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Famous, but Ugly

A visual inquiry into the feedback systems that shape contemporary information, belief, and machine-filtered reality.

Famous, but Ugly installation view, 2024
Installation view, Group Exhibition of New Media Artists, Rong Art Center, Shanghai, 2024. Photo by Li Qiying.
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This work moves beyond specific images or symbols to explore the logic of how information is produced today.

Social media algorithms, news cycles, and viral memes operate as feedback systems that continuously shape what we see and believe.

In this loop, we consume and internalize machine-filtered and machine-generated information, gradually redefining our sense of reality.

The AI-generated portraits reflect the ghost in the machine of our time, a reminder that what we perceive as reality may only be the echo of an endless system of digital illusions.

Installation

  • Installation view of the group exhibition of new media artists, Rong Art Center, Shanghai, 2024. Photo by Li Qiying.