Announced in June 2004, Feng Mengbo is one of two artists under Interactive Artssection to be honoured with the Award of Distinction. Ars Electronica is a leading arts centre of electronic art, located in Linz, Austria; the annual Ars Electronica Festival is a major international event in the field.

About the speaker
Born in Beijing in 1966, Feng Mengbo graduated from the Graphic Arts Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The artist has participated in the Kassel Documenta twice(in 1997 and 2002)and had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, in 2003. He is a young contemporary Chinese artist who chiefly utilizes computer games in his works, and he has received a great deal of attention from the international art world in doing so. Feng, who has received an orthodox art education, believes that computer games are also a kind of art medium. Perhaps this is directly related to the fact that he played so many video games during his time as a student. Feng’s early works, such as My Private Album, are chiefly recordings of sorts. His subsequent works, Taking Mt. Doom by Strategy and Q4U, were developed using imagination and game-like elements. These works more accurately capture the fast-paced, unrestrained speed and ever-changing space of the electronic world. 

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