Year: Friday July 3rd, 2015

Guest: David Novak,YIN YI

Date: 2014-08-10  13:30 ~ 2014-08-10  15:30

Address: Chronus Art Center ( Bldg.18,No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai)

SPEAKER: David Novak
MODERATOR: YIN YI
LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)

Free for admission. Please make reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)

About Lecture:
What connects distant listeners to far-off worlds of sound? In this talk, David Novak will describe global circulations of experimental music, through his long-term research on an underground genre alternately called "Noise," "Noise Music," and "Japanoise." Noise first emerged in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes, and then CDs and digital media traded between fans around the word into the 21st century. With its ear-shattering sound and over-the-top performances, Noise captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience. Noise always seems to be new, and to emerge from somewhere else: in Japan, it was "Noizu," while in North America, it became "Japanoise." Despite its marginality, Noise became a powerful metaphor for the complexities of globalization and participatory media. Global media circulations are grounded in the "cultural feedback" that develops in the overlaps and disconnections between separated groups of listeners and performers. In Noise, feedback is used by musicians to make sound, and becomes a mode of exchange in which scattered audiences distribute media and imagine a global underground scene. But feedback is also part of a creative subjectivity that reveals circulation as a central process of global culture, rather than as a secondary and separated context of transmission that moves culture and art from one place to another. The case of Japanoise reveals how discourses of musical globalization are continually reformed at the edge, through acts of sound-making, performance, and transcultural interpretations of popular media.

About Speaker:

David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work deals with the globalization of popular media, noise, protest culture, and social practices of listening. He is the author of recent essays in Public Culture, Cultural Anthropology, and The Wire, as well as the book Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Duke 2013) and is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Keywords in Sound (Duke 2015).

About Moderator:

Yin Yi is an Experimental musician, Sound artist, Phonographer, Curator. The music practice mainly focuses on laptop music performance and soundscape based on phonography in recent years. Conceptual sound works of Yin Yi usually center around two issues: listening awareness and the difference between vision/light and audition/sound. In the past two years, Yin Yi has paid close attention to the artistic ecology of the experimental music and sound art in China, his recent curate activity including “2013 SAVAKA: Asia Experimental Music Currents” with Rockbund Art Museum.

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Guest: Bernd Lintermann,Art Yan

Date: 2014-08-09  14:00 ~ 2014-08-09  16:00

Address: Chronus Art Center ( Bldg.18,No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai)

SPEAKER: Bernd Lintermann
MODERATOR: Art Yan
LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)

Free for admission. Please make reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)

ABOUT ARTIST TALK:
Located at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Bernd Lintermann has over 15 years experience of production in the field of art and media. Established by the Foundation’s Director Jeffrey Shaw, the Institute for Visual Media has a strong focus on the development of alternative formats to cinema, such as real-time interactive installations and projection environments. Lintermann has realized various productions for different contexts such as Virtual Reality installations for museums, stage performances and operas, dome projections for entertainment parks, and stereoscopic projections for music concerts. In order to meet the needs of a professional production process and to push the limits of the creative process in media art, he has developed his own technologies that implement genuinely new concepts, which have served as the basis for several major art works by internationally renowned artists like Bill Viola and the Wooster Group. Assuming various different roles he took part in the production of three of the works, UTOPIA TRIUMPHANS, THERE IS STILL TIME .. BROTHER and SCENARIO, which will be displayed on the panoramic screen currently installed at the Chronus Art Center. This talk will provide insights into these and several other productions by Lintermann in their cultural context.

ABOUT ARTIST:
Bernd Lintermann (DE) works as an artist and scientist in the field of real time computer graphics with a strong focus on interactive and generative systems. The results of his research find applications in the scientific, creative, and commercial context. His body of work spans more than fifteen years and includes prints, interactive installations, projection environments, and stage performances combining generative imagery and sound. His works have been exhibited in museums and festivals all over the world, such as at the ICC InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ZKM | Karlsruhe, ISEA, DEAF, and the Ars Electronica Festival. He is developing software that continues the ideals of the Renaissance with respect to the connections between the arts and the sciences. This puts the development of the artistic tools into a scientific context while advancing artistic production itself. He is designing his software development framework with particular regard to its artistic applications.

