ZHIQIANG
LI
FUTURE
COMMUNICATOR
Zhiqiang Li - Visual artist，Graphic designer
Digital Videos
Installation
Site Design
As a visual communicator, I am interested in using technology to express my vision of future forms of communication. I explore the relationship between technology and humanity in order to anticipate the next shift in information transfer.
Education
2018-2020
Royal College of Art
MA Visual Communication
Professional training
2026
Cultural Heritage Data School, University of Cambridge
Exhibitions
2026
SUPERIORITAS International Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition, Online
2026
SOFT MECHANICS: Difference, Repetition, Life,Pai_32, London
2026
Future Of Money Design Awards Exhibition, ExCel London (Pay 360 event), London
2024
Bidston observatory center for artistic research, Liverpool
2023
Inner Mongolia Nomadic Ethnic Theme Exhibition, Inner Mongolia Exhibition Hall
2023
Aethetica art prize Exhibition, York art gallery
2022
Changsha Kiln Theme Exhibition，The art and design college of Hunan university
2019
Moonscapes exhibition,Lumen studios gallery,London
2019
Tate archive(r) exhibition, Tate Britain gallery, London
2018
The future museum Exhibition, Royal Academy of art,London
Peer-reviewed Academic Conference
2026
Cumulus Athens 2026: Roots/Routes in Design (Cumulus 2026)
Athens, Greece
2025
International Association of Design Education and Research Conference (IADER 2025)
Taipei
2025
The Conference on cultural heritage and new technologies (CHNT30)
Vienna
2025
The Eighteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
University of San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain in Zaragoza
2025
2025 International Conference on Innovative Design - Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development
Online
2024
Explorations on Sound and New Media art conference: New sentient and spectrumsat Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Polo Fos, Lisbon
Selected Funded Projects
2023
China National Arts Fund 2023 Funding Project:'Cultural Fusion Product Innovation Design Talent Training for Herdsmen’
Inner Mongolia (China)
2022
China National Arts Fund 2022 Funding Project: "Preservation and Advancement of Changsha Kiln's Underglaze Colourful Porcelain Firing Techniques and Development of Innovative Artistic Talents"
Changsha (China)
Award
Third Prize
2026
Future Of Money Design Awards 2026
Second Prize
2026
SUPERIORITAS International Contemporary Art Prize
Publication
Overcoming the “flatness” of screen experiences: creating and classifying screen applications in art based on McLuhan’s media theory
2026
The new sentient and spectrums
<Reconnecting Museum Exhibits with the Contemporary Context Through the "Digital Birch Bark Jar": A Postphenomenological Approach to Interactive Digital Visualisation>
2026
IASDR 2025
<The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House at Tate Modern>
2026
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism
<The design and assessment of an AI interactive installation based on image style transfer and facial recognition for cultural heritage leaning>
2025
The Asia Design and Innovation Conference (ADIC 2025)
<Applying CycleGAN for Style Transfer of Modern Scenes to Changsha Kiln Patterns in Museum Exhibits>
2024
2024 5th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI)
<Birch Bark Jar > Visual art
2023
<Pastoral Tourism Imagination: Practice Notes on the National Arts Fund Project “Pastoral Tourism Integration and Product Creative Design >
<Pins & Needles> Sound art
2023
Learning from “The Sounding Object”: Sound Design in the Critical Reimagining of Museum Object Narratives (Design Issues (2023) 39 (2): 57–71.)
<The sound of Changsha kiln> Visual art
2023
<The Future Now Anthology 2023 >
<The sound of Changsha kiln> Visual art
2023
<China Ceramics>
Interview and Critical review
A Critical Review of Zhiqiang Li’s Artistic Practice
2026
Point Pleasant Publishing
Observing silences: Soft Mechanics and Kunstindustrie
2026
ArtSciHist
10 Questions with Zhiqiang Li
2025
Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art