Jiamin Cao is an writer. She studied Media and Cultural Studies at London College of Communication, and completed a MA in Cultural, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She is now working on Curatorial and Public Program at CAC.

11.20 Chronus Art Center

Established in 2013, Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China's first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency fellowships, lectures and workshop programs and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context.CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences.

CAC was founded in 2013 by the entrepreneur Dillion ZHANG, independent curator LI Zhenhua, and artist HU Jieming, and presented pioneering projects such as Extra Time with Raqs Media Collective and Jeffrey Shaw & HU Jieming Duo Solo Exhibitions, among others. Since 2015, under the artistic direction of ZHANG Ga, curator and professor of media art, and with the support of a newly established international advisory board of leading scholars, artists and museum professionals, CAC has restructured its programming by launching a series of interdisciplinary projects and solo exhibitions, which include: Psychoprosa by the Austrian artist Thomas Feuerstein; Haptic Field by the American artist Chris Salter; Closed Circuit –Open Duration by the Finnish artist Terike Haapoja. CAC also presented and co-presented several thematic group exhibitions such as:Folklore of the Cyber World, a parallel online project of the Chinese Pavilion @ la Biennale di Venezia 2015; Three Rooms series, a touring program featured young media artists from China, South Korea and Germany; unREAL:The Algorithmic Present, co-presented by House of Electronic Art Basel (HeK); Jim Campbell & ZHANG Peili: The Flickering Uncertain and Machines Are Not Alone: A Machinic Trilogy marked 2018 as the 5th anniversary of CAC; as well as Datumsoria: The Return of the Real, and Datumsoria: Jon Kessler & YAN Lei co-presented by ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and Nam June Paik Art Center. In 2019, CAC launched the exhibition Growing that shed light on the field of bio art, and travelled to ZHI ART MUSEUM in Chengdu as the second iteration; Open Codes. Connected Bots, co-organized with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe; and group exhibition Just What Is It That Makes Today's Computers So Intriguing, So Nonsensical? draws to a close of the year 2019.