each country has its own designated culture where people either honor or rebel against it. In China, the Chinese view their culture as different from many. Ai Weiwei, a Chinese activist born in 1957, is known as the most dangerous man to many in China. He is know to rebel against the Chinese culture, which brought many struggles upon him. Ai Weiwei’s cultural rebellion includes being very critical towards the Chinese government and being outspoken towards human rights. He “has [even] characterized
Over the years art is becoming a way to express feelings without the need of violence. Ai Weiwei is one of the very well known protestant artists who made various types of art projects to speak against China's communist goverment and the injustices that have happened. No violence is used through these art projects because they are just simply pieces of art that speak by themselves. Through all this Ai Weiwei is able to bring awareness and get people to support his causes around the world. One
The lenses of capitalism and communism influence how Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei’s art are seen as political critiques. The celebrity persona of Andy Warhol differs greatly from that of Ai Weiwei, however “Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei share an Iconoclastic spirit” (Delaney, M, 2016 p.27). More so their artistic practices both stem from Marcel Duchamp’s, ‘ready-mades’. This essay will consider the extents to which both artists’ can be considered activists. If there were a binary in place to understand
artists to reach a larger group of individuals. Ai Weiwei utilized art as a way to not only express himself, but to also bring attention to issues surrounding his community. Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing, China and grew up in a Communist home, with a poet as his father. Growing up in this environment, Weiwei began to form his own opinions on social issues. He quickly became a human’s right activist and decided to express his ideas through art. Ai Weiwei uses art as a form of expression to highlight
Ai Weiwei is one of the most powerful artists in the world. Unlike other artists, his works were expressed both politically and artistically. He was arrested and harassed by the Chinese Communist government because of his bold responses to the government. His works was unique than any artist you will see. His art has a purpose of meaning; it has its own mind. Ai Weiwei believes that if you don’t speak up, nothing will change. The meaning of his artworks has various meanings. However, his central
Ai Weiwei’s art vs. Censorship “I don’t want to be part of this kind of denying reality. We live in this time. We have to speak out” (Klayman). Ai Weiwei is an internationally known Chinese artist as well as activist, and his motivation and determination can be summed up by this quote. In all of his pieces, Weiwei critically examines the social and administrative issues facing China today. Many of his works exhibit multiple themes that can be interpreted in various different ways. This lends
Ai Weiwei, has had an incomprehensibly tough life, living in exile for the first 16 years of his life on the Russian border, with a non-existent educational system in the surrounding area and harsh living conditions. He creates many pieces of art that convey and express the many experiences he’s had in his life. From being illegally arrested by the government to growing up in exile and being an illegal alien. Artwork created with such experiences and honest feelings can be highly moving and generally
art in china was underground, but it kept expanding. As a result of that some Chinese artists started to do art works that rebel against their government and express their feelings towards China. One of these artist is the famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who expressed in each piece of art he did, his feelings that China should let its people break away from the rotten traditional, in order to express their thoughts freely. The government in china is very concerned with limiting the freedom of expression
Born in Beijing in 1957, artworks of Ai Wei Wei have created thorough debate in the contemporary artworld due to their controversial political criticism toward the physical manifestations of global power and Chinese social systems which undermine cultural integrity. Commonly reflecting his personal experiences of living through the Chinese Cultural Revolution in China, Ai’s use of historically significant objects such as Chinese urns, ceramics and bicycles which appear defamiliarized and displaced
people of the country he fights for. These decisions always prove to be difficult, and Bauer never arrives at the end of a conflict without having sacrificed large amounts of either personal or public protection. Through the eyes of Ayn Rand and Ai Weiwei, Bauer's moral responsibility, "to whom he is responsible", can be analyzed and understood in light of the actions he takes in unimaginably difficult situations in which his responsibilities clash. Ayn Rand and her ideas about value and the significance
Ai Weiwei was born during the Cultural Revolution in China of 1950s, he inherited a lot of his political knowledge from his father who was a poet called Ai Quig. Ai Quig was then later exiled with his family to re-education camps on the out reaches of a desert in 1958 for questioning government authority. After the Cultural Revolution, Chinese citizens were allowed to travel outside their borders again in 1970s. As a young man, the place that Ai Weiwei dreamed about going to was New York. He went
The film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is in part about how the government responds to Ai Weiwei’s controversial artwork. Over the course of the film, he is beaten, watched, and arrested because his art goes against the Chinese government. The government tries to censor any content that may show them in a bad light, which prevents revolts from taking place in China since they never hear about the injustices that have occurred. Ai Weiwei, however, utilizes technology to spread information about what is going
Aileen Wuornos, also known as Aileen Pittman or Aileen Carol Wuornos was born on February 29th of 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. She was the age of 46 at the time of her death, a white woman with Finnish descend. Although she was briefly married to Lewis Fell, she later fell in love with Tyria Moore, a woman with whom they stayed together for four years which made her a bisexual (Broomfield et al., 2003). Aileen was a sex worker or prostitute from her childhood at the age of 13 where she used to exchange
defined as breaking away from the traditional physical and social space of the art gallery and the sequestered artist studio or atelier. A major activist in this form of art is Ai Wei Wei and his commentary on politically driven and controlling culture of china and its damage to a society in need of a revolution. In his film “Ai Weiwei: Never sorry”
of this essay I will discuss Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei’s art practice and his ambitious actions against the Chinese government; Weiwei uses social media in order to break away from the restrictions placed upon Chinese citizens, through this he aims
Aisha Ali Al Ali Dr. Carbonell ENG 111 Date: The Singularity University This essay will discuss Carole Cadwalladr’s “Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future” which it’s about the Singularity University. In her article Cadwalladr claims that people who are at this university will build humanity’s future. She believes that they will get rid of world problems such as poverty, hunger, and dryness. This University involve people from all around the world trying to solve different
argument from his work “Minds, Brains, and Programs” was a thought experiment against the premises of strong Artificial Intelligence (AI). The premises of conclude that something is of the strong AI nature if it can understand and it can explain how human understanding works. I will argue that the Chinese room argument successfully disproves the conclusion of strong AI, however, it does not provide an explanation of what understanding is which becomes problematic when creating a distinction between
were to give an intelligent machine, one that can make its own decisions, control over weapons and systems then catastrophe would soon follow. If an AI were to decide at some point that humans were no longer necessary or that conflict was necessary, it would have control over powerful weapons and be able to wreak havoc in human society. The use of AI for hostile or malicious reasons is almost guaranteed to backfire and cause more damage than ever anticipated. The routes could be varied and complex-
About nine years ago I discovered a book called The Age of Spiritual Machines by a man named Ray Kurzweil that demanded my immediate interest. I was captivated by his view of the future of technology - astoundingly positive and bright compared to most peoples’ negative or dystopian outlook when it comes to the dangers of a society increasingly reliant on machines and technology. I recently had the privilege of watching Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie her. While focusing on the personal aspect of a man
Naomi, partially concealed behind a shred of morning paper in the corner of a local coffee shop, eyed thoughtfully from time to time the passersby outside. The clientele was of a most moneyed sort at ther time of day, and had counted among themselves a large number of pretty, well-dressed ladies, probably on their way to work. Smiling at ther – in no particular direction initially but with hardly any intention to conceal her glee should her gaze meet the eyes of a worthy target – Naomi happened to