Chen Haohao — Practice & Theory

01 / TWO WAYS OF ASKING

Making art.
Thinking
through it.

I work between art history, criticism and generative AI—studying how images are made, and working with the systems that make them.

Artist, writer & AI aesthetic designer.
在创作与理论之间，来回往复。

Fig. 01 — My art & illustration label library.
Selected terms, re-set as a working specimen.

Research meets practice

THESIS / 2021 · REVISED MANUSCRIPT

The Ontology of Art in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction. Conceptual art, dematerialization and the artwork as an information system.

Limited information and boundless loneliness. On CryptoZR’s work and the isolation of crypto art.

Materiality, authenticity and decentralization.
作为数码物的艺术

The ArtStation movement, artistic labour and the politics of technological change.

A utopian fable. Writing on CryptoZR’s art and the political imagination of digital systems.