Dr. CHANG GAO
Dr. Chang Gao is a Berlin-based multimedia artist and postdoctoral researcher working across artificial intelligence, bioelectric sensing, sculpture, film, augmented reality, and real-time generative systems. She is an Associate Researcher with the Intervening Arts Collaborative Research Center (SFB) at Freie Universität Berlin and holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art (London). Gao is also a board member and communications director of the feminist collective art&dialogue (Berlin), as well as the founder and director of the Social Innovation Research Lab at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (China).
Gao’s artistic and theoretical practice investigates affect, desire, and wonder as epistemic forces that challenge cultural hierarchies, anthropocentric AI bias, and regimes of technopolitical control. Her research explores how affective computing, sensory systems, and bioresponsive technologies reshape perception, agency, identity, and social structures. Working across robotics, augmented reality, bioelectric systems, sculpture, real-time AI installations, film, and immersive time-based media, Gao integrates eroticism and bodily affect as critical tools to destabilize normative boundaries between human and non-human intelligence. By harnessing desire and embodied sensation as subversive forces, Gao’s work confronts structures of censorship and exposes the ideological biases embedded within contemporary technological systems. Her projects seek to unsettle dominant imaginaries of control and efficiency, instead foregrounding vulnerability, intimacy, and affective resonance as sites of knowledge production and political imagination. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Berlin, London, Seoul, Utrecht, Graz, Tokyo, Helsinki, and across China.
E-mail: gao.chang@network.rca.ac.uk
Personal website: https://gaochangart.net/
RCA Research Page: https://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/research-degrees/research-students/chang-gao/
RCA Research Biennale Project Page: https://research-biennale.rca.ac.uk/projects/using-supernormal-stimuli-to-create-public-artworks-an-experiment-in-countering-cultural-hegemony-and-post-colonialism-in-chinese-urban-space
Academic Career:
07.01.25-now Postdoc Researcher collaborating with Professor Mathilde ter Heijne at Univeristy of the Art Berlin, and collaborate with Professor Rainer Mülhoff at Univeristy of Osnabrück, on Desire and Affect Combating AI Bias.
01.06.2023-01.09.2023 Lecturer at Art Direction department of London College of Communication at University of Art London
03.2021 Visiting Professorship in Fine Art, leading a large group seminar and individual tutorials to art undergraduate students at Bath University, United Kingdom
09.2020-12.2020 Lecturer at MA group teaching at Royal College of Art, leading a large group teaching to over 40 students from different majors across Contemporary Art Practice, Curating Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Moving image, Glass and Ceramic, Jewellery, photography, painting, and History of Design etc.
01.2020, Visiting Professorship, leading a large seminar and individual tutorial to undergraduate students in Fine Art at Liverpool Hope University, UK
12.03.2019, Lecturer, leading RCA SoAH MA Critic and assessment towards MA students major in Sculpture, Contemporary Art Practice, Critical Writings and Moving Image at Royal College of Art, UK
2017-2023 Establisher and Director of International Social Innovation Research Lab-Central Academy of Fine Art in China
2016-2018 Professor teaching public art courses in School of City and Design, Central Academy of Fine Art China, Beijing
06.2015- 06.2018: Research Associate at Public Art Research Centre of China – China Academy of Fine Art Leading teaching and research group as the research leader for the national fund project “The Development History of Public Art in China” in Public Art Research Centre of China, Beijing
08.2013-06.2015: Associate Lecturer leading group teaching to undergraduate students in Fine Art at Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
2008-2012: Executive Editor at Tsinghua academic journal Academic Sculpture
Education
2018-2023 Philosophy of Doctor, Art and Humanities, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
2010-2014 Master of Art, Sculpture/Fine Arts, Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, China
2006-2010 Undergraduate, Sculpture/Fine art, Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, China
Exhibitions/Performance:
14-18.05. 2026 Multimedia Performance Can You Feel My Diasporic Love? Affective Encounters of Body, Wonder and Machine will be performed at Hybrid Festival 2026 at Uferstudio 1, Uferstudios (Berlin)
14.03.2026 Film Erotic Proximity will be screened at Groucho Club, London
13.03.2026-04.2026 Sound/light multimedia sculpture Feel My Sensuality exhibited at exhibition Technology of Desire, Scope BLN, Berlin.
