Jiang
Jun editor-in-chief of Urban China Magazine, Founder
of Underline Office
Born in Hubei in 1974, got bachelor’s degree in Tongji University
in Shanghai and master’s degree in Tsinghua University in
Beijing, now teaching in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Designer
and critic, has been working on urban research and experimental
study, exploring the interrelationship between design phenomenon
and urban dynamic. Main works involve urbanism, architecture, product,
graphic and art, including Non-up-and-down House, Bar-Net Project,
H2O, Shopping Utopia; his writings and critiques including: Something
from Nothing, CE, Metamorphosis, Dematerialized, Almost, Tense City,
Social Products, Dirtitecture, etc. He is the translator of Tony
Godfrey’s Conceptual Art, and Rem Koolhaas’ Bigness
and Junkspace.
Underline Office is project-oriented group founded
in 2003 by designer, photographer and critic Jiang Jun. Based in
Guangzhou and registered in Hong Kong, most of its members came
from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Since the beginning of 2005,
Underline Office has been fully engaged into the founding and researching
for Urban China, an urbanism magazine based in Shanghai, and also
involved into a series of important exhibitions. Main works include:
Systematic Superficiality (Exhibition analysis and Design) for Get
It Louder Exhibition 2005; Hi-China (An interactive installation
for the images from 100 cities of China) for Guangdong Triennale
2005; Directory Lianzhou (A Branch work for Hi-China) for Lianzhou
International Photography Festival 2005; Objects to Come/Objects
in Disappearing and Future Past Tense (A video installation cooperated
with Crystal CG) for Shenzhen Biennale 2005; Informal China for
China Contemporary Exhibition in NAi, Rotterdam, 2006; Urban Image
& Text for China Contemporary Exhibition in Fotomuseum, Rotterdam,
2006.
Urban China www.urbanchina.com.cn
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