ABOUT MODERATOR:

Art Yan, media arts curator and producer. He is now Executive Director of Chronus Art Center, since December 2013.

Guest: Ulf Langheinrich, Dajuin Yao,Wang Jing, Jiang Yuhui, Yin Yi (in no particular order)

Date: 2014-07-13  15:45 ~ 2014-07-13  17:30

Address: Bldg. 18, No.50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai

SPEAKERS: Ulf Langheinrich, Dajuin Yao, Wang Jing, Jiang Yuhui (in no particular order)

MODERATOR: Yin Yi
LANGUAGE: Chinese，English (with Chinese translation)

Free for admission. Please make reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (Please indicate your real name, contact information, the number of reservation.)

About Roundtable:
The key words for this roundtable discussion: Auditory sense / sound / visual sense / video / music / Deleuze / fracture / parallel / film / suspension / art / Chion / Performance / body / esthesis / peak / new media / possibility / diversity / audio space / theoretical identity / Hong Chulki / live / noise / philosophy / anthropology / sound research / artist / sensibility / experiment / modernity / bottleneck / project / coupled vibration / illusion / simulation / practice / digital / display / Goh Lee Kwang / metaphysics / boundary / light / interface / abstract / figurative / space / technology

About Speakers:
Ulf Langheinrich (DE). In 1991, he and Kurt Hentschl?ger founded the media art duet Granular Synthesis and have realised for more than a decade a number of international large scale projects. Since 2003, Ulf Langheinrich has started to realise various large scale solo projects. He was guest professor at HGB University for Graphics and Book Design Leipzig (Germany), guest artist and lecturer of Audiovisual Design at FH Salzburg (Austria), at RMIT in Melbourne (Australia) and at China University of Art in Hangzhou (China) and guest artist and professor at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing (France).

Dajuin Yao, Sound artist, media artist, curator. Ph.D., a.b.d. in Art History from University of California, Berkeley. Dajuin's sound and media art works have been shown and performed around the world. He has also curated milestone new media festivals such as Sounding Beijing 2003, Sounding Taipei 2004, Streaming Bodies, eArts Festival Shanghai 2008, Sound Art China 2013 (New York), Sound Art China 2013 (Shanghai). His is currently Director of Open Media Lab at China Academy of Art, where he teaches audio-visual live performance, programming art, sound art, social media art, etc. Dajuin first introduced Ulf Langheinrich and Granular Synthesis's works to the audience in China and Taiwan in the 1990s, and has organized Langheinrich's live performances. He is currently working on releasing Langheinrich's new CD on his record label Post-Concrete.

Wang Jing received her PhD in 2012 in the School of Interdisciplinary Art at Ohio University.Her main research areas include sound studies, critical theories, performance studies, gender studies and critical ethnography.Currently, she is a lecturer in the College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University, teaching courses on everyday aesthetics and critical theories, media technology and documentary films.

Jiang Yuhui is associate professor of philosophy at East China Normal University. He is the author of 'Deleuze's Aesthetics of Body' (2007) and 'Painting and Truth: Merleau-Ponty and Chinese Landscape Paintings'(2013). He is also the translator of 'Mille Plateaux' (Deleuze &Guattari). Now he's working on a book about Deleuze's Pli and listening in sacred places.

About Moderator:

Yin Yi is an Experimental musician, Sound artist, Phonographer, Curator. The music practice mainly focuses on laptop music performance and soundscape based on phonography in recent years. Conceptual sound works of Yin Yi usually center around two issues: listening awareness and the difference between vision/light and audition/sound. In the past two years, Yin Yi has paid close attention to the artistic ecology of the experimental music and sound art in China, his recent curate activity including “2013 SAVAKA: Asia Experimental Music Currents” with Rockbund Art Museum.