22.01.2026 – 28.01.2026 Multimedia Performance Can You Feel My Diasporic Love? Affective Encounter of Wonder, Body, and Machine, Skin conductance / ceramic / sound / light ceramic sculpture_Feel My sensuality; Fruits / electric circuits / sound interactive installation_Erotic Circuits; ECG heart-rate–driven film genre switching with real-time AI system_Desire, AI and Supernormal Stimuli; ECG heart-rate / film interactive installation_Shower Me with Affection; GPS-based real-time Augmented Reality interface_Erotic Poetics, performed and showcased at Alpha nova & galerie futura (Berlin), as part of Vorspiel/Transmediale & CTM festival 2026.
19.09.2025-18.10.2005 Performance Can You Feel My Diasporic Love?, Sculpture Can you Feel my Sensuality, Film Erotic Proximity performed at the opening of exhibition Wandering Till the Wind Whispers My Land at Unit 1 Gallery|Workshop, Bard Road, London, W10 6TP, UK.
05.06.2025 Lecture Performance Desire Beyond Flesh: Combating AI Bias through Supernromal Stimuli at IKSK series Colloquium The Future of Sex: AI, Desire, and the Flesh, Berlin https://www.iksk-berlin.de/philosophical-colloquium
27.09.2024 Augmented Reality and Print Organic Access has been exhibited at Streicher Herbst 2024, Graz, Austria. https://www.steirischerherbst.at/de/
01.07.2024 Article and artwork Augmented Reality Interface Erotic Poetics published at Itinerant Space Issue 2: A Journal of art, design and communication research practices; an experimental online platform for doctorate researchers, School of Communication, Royal College of Art, London. https://itinerant-space.co.uk/
08.06.2024 Robotic Installation Speaking for the Speechless showcased at the Bodywork festival Speak Your Body Out at IKSK_Institut für Körperforschung und Sexuelle Kultur, Berlin
26.05.2024 Performance Desire, AI and Public Intimacy was performance at De_colonialanguage Collective_Marxist Fasęd events and public intervention at Alexander Platz, Berlin. https://fastly.syg.ma/@de_colonialanguage/cracks-on-the-facade
29.04.2024 Multi-media Theatre Performance Love me with Sound will be performed at exhibition “what you hear when I say gro” at gallery N.Y.D Berlin, as part of the Sellerie weekend, Berlin.
26-29.04.2024 Film Emotional Encounter, ECG interactive Sculpture Book of Disquiet, Heartrate Interactive installation Shower Me with Affection, and Augmented Reality Interface ++Erotic Poetics will be exhibited at exhibition “what you hear when I say gro” at gallery N.Y.D Berlin, as part of the Sellerie weekend, Berlin.
10.09.2023 Augmented Reality Interface++Erotic Poetics is exhibited at online exhibition Lineazomp A: virtual space for meeting and combination of artwork, highlights the power of Eroticism in Argentina. https://www.lineazompa.com.ar/
22.06.2023 Film Erotic Proximity showcased at Royal College of Art Research Biennale HOPSCOTH at Copeland Gallery, London
21.06.2023 Performance Erotic Proximity showcased at Beaconsfield Contemporary Art in London
24.05. 2023 Lecture Performance “Can the Supernormal Stimuli/Eroticism combat Political Repressin” presented at KSTN Berlin.
19.05.2023 Performance Reading Desert Diaries at Exhibition “Bygones be Bygones” at Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburg Platz, read by Dr. Chang Gao, K. Yoland, and Anna Karolina Mueller.
14-18th April, 2023, film Erotic Proximity and augmented reality interface Erotic Poetics exhibited at exhibition Subterranean Organ at The Cript Gallery, London
01.12.2022 – 09.12.2022 PhD Solo Exhibition Erotic Proximity exhibited in Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art. Hester Road 1, London.
