In February, I was quarantined at home due to the pandemic. During this period, I completed 11 sketches of the “Maps of the History of Science and Technology”.

In February, I continued to write an "A Brief Introduction to Experimental Art".

In March, I took the course “Creation on Social Hot Topics” for undergraduate students in their third year.

In March, I completed the “Artificial Intelligence 2019” at the studio in Beijing No.1 Art District, an ink painting map commissioned by SenseTime, sized as 500x246cm.

Qiu Zhijie's Recent Works

In April, I used face recognition technology developed by SenseTime to write identification tags and complete the interactive work “Human Geography Magazine-Street Theater”.

In April, I continued to create lithographs “Mogu”(CN.没骨) series at Xuyuan Printmaking Institution.

In April, I created 6 silkscreen prints entitled "Camouflage Wallpaper" in Xuyuan Printmaking Institution.

In April, the four books "Experimentalist", "The Loser", "The Ignoramus" and "The Spoiler" were published in Guangxi Normal University Press, and a series of promotional activities were executed.

In May, "International Contemporary Art Panorama" was given to all of the CAFA students as an elective course with 2500 pages of slides being produced.

In June, "Large-scale Art Project" was given to the first-year undergraduate students of the School of Experimental Art.

At the same time, I researched speech performance and organized students to translate a large number of articles.

Meanwhile, my solo exhibition of woodcut prints “The Embroidery of Jinling Theater” at SKP Bookstore was announced.

From February to August, I provided training data for the "Emotional Calligraphy Program" cooperating with Jingdong Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. I wrote 10 albums in calligraphy chapters, 100 mono-prints and a total of 5000 lines and more than 40,000 characters.

Qiu Zhijie's Recent Works

In July, I made screenshots from Google Maps to write identification tags, and completed the video work “Human Geography Magazine—Freedom Empire”.

In July, I began to produce the ink version of “Map of the History of Science and Technology” and attempted to add AR animation content to it.

In July, I created the map of "Creation for Use" for the Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology. I completed the sketch and started to cooperate with Beijing First New Material Technology Development Co. Ltd to create relief works.

In August, I started to create pottery clay seals, engraving around 100 pieces.

In August, the catalogue of Microsoft Xiaoice “Alternative Worlds” that I edited was published by CITIC Press. I wrote the text for the catalogue.

In August, CCTV-4 I shot the documentary featuring artificial intelligence in my studio.

On August 11th, I participated in the "Sino-Swiss Technology and Art Dialogue" online forum organized by the Swiss Embassy.

On August 14, I organized the first online forum for “Challenge and Opportunity — Forum on Scientific and Technological Art in China”.

Qiu Zhijie, 1969 Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China.

1992 Graduated from China Academy of Art, Print-making Department, Hangzhou, China.

Dean and Professor of The School of Experimental Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.

Professor of China Academy of Art, The School of inter-medial Art, Mentor of MA and PHD.

As an artist, he is known for his calligraphy and ink painting, photography, video, installation and performance. He tries to link the Chinese literati Tradition and contemporary media, as well as the self-cultivation and social participation, as he called the Total Art.

Image and Text Courtesy of the Artist.

Edited by Sue and Emily/CAFA ART INFO