VIDEO:

http://v.qq.com/page/h/g/o/h0135l9htgo.html

Guest: Christine Stenzer

Date: 2014-07-13  14:00 ~ 2014-07-13  15:30

Address: Bldg.18, Moganshan Rd. Shanghai

Language: English (with Chinese translation)

Free for admission. Please make reservation viamembership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)

About Lecture:
In a great variety of films dating from the early pioneering days through to contemporary digital productions, in the most diverse genres, countries and in both independent and commercial contexts, we can note writing in film, the effect of which is by no means rigid and un-filmic, and reaches way beyond what is commonly expected from writing in film – and from writing and film in general. The transfer to the filmic medium facilitates outward forms that had hitherto remained unknown in the history of writing. It is the writing that reflects the diverse developmental tendencies in the moving image media. Writing is not at all exhausted with ist conventional carrier and storage function of semantic information. By means of the appropriate design and emphasis of visual and kinetic dimensions, not only is it possible to mediate linguistic information with greater precision, but non-linguistic, atmospheric, emotional effects can also be evoked. The viewer’s/reader’s attention is redirected from the content to the aesthetic aspect of written signs and to his own attitudes towards the use of the media of writing AND film. Schriftfilme // Typemotion Films make visible what otherwise remains invisible in conventionally operating media usage: the media in their mediality, their materiality, their functional mechanisms, their differences and commonalities. Ultimately, Schriftfilme // Typemotion Films make the perception of our own perception visible.

About Speaker:

Christine Stenzer (PhD Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) works as freelance project manager, curator, author and editor with a thematic focus on cinema, arts, new media, and investment in art. She worked as Assistant Manager and Head of Public Relations and Marketing for Film production company and was part of the Special Projects Unit of the United Nations Headquarter New York supervising and co-ordinating the on-location filming of the feature film The Interpreter (director: S. Pollack, 2005). She is co-curator and co-editor of the international exhibition and edition-project Schriftfilme | Typemotion.

Video：

http://v.qq.com/page/q/l/d/q0135tdyild.html

Guest: Ulf Langheinrich

Date: 2014-07-12  14:00 ~ 2014-07-12  16:00

Address: Bldg.18, Moganshan Rd. Shanghai

MODERATOR: Dajuin Yao

LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)
About Lecture:
Ulf Langheinrich’s work evolves in exploring digital machine environments. Exploration means concentration on the material (the inherent qualities of a screen, a flicker, a sound, an algorithm). What it really means is: the pleasant distraction from the "doomed to be unresolved" in endless fiddling with an inferior apparatus and temporary numbness to the arrival of a deadline.

He does not develop concepts or meta-ideas. He works in a Kafka style, moving from point zero into the unknown. The aesthetic construction of sonic and visual spaces mirrors the process of its construction. There is no meta view, no conclusion. The display technology is hopelessly limited in its ability to generate consciousness or even awareness; images are addictive and empty. There are only degrees of approximation which means degrees of disappointment. The fragment is the accepted representation. The creation and possession of images can sooth with temporary joys. Tenacious like vampires we pursue and give meaning to images as debris of the frenzy, a display of deep desires to testify of a sense in the senseless, to console us with the promise of immortality. The sole reason, his art is not already beyond the “tabula rasa” of the image is his fascination with the screen, the surface and, the image.

About Artist:

Ulf Langheinrich (DE). In 1991, he and Kurt Hentschl?ger founded the media art duet Granular Synthesis and have realised for more than a decade a number of international large scale projects. Since 2003, Ulf Langheinrich has started to realise various large scale solo projects. He was guest professor at HGB University for Graphics and Book Design Leipzig (Germany), guest artist and lecturer of Audiovisual Design at FH Salzburg (Austria), at RMIT in Melbourne (Australia) and at China University of Art in Hangzhou (China) and guest artist and professor at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing (France).

Video：

http://v.qq.com/page/t/3/t/t0133od583t.html

LIFE PERFORMANCE by Ulf Langheinrich :

http://v.qq.com/page/d/t/q/d0135z3b6tq.html

Guest: Yin Yi

Date: 2014-07-05  14:00 ~ 2014-07-05  16:00

Address: Bldg.18, Moganshan Rd. Shanghai

Language: Chinese

Free for admission. Please make reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (Please indicate your real name, contact information, the number of reservation.)

About Lecture:
Synesthesia is phenomenon in which stimulation of multiply cognitive sensory connect and affect. It has been attracted much attention by philosophers and artist which has been the core of the research or inspired their art works. Philosophers and scientists keep exploring the relationship between visual and auditory sense, meanwhile artists are reacting to this trend with the creation of art works.

