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为纪念新时线媒体艺术中心(CAC)成立十周年,CAC在其新空间举办一场文献展,呈现机构于过往十年间之研究与实践轨迹的记录。展览于2023年4月16日开幕,自4月17日持续展出至5月28日。

 

 

CAC过去十年多维度的各类项目在展览中跃然于三条时间轴之上——展览、公共项目,与CAC实验室,项目之间的关联以若干条影响着CAC研究方向的线索展开。这些线索涉及了广泛的媒体艺术议题,同时也见证着正在发生的文化范式之转变。从机器的动态性到运动图像的流动性,从混合现实和具身技术,到围绕机器本体论的思辨,从比特和字节的物质性,以及数字的算法力量所构造的新现实,到人工智能所涌现的主体性与能动性,从与不同生命形态以内在方式的相遇到人工代理、生物介质所展现出的智力与自主性,生命、自然、现实、环境、时间、物质性等概念被质询,并偏离其传统语义——CAC策划的诸多项目都指向了一个由事物彼此联系并影响的、缠绕的世界观,并对此间万物的定义超越了技术与自然、生物与非生物、主体与客体、物质与非物质的对立。

 

摄影:钟晗

 

以下轨迹归纳了CAC过去十年的实践特色:

 

 

# 机器,机器人学,机械集合,类人,自动化,系统论

 

媒体艺术首先是基于技术设备的艺术,与设备、器械密不可分。机器是创作的媒介,也是展示的设备;机器是相互依存的、协调运作的器官;机器既是对生命与生机的模仿,同时也运转出其特殊的存在逻辑、心身属性与社会关系。这一线索将从机器运动这一媒体艺术的基本特征出发,探索机器美学、身体与机器、系统思维、控制论、算法与机器自治等主题。

 

 

# 动态影像,VR/AR/XR,混合现实,沉浸,具身性,存在主义技术

 

作为机器运动的延伸,动态媒体、图像机器与动态影像向真实生活的模拟迈出了重要一步。人类和机器之间的日益融合如何在艺术中体现?虚拟技术如何改变我们对于现实与时空的定义?比特和字节的物质化成为通过物理计算、虚拟现实、增强现实与扩展现实等技术手段,在混合及媒介化现实领域中进行新形态艺术创作的基本要素。第二线索的研究与实践介绍了“万物源于比特”的审美之物如何通过混杂数字与物质两种形式来达到模拟和表征的概念。这一线索还探讨了如何通过虚拟与增强技术创造非线性的、体验性的叙事,如何通过脱离现实来质疑我们所感知的现实。同时,有关现实的本质和人类感知的基本本体论问题也将在该线索中被仔细探究。

 

 

# 代码,数据,网络艺术,互联网,网络理论,开源,区块链

 

在这个版块中,围绕计算机代码创造与理解的知识产出以及批判性的艺术实践将同时进行。这一线索探索了计算机代码如何改变我们的思维、行为和感受;以及数字计算与网络如何深度渗透于人类生活、社会、地缘政治格局、财政体系、劳动条件、基础设施与环境。通过审视前-后端界面,以及支撑这些界面的各类数字网络基础设施,该版块所囊括的研究与实践揭开了复杂技术系统的隐形依赖,反思了早期互联网文化的形成及先锋精神,以及当前数字世界中肆虐的噪音与暗物质。

 

 

# 生物艺术,生命政治,微生物政治,生物过程,亲缘关系,生物工程学

 

该线索的实践通过呈现生命科学与生物医学技术的艺术性应用,探索了对生命新技术方法所衍生的哲学与伦理层面的考量。这条轨迹创造了与各类生命形式的相遇,剖析生命与生长之怪诞且躁动的界域以及活体与潜意识之间的边界。

 

 

# 算法,人工智能,能动性,涌现,共生,生物媒介

 

面对这个由比特和字节的物质性、数字算法力量所构成的新现实,我们该持有怎样的想象力以及对主体的认定? 如何将机器智能视为在另一种量级上,有着不同于人类的主体性的,具有能动力的存在? 这一线索探索了无机物、非人类实体、电子物件、算法、代码和生物介质所表达出的智能、自组织、自生产、自主性和亲生物特性。在这一过程中,我们将重新思考智慧、生命和存在的定义,寻求所有生命在共生中纠缠与共存的潜力,从而见证每位同居者独特的自我身份的出现。

 

 

# 环境域,能量,机器生态,人类纪,不止于人类,气候工程,宇宙政治

 

