From documentary film images, and the adapted use of classical film language to the aesthetics of Japanese Anime, the works of Micro Era focus on and explore the relationships between mind, body and technology – with installations and single-channel videos ranging from the 1980s to the present. Historically, within the Euro-American context, video art is often regarded as a democratising art form – through the rapid circulation of information and global events by fast-access technologies. Cao Fei, Fang Di, Lu Yang, and Zhang Peili scrutinise the seductive thesis of this democratisation by reflecting in their visual language the mass production of goods as well as how images and virtual subjectivities are produced and consumed, and how we understand our world through imaging technology. At the same time, in the cross-generational exhibition with documentary, narrative and installation references and the expansion into virtual space, the central directions in the development of media art in China are presented. Micro Era is on view through January 26 2020 at Kulturforum Stauffenbergstraße 41 10785 Berlin. photographs courtesy of the Staatliche Museum