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Date:

2024.01.26 (Friday)

Time:
19:00-20:30
Guests:
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė (online), Zian Chen
Language:

English, Mandarin

Venue:
West Bund Museum (No. 2600 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai) 

Floor B1, Box

Co-organized by

Chronus Art Center, West Bund Museum

Supported by

Pro Helvetia Shanghai, the Swiss Arts Council

 

This event is free admission and has a limited number of seat available.
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Third in the extended Mouthless series, Mouthless Part IIIdeveloped duringthe Enter the Hyper-Scientific residency at EPFL, CH,presents machine-hallucinated images of natural landscapes that further challenge the separation between the nature and human, technology, and culture within the modern episteme. Through collaboration with engineers and scientists at the EPFL Center for Imaging and Image Analysis Hub, traditional Western painting conventions of depicting natural landscapes become the point of the investigation. Digital computer-game environments in the work are morphed by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to a latent space for the entanglement of the nature and the artificial, supernatural and technology. in the the dual-channel video, a dialogue unfolds between an Eastern European peasant and a landscape demon, transforming the Nature and its sublime into something nebulous with grotesque, viscosity, folklore, and magic.During the event “The Form of Grotesque: Mouthless Part III”, we will watch the video and Kulbokaitė will delve into the conception and process behind the artwork. Writer and curator Zian Chen will then join for a conversation with Kulbokaitė, engaging in a critical exploration of the artistic practices of the duo.

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Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, both graduated from the Royal College of Art in London (2012). They work across performance, video, painting, sculpture and installation- where language breaks down and one genre morphs into many. They have exhibited internationally including Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023); Kunsthalle Mainz (2023); EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne (2023); Shedhalle, Zürich (2022); Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2022); CCS, Paris (2022); Kunstverein Hamburg (2021); Istituto Svizzero, Palermo/Milan (2021); Swiss Institute, New York (2020); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2020); Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Athens Biennale (2018); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); ICA, London (2017) among others. They founded the YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013–2021). They are the recipients of the Allegro Artist Prize 2022; CERN Collide Residency 2022 and laureates of the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021.

Zian Chen collaborates with artists and writers to develop alternative frameworks for thinking and speculation. His collaborative research and curatorial projects with artists have been presented at institutions such as the Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai; Times Museum, Guangzhou; Nida Art Colony, Lithuania, and the Bleed Biennial in Melbourne, among others. As a critical thinker exploring the boundaries of art writing, he received the Contemporary Art Writing and Critical Thinking Award from the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in 2015. He has contributed to exhibition catalogues for artists such as Mark Dion, Arseny Zhilyaev, Elmgreen & Dragset, Wang Tuo, and institutions including the Liverpool Biennial; Asia Art Biennial; CHAT Centre for Heritage, Arts, and Textile in Hong Kong; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, and Arrow Factory, Beijing, among others. Currently, he is Contributing Editor at Ocula Magazine. He previously served as the founding editor of Heichi Magazine (2020-2021) and as a researcher at the Long March Project in Beijing (2017-2020).

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2017 （Spring）Chronus Art Center

Research and Creation Fellowship

Call for Proposals

Title: MEDIATED REALITY: REVISED

Call Type: Fellowship (US$10,000)

Start Dates: March 20th 2017 (start dates negotiable with reason).

Application Deadline: All applications must be submitted electronically by 23:59 (Beijing Time), Sunday, February 5th , 2017 via http://fellowship.chronusartcenter.org

Notification of Selection: Applicants will be informed about their application status by ,the end of February of 2017.

OVERVIEW

This year Chronus Art Center (CAC) opens its Lab for a 3-month research and creation fellowship. This program is designed to host one international artist and researcher of extraordinary talents in the area of new media art in order to conduct research and creation at Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai. The 2016 Research and Creation Fellowship aims to foster global exchange while advancing the discourse and practice of new media art, and contribute to CAC's research and educational mission as well as the institution's future collection.

MEDIATED REALITY: REVISED, opens a conceptual and technical workspace for artists pushing the boundaries which frame conventional VR/AR and motion capture technologies. Since the emergence of ready-to-use home VR headsets, mobile AR technologies and modern gaming, the general understanding of immersion and virtuality has suffered from a conceptual and aesthetic drawback. For this occasion, the LAB is seeking for project proposals which make use of our newly acquired OptiTrack real-time motion capture system (for more info please see: https://www.optitrack.com/). The submitted proposal should utilize this technology and seek to build an experimental immersive experience which exploits the potentials and more unconventional uses of this high end, research level system.

