Press

2025

ICI Berlin Planetary Wisdom Symposium Presentation
Jansword Zhu’s works Transenlight and Please Allow Me Flicker When You Call My Name were featured at the ICI Berlin symposium Scales of Life: From Basic Cognition to Planetary Wisdom, where philosopher Penny Yiou Peng presented the lecture DAO of Genome: From “Transenlight” to the Politics of Self-Organization.

Scales of Life: From Basic Cognition to Planetary Wisdom

DAO of Genome: From “Transenlight” to the Politics of Self-Organization
🔗 Read More (ICI Berlin)

Hombres Videopoetry Award (Italy)
Jansword Zhu was selected as a Finalist at the Hombres Videopoetry Award, Italy.
🔗 Official Announcement
🔗 Official Interview (YouTube)

Chroma Art Film Festival (Miami, USA)
Transcrisis: Awareness Sparks as Spider Silk by Jansword Zhu featured in the festival’s homepage article.
🔗 Festival Feature

Independent Shorts Awards (Los Angeles, USA)
Awarded Best Experimental Film and featured on the festival homepage.
🔗 Feature Article
🔗 September 2025 Winners
🔗 Bronze Awards List

Experimental Film Guanajuato (Mexico)
Transcrisis selected among 22 featured works and highlighted on the homepage.
🔗 Official Selection 2025

BRIDGES International Film Festival (Greece)
Featured on the official homepage and included in a post-screening Q&A.
🔗 Festival Feature

Global Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
Selected at Global Film Festival, Los Angeles.

Digital Griffix Film Awards (Canada)
Selected at Digital Griffix Film Awards, Canada.

Cyprus Film Festival
Official Selection.

Cyprus International Film Festival
Finalist.

Bangkok Movie Awards (Thailand)
Recipient of the Bangkok Society of Film Critics’ Award.
🔗 Award Result

Versi di Luce International Festival of Cinemapoetry (Italy)
Selected for screening at the poetic Versi di Luce Festival held in Sicily, Italy.
🔗 Official Selection 2025

2024

Asia Art Season Award Interview of Jansword Zhu
Jansword Zhu received the Jury’s Selection Award at Asia Art Season.

🔗 Read Interview (Chinese)

First Film Festival
Jansword Zhu’s short film was selected for screening at the First Film and give a speech

🔗 Festival Page (Chinese)

2023

Art.China.cn

Jansword Zhu’s work exhibited at the Tank Shanghai Art Center in “All Realms Civilization” Exhibition
🔗 Read more(Chinese)

UCCA Lab — Sound of the Cosmos
Jansword Zhu was invited by UCCA Lab to contribute to Sound of the Cosmos, an interdisciplinary exploration of cosmic acoustics and mythic structures. The project was exhibited in Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennial.
🔗 View the project

Jinan International Biennale 2023
Jansword Zhu participated in the 2023 Jinan International Biennale.
🔗 News Report (Chinese)

2022

ARTnews

APENFT Announces Winners: Digital Artists Leading the Future
Jansword Zhu was selected as a winner for the APENFT Foundation Prize, recognizing his integration of genetics and myth in digital art.
🔗 Read the article

ArtReview

Tron & APENFT Unveil “Art Dream Fund” Awardees
Highlighting emerging digital artists, the prize highlights Jansword Zhu’s post-humanist narrative through biomorphic imagery.
🔗 View feature

Ocula

13 Artists Awarded in NFT-Centric ‘Art Dream Fund’
Jansword Zhu’s hybrid work was noted for its biological poetics and futuristic vision.

🔗 Read the article

Artron.net

Jansword Zhu’s “Transenlight”: Gleam the silk of Gene beneath the Sun

朱剑辰 “转译天显”：将基因之丝显于日

🔗 Read more (Chinese)

Chinese Modern Art Archive

Jansword Zhu’s”Transenlight” collected by CMMA

朱剑辰作品被收录于《中国现代艺术档案馆(CMAA)》文献
Jansword Zhu’s works were officially documented by the Chinese Modern Art Archive
🔗 Read the announcement (Chinese)

Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation

Feature of Jansword Zhu: Base station of Wind(Wind Guqin), Space of kṣaṇa

他们在阿那亚海边用风“奏响”古琴，对话时间……
BCAF honored Jansword Zhu with its Innovation Prize for works that reflect on genetics and macro-micro cosmologies.

🔗 Read more (Chinese)

Whitewall Art

Digital & Corporeal: APENFT at the Intersection
Jansword Zhu’s Transenlight was featured as one of the artists bridging genetics, technology, and mythology.

🔗 Read the article

Musashino Art University News

University news coverage of Zhu’s APENFT award
🔗 University Post (Japanese)

2021

MSB Alumni Journal

Special Interview Feature of Jansword Zhu：

武藏野美术大学校友会刊专访：所有永恒都藏在瞬间中

武蔵野美術大学校友会誌：すべての「永遠」は瞬きに潜む

A special interview feature in the alumni publication of Musashino Art University, discussing Zhu’s early training and evolving concepts.