Richly illustrated and boasting an array of distinguished artists, scholars and curators, thingworld is the catalogue of the International Triennial of New Media Art held at the National Art Museum of China.
The theme 'thingworld' alludes to traditional Chinese worldviews on nature, materiality, and cosmology. The exhibits demonstrate the relationship between diverse ecological conditions and multiple life forms, human and natural substances, and the relationships between all things.
From metal balls ascending in an uncanny anti-gravitational movement to a Victorian sofa standing...