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My background is in Industrial Design and I have worked towards blending digital technology with traditional craft.<\/p>\r\n

I utilize a CNC machine (think of a robotic arm) with handmade brushes to surface porcelain objects.<\/p>\r\n

In the example hereunder you can see a portrait that was painted EXACTLY the same way using my robot, but three different brushes were applied, creating different results.<\/p>\r\n

I find a poetic metaphor between having different results from handmade brushes with individual human experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_47995\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"279\"]\"\" Adam Chau[\/caption]\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_47996\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"940\"]\"\" Computer Generated Selfies (2018)[\/caption]\r\n

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I also critique digital culture. Some people used to believe that using smartphones was creating a generation of unsocial people - I want to combat that with the notion that text messaging can be just as emotional as reading and writing a handwritten letter.\u00a0<\/td>\r\n\r\n

In this piece I write a message in white gold to the person who I lost my virginity to. I've also put marks at the bottom of the piece to denote tapping on a screen, but they can also be read as tears on a page.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_48000\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"940\"]\"\" TXT me (2018)[\/caption]\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Other works include the idea of the flattening of 3d objects into 2d imagery - I'm obsessed with how we look at historic objects through a screen, how we buy objects online, and question what might be lost in translation.<\/td>\r\nThis is a historic Chinese vessel that I have pixelated with cobalt-stained clay. As a biracial American with Chinese heritage I also am constantly questioning heritage and the right to practice in blue-and-white aesthetics.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_47999\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"940\"]\"\" Pixel Pottery (2018)[\/caption]\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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For the exhibition in Beijing I have given two pieces from my residency at Taoxichuan in Jingdezhen. During my stay I had limited access to the news about American affairs - I did manage to get Twitter and realized that the U.S. government had many channels on Twitter, including the Central Intelligence Agency. I was very perplexed as to why an intelligence agency would have a Twitter account for the whole world to see - weren't they busy being spies and keeping secrets?<\/p>\r\n

I decided to collect all of the tweets that the CIA put out and immortalized it in clay; I am conscious\u00a0of creating a polarization in what we think of as ethereal\u00a0data of the internet with concrete earth that is permanent in ceramics.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

As you can see I am interested in how the internet is changing our culture, and also the residue that we leave. I make porcelain keyboards with secret messages spelled out with my fingerprints in cobalt. Some are simple messages, some are complex. While this did not utilize a robotic arm I do use lasercutting and 3d printing technology to make most of my work.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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My most recent body of work uses the idea of the complexities of the selfie. I've noticed a lot of people on social media take what is known as a \"mirror selfie\" where you take a picture of yourself, but cover your face with your camera. I find this completely crazy! How can you take a selfie without your face? Each tile is the size of an iphone and I have used my robotic arm show a figure that is common to what most of the millennial generation sees - shirtless people flaunting their bodies. In this particular piece you can see three hands - two of the body, but then at the point you can see a third, which reveal that what you are looking at is actually a reflection. The white gold part of the phone is also slightly reflective\u00a0so when a person goes up to the piece they can see their face in the screen and filling out the form.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

I'm looking forward to exploring more of the ideas presented here including selfie-culture, the flattening of objects for screen-based consumption, and how ceramics can be an archive to an invisible system that we call the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

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BIOGRAPHY<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Adam Chau is an artist based in New York, U.S.A. He holds a Masters in Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He publishes frequently on his research on digital technology and curated \u201cReinvented\u201d, a two-year traveling exhibition featuring 13 international artists using digital manufacturing.<\/p>\r\n

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In 2018 he was awarded the NCECA Emerging Artist Award. Solo exhibition locations include Harvard Ceramics, The Clay Studio, and Manchester Craftsmans Guild.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

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