Ruiqi Zhang
张瑞麒

He (b.1994, Liaoyang, China) is a multi-media artist. He holds an MFA in Kinetic Imaging from VCUarts and a BFA in Visual Communication Design from LAFA. Ruiqi’s practice work presses on sensitivity to digital technology when engaged in different dimensions of related issues such as online identity, media discourse, and post-internet modernity.

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Ruiqi Zhang
张瑞麒

He (b.1994, Liaoyang, China) is a multi-media artist. He holds an MFA in Kinetic Imaging from
VCUarts and a BFA in Visual Communication Design from LAFA. Ruiqi’s practice work presses on sensitivity to digital technology when engaged in different dimensions of related issues such as online identity, media discourse, and post-internet modernity.

email: info@zhang-ruiqi.com
ins: ruiqi_zhang_
links
CV

Monument Emitter (work in progress)
3D rendered video, 04:00, 2023

“When they trumpeted the meliorative power of beauty, they were stating the belief in its capacity to shape human thought and behavior“ (William H. Wilson, 1989). This work indicates the broad representative symbols that represent the ideals of civic virtue show up within the City Beautiful movement during the 1980s - 1900s in the USA. A consequence of digital collapses and oozing objects reveals the rigid narratives about community consciousness over beauty and the extension of social control attempts. The empty monument plinths were converted into particle emitters while associating lawn sprinklers and fountain water droplets that connect the historical reality and bourgeois tastes. The addon textures remind a series of abstract concepts such as order, dignity, and harmony, to formulate a fleeting experience of separation from language.

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