24.10.2022 – 30.10.2022 Artworks Book of Disquiet exhibited in exhibition Woman Exhibiting Today at London Gallery West, London
04.08.2022 – 30.08.2022 Series of artwork Erotic Proximity will be exhibited Exhibition Naturally NO Binary at the David Kovats Gallery, London
06.08.2022 – 28.08.2022 Artwork Beauty Inside will be exhibited in Italy Chianciano Biennale, Tuscan, Italy.
05.06.2022 – 31.07.2022 Artwork Emotional Encounter will be exhibited in group exhibition COME ALIVE in Utrecht Netherland
15.06.2022 Sound Performance at Book Launch: Representation Imprint with Kara Keeling at Beaconsfield Gallery, London.
09.05.2022 -13.05.2022 Artwork Tiny Gallery project organised by Open Research Group at Ransome’s Dock, Royal College of Art
14.03.2022 -21.03.2022 Exhibition of my series of artwork: film Erotic proximity, AR interface Erotic Poetics and print Erotic Poetics in Southwark Park Galleries//Dilston Gallery, London
30.06.2021-05.07.2021 My work Book of Disquiet was exhibited in Chelsea Old Town Hall in London Art Biennale
27.05.2021 Film Erotic Proximity published in the RCA research event Entanglement: Just Dreaming (the worlds). The event is organised and curated by Prof. Johnny Golding and Meg Rahaim-Shakespeare. It showcased together with other RCA PhD PGR Entanglement Researchers along with: Jackson 2Bears, Petra Gemeinboeck, Suchitra Sebastian and Pato Hebert.
02.03.2021 – 01.02.2021 Participant and speaker at RCA Research Biennale, my research page was published online on RCA Research Biennale website online exhibition and explore research from across the PhD, MPhil and Mres programs, which highlights the urgency, vitality and ambition of research across art, design and architecture.
04.03.2020 – 07.03.2020 Double-solo Exhibition Public Intimacy exhibited at Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, Battersea, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN
22.01.2020.1.22-25.01.2020 Research exhibition 2084, the School of Art and Humanities, Royal College of Art, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, Battersea, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN
08.11.2019 Work: Organic Access exhibited at the Exhibition: Re-Imaging Psychogeography at Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London
04.10.2019 – 24.11.2019 The project “The Distribution of Wealth Most Conductive to Human Happiness” cooperated with Dr. Melanie Jordan participated in the ‘Coventry Biennale Contemporary Art 2019”. Meriden, Coventry, England
02.10.2019 – 03.10.2019 Hologram installation Emotional Encounter & Prints Organic Access will be presented in Collision2019 Practice-led Research Conference at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
04.07.2019 – 09.07.2019 Emotional Encounter-3 exhibited at the Transformation: Art<>Cities<>Mobility<>Products<>Services<>Technology Research Conference at the Senior Common Room, the Royal College of Art, Kensington Campus, London
15.03.2019 – 23.03.2019 Work Emotional Encounter exhibited in MPhil/PhD research exhibition “There is something lurking in the shadow that might be interesting” in Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, LONDON
29.01.2019 – 10.02.2019 Work Organic Access and Emotional Encounter exhibited in Entanglement: The Opera in Dyson Gallery and Gorvy Lecture Hall at the Royal College of Art, London, Britain
25.08.2018 Artwork: Art Must Take Side exhibited in exhibition Partician Social Club in Beaconsfield Gallery, London, Britain. Now it’s been permanently installed in Beaconsfield Gallery
08.2010 Work Gender: Not Defined was selected as outstanding work among national art graduate works at the exhibition Giant in Today ART Museum, Beijing 2009.7 work Destruction was selected into the National Art Exhibition, exhibited in Changchun Sculpture Park, Jilin, China
Prize and Awards
