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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Underground Circuit
Yuge Zhou 周雨歌
Original: Underground Circuit - photo: Rory O'Driscoll (UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou2_Rory_ODriscoll.jpg) | 3688 * 3688px | 5.5 MB
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Original: Underground Circuit - photo: Rory O'Driscoll (UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou1_Rory_ODriscoll.jpg) | 3839 * 3839px | 6.5 MB
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Original: Underground Circuit - photo: Andrew Thoreson (UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou3_AndrewThoreson.jpg) | 5472 * 5472px | 6.7 MB
Credits: Andrew Thoreson
Credits: Andrew Thoreson
Original: Underground Circuit - photo: Rory O'Driscoll (UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou4_Rory_ODriscoll.jpg) | 3865 * 3865px | 7.9 MB
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Original: Underground Circuit - photo: Rory O'Driscoll (UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou6_Rory_ODriscoll.jpg) | 4164 * 4164px | 9.4 MB
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Original: UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou7.gif (UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou7.gif) | 600 * 600px | 3.0 MB
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Credits: Rory O`Driscoll
Original: UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou5_AndrewThoreson.jpg (UndergroundCircuit_YugeZhou5_AndrewThoreson.jpg) | 4773 * 4773px | 4.2 MB
Credits: Andrew Thoreson
Credits: Andrew Thoreson
Underground Circuit is a collage of hundreds of video clips shot in the subway stations in New York. Station to station, the movement of the commuters in the outer rings suggests the repetitive cycle of life and urban theatricality and texture. The inner-most ring includes people who are waiting on benches. The central drummers act as if they were the controllers of the commuters' movement, similar to the four-faced Buddha in Chinese folk religion, who fulfills and grants all wishes of its devotees.
For the installation, the video is projected onto the gallery floor and mapped onto a cube with relief in the middle of the projection area. The installation invites audiences to sit on the central cube as voyeurs, to observe the anonymous characters in the projected urban labyrinth.
Links: https://vimeo.com/238650658, yugezhou.com
For the installation, the video is projected onto the gallery floor and mapped onto a cube with relief in the middle of the projection area. The installation invites audiences to sit on the central cube as voyeurs, to observe the anonymous characters in the projected urban labyrinth.
Links: https://vimeo.com/238650658, yugezhou.com
Artist: Yuge Zhou 周雨歌 (CN)
Sound design: Stephen Farrell
Sound design: Stephen Farrell
At the age of five, [Yuge Zhou](http://yugezhou.com/) 周雨歌 (CN) became a household name in China as the singer for a popular children's TV series. Yuge studied photography and then moved into video art, earning her Master of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yuge creates videos and installations that address connections, isolation, and longing across urban and natural environments. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work has been the subject of various articles in such publications as New York Magazine and Hypebeast Magazine. Yuge received the 2017 Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award. In addtion to her art practice, she directs and curates the 3300-square foot 150 Media Stream, the largest public digital art installation in Chicago. Yuge also holds a masters degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.