Navigating this messy vitality of China's digital realm are six of the country's leading new-media artists – and among the first to have grown up with mass digital technology. There's Xu Wenkai (Aaajiao) and Lin Ke's manipulations of found digital materials and standard software programs; the augmented reality of Lu Yang; the celebratory pop aesthetics of Ye Funa; the dark side of internet freedom in the works of Liu Xin; and the veneration of the ugly and artless evident in the works of Miao Ying.
The work celebrates lo-fi aesthetics and highlights the Chinternet's potential to subvert cultural stereotypes, reject societal norms and generate a vibrant vernacular of satirical memes and online subcultures. The future is rapidly unfolding – in the here and now. Until May 12; (cfcca.org.uk
