Feng Mengbo
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Chinese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1966, in Beijing.
Multimedia installation artist, painter, designer of interactive games.
After graduating from the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (1991), Feng Mengbo embarked on a career that has combined the visual lexicon and technical functionality of interactive computer gaming with references to popular culture, Chinese history, and Chinese artistic traditions. Feng is regarded as a pioneer of new-media art in China: his corpus includes interactive CD-ROMs, single-player interactive games with traditional controllers or dance pads, and paintings. Feng’s early set of oil paintings ...