2019-2022 Recipient of CSC (Chinese Scholarship Council) PhD Full-tuition covered scholarship
12.2014: Work “Lin Huiyin” won the first prize at National Exhibition of the Graduate Works in Sculpture, certificate issued by Chinese Sculpture Net
06.2011 Design “Future 20 years” won Honorable Price for the indoor sculpture of Beijing Volkswagen Incorporation, China
2011-2010 Scholarship recipient of the Tsinghua University Alumna Dc.Yang Scholarship
09.2010 Works Good Memory were awarded with the Excellence Award by Beijing Government and Chinese Sculpture Institute at the First Chinese Marble Sculpture Competition
08.2010 Work Gender: Not Defined was selected as outstanding work among national art graduate works at the exhibition Giant in Today ART Museum, Beijing 2009.7 work Destruction was selected into the National Art Exhibition, exhibited in Changchun Sculpture Park, Jilin, China
2010 Artwork Gender: Not Defined Published in the catalog: I call the Shot of My Youth Giant Cup Collection of Today Art Student Annual ART Awards, First Edition, 2010
2008-2009 Scholarship recipient of National Scholarship & Tsinghua University First-prize Comprehensive Scholarship
2007-2008 Scholarship recipient of National Scholarship & Tsinghua University First-prize Comprehensive Scholarship
2006-2007 Scholarship recipient of National Scholarship & Tsinghua University First-prize Comprehensive Scholarship
Residency Experience
02-03.10.2019 Research Residency Giving a talk about the PhD topic: Supernormal Stimuli, Public Sphere Theory Addressing the Post-colonial Phenomenon in Chinese Public Space” at doctoral conference Collision 2019, at Royal Central Academy of Drama and Speech, London
11.2019 Residency workshop “Reflection of Oversea Studies as Chinese Identity” at Coventry Biennale 2019, together with Coventry university, Warwick University and Royal College of Art
2017-2018 The Residency in Beijing Shunyi Studio was established by Central Academy of Fine Arts, where allows me to produce several major artworks like Speaking for the Speechless.
2015 I was selected as outstanding student in the residency in Hongik University of Art and Design and exhibiting my final artwork Beauty Inside, in Seoul, Korea.
2009I was also selected as outstanding student for residency for one month in Parson School of Design, New York City, US.
Podcasts:
24.03.2024 Julian Lee and Chang Gao_Spirituality Uncensored: Gender Inequality and Sexual Repression with Dr. Chang Gao: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NrlYEf4qZIHPN4HwMfqjV?si=pVQYXsBKTGar69nMpVWP0w&nd=1
08.08.2023 Katheryn Fischer and Chang Gao, a podcast talk about Sexuality, Pornography, Eroticism, Exaction and ASMR sound effect at S.W.E.A.T: SEX/UALITY. WORK. EXTRACTION. ART. THEATR/ICS: https://www.alfabus.us/sweat-podcast/
List of Publications
Accepted & Planned
09.2025 Article Intimacy and Desire as Subversive Force has been planned to be publish at Academic Research Anthology Intervenierende Intimitäten (Intervening intimacies), as part of the SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste (Intervening Art) DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft German Research Foundation), published by Free University Berlin and University of Arts Berlin, 2025 https://www.sfb-intervenierende-kuenste.de/veranstaltungen/intervenierende-intimitaeten.html
Gao, C (2025) Gender: Not Defined – The Ethical Crossroads of Gene-Modified Technology, Gender, and Inherited Ideologies, From Monster to Mothers, A feminist Encyclopaedia Birthing Body, Berlin.
Embargoed (Due to Chinese Censorship and the threaten under Chinese Scholarship Council):
PhD thesis: Using supernormal stimuli and eroticism to create artworks: An experiment in countering cultural hegemony and the complexity of postcoloniality in Chinese public space published on Dec, 23 2024 at Royal College of Art Repository.
