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
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