Feng Mengbo

Feng Mengbo (冯梦波, Féng Mèngbō, born 1966) is a contemporary Chinese artist[1] who works mainly in new media.

In early 1970s, Chinese Cultural Revolution reached its peak and had a huge impact on Feng's childhood.

In late 1970s, as Mao died, Deng took the power and China started its economic reform and open policy.

In 1999, Feng started a series of works based on the post-apocalyptic[citation needed] game Quake.

Instead of inserting his own image into the game, Q2008 featured naked CG women armed with cell phones and shoot flowers.

Again, Feng used the image of Yang Zirong (his childhood hero in Taking Mount Doom by Strategy) as the main character in Long March: Restart.

The paintings are more like videogame screen with digitized Red Army soldier that throws Coca-Cola cans as grenades at his enemies.

Long March: Restart continued this style and became a single player positioned video game.

In Feng's own words :original intention in designing the installation, which lies in the continued use of the audience's, i.e. the gamers’, way of motion as the chief measuring mechanism...I wanted to enable the character to move freely along the stretched scroll.