Contra (Luo Xiao), digital artist, creative technologist.
Founder of Experimental Programming, currently engaged in the creation and teaching of interactive media art, artificial intelligence art, and algorithmic generative art.
Practical tutor of AI and Art Research Center of CAUP, Tongji.
Professional tutor of Media Art Research Center of International College, CAFA.
Project tutor of Art and Technology Innovation Base of THU,.
Executive dean of Quanzhou Huaguang AI Film and Television Art Academy.
Executive director of AI Art Innovation Alliance (AIAIA).
Professional member of the Computational Art Branch of China Computer Federation (CCF).
Member of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).
Graduated from BUAA for both bachelor and master degrees.
Worked for Tencent ISUX and NetEase Games.
Served as an external lecturer for many famous universities.
Graduate enterprise tutor (PKU).
Graduate graduation defense and thesis reviewer (BJUT).
Since 2005, he has cooperated with many artists and agencies on a large number of interactive media art projects, involving many global brands and international forums.
Personal digital art works have been exhibited in Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, ShangHai Young Art Fair, Jinan International Biennale, Shenzhen Rong Bao Zhai, London StART Digital fair, Cape Town Art Week, Tokyo SOMSOC, Prato Italy, etc.
- 2025 Co-curator of The First Mangrove 10,000 AI Art X Future of Today AI Art Special Exhibition.
- 2024 Tutor of the China National Arts Fund “Digital China” Generative Artificial Intelligence Art Creation Talent Training Project.
- 2024 Tutor of AIGC Image Creation Training Camp of China Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival.
- 2024 Beijing International Film Festival AIGC Short Film Unit Preliminary Judge.
- 2023 Technical Director of the “International Metaverse Exhibition” at the 14th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.
Works Exhibition
- 2025 “Art is the traitor of Algorithms”, solo exhibition + group exhibition, The First Mangrove 10,000 AI Art X Future of Today AI Art Special Exhibition.
- 2025 CyberFish – Front, “Re-creation” Technology Art Exhibition, Chengdu Times Art Museum. Machine learning, shader algorithm, dynamic image.
- 2025 CyberFish – Front, Ferrari South Africa Cape Town Art Week. Machine learning, shader algorithm, dynamic image.
- 2025 CyberFish – Front, AI Liaozhai, Yancheng Art Museum. Machine learning, shader algorithm, dynamic image.
- 2025 AI Liaozhai, the 6th Shanhai Art Festival, Shenzhen Sea World Culture and Art Center. AI model training and image generation.
- 2024 CyberFish – Front, Jinan International Biennale. Machine learning, shader algorithm, dynamic image.
- 2024 CyberFish – Front, StArt Art Fair, London. Machine learning, shader algorithm, dynamic image.
- 2024 CyberFish – Line, Digital Brushstrokes: AIGC Art Exhibition, Rongbaozhai Shenzhen Art and Living Space. AI generated, digital printing.
- 2024 CyberFish – Line, AI Liaozhai, AI is coming-AI imagination theme exhibition, Dongdi Warehouse Gallery, Dongguan. AI generated, digital printing.
- 2024 AI Liaozhai, Superstar AI Art Exhibition, Qiudi Art Center, Xiamen. AI generated, digital printing.
- 2023 CyberFish – Front, Biotope Art Exhibition, Shanghai Youth Art Fair. Machine learning, dynamic image.
- 2023 CyberFish – Ukiyo-e, Beijing Dangdai Art Fair. Machine learning, encrypted digital prints.
- 2022 One Tree One Home, Wood·Sea·Human World, Tokyo SOMSOC GALLERY. AI generated, dynamic image.
- 2022 The Beach, New Shanghai School Abstract Art Exhibition, Shanghai Young Art Museum. Machine learning, digital printing.
- 2008 “Horizon”, “Urban Landscape” Shanghai Electronic Art Festival. RIA rich media data visualization.
Art activities
- 2025 Co-curator of The First Mangrove 10,000 AI Art X Future of Today AI Art Special Exhibition.
- 2025 Technical Director of China National Arts Fund “Digital China” generative AI art exhibition.
- 2024 Judge of the 2nd National Artificial Intelligence Application Scenario Innovation Challenge Intelligent Art Special Qualifying Competition.
- 2024 Final judge of the AIGC Skills Competition of Tongji University Architectural Design Institute.
- 2024 Beijing International Film Festival AIGC Short Film Unit Preliminary Judge.
- 2024 Experimental Programming Code2Art organizer, Generative Art and AI on Web3.
- 2024 Superstar AI Art Exhibition Special Curator.
- 2023 14th Gwangju Biennale “International Metaverse Exhibition” Technical Director.
- 2022 “Mitologie Digitali Digital Mythology”, the third Italian Festival SETA (Silk Culture Festival), Generative AI Art Sharing Forum, and Experimental Programming Community Works Curator.
Academic activities
- 2025 The First Mangrove 10,000 AI Art X Future of Today AI Art Special Exhibition, “Generative AI and Algorithm-Generated Art” Lecture.
- 2025 Yancheng Art Museum “Generative AI Art”, Course Lecture.
- 2025 The Sixth Shanhai Art Festival “Creation Forum-Multi-dimensional Digital Field”, Speaker.
- 2025 The article “2024 Generative AI Image Model Annual Report” was published in the core journal “Art Research” Issue 1.
- 2024 Speaker of the “Art and Media in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” at the Frontier Forum of Art Studies of the Chinese National Academy of Arts.
- 2024 AIGC Image Creation Training Camp Tutor for the “Golden Rooster of the Year” series of activities at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival.
- 2024 Tutor for the “Digital China” Generative Artificial Intelligence Art Creation Talent Training Project of the National Art Fund.
- 2024 Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology “Generative Artificial Intelligence Art Creation” Jewelry Innovation Design Special Course Lecture.
- 2024 DigitalFUTURES “Generative AI Art Practice” Workshop Mentor.
- 2024 AI Art Expression Workshop Tutor in the Biological and Ecological Context of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts.
- 2024 AIGC Art Course Designer and Lecturer at Shanghai Xiangshan Middle School.
- 2024 Fudan University MBA Forum Blockchain and the Future of Digital Art, Sharing Guest.
- 2024 The article “2023 Generative AI Image Model Annual Report” was published in the core journal “Art Research” Issue 1.
- 2023-2024 AI Art Course Tutor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University.
- 2023-2024 Tutor for multiple projects at the Metaverse Talent Block Creative Workshop, Tsinghua University Art Base.
- 2023 Co-organizer and Chief Tutor of the AI Art Training Camp of the International Academy of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
- 2023 DigitalFUTURES “Artificial Intelligence Multi-dimensional Space Narrative Image” Workshop Tutor.
- 2023 Teaching Expert of the “College VR/ChatGPT/AI Virtual Human/Digital Twin Teacher Training Class” of China Education All Media.