Published
Gao C. (2025) Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism to Create Artworks: An experiment in Resisting Racism and Cultural Hegemony in Chinese Public Space will be published at Race, Racialisation, and Racism, a special issue of New Formations, A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics. ISSN 0950-2378: https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/
Gao, C (2025) Intimacy and Desire as Subversive Force: Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism in the production of Artworks in Resisting Cultural Hegemony, Academic Research Anthology Intervenierende Intimitäten (Intervening intimacies), SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste (Intervening Art) DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft German Research Foundation), Free University Berlin & University of Arts Berlin, https://www.sfb-intervenierende-kuenste.de/veranstaltungen/intervenierende-intimitaeten.html
Gao, C. (2024). Augmented Reality Interface Erotic Poetics. Itinerant Space Issue 2. https://itinerant-space.co.uk/mini-abstract/augmented-reality-interface-erotic-poetics/
Gao, C. & de_colonialanguage collective (2024) Article “Power of Erotics_Desire, AI and Public Intimacy” was published together with De_colonialanguage collective at Multilingual Community-run Media Platform and Archive: Syg.ma, Berlin. https://fastly.syg.ma/@de_colonialanguage/cracks-on-the-facade
Gao, C. (2024). Article and artwork Augmented Reality Interface Erotic Poetics published at Itinerant Space Issue 2: A Journal of art, design and communication research practices; an experimental online platform for doctorate researchers, School of Communication, Royal College of Art, London. https://itinerant-space.co.uk/
Gao, C. & Johnson, D. (2022). Article “How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art? A Conversation Between David Johnson and Chang Gao on Ignorance and Oppression in Disability and Chinese Society” on RCA academic research critique publication “Representation”, an RCA Communiqué, produced by students and staff at the School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London.
Gao, C. (2022) They/Them/Their: Naturally Not Binary Reviews of my work at the exhibition ‘They/Them/Their: Naturally Not Binary’, IMT Gallery, London. At this exhibition I presented my work in relation to the celebration of queer ecology. The event brought together artworks that examined issues around representing ecofeminism, environmental justice, social ecology, LGBTQIA+ geography, trans and gender non-conforming experiences, and networks of support. The exhibition was accompanied by a range of programmes to engage the public and raise awareness of LGBTQIA and global issues with the consideration of Ecology and climate change. https://awayfromthegrain.com/2022/08/16/they-them-their-naturally-not-binary-at-imt-gallery/
Gao, C. (2022) Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism in Creating Public Art to Address the Postcolonialism and Cultural Hegemony in Chinese Public Space at the talk at ‘One Thousand Plateaus’ London Cultural Salon, entitled: ‘Does Erotic Artwork Have to be Censored? The Urgency of Chinese Public Space and Creating Art under the Postcolonial Context’ at Unit 4, 222 Kingsland Road, London
Gao, C. (2022) Artworks Intimate Fantasy, Sculpture Speaking for the Speechless, Sensuousness against Repressions are published in Prova 6, a Seasonal Journal produced by School of Art and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London
Gao, C. (2022) Book of Disquiet, ECG heart-rate interactive sculpture, published within the Entanglement research group contribution in the RCA research Journal PROVA 6. The book includes my research topic and my AR series Organic Access and hologram installation Emotional Encounter as part of the Public(s) research group contribution led by Dr. Josephine Berry, Prof. Mel Jordan and Dr. Sarah Teasley. Another sculpture, Book of Disquiet, and film Erotic Proximity were both published within the Entanglement research group exhibition led by Professor Prof. Johnny Golding.
Gao, C. (2022) Research article “Using Supernormal Stimuli to create Public Artworks: An Experiment in Countering Cultural Hegemony and Postcolonialism in Chinese Urban Space” has been published in RCA Research Journal PROVA 5, London.
Gao, C. (2021) Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism to Create Public Artworks in Addressing Postcolonialism and Cultural hegemony in Chinese Public Space, published at the ‘Sentimental Machines’: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the US.
Gao, C. (2021) Book of Disquiet, artwork published in Exhibition Catalogue of London Art Biennale, London.
Gao, C. (2021) Using supernormal stimuli in creating Artworks, published in ‘Sharing Biological Practices’ Symposium, London.
Gao, C. (2021) Intimate Fantasy, Speaking for the Speechless, and research diagram Sensuousness against Repression, and paper: Using Supernormal Stimuli and Erotic to Create public Artworks: An Experiment in Countering Cultural Hegemony and Post-Colonialism in Chinese Urban Space was published in Prova 5, Seasonal Journal produced by School of Art and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London
Gao, C. (2021) Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism to Create Public Artworks in Addressing Postcolonialism and Cultural hegemony in Chinese Public Space at ‘How do you give Form to Sentimental Machines?’ An Affective Future Round Table Event, London.
Gao, C. (2021) ASMR and Sense Making, presented at Panel Discussion and Art Making Workshop: In the Realm of Re-sensing: ‘Sense, Non-Sense and Art’, Royal College of Art, London.
