Beijing Olympics Aquatics Center

The Beijing Olympics Aquatics Center is transformed into a massive Web-connected light installation, with social media emoticons transmuted into waves of light and color. (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/arts/international/beyond-babel-chinas-virtual-future.html) The Web has opened a vast new space for artists to produce and premiere their works, and China is no exception. In a country where artistic expression has long been under fire, a few artists find inspiration not only from the seemingly boundless canvas of the Internet, but also from language, spirituality, literature, science and China’s rich and violent history. They have tapped the creativity and imagery of the Web and are even helping create a virtual and artistic language for the future.