Biography 8GG is a multimedia duo in Beijing composed of Jia Haiqing and Fu Yu. Their works include music, video, installation, drama, and art web. Their works have been shown in EXCESS new media festival in Australia, CYNET art exhibition in Germany, FILE 2002 in Brazil, 2004 Shanghai Biennial, Kunstmuseum Bern, ICA London, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center New York and other occasions.
In 2002, 8GG developed their own real-time performing audio-visual system, which integrates sounds and images featuring a more musical nature and a more physical control. In the same year, the group successfully conducted many audio-visual shows in a large number of cities around the world.
8GG's album includes "Net Soundscape", "Pillow Cycle", "Fish cooking" and others, covering different genres such as electronic, electroacoustic, microsound and noise, etc.
Performances
2002.10 Lighting Great wall music night in Jinshanling Great wall (vj)
2003.5 KUNSTEN FESTIVAL DES ARTS in Brussels (NEW MEDIA THEATRE "CEREMONY" VISUAL AND INTERACTIVE PART) (drama)
2003.9 TEMPS D'IMAGES in Paris (drama)
2003.10 AUTUMN FESTIVAL in Centre Pompidou Paris (drama)
2003.10 "CEREMONY" in ICA (INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS) London (drama)
2003.11 Sounding Beijing 2003?International electronic music festival (audio-visual live performance)
2004.3 CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE - CHINESE NIGHT in Lille France (vj)
2004.12 click'n'noise-night in Zurich Switzerland (audio-visual live performance)
2004.12 boutique shanghai in Berne Switzerland (vj)
2005.6 Get it louder in Beijing
2005.9 audio-visual live performance in Kunstmuseum Bern
2006.4 opening night of steps?international dance festival in Zurich Switzerland
2006.5 Internationales Videofestival Bochum Germany
2007.5 MusikTriennale Cologne in Cologne Germany
2007.5 Moers Festival in Moers Germany
Exhibition
2000.10 ALL OVER CHINA ART PROJECT 2000
2001.3 Loft New Media Art Festival
2001.10 MAAP01 EXCESS-new media festival in Brisbane Australia
2001.11 The CYNETart exhibition in Dresden Germany
2002.8 FILE 2002 electronic language international festival
2002.10 MAAP Asia new media festival in Beijing China
2003.8 CAPALBIO CINEMA INTERNATIONAL SORT FILM FESTIVAL in Italy
2004.1 OUT THE WINDOW-SPACES OF DISTRACTION in Japan
2004.3 OUT THE WINDOW-SPACES OF DISTRACTION in Korea
2004.10 Shanghai biennale Techniques of the Visible
2004.11 The CYNETart exhibition in Dresden Germany
2005.7 OPTRONICA festival in London
2005.9 Chinese art and experimental film in Kunstmuseum Bern
2006.2 The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center New York
2006.7 China Contemporary exhibition Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2006.8 ''Search Your Name'' Commissioned by the ICA London
2007.3 "public+unpublic" in bankart gallery Yokohama Japan
Performance "The air has been broken"
A Duo of Audio-Visual Performance
8GG use their special variation generating system to control visions and sounds in real time. This work enables rhythms, noises, environmental sounds and trival, disintegrating elements interact and inspire themselves, and makes them unite as a developing integration in a way of a game.
