Guest: Lu Xinghua

Date: 2014-11-16  14:00 ~ 2014-11-16  16:00

Address: Chronus Art Center (101, Bldg 18, 50 Moganshan Rd. Shanghai)

LANGUAGE: Chinese

Reservations viamembership@chronusartcenter.org (please supply your full name, contact information, and the number of people attending)

ABOUT THE LECTURE:

This lecture will start with the new relationship between technology - policy and art. The phamarkon of new media, distraction and open source will be discussed to summarize this series activities. Our lecture will base on focus and distraction, consumption and contribution, dispersion and converging, aesthetic and sharing, production and open source — these five aspects to recap discussions about new media art presented in these four lectures.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Lu Xinghua teaches at School of Humanities of Tongji University and at the Center of Social Thought and Contemporary Art, China Academy of Art. His research interests go across modern Chinese politics, aesthetics and Chinese contemporary art since 1985. He was member of acting committee for 2010 Shanghai Biennale. His recent works include Against Claims from Contemporary Art (2012) and The Future of Political Art (2014).

ABOUT THE LECTURES SERIES: 
On the Borders of New Media Art: Creation, Spectatorship, Presentation, and Collection

New media art is generating a new sociality and reaching beyond our contemporary understandings of artistic theory and basic approaches, indicating ways to interpose into reality and history, providing a more general attitude towards political intervention, suggesting the total reform of the traditional art museum, creating different modes of observation, and so on. A great number of practices encourage us to reflect on methodology and epistemology. However, the arrival of a new mode of creation and exhibition is truly pushing us to face and summarize it in theory and practice.

Through a series of discussions, art theorists, philosophers, new media artists, and associated professionals engaged in the exhibition of new media art will be invited to launch a train of discussions addressing the core concepts of new media theoretical research, including distraction, consumption, contribution, solo, chat & curiosity, gossip & imitation, new comics, the re-criticism of Internet values, resistance & surveillance, the technological subconscious of semi-group, the fan economy, etc. In the lectures and discussions we are trying to explore and generalize some underlying prerequisites of theory and the principles of practice in new media artworks and their exhibition.