This interview was conducted in Shanghai on 9 June 2011.
Biography:
Gu Zheng (b. 1959, Shanghai) is a photographer and scholar of photography and visual communication.
In late 1970s and early 1980s, Gu Zheng first studied and then taught in the technical school of the Shanghai Camera Factory. In 1986, Gu and his friends formed the photography group “Beihemeng” (Alliance of the Northern River). In the same year, the group organized an exhibition titled “Seekers – Black and White Photography Exhibition” in both Beijing and Shanghai.
From 1991 to 1993, Gu studied in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan, and in 1998 he graduated from Osaka Prefecture University with a Ph.D. degree in comparative culture.
Gu Zheng is currently professor of Journalism School, vice director of Research Center for Visual Culture and researcher for the Centre of Information and Communication at Fudan University. His research areas include history, theories and practices of photography and visual communications.
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顧錚，1959年出生於上海。攝影家、攝影及視覺傳播學者。
七十年代末及八十年代初，顧錚就讀及任教於上海照相機總廠技校。1986年，他與其他攝影愛好者組成了攝影團體「北河盟」，同年分別在上海及北京舉辦《尋找者黑白攝影展》。
1991-1993年進修於日本神戶大學國際文化系；1998年畢業於日本大阪府立大學人類文化研究科比較文化研究專業。現任復旦大學新聞學院教授，復旦大學視覺文化研究中心副主任，復旦大學資訊與傳播中心研究員。專事攝影理論與實踐、攝影史、視覺傳播。
抄本連結
In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents.
As part of this project, AAA digitised more than 80,000 items of material from personal archives to include artists Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhang Peili; curators and critics Fei Dawei, Lu Peng, and Zheng Shengtian; as well as the archives of Tokyo Art Gallery. As part of the research process over 75 in-depth interviews with key artists, curators, and critics were conducted. From a portion of these interviews, AAA created a documentary film about experimental art in South China (Guangzhou) in the 1980s entitled From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s.
AAA’s 1980s archiving project culminated with the launch of a comprehensive website portal called www.china1980s.org in September 2010.
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