In May 2011, 5 associates of Anonymous fashioned the hacktivist group Lulz Security, in any other case known as LulzSec. The group's very first attack that garnered important govt focus was in 2011, when they collectively took down a internet site of the FBI. In 2011, Ai served as co-director and curator of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, and co-curator of the exhibition Shanshui at The Museum of Art Lucerne.