Mingjia

Deliberate production of pop culture relics with the vision of 'ADHD' sufferers with an archaeological vision of the future.

My life is influenced by the contradiction between popular culture and the legacy of traditional memories, which are unconsciously influenced by the shape of matter. Entertainment culture and social media have somehow become the new religion, which I am fascinated by, worship and fear.So I deliberately create relics of memory to correspond to the new things people are creating in contemporary times (e.g. buzzwords, emojis) But because of the inescapable extinction of time, they become new relics, and we embrace pop culture and consume it in order to feel safe, and this becomes a kind of landscape.

Mingjia Tian is a visual computing artist. With a background in design and fine art, her current practice deals with themes such as re-examination of man and nature, community of nature life and sustainability. In some of her projects, she has developed a personal proposition: MIC (material, inspiration, circle). She breaks the medium of art to achieve a connection between painting, costume and pottery and computation. Using physical installations, she connects physical computing and computer vision with natural lifeforms and empowers them through artwork (e.g. ceramics, painting). Also a graphic designer, she has an undergraduate degree in visual communication and produces graphic creations for Chongming Cultural and Creative Products and the China Glass Association.