: Content-Aware: Half-Arsed Aesthetics in the Age of the Sub-Amateur
Exhibition: Miao Ying: Content-Aware
  
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