Gao, C. (2021) Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism to Create Public Artworks in Addressing Postcolonialism and Cultural hegemony in Chinese Public Space at research event: REPRESENTATION, Royal College of Art, London
Gao, C. (2020) Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism to Create Public Artworks in Addressing Postcolonialism and Cultural hegemony in Chinese Public Space, published at Symposium: ‘The Architecture of Loss’, Royal College of Art, London.
Gao, C. (2020) I published my research topic: Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism to Create Public Artworks in Addressing Postcolonialism and Cultural hegemony in Chinese Public Space as the keynote speaker at Together Apart: ‘Going New Places’ (Round Table Discussion)
Gao, C. (2020) Artworks Organic Access and Emotional Encounter, Book of Disquiet as well as my article “Using Supernormal stimuli in the production of artwork addressing postcolonial phenomenon in Chinese public space” have been published in Prova 4, Seasonal Journal produced by School of Art and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London
Gao, C. (2019) Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism to Create Public Artworks in Addressing Postcolonialism and Cultural hegemony in Chinese Public at ‘COLLISIONS’, PhD Annual Festival of Practice Research in Performance, Space at Royal Central Academy of Speech and Drama, London
Gao, C. & Wu Dingyu (2017) Gao Chang, Interview with Yuan Yunsheng on Capital Mural Songkran Festival – Hymn to Life published in Public Art in China: Interview. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/LfBccog_9Eg9tM8JpeploA
Gao, C. (2016) Public Art in China, published at National Subject: National Social Science Fund Artistic Youth Project_Public Art History Research” Project Code : 15CG158 “Development of China”, publication outcome: China Public Art Documentation, Haitian Publication House, https://www.sohu.com/a/319879221_208839
Gao, C. (2016) Art Critic: Research on The Value of the Work: Mural In Capital Airport in the Development of Public Art in China, published in the Documentary Collection of 2nd China Design Exhibition and Public Art Thematic Exhibition.
Gao, C. (2016) Art Critic: Research on The Value of the Work: Yellow River Mother in the Development of Public Art in China, published in the Thesis Collection of 2nd China Design Exhibition and Public Art Thematic Exhibition, 2016
Gao, C. (2016) book: Chance · Voice: Symposium of Public Art In China, Hebeijing EducationPublication House, ISBN：9787554529553, 2014-10-01: http://m.bookschina.com/7405978.htm
Gao, C. (2016) The Increasing Theoretical and Conceptual Consciousness in Chinese Public Art: Professor Du Dakai From the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University Talks about Public Art published in Zhuangshi, 2015, 11th Edition
Gao, C. (2016) Executive Editor of book: Chance · Voice: Symposium of Public Art In China, Hebeijing Education Publication House, ISBN：9787554529553, 2014-10-01: http://m.bookschina.com/7405978.htm
Gao, C. (2016) I published my research topic: Your Eyes Art Not Impeded Only By Eyes at TED Talk: TED x Tsinghua University: https://gaochangart.net/ted-talk/
Gao, C. (2014) Work A Poetry of a Thousand Waterfalls-Linhui Yin published in Work Collection of Sculpture -The Twelfth National Exhibition of Fine Arts, China
Gao, C. (2014) Work A Poetry of a Thousand Waterfalls-Linhui Yin, published in The 8th “Shengfa Yisu Cup” Excellent Works of Nation-wide Sculpture Specially Graduates”, China Sculpture Net Gao, C. (2010) Artwork Gender: Not Defined Published in the catalog: I call the Shot of My Youth Giant Cup Collection of Today Art Student Annual ART Awards, First Edition, 2010
Gao, C. (2010) Artwork Gender: Not Defined published in the Collection of Graduation of Works, Academy of Arts &Design, Tsinghua University
Gao, C. (2009) Art Critic From Dunhuang to New York published in academic journal Academic Sculpture No 4. Edition, 2009
Conference and Symposium
05.06.2025 Lecture Performance Desire Beyond Flesh: Combating AI Bias through Supernromal Stimuli at IKSK series Colloquium The Future of Sex: AI, Desire, and the Flesh, Berlin https://www.iksk-berlin.de/philosophical-colloquium
17-18.04. 2023 Lecture entitled: Eroticism and Sexuality Combating Cultural Hegemony at Conference on Love, Sex, and body-positive research at IKSK, Institute of Body and Sexuality, Berlin.
