In his new exhibition The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung takes on the increasingly pervasive, draconian censorship of the Internet in China and Chinese government restrictions of freedom of expression. Through a series of dense collages, a video animation, and a sculpture of a ping-pong table where the net is replaced by a model of The Great Wall of China, Hung delivers a visual battlefield of biting political satire. Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung has been called “the John Heartfield of the digital era.” Like Hartfield, who developed photomontage technique and turned it into a form of social critique, Hung’s meticulously researched works, composed entirely of imagery appropriated from online sources, expose injustice, corruption and hypocrisy, reflect on a call for social change, and direct attention to issues of today, which are bound to have historical impact. Tin-Kin Hung was born in Hong Kong and now lives in New York. More information: http://www.tinkin.com/arts/the-travelogue-of-dr-brain-damages/

In this thangka inspired collage Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei is cast as Hayagriva – a representation of an angry Guan Yin in Chinese Buddhism. He is holding the following weapons with his six arms: An iPhone “Facing Time” with Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, a Twitter bird, a Lightsaber, a Chinese calligraphy brush, Scales of Justice, and a laptop with Grass Mud Horse graphics on the screen. Grass Mud Horse is the icon of citizens’ resistance to censorship.