Zian Zou
#Artist #Racer
#OCT_opus #快速迭代
Kingston School of Art MFA Fine Art
Shanghai ｜ London
Email:octopuszza@gmail.com
+8618017710568 / +447536146036
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The inspiration came from my experience of virtual currency being liquidated. The binary code is imprinted on the banknotes' raw material: wood, and the lights of the field are changed to red, representing a warning, to express the thinking of virtual currency.
*Special thanks to Abbas Zahedi for his guidance and advice on the project.
Huminerals in PRC
Demographic dividend is a outcome of times. With the social transformation of modern China, I began to think about who the beneficiaries of demographic dividend are. In the opinion of China's ruling class, ordinary people in China are just assets that can produce resources.Therefore, "huminerals", a compound word, became popular in China. By extending the imagination of huminerals, my work satirizes the social status quo of high pressure.
SCP-0422
The inspiration of this work comes from the lockdown of Shanghai from April to June, some people even starved to death at home because they could not buy food. The government defined the lockdown of the city for two months as voluntary behavior of the people instead of policy compulsion. As a witness of this event, I created this work to satirize the government's lack of responsibility and the stupidity of the zero policy.
Monster Whip
I created nine NFT game card with nine concept, collecting nine concepts from the first album of Travis Scott's personal brand: CACTUS JACK.Getting these NFT by buying the material album, and scan the QR code on the album's cover. As long as you finishing the collecting, you can get the final hidden NFT product: a sport-truck model. And you can choose the form of this truck. One form is keep its invented form on your screen. Another is convert it into "STI model format", and using 3D printing to enable you feeling it with hands.
A Touch of Sin
The original concept of this video came from the animals that I often encounter when driving on city roads or highways that have been hit and killed. There are a large number of stray dogs and cats in the cities in China, and most of them get lost and stray into the highways. I had previously read from an occult website that it is difficult for animals that die on the highway to be reincarnated, as the highway is too noisy for their souls to rest in peace. So I made a conscious effort to start keeping an eye out for stray animals on the side of the road. The first time I helped put a body to rest was a stray black cat that had been run over in front of a community, and after burying him, I found some peace in my heart.
MNEMOSYNE
This project is my imagination creation based on the investigation of existing brain science research. The brand makes an electrical brain device that allows people to keep false memories forever. Hence the name MNEMOSYNE, which is named after the mythical god of memory. After possessing a false memory, the user's personality will also change because of the change of memory, and then have a temporary false personality.
ASH
Work is named ASH because I believe that all things originate from the big Bang of the universe, and the ashes of the big Bang constitute all things. In this era, artificial intelligence and human beings are intermingling and undergoing fission and evolution. In this picture, I combine the images produced by artificial intelligence with my traditional paintings to express this sense of integration.
*The scene borrows from the Japanese anime Akira.