Cai Guo-Qiang (Chinese: 蔡国强; born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist. Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. [1] . His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligrapher and traditional painter who worked in a bookstore.

For his talk, Cai utilized a custom-built AI model developed by metaphysic.ai to convert the live English interpretation of his Chinese speech in real time, using his own voice. This marked Cai’s first speech in English and also became the first instance in TED history of simultaneous interpretation using AI technology.

2024年12月4日 · Cai Guo-Qiang (born December 8, 1957, Quanzhou, Fujian province, China) is a Chinese pyrotechnical artist known for his dramatic installations and for using gunpowder as a medium.

Rising from the ashes of China's Cultural Revolution, Cai Guo-Qiang forged his way into international art stardom as one of the first Chinese artists to expose the world to contemporary dialogues in Chinese art.

Cai Guo-Qiang was born in Quanzhou, Fujian in December 1957. In the early 1980s, he was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. From December 1986 to September 1995, he sojourned in Japan for nearly nine years.

In his ephemeral performances, gunpowder drawings, and arresting installations, Cai Guo-Qiang explores humanity’s place in the universe and our responsibilities on Earth. He draws us into his work with the visual language of explosion and the aesthetic of pain.

Cai Guo-Qiang is a contemporary Chinese artist renowned for his innovative works which incorporate gunpowder and controlled explosions. View Cai Guo-Qiang’s 560 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for …

Internationally lauded “explosives artist” Cai Guo-Qiang has already amassed some stunning stats: He may be the only artist in human history who has had some one billion people gaze...