>3<3=3(curation)virtual exhibition2023-

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>3<3=3 is formed by two human-like designers, Deer (Chunlu Sheng) and xuan (Xuanjie Huang). Here we curate and design virtual exhibitions for emerging designers, artists and creators. It is an alternative space in the 2d, 2.5d and 3d worlds where we play around with new media art.

The virtual exhibition we are making is:
- a clumsy spatial practice and curatorial experiment
- a place for useless ideas and a space for digital journeys
- an encounter point for talented people to play around and stimulate connection
- on the platform New Art City, accessible through a web browser on computers which allows moving around and real-time communication

Somersault
1st virtual exhibition 2023, New Art City

Have you heard of Cute Aggression before? Have you ever experience an urge to squeeze, smash or even stuff in mouth the devastatingly adorable fluffy kitten in front of you?

Somersault invites 19 artists to piece together their alternative understandings of cuteness into a massive test ground.

The space is very much inspired by the aesthetics of second-hand toy shops and indoor playground, especially the dizzying excitement at the moment of entry. It aims at generating a complex and porous structure to approach the theme. Also, it holds a frenetic ecstasy experimenting on difference and repetition between images, and how visitors perceive in distinctive ways.


Artists
1yao
32
alldollscode
allwhite Hu
Arty McFly
Bohan Wang
cheilogramma
Dai Nasty
Dazhao
HAORAN SU
James Lang
Jumbo Press
Keely "Poi" Majewski
Lony Mathis
Qiuhui Hou
Tongk
tutu
Wild Deer
xūan

co-curated with: Deer (Chunlu Sheng)


Selected Artworks
In-between2nd virtual exhibition2024, New Art City
We pressed the lift button, but were carried to a weird floor betwixt 2 and 3.

All of a sudden, we found ourselves in between a grown-up and a kid, a human and a nonhuman. We found ourselves living somewhere in between built form and nature, 2d and 3d, x-axis and y-axis. We found ourselves making something in between design and game, graphic and spatial, phase and phase.

Spaces for creators are always shrinking and dissolving, we are forced to move but get stuck again all the time. A catastrophe with no start, no end and no answer swallow us in. But we are against it, believing that categories are collapsing. Instead of adding “non” in front of a word to make them polar opposites, we want to be transparent and obscure at the same time. In the status of in-between, we are deformable, that we can write our address as 'the universe', and that we can fall down together in the well of infinity.

Featured:
Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making published by Underground Art And Design



Play It as It Lays3rd virtual exhibition2025, New Art City
 ‘Play It as It Lays’ places the focus on typography - carved into wood, printed onto paper, displayed on screen.

Artworks by 21 designers and artists carry words toward messages, shaping a porous narrative. Here, words are chosen through three guiding rules and explored across diverse visual forms.

The narrative virtual space is built on grid system to be broken. It stages work in a dance of connection and randomness where content and form melt into play, structure meets journey, and time folds into space.