FreeStyle Skiing portrays how China’s censorship system, colloquially known as the Great Firewall, has insidiously become a pervasive part of everyday life. Content is strictly monitored and lists of banned words have grown into AI-powered censors that scan images for more sophisticated censorship. For the Beijing 2022 Olympics, a mandatory smartphone app that athletes must install was found to have serious privacy security vulnerabilities, as well as include a series of political terms marked specifically for censorship. —

This work is part of the Beijing 2022 Collection, the first NFT project from Chinese dissident artist Badiucao. The collection consists of a series of 10 protest pieces, created as part of a campaign to raise awareness among the global art community about the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the weaponization of global sports events by authoritarian regimes to conceal their human rights abuses. The collection was initially released at the New World Center’s Soundscape Park as part of the 2021 Oslo Freedom Forum in Miami. It was subsequently canvased at various locations around Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2021. Learn more at http://beijing2022.art

This collection is a collective act of censorship resistance and fundraiser that will donate 10% of proceeds to the Art in Protest Residency, a collaboration between the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and the Human Rights Foundation.

作品【自由式滑雪】 揭示了中国的审查制度“防火长城”如何主宰其互联网。 找不到404页“是中国在线生活的常见体验。中共审查机器必须过滤每条信息，以根除网络上的一切敏感信息。本届奥运会，运动员需要强制安装了一个特殊的应用程序。 它已被揭露为存在重大的隐私安全问题，并审查运动员的政治表达。

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