Feng Mengbo graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Spanning a range of media from painting to CD-Roms, Mengbo's work addresses intensely personal subject matter as well as topics on the verge of socio-political critiques. My Private Album, a CD-Rom documenting several generations of his family is an example of this first approach. Taking Mount Doom by Strategy on the other hand is a CD-Rom installation melding themes of violence, power and heroicism from the popular video game Doom with the revolutionary opera, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Since the early 1990s much of Mengbo's work has been influenced strongly by the style, contents and cultural implications of video games, which greatly interested him as an adolescent. His interactive installation My Private Album was shown at Documenta X in 1997, and the modified video game installation Q4U (produced by The Renaissance Society, based on the game
Quake III Arena) was shown at Documenta XI in 2002. Ah_Q is a dancing-pad version of Q4U which won the Award of Distinction of Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica, 2004.