Artist working in the field of virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive experiences, physical computing interfaces, sensory immersion, Mixed reality systems, VR + robotics, interactive spaces, AR/VR and the internet, among other related fields, are welcome to apply.

The technical specifications of the system we offer as a research / creation tool for this 3 months program (A fully functional OptiTrack system / Latest version 2016):

- x8 Prime 13 high speed POE infrared cameras installed on a 4.5m x 5.0m empty and white space with a side control room.

- Oculus ready Asus PC.

- Ethernet hub for realtime camera data stream.

- Motive, professional optical motion capture software.

- NatNet SDK. Networking tool to interface the system with the main programming languages and 3D development environments (C++, python, UNITY 3D, etc.)

- Set of infrared markers and gloves.

- Easy to use calibrating tools.

IMPORTANT NOTE: All project proposals should make use of the OptiTrack system https://www.optitrack.com/

The selected Fellow will be expected to work at CAC's laboratory with the research and creation team on a range of activities including: active contribution to the larger CAC community, collaborative partnership with other fellows, leading research initiatives, educational programs and public engagement, and developing current or future research areas for the organization. Projects, including prototypes, documentation, and work-in-progress, will be presented to the public at Chronus Art Center.

ELIGIBILITY

-This fellowship is open to international artists and researchers of any nationality.

-Applicants should be able to use English as working language.

-Applicants must not be currently enrolled in degree-granting academic programs, with -the exception of PHD candidates who are aiming to develop technical work within the -scope of the fellowship.

-Applicants are expected to show demonstrable success in previous development of related projects at this scale.

-Individuals and collaborative teams are invited to apply. In either case, please detail in your application how technical and creative responsibilities will be met.

Only proposals within the conceptual framework offered by MEDIATED REALITY: REVISED and which make strict use of the optical motion tracking system (described on the overview section of this document) will be considered for eligibility.

ABOUT <CAC_LAB>

<CAC_LAB> is a space dedicated to the inquiry of present-day matters regarding art, design, science, technology and their impact on global contemporary culture and society. Through artistic practice, technological tools and research methodology, we enable creative processes that result in works of art of high production and academic value. <CAC_LAB> is a space of flux which encourages artistic practice as a generator of new knowledge, a territory where art and science converge into a contemporary and experimental field of academic research; free from main stream cultural thought, technological stress and economical diversions.

More info at: http://lab.chronusartcenter.org

FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT

This Fellowship is a chance for international artists and researchers to engage and learn from the art, technological and entrepreneurial communities of Shanghai. The selected Fellow will be offered a total amount of USD$10,000 for a 3 month deep-immersion period; including artist fees, living expenses, materials and exhibition production. In addition our lab facilities and tools are available for the fellow's needs; these include but are not limited to: Laser-cutter, bandsaw, sander-belt, press drills, all sorts of hand tools, a variety of electronic components, arduinos, raspberryPis, an oculus rift DK2 headset, Surface Mount Infrared soldering, soldering irons and other prototyping tools.

For international Fellows, CAC is happy to provide necessary paperwork and advice to help expedite the process of securing his/her visa, travel and accommodation in Shanghai whereas all the expenses will be covered within the amount of the fellowship.

During the 3-month program, CAC will work closely with the selected Fellow to see his/her project realized and offer program support in developing work for performances, events, seminars, exhibitions, or other public and educational programming during the term of the Fellowship. CAC will also facilitate joint presentations alongside community partners, host conversations with the artists and display works in progress; revealing the creative process as it happens.

APPLICATION GUIDELINE

Please fill out the online application form and submit it with the necessary attachments via http://fellowship.chronusartcenter.org. No email submissions will be taken into account.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Applications will be reviewed and the final decision, including interviews, will be made by CAC's International Advisory Board comprised of leading scholars, artists and museum professionals.

Acceptance is based on quality and visionary potential, and most importantly, the potential of the project proposal to contribute to CAC_LAB's broader research scope.Applicants are also expected to show demonstrable success in previous development of related work at this scale. Successful applicants will outline clear goals, milestones and time-lines.

Please send further inquires to fellowship@chronusartcenter.org

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The Prix Net Art celebrates the current moment of net art and its future. It was created in response to a relative scarcity of support and recognition for the field, and to promote public conversation about the crucial but always changing role of the internet in contemporary culture and artistic practice.

Prizes of $10,000 and $5,000 will be awarded to two artists who are committed to working online and who represent important directions in contemporary net art practice.

For the 2016 edition of the Prix Net Art, three judges—Lauren Cornell, ZHANG Ga, and Christiane Paul—will consider a rich field of candidates nominated by the general public.

Prix Net Art is co-organized by Chronus Art Centre and Rhizome.