CAC的研究与实践横跨了新物质主义——如见诸于物论、扁平本体论与后人类研究等广泛议题,将多种类型的生命体、多种层级的环境、大地与多种秩序的人工制品在愈发复杂的纠缠中相互关联,其尺度辐射自微生物至行星,体现了后人类语境下对于多重主体性之不同层次的理解。物质性、时间性、具身性和自然等概念如何在当代媒体社会语境下被重新阐释和扩展?如何在当前技术逻辑所导致的、深受表征危机的状况与环境的紧迫性所困扰的后人类社会中,去回应多孔性、复杂性、横向性和美学等概念?该线索下的项目深入探讨了后人类如何作为艺术创作的条件,在 21世纪引发新的文化想象之范式转变。

 

值此十周年之际,CAC邀请观众加入这场对机构过往之历程的回顾,并以此作为新起步,以多节点、网络化的研究与展示模式延续CAC的使命。

About the Artists

Casey Reas’ work includes software, prints, and installations, and he balances solo work in the studio with collaborations. He has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and his work is in a range of private and public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2001, he and Ben Fry initiated Processing, an open-source programming language and environment for the visual arts.

https://reas.com/

 

Jan St. Werner is a Berlin-based artist and composer best known as one half of the electronic duo Mouse on Mars. As part of Cologne’s A-Musik collective, St. Werner released recordings both as a solo artist and with collaborators, including Markus Popp and Rosa Barba. He released Blaze Colour Burn for The Fiepblatter Catalogue on Chicago’s Thrill Jockey Records. He was artistic director for Dutch Institute for Electronic Music STEIM. He is now professor for Interactive Art and Dynamic Acoustic Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.

 

Other Work

Casey Reas
The Earthly Delights 1.0
Custom Software
2019

The Earthly Delights series is a collection of software works of indefinite duration that are created from a set of fixed frames performed by custom software. The software edits the frames into different sequences and presents them with changing speeds and rhythms. The frames are generated with machine learning software trained on scans of vegetation collected in Colorado. The title of these works is derived from Stan Brakhage’s short film The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) made from raw plant materials from the same region.

https://reas.com/earthly_1/

 

Jan St. Werner
Molecular Meditation
electronic music album
2020

Molecular Meditation is an experimental music album created by Jan St. Werner. Werner fuses the abstract electronic music with the spoken words of Mark E. Smith, the singer of the post-punk music group The Fall. Along with the synthesized sound environment created by Werner, the voice of Smith is through in the track as the main narrative element of this work. Generally, Smith is heard making observations on mundane objects, events and a range of meditation techniques basically associating his discontent with an apolitical british upper class.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jan-st-werner-molocular-meditation/

 

 

 

 

 

About the Artist

Lauren Lee McCarthy is an LA-based artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She is the creator of p5.js, and Co-Director of the Processing Foundation. Lauren's work has been exhibited internationally, at places such as The Barbican Centre, Ars Electronica, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Haus der elektronischen Künste, SIGGRAPH, Onassis Cultural Center, IDFA DocLab, Science Gallery Dublin, Seoul Museum of Art. She has received numerous honors including a Creative Capital Award, Ars Electronica Golden Nica, Sundance Fellowship, Eyebeam Fellowship, and grants from the Knight Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Rhizome. Lauren is an Associate Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts.

https://lauren-mccarthy.com/

 

 

Other Work

 

Social Turker

Performance

2013

In 2013, I went on twenty dates with people I met on an online dating site called OkCupid. I used my phone to stream these dates to the Internet. I paid remote workers on a site called Amazon Mechanical Turk to watch, interpret what was happening, and direct me what to do or say next. These directions were communicated to me via text message and I had to perform them immediately.

What if we could receive real-time feedback on our social interactions? Would third party monitors be better suited to interpret and make decisions for the parties involved? Could this make us more aware in our relationships, shift us out of normal patterns, and open us to unexpected possibilities?

https://lauren-mccarthy.com/Social-Turkers

 

 

 

About the Artist

Devin Ronneberg is a multidisciplinary artist born, raised, and living in Los Angeles, working primarily in sculpture, sound, image-making, networking, engineering, and computational media, his work is currently focused on the unseen implications of emergent technologies and artificial intelligence, information control and collection, and the radiation of invisible forces. Incorporating aerospace engineering techniques as the basis for his sculptural practice, his work explores the possibilities of modern manufacturing and materialities with techniques and materials used in the design and prototyping of hand-built experimental aircraft.

