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Cao Fei, RMB City
Cao Fei, RMB City (2008)
Cao Fei has been interested in the way we can escape our own world and enter a virtual fantasy since 2006 when she explored the dreams of individual factory workers in her film Whose Utopia? RMB City is a virtual reality game created by Cao Fei that plays with the intersection of social pressure and government rule. Through the eyes of her avatar China Tracy, Cao creates a utopia world caught between the traditional and the globalized, where society holds an amalgamation of socialist, capitalist, and communist ideals. RMB City attempts to imagine China's future as an urbanized country and causes the player to explore the role of its citizens in the contemporary world and beyond.
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