Guest: Sun Shaoyi ,Jeffrey Shaw
Date: 2014-05-31 14:00 ~ 2014-05-31 16:00
Address: Chronus Art Center (Bldg. 18, No. 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai)
Time: 14.00-16.00, May 31(Sat.), 2014
Venue: Chronus Art Center (Bldg. 18, No. 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai)
Speaker: Sun Shaoyi
Conversation With: Jeffrey Shaw
Language: English (with Chinese translation)
Free for admission. Please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org
About Lecture:
This talk first traces the evolution of the “window” as a device to understand and represent the outside world, from Renaissance’s painting frames to shop windows, from motion picture screens to screen walls, and from TV screens to mobile phone screens, and then introduces the new media art works of Jeffrey Shaw. Central to Shaw’s innovative new media art works, the speaker argues, is the 360-degree panoramic screen, either 2D or 3D, as a display platform, and the immersive experience it entails. Shaw’s “future cinema,” enabled by digital technologies, creates a bit-based “possibility space,” through which many forms of “database narrative” are able to be formulated. Multi-dimensional, multi-layered, and almost infinitely possible, this narrative not only challenges Hollywood’s production and presentation mechanisms, but also relies on the viewer/audience’s sensorial and embodied interaction with the audio-visual database.
About Artists:
Shaoyi Sun received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (USC) and is now Professor of Film and Media Studies at Shanghai Theater Academy (STA). He is the author/editor of New Media and Cultural Transformation, Spectrum of History and Cultural Topography: The Transnational Relation between Hollywood and Chinese-Language Cinema, The Matrix of Cinema: Cinematic Space and Cultural Globalism, Lights! Camera! Kai Shi!: In-Depth Interviews with China’s New Generation of Movie Directors, The Imagined City: Literary, Filmic, and Visual Shanghai, 1927-1937, and the Chinese translator of Rey Chow’s Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography and Contemporary Chinese Cinema. His research interests include: film theory, Sino-US film relations, new media art, and cultural studies.
Jeffrey Shaw (AU) has been a leading figure in new media art since the 1960's. In a prolific body of critically acclaimed works he has pioneered and set benchmarks for the creative use of digital media in the fields of expanded cinema, virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization and interactive narrative. Shaw was co-founder of the Eventstructure Research Group in Amsterdam (1969-1979), and founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe (1991-2002). In 2003 he co-founded and directed the UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research and in 2009 Shaw was appointed Chair Professor of Media Art and Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University in Hong Kong, where he is also Director of the ALiVE and ACIM research centres. In 2014 Shaw was appointed Honorary Professor at CAFA, Beijing and visiting Professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London.
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