08-09,12.2023 Keynote speech: “Intimacy and Desire as Subversive Force” at conference Intervenierende Intimitäten at Freie Universität, SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste, and Universität der Künste: https://www.sfb-intervenierende-kuenste.de/veranstaltungen/intervenierende-intimitaeten.html
30.11.2023 Talk entitled “How Can Art Contribute to Social Justice” at the Buckinghamshire New University, UK
24.05.2023 Talk entitled “Can Supernormal Stimuli/Eroticism Combat Repression?” at Conversas Berlin #53 at KSTN project space, Berlin Kreuzberg.
08.05.2022 Talk entitled “Does Erotic Art has to be Banned? The Urgency of Creating Art Under the context of Postcolonialism in Chinese Public Space” at London Cultural Salon “A Thousand Plateaus” at House of Transformation in London: https://londonculturesalon.org/archives/
15.06.2021 Speaker at Sharing Biological Practices Symposium, organised by Royal College of Art Fashion Bio-Platform, my research practice Book of Disquiet was shared in the session “Does the body speak? Future Identities, system and body politics” together with other bio-tech designer and artists.
15.06.2021 Presentation about my research topic at NAFEA doctoral conference: Call and Response together with other PhDs/research students from Glasgow University of Art, Greenwich University and RCA
04.06.2021 Keynote Speaker at Sentimental Machines: IEEE international Conference on Robotics and Automation, giving speech about research project and practice together with other professors and researchers from UC Berkley, beingAI (France), King’s College of London, Nanyang Technology University, UCL, Imperial College, RCA as well as Tsinghua University.
27.05.2021 Erotic Proximity in the RCA research event Entanglement: Just Dreaming (the worlds). The event is organsed and curated by Prof. Johnny Golding and Meg Rahaim-Shakespeare. It showcased together with other RCA PhD PGR Entanglement Researchers along with: Jackson 2Bears, Petra Gemeinboeck, Suchitra Sebastian and Pato Hebert.
24.02.2021 Participation as a panellist at RCA Research Biennale Event: How to give form to sentimental machines? An Affective Future Round Table Event The event is organised and moderated by Information Experience Designer & PhD candidate from SoC RCA Carolina Caroline Zheng
17.02.2021 Presentation as a panellist and organiser at SoAH research Presents: REPRESENTATION the event was organised together with my PhD supervisor Dr. Josephine Berry and presented with Ama Josephine Budge.
22.07.2020 Organiser of Online event: Sense, Non-Sense and Art, together with Professor Harry Baxter, Professor Hannah Thompson and James Taylor Foster
25.06.2020 SoAH Research Presents Entanglement: Just Gaming Entanglement is a SoAH and RKE cross-college research platform in the face of surveillance, AI, crypto currency and online intelligence.
24.06.2020 Wednesday The Architecture of Loss—Online Symposium Organised by MRes Architecture research students at the Royal College of Art
21.05.2020 Panel speaker at Round Table Discussion: Together Apart: Going New Places, The event is organised by the Cyprus High Commission in the UK – Cultural Section and sponsored by the Cultural Services – Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth of Cyprus.
2nd-3rd.10.2019 Collision 2019, Giving talk about the PhD topic: “Supernormal Stimuli Addressing the Post-colonial Phenomenon in Chinese Public Space”, Royal Central Academy of Drama and Speech, London
23.05.2016 Speaker at Ted talk about the research topic entitled “Your Vision Isn’t Shielded Only By Eyes” at Tsinghua University, TED TALK-Tsinghua
10-17.09.2011 Speech as the Outstanding Student at the “2011CORE Exhibition in Seoul(Korea)” held by Korea Collage of Fine Arts at Hongik University, Japan Tama University, Tsinghua University and Alto University, Helsinki
10.2009 Speech as the Chinese National Scholarship Prize winner at Parsons New School for Design, New York