Mixing images he is finding on social media platform and electronic music, Lin Ke is creating videos where he is researching new forms of visual aesthetic in our daily use of computer operating systems. The publication was approaching the issue that the medium book always has issues to present video works in an appropriate way and this became even more obvious with the works of digital artists. Through using a layer of augmented reality on top of this book, it became possible to use the book as a documentation of Lin Ke's videos in chronological order from 2010 to 2016 and link it to the original videos itself. Via an free augmented reality App the reader can bring the files to life and watch the videos. The years are divided through text pages and pages with full-bled pictures from Lin Ke's videos which let the reader immerse into the artist’s world. This way of viewing Lin Ke's aesthetic universe is mimicking the intended way of viewing the videos and stresses the important aspect of manual movements in the work of the artist. It also allows the augmented reality content to be always updated and so stay in an ongoing exchange with technological development. The reader will be guided through the book with textmessages of the artist which will be displayed at the end of a video. With using the app the reader is also implementing a digital performance.
Lin Ke was born in 1984 in Wenzhou and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the New Media Arts department of the China Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. In his works Lin Ke is reusing found footage of the internet and computer operating systems. His video performances show his explorationsand findings on the aesthetics of daily use of computer operating systems. 2014 he was awarded with the OCAT – PIERRE HUBER ART PRIZE in 2014 and the ninth AAC art of the Chinese Youth Artist Award a year later. Lin Ke is also a member of the art group Double Fly Art Center.

“Liang Hao: Just Fishing in the Nature” is a publication in close collaboration with the Chinese artist Liang Hao. It is the first publication highlighting his works as a video artist while putting into the context with his oeuvre as a painter. The publication stretches out on 108 pages all 20 second of the video “Just Fishing in the Nature”, that was shot during his residency in Iceland in 2015. By looking closer you will see pictures which appear at irregular intervals on the left pages of the book. The pictures are not fully visible, the reader will just see them shine through the paper. Through working with a special binding technique, the book consists of partly closed sheets. In every inside of these closed pages one of Liang Hao painting is printed. Thereby a poetic dialogue between the moments of “Just Fishing in the Nature” and the moments shown in Liang Hao's paintings arises – surrounded by Icelandic nature. Liang Hao was born 1988 in Guangdong and lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from The Fine Arts Department at the Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University in 2012. Two very influential residencies for Liang Hao were his stay in the “Island Iceland Offshore Project” in Seydisfjordur, Iceland in 2015 and his stay in New York at the “Omi International Arts Center” in 2016. Liang Hao was nominated for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016 and the Chinese New Painting Award in 2014. Besides his practice as an artist, he is one of the founders of the art space ON Space in Beijing.

“Liang Hao: Just Fishing in the Nature” is a publication in close collaboration with the Chinese artist Liang Hao. It is the first publication highlighting his works as a video artist while putting into the context with his oeuvre as a painter. The publication stretches out on 108 pages all 20 second of the video “Just Fishing in the Nature”, that was shot during his residency in Iceland in 2015. By looking closer you will see pictures which appear at irregular intervals on the left pages of the book. The pictures are not fully visible, the reader will just see them shine through the paper. Through working with a special binding technique, the book consists of partly closed sheets. In every inside of these closed pages one of Liang Hao painting is printed. Thereby a poetic dialogue between the moments of “Just Fishing in the Nature” and the moments shown in Liang Hao's paintings arises – surrounded by Icelandic nature. Liang Hao was born 1988 in Guangdong and lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from The Fine Arts Department at the Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University in 2012. Two very influential residencies for Liang Hao were his stay in the “Island Iceland Offshore Project” in Seydisfjordur, Iceland in 2015 and his stay in New York at the “Omi International Arts Center” in 2016. Liang Hao was nominated for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016 and the Chinese New Painting Award in 2014. Besides his practice as an artist, he is one of the founders of the art space ON Space in Beijing.