Virtual Terrain is in composition since 2012, it is created successively after Flâneur in a Virtual Land which is a series of digital prints. Like Flâneur, Offset is also an audio-visual work generated by digital images generating program.

When I use computer as my environment of artistic creation, software and the operating system is an interesting world full of symbols to me. It is both of actual and virtual realities, and I, both as the creator and a loner in this parallel planet, takes position as a photographer and rover. I keep filming this virtual scenes, making and adding granularized noises to the space of creation, through which I would like to share with the viewers’ feelings of illusions in the nonphysical space, and the unspeakable phenomenon filtered out in a medium alternating.

Shi Zheng is an artist based in Shanghai and New York. His creations range from electronic music, audio-visual installation, and performance. In his large scale immersive installations, he attempts to extend the audience’s visual and audio experience which is considered as the integral part of his work. Since the composition of ‘Offset’ (2014), Shi has focused on the virtual landscape and the internal system behind the screen.

In the virtual world generated by the computer, Shi Zheng is not only a creator but also a wanderer. He indulges in the indifferent silence initiated by sound and image and attempts to share this lonesome land with his audience. Most recently, he starts to investigate the “latent time” through the lens of “computer vision” by integrating the perspective of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning.