Sinofuturism

Artists and Creators

• Lawrence Lek
• Guan Xiao
• Yujing Shi

Theorists and critics

• WuDaoKou Futurists Collective

Events

Exhibitions, screenings, performances & catalogues

2017

• WTF is Sinofuturism?: A screening, a talk, a reading and a set surrounding sinofuturism, BioHack Lab, Mar 19 2017. Artists and creators included Lawrence Lek, Gabriele de Seta, K Roseland of Shanghai Community Radio, Sinusoidal Deixis & David Sánchez, Ángela Cuahutle. Organized by María Torres. Moderated by Eduardo Makoszay Mayén.

2020

• Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD): Screening & Talk with Lawrence Lek, Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, June 6, 2020.

Discussions

• "Alternative Sinofuturisms" Workshop, Beijing and online, 2019. Speakers and Organizers: Dino Ge Zhang, WuDaoKou Futurists Collective, Amy Ireland, Virginia L Conn, Gabriel de Seta, Vincent Garton.

Publications

Magazines, journals, blogs, vlogs, podcasts

• Science Fiction Research Association Review, Special Issue: Alternative Sinofuturisms / 中华未来主义 / Zhonghua Weilai Zhuyi, Volume 50 No. 2-3, Spring Summer 2020.
• Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology, Special Issue: Queer Sinofuturisms, Volume 5 Issue 2, Dec 2020. Ari Heinrich, Howard Chiang and Ta-wei Chi (eds.).

Essays, book chapters

• Lawrence Lek, "Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD)", Video Essay, 2015.
• Emerson Rosenthal, "Blow Your Own Damn Mind with This Killer Video Essay About Why China Already Is the Future", Vice.com, Jan 5 2017.
• Gary Zhexi Zang, "Where Next? Imagining the Dawn of the ‘Chinese century’", Frieze, Issue 187, Apr 22 2017.
• Iris Lang, "Conversation: Lawrence Lek talks Sinofuturism, automation, identity, and communism", Sinetheta Magazine, Issue #4: ACROSS (岸), Apr 25 2017.
• David Xu Borgonjon, "Continental Drift: Notes on 'Asian' Art", Rhizome.org, Sept 5 2018.
• Phillip Rhensius, "China--Made in Europe", Norient.com, Jan 7 2019.
• Virginia L. Conn, "Sinofuturism and Chinese Science Fiction: An Introduction to the Alternative Sinofuturisms (中华未来主义) Special Issue", SFRA Review, Volume 50 No. 2-3, April 2020.
• Gabriel De Seta, "Sinofuturism as Inverse Orientalism: China’s Future and the Denial of Coevalness", SFRA Review, Volume 50 No. 2-3, August 2020.
• Virginia L. Conn, "Photographesomenonic Sinofuturism(s)", SFRA Review, Volume 50 No. 2-3, Spring and Summer 2020.
• Dino Ge Zhang, "A Diagnosis of Sinofuturism from the Urban-Rural Fringe", SFRA Review, Volume 50 No. 2-3, Spring and Summer 2020.
• Carmen Herold, "China’s Sonic Fictions: Music, Technology, and the Phantasma of a Sinicized Future", SFRA Review, Volume 50 No. 2-3, Spring and Summer 2020.
• Virginia L. Conn, Gabriel de Seta, "Sinofuturisms", Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Volume 7 Issue 2, Fall 2021, pp 74-99. University of Minnesota Press.
• Gary Zhexi Zhang, "Sinofuturism and Its Uses: Contemporary Art and Diasporic Desire.", Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Volume 7 Issue 2, Fall 2021, pp 86+. University of Minnesota Press.
• Carlos Henrique Carvalho Souza, "Arriving from the Future: Sinofuturism & the post-human in the philosophy of Nick Land & Yuk Hui", TripleAmpersand.org, Sept 16 2022.
• Ashley Lau, "Sinofuturism as Speculative Design", Crossings: An Undergraduate Arts Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2023.

Theses

• Xinyue Selina Xu, "Sinofuturism: Dreams and Nightmares in Postsocialist China", Harvard, Mar 1 2022. Bachelors thesis.

See Also

Indofuturism, Desifuturism, Tropical Futurism, Gulf Futurism, Arab Futurism, Afrofuturism, Global South Futurisms, Post Western, New World, Queer Futurism