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Deep Simulator
Author: Ag and aaajiao
Language: Bilingual, ENG & CN
Graphic design: Mira Ying
Publisher: Tabular Rasa Gallery (London) and 51 personae (Shanghai)
Date: First edition, August 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5272-9632-9

About: Deep Simulator is a cyberdrama-novel with layers of stories generated through reader interaction. Based on a namesake video game, it is a collaborative experiment between artists aaajiao and the author Ag, which began during the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020.

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Julia Long: Provisional Emotions
Language: Bilingual, ENG & CN
Graphic design: Yu Xiaodan
Publisher: Tabula Rasa Books
Date: August 2021

About: “Julia Long: Provisional Emotions” is the exhibition catalog published for Julia Long’s latest exhibition at Tabula Rasa Gallery. As the artist’s third solo exhibition with us, “Provisional Emotions” presents an “inward” shift in Julia’s creative process: it marks her transition from an observer of the outside world to a portrayer of her own emotions.

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