For more information, please visit: http://prix-netart.org/  or click “read more".

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Lauren Cornell is Curator and Associate Director of Technology Initiatives at the New Museum. She was co-curator of the 2015 New Museum Triennial, SURROUND AUDIENCE. She co-edited MASS EFFECT: ART AND THE INTERNET IN THE 21ST CENTURY with Ed Halter which was published by the New Museum and MIT Press in 2015. From 2005-2012, she served as executive director of Rhizome. She has contributed to publications including Aperture, Frieze, Mousse, LTTR, North Drive Press and The Paris Review. She is on the faculty at Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and, in summer 2016, organized INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES, the tenth anniversary exhibition of the Hessel Museum of Art.

ZHANG Ga is a media art curator and artistic director of CHRONUS ART CENTER. He is Distinguished Professor at China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has also had appointments as Professor at the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Associate Professor of Media Art at Parsons School of Design and has held visiting positions at the MIT Media Lab, Stanford University, UCSB, The Graduate Center, CUNY. In his capacity as Consulting Curator of Media Art at the National Art Museum of China from 2007 – 2014, he curated the widely acclaimed international media art triennial series including Synthetic Times (2008); Translife (2011) andthingworld (2014) among many others. These large-scale exhibitions critically investigated and examined global media art trends, generated intellectual discourses about art, technology and culture. He was also on the jury for PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA, VIDA, and FRANKLINFURNACE, to name a few. He has spoken widely on media art and culture around the world and has edited several books and authored essays that were published by The MIT Press and the October Journal, Liverpool University Press and Tsinghua University Press. He currently also serves on the editorial board of LEONARDO BOOKS, published by the MIT Press.

Christiane Paul is an Associate Prof. in the SCHOOL OF MEDIA STUDIES, The New School, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has written extensively on new media arts, lectured internationally on art and technology and is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation’s 2016 ARTS WRITING AWARD IN DIGITAL ART. Her recent books are A COMPANION TO DIGITAL ART (Wiley Blackwell, 2016); DIGITAL ART (Thames and Hudson, 3rd revised edition, 2015) and CONTEXT PROVIDERS – CONDITIONS OF MEANING IN MEDIA ARTS (Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012), co-edited with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna. As Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she curated several exhibitions—including CORY ARCANGEL: PRO TOOLS (2011), Profiling (2007), Data Dynamics (2001) and the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial—and is responsible for ARTPORT, the Whitney Museum’s website devoted to Internet art. Other recent curatorial work includes LITTLE SISTER (IS WATCHING YOU, TOO) (Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, 2015); WHAT LIES BENEATH (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, 2015); THE PUBLIC PRIVATE (Kellen Gallery, The New School, Feb. 7 – April 17, 2013), EDUARDO KAC: BIOTOPES, LAGOGLYPHS AND TRANSGENIC WORKS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010);BIENNALE QUADRILATERALE (Rijeka, Croatia, 2009-10); FEEDFORWARD – THE ANGEL OF HISTORY (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain, Oct. 2009); and INDAF DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009).

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Chronus Art Center is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research, creation and scholarship of media art, established in 2013. CAC creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for  the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context, with its exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lectures and workshop programs, and through its archiving and publishing initiatives. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences.

http://www.chronusartcenter.org/en/

Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2016, Rhizome is an organization based on the internet that commissions, presents, and preserves digital art. Founded in 1996 as an intimate email list connecting some of the first artists to work online and now—twenty years  later—a thriving nonprofit with robust, multi-tiered programming, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history, definition, and growth of art engaged with technology and the internet. Since 2003, Rhizome has been an independent affiliate in residence at the New Museum  in New York City.

http://rhizome.org/

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A&T @

Art & Technology @ (working title) is an experimental project initiated by the Chronus Art Center (CAC) in partnership with ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

A&T@ is inspired by the rich tradition of the interdisciplinary, experimental synergy of art, science and technology throughout the mid-twentieth century as seen in the Art & Tech program advocated by Maurice Tuchman, chief curator of LACMA (Los Angles County Museum of Art) in the late 1960s, and the E.A.T (Experiments in Art and Technology) movement championed by artist Robert Rauschenberg and Bell Lab engineer Billy Klüver on the East Coast. Both programs played defining roles in conceiving art anew and in profoundly shaping the future trajectory of art history at a threshold in which human perception was increasingly intruded upon, expanded and constructed by a growing technological reality.

The A&T@ program aims to update this valuable legacy to meet the challenges and opportunities brought about by the ever more rapid innovation and ubiquitous deployment of digital technologies that dominate contemporary experience, as manifested in every aspect of the social, economic and cultural constitution of a global society; and to bring to date constructive cooperation between artists and technologists through critical dialogue and creative engagement.

