About Sinofuturism
Sinofuturism is the visual language of Lawrence Lek's 2016 video essay: a Chinese future built from Shenzhen neon, AI, copying, and jade-tinted screen glow. It reads from a dark night street — bright vertical shopfront signage burning over a jade-tinted near-black, dense urban layering of LED grids and data overlays.
The system fuses two registers: a simplified-Chinese signage layer of neon red and imperial gold, and an AI/computing layer of monospace data and jade-cyan bloom. It is not lantern chinoiserie — it is saturated neon urbanism, screens stacked on screens, the copy as creative engine.
- Origin
- Shenzhen, Pearl River Delta, China
- Era
- 2016–present (futurist video essay; ongoing visual culture)
- Key figures
- Lawrence Lek
- Movements
- Sinofuturism · post-internet art · accelerationist video essay · shanzhai aesthetics
Sinofuturism design spec
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