Based on Synethesia, the lecture will briefly generalize audiovisual art within modern art and discuss the contemporary conditions and the future of audiovisual art. The lecture try to find out the threads of the audiovisual art in aesthetics and its technology development by the review of early abstract films, kinetic art, optical art, video art and electronic music.

About Artist:

Yin Yi is an Experimental musician, Sound artist, Phonographer, Curator. The music practice mainly focuses on  laptop music performance and soundscape based on phonography in recent years. Conceptual sound works of Yin Yi usually center around two issues: listening awareness and the difference between vision/light and audition/sound. In the past two years, Yin Yi has paid close attention to the artistic ecology of the experimental music and sound art in China, his recent curate activity including “2013 SAVAKA: Asia Experimental Music Currents” with Rockbund Art Museum.

Video：

http://v.qq.com/page/f/d/j/f0132xmirdj.html

Guest: Zhao Jiamin,Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber

Date: 2014-06-28  14:00 ~ 2014-06-28  16:00

Address: Bldg. 18, NO.50 Moganshan?Rd. Shanghai

Language: Chinese

Free for admission. Please make reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org

About Talk:
During this talk, we want to explore what it means if we see "technology as culture". Zhao Jiamin has a deep knowledge of US technology culture, and his interest has always centered about the question of how technology shapes culture and the other way round. As founder of Yeeyan and dongxi.net, he has been instrumental in realizing translations projects about topics which embody this philosophy (Out of Control by Kevin Kelly, Job's biography, amongst others). The latest endevour to explore this area is the mook <1024·The Co-evolution of Human and Machine> which translates seminal texts by thinkers who analyze this relationship from the angle of technology, philosophy, moral implications etc. The relationship between technology and culture is also central to the world's earliest festival for digital art, Ars Electronica in Austria, in which Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber has been involved since the 90s: it is an ongoing inquiry into the interdependency between technology, culture and society and what this means for us as individuals and societies.

About Speakers:
Zhao Jiamin is the co-founder and CEO of Yeeyan. He used to work for Oracle Corp, engaging in the research and development of supply chain and optimization of inventory module. Mr. Zhao graduated from University of Southern California with doctor's degree in industrial and systems engineering as well as a master‘s degree in computer science. He studied at the department of automation of Tsinghua University and got bachelor's degree of automatic control theory and application.
Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber (AT) is a translator, editor and project manager. Since the 1980s she has been working for major German publishers. Since the mid 90s, she has been working on projects for Ars Electronica. Most recently, she is focussing on cultural exchange projects between China and German speaking countries.

Guest: Matthew McGinity

Date: 2014-06-21  14:00 ~ 2014-06-21  16:00

Address: BLDG.18, Moganshan RD. Shanghai

Language: English (with Chinese translation)

About Lecture:
Robert Barker`s painted panorama of 1787 and the remarkable experiments in panoramic cinema at the dawn of the 20th century to today’s virtual reality theatres, the panoramic form has been repeatedly invoked in the pursuit of “presence” - the sense of “being there” in a mediated or virtual environment. But what exactly is the relationship between presence and the panorama? And what precisely is this “presence?” In this talk, Matthew McGinity will explore the phenomena of presence and immersion through two bodies of work: the construction of a modern-day panoramic virtual reality theatre (the AVIE) and the creation of La Dispersion du Fils, an artwork created specifically for display within the AVIE. The talk will touch on a wide variety of perceptual phenomena, such as light-fields and the 10 degrees-of-freedom of vision, J. J. Gibson’s ecological optics, stereoscopy, ego-motion, vection and perceptual rest-frames, multi-sensory binding and transfer, and interactivity and the perception of causality. Matthew McGinity will discuss the surprisingly destructive effect that the image has on presence and how interactivity may both enhance or destroy presence. To help explain these concepts I will draw examples from the art world where many of these concepts can be found elegantly, if tacitly, demonstrated. Finally, Matthew McGinity will discuss how La Dispersion du Fils exploits these various perceptual phenomena to create a never ending immersive journey.

About Artist:
Matthew McGinity is a computer scientist specialising in immersive and interactive real-time systems. His work includes the iCinema projects T_Visionarium and La Dispersion du Fils and the AVIE360° panoramic virtual reality theatre. He is currently based in Berlin.

 

Video:

http://v.qq.com/page/w/9/n/w0131gwj59n.html