Gao is one of the recent “scholarly” artists in the field of Chinese video art. Not only has Gao forged new territory for aesthetic innovation and built upon the foundation of the Hangzhou school as the leader in fine art digital media, he has also developed a profoundly rich vocabulary that distinguishes his art from that of his predecessors. Yet, the poetic, non-literal and allusive style of his moving images is clearly part of the mastery in ...