A&T@ supports mid-career and established Chinese artists working in traditional media to venture into otherwise inaccessible channels of advanced programming and production facilities by pairing them with technologists and related industry to develop works that are unique and different from their established artistic vocabulary and formal strategies, thus opening up new horizons, furthering the experimental potential for these artists and, in turn, contributing to the development of art making in the twenty-first century.

The commissioned works are of a research nature, which require methodical approaches, close ideation, iteration and prototyping among the collaborating parties. The research and production cycle is approximately one year. The result will be first exhibited at the CAFA Art Museum in a dual exhibition format with an invited international media artist co-present an existing work, or in conjunction with a select work in the collection of the international partner institution (museum collection).  This paired exhibition format creates an exchange and dialogue between contrasting methodologies toward the use of technology and from different cultural and historical perspectives interpreting the nature of technology and its ramifications in shaping contemporary consciousness. The exhibition then travels to an international partner institution. The @ symbol indicates that the A&T program is an open platform which embraces future partner venues and collaboration with @ representing its diverse destinations. The entire process will be documented and archived for scholarly publication at a later date.

The first artist commissioned in this series is the internationally renowned painter LIU Xiaodong.

About the partner institutions of A&T@

Chronus Art Center

Established in 2013, Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lectures and workshop programs and through its archiving and publishing initiatives creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences.

http://www.chronusartcenter.org/en/
ZKM | Center for Art and Media

As a cultural institution, the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe holds a unique position in the world. It responds to the rapid developments in information technology and today's changing social structures. Its work combines production and research, exhibitions and events, coordination and documentation. For the development of interdisciplinary projects and promotion of international collaborations, the Center for Art and Media has manifold resources at its disposal: the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Media Museum, the Institute for Visual Media, the Institute for Music and Acoustics and the Institute for Media, Education, and Economics.

http://www.zkm.de

Collaborating Galleries

Lisson Gallery

Lisson Gallery is one of the most influential and longest-running international contemporary art galleries in the world. Since being founded in 1967 by Nicholas Logsdail, it has championed the careers of artists who have transformed the way art was made and presented. These include many important Minimal and Conceptual artists, such as Sol LeWitt and Richard Long, as well as a whole generation of significant British sculptors from Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon to Shirazeh Houshiary and Tony Cragg. It continues to support the future of its artists, the legacy of historical figures, the evolving practice of established artists and the wide-ranging potential of emerging and new talents.

LIU Xiaodong is represented by Lisson Gallery

http://www.lissongallery.com

Development and Founding Affliate

Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation

Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation (BCAF) is committed to bringing the appreciation and enjoyment of the arts to a greater number of people, by organizing extensive and dynamic philanthropic activities, creating a contemporary urban think tank that gathers creative ideas, and connecting art with a variety of other disciplines. The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation has been officially registered with the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau since 2008, and is governed by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture. BCAF is the only publicly funded foundation dedicated to contemporary art and urban culture.

http://www.bcaf.com.cn

 

About the artist

LIU Xiaodong is a painter of modern life, whose large-scale works serve as a kind of history painting for the emerging world. LIU locates the human dimension to such global issues as population displacement, environmental crisis and economic upheaval, but through carefully orchestrated compositions, he walks the line between artifice and reality. A leading figure among the Chinese Neo-Realist painters to emerge in the 1990s, his adherence to figurative painting amounts to a conceptual stance within a contemporary art context where photographic media dominate. His undertaking ‘to see people as they really are’ was galvanized in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square uprising and, alert to the legacy of Chinese Socialist Realism, his compositions are painted with loose, casual brushstrokes and layered with meaning. While he works from life and often en plein air, he chooses sitters to supply ancillary narratives to landscapes or situations. This participatory dimension to his practice, where projects are also documented by diaries and films, reflects an urgent sense of interconnection: ‘Society and art’, he says, ‘should be like breathing – one breathes in and the other breathes out’ (2008).

Lui Xiaodong lives and works in Beijing but has undertaken projects in Tibet, Japan, Italy, the UK, Cuba and Austria, and closer to home, in Jincheng, in the north-eastern province of Liaoning, China, where he was born in 1963. He has a BFA and an MFA in painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (1988, 1995), where he now holds tenure as professor. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Complutense, Madrid (1998–99). Solo exhibitions include Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2012) and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2010), while his work was been included in numerous group exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennale (2000, 2010), the 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006) and the 47th Venice Biennale (1997).

http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/liu-xiaodong