Chao Wang

Biography

Chao Wang, also known as Voeed, is an artist, researcher. Through photographic, digital, and peripatetic projects, his research investigates the mentality of contemporary urbanites in relation to optical technology, urban development, political visual language, and the cultural translation of space. Based in London, he won the 2019 John Ruskin Prize and became a companion of the Guild of St. George. He established his personal studio in 2019 and continues to teach as a tutor in contemporary art.

Recently in his doctoral research, he focuses on the three-dimensional scanners as a form of optical technology and the concept of flâneur which has been subject to an ethical turn, and questions the technological production and perceptive role that urban images play in urbanites’ negotiation between submission to, and re-definition of their 21st-Century urban milieu of London and Shenzhen.