From 2006-2010 Echo Can Luo studied Multimedia Design at the China Academy of Art. In 2010 she got the bachelor title. Luo obtained her master degree at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in 2018 and a Meisterschülerin of Prof. Joel Baumann(until July 2019). She has been a part of Monitoring, 34. Kassel Dokumentarfilm & Videofest, and has shown her work at the Chengdu Biennale, the CAA Art Museum, the HAU, the MdbK Leipzig, the Kai10, the OCT Boxes art museum, the Kasseler Kunstverein, the Kunstraum Villa Friede Bonn and the Panke Gallery, amongst other places.

Echo Can Luo’s artistic activities proceed from the narrative of diverse backgrounds to engage with the methodological reconstruction of racial identity and gender equity in the digital world. Based on the algorithms, including 3D modelling, 3D photogrammetry and face tracking, her project aims to observe the biased and differentiated algorithm in the process of applying and testing software, as well as the influence of discrimination and bias experienced by people from diverse backgrounds in real-life situations and data.

Her interest is always present in examining the influence of the new media on our critical consciousness, on our communication and on society in general. Based on her research and observations of new media, her work shows how difficult it is in the age of social media to resist the power of images and not to succumb to the postulate of external ideals. Is the digitalized software an “insurgent” against transparency and democratization? Tangibly or intangibly, there is a certain disregard of the current algorithms to the human rights of marginalized groups of people.

 

Exhibitions

2023

Phantoms and Other Illusions, KAI10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE
„:-#“ Kunst und Soziale Medien, Kunstverein Rotenburg, DE

2022

White Paper: Metaverse Zone at Consensus, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan, CHN
“interFACE digital pleasure center”, Hellerau, Dresden, DE *dgtl fmnsm collective
2022 “SPY ON ME #4 New Companions” dgtl fmnsm, HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, DE * dgtl fmnsm collective
Artist Chain, arebyte Gallery, London
PERFORMING IDENTITIES online exhibition curated by Tina Sauerlaender
My Body, My Choice? 9th Iteration Pars Pro Toto- Peer to space, DE
Artist Residency, HAU, in der HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, DE
Britney X Festival, Schauspiel Köln, DE

2021

2021 Chengdu Biennale: SUPER FUSION, Chengdu, China,
Avatar My metaverse, Hanshan art Museum, Shuzhou, China
Online Workshop, was in der art „Künstlerin vortrag im Kurs“ „Sind wir eigentlich schon Cyborgs?“ an Klasse Prof. Aram Bartholl, HAW Hamburg
Online Exhibition, Variability of distance, funding program„ Hessen kulturell neu eröffnen“
Workshop, dgtl fmnsm /HAU FACE Your Features, in der HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Germany
Online Labor, Ästhetik- Digitalität- Macht, Neue Forschungsperspektiven im Schnittfeld von kultureller Bildung und Medienpädagogik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
FFA annual exhibition: “connecting” , FFA art Center, Nanjing China

2020

Terrarista TV, Monitoring, 37. Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
Near Future: Possible Life, The 2020 intermedia Art festival- International Youth Video,Gengshan Qunzhong, Hanling Exhibition Area, Ningbo, China
CURA HAN HATI-Berlin Art Week 9-13 SEP 2020, Art of the working class porject space, Berlin, Germany
MINUS GLEICH PLUS, Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Pending Limb, ARTHOTEL Braun, Kirchheimbolanden, Germany (solo)

2019

Workshop, In einer anderen Haut stecken- the algorithms aren’t biased, we are., Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China
Link in Bio, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Zu Gast im Rektorat #27, Kassel, Germany (solo)
The Yangtze Contemporary Art Fair, Nanjing International Exhibition Centre, Nanjing, China
The 49th GI Annual Conference INFORMATIK 2019, Kassel, Germany
FACE THE FACE- A Speed Show on the PostDigital Self, Internet Cafe – Midnightshop, Berlin, Germany
fff? I already followed you.., 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2018

Examen 2018, documenta-Halle, Kassel, Germany
ScreenSaverGallery: Nelidské umění/ IINHUMAN ART, Konvikt Press Centre, PAF Festival 2018, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2009-2018: Was hat mich bewegt?, Unternehmenspark-Kassel, Kassel, Germany
“视觉的诗” And what about your “good morning, new world”?, CAA art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Resonanz – Junge chinesische Künstler in Deutschland, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany
Don’t Show Again, Der REAKTOR, Wien, Austria
“Collision”- Returning contemporary young artists exhibition, Museum foundation art, Shuzhou, China

2017

Monitoring, 34. Kassel Dokumentarfilm & Videofest, Kassel, Germany
less adorno ♞ more play, Kasseler Kunstverein im Sternhochhaus, Kassel, Germany
MAKE IT FIT! Hyper mobile art in travel baggage size, Panke Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Heimspiel, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany (solo)

 

Art projects & research projects

2021  Variability of distance
A collaborative project by and for the (post) migrant artists, as part of the funding program„ Hessen kulturell neu eröffnen“
2019/20 Project on the topic of molecular chirality
Cooperation between the Collaborative Research Center 1319 ELCH of the University of Kassel and the Kunsthochschule Kassel
2019 Video project as part of the “Gender Equality Consultation with the Office for Women and Gender Equality” in the Department of Sociology of the University of Kassel

 

Awards

2020 Nomination, The 2020 intermedia Art festival Internation Youth Video (CHN)
2018 Honorable mention price, EXAMEN 2018, The advancement award of the CDW foundation, Kassel, (DE)
2018 UPK-Kunstpreis 2018 Nomination, Kassel, (DE)
2017 Golden Cube Nomination, Monitoring, Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, (DE)
2017 Grand Prize, less adorno ♞ more play, Rundgang, Kunsthochschule Kassel, (DE)
2014 Third prize, “No Design is not Crazy,” Design Competition, Shanghai Jiancheng Advertising Agency and Mianyang Huarui Automobile Co., Ltd