Ronneberg’s work has most recently been exhibited at the Experimenta 2021 Triennial, EFA Project Space, MoCNA, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and was recently chosen to be a Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellow and MacArthur Project Grant recipient. Ronneberg co-founded the Los Angeles based imprint Private Selection Records, and produces, djs, and performs live as Aerial. He holds a BFA in Music Technology: Intelligence, Interaction, and Design from California Institute of the Arts and is an experimental aircraft designer / builder at Berkut Engineering.

https://www.devinronneberg.net/

 

Kite (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite) is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fibre sculptures, immersive video and sound installations, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint, Unheard Records. Kite has also published in several journals and magazines, including in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), where the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis, was featured. Currently, she is a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow, and a 2020 Women at Sundance×Adobe Fellow.

http://kitekitekitekite.com/

 

 

Other Works

 

Kite and Devin Ronneberg

Seeing is Believing

Video and text

2020

 

Seeing is believing is another important collaboration work between artist Kite and Devin Ronneberg. Formally, this work mainly applies machine learning to processing the video. Using high-intensity experimental techniques and emerging technologies to produce animations and extract fabricated stories, they thus raise their questions and reconstruct a more realistic narrative.

https://www.devinronneberg.net/seeing%20is%20believing/

 

 

Kite

Call to Arms

Sound and Video Installation

2019

Call to Arms is an installation created by Kite and filmmaker Althea Thauberger, commissioned by the 2019 Toronto Biennial. The work features audio-visual recordings of their rehearsals with Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) York, where they performed four musical scores composed by Kite along with the band’s own repertoire.

http://kitekitekitekite.com/portfolio/items/call-to-arms/

 

 

 

About the Artists

Sofian Audry is an artist, scholar, Professor of Interactive Media within the School of Media at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Inspired from artificial intelligence, artificial life, biology and cognitive sciences, Audry's computational artistic practice branches through multiple media including robotics, interactive installations, immersive environments, physical computing interventions, internet art, and electronic literature. Their work and research have been shown at major international events and venues such as Ars Electronica, Barbican, Centre Pompidou, Club Transmediale, Dutch Design Week, Festival Elektra, International Digital Arts Biennale, International Symposium on Electronic Art, LABoral, La Gaîté Lyrique, Marrakech Biennale, Nuit Blanche Paris, Society for Arts and Technology, V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Muffathalle Munich and the Vitra Design Museum.

https://sofianaudry.com/

 

Istvan Kantor (a.k.a. Monty Cantsin) became interested in rebellion and radical artistic experiments at a young age, staging underground happenings, performances, and exhibitions under an Eastern Block dictatorship. Multidisciplinary artist, his practice includes media art, performance, installation, sound art, robotics, writing, and music. His video works have been recognized throughout the world, and have been presented at numerous festivals, including Documenta 8 (1987), the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (1992), Transmedial, Berlin (2001), and Osnabruck European Media Arts Festival (2009). In 1998, Kantor received the Telefilm Canada award for best Canadian video; in 2004, he won the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts—the highest accolade attributed in Canada to an artist in recognition of their contribution to the visual and media arts (biography written by Etienne Desrosiers).

http://www.istvankantor.com/

 

 

Other Work

 

Sofian Audry

SENSEFACTORY

immersive installation 

2019

 

SENSEFACTORY is a spectacular large scale performative installation combining architecture, sound, smell, light and AI technology into an immersive multi-sensorial experience. Created by an international team of artists, architects, designers and technologists, SENSEFACTORY sends visitors on an exhilarating sensory journey through a colossal, ever transforming pneumatic architectural environment that changes form and shape before your very eyes.

The Bauhaus sought a new relationship between humans and machines – a theater that would integrate the human spectator and actor into a new kind of rhythmic and dynamic media process. 100 years later, we are enveloped in these total environments of media that continually scan, surveil, record, monitor and transform us. SENSEFACTORY reflects on our radical times – creating a compelling event that oscillates between intensive sensual experience and meditative reflection; physical euphoria and nervous unease.

 

Artistic Team

Graphics & Communication Design: Erik Adigaard

AI / Software Engineering: Sofian Audry

Sound Design: FM Einheit

Concept / Artistic Direction: Dietmar Lupfer & Chris Salter

Architecture: Alex Schweder

Olfactory Design: Sissel Tolaas

 

Collaborators

Light Design: Alexandre Saunier

Project Management (Munich): Miria Wurm & Michael Hennig

Project Management (Montreal): Marije Baalman & Garnet Willis

Public Relations (Munich): Christiane Pfau

Production Assistant (Montreal): Andrea Pena

Production Team (New York): Clemens Klein, Hannah LaSota, Anna Oidakowski

 

https://sofianaudry.com/en/sensefactory

 

 

Monty Canstin

Blood Campaign

1970s and 1980s

 

Blood Campaign is a series of performances in which Monty Canstin took his own blood and splashed it onto walls, canvases, or into the audience. He translated his interest in blood as a medical student to recognizing the value of blood in the art world. The campaign, through which Kantor spread the idea of Neoism, a subculture for experimental arts, had been carried out in many cities throughout the world, including Montreal, Tel Aviv, Belgium, and Toronto. 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Artists

Tonoptik is an art project from Saint Petersburg (Russia) in the field of new media, audiovisual, sound art and art & science, built around a common idea and a typical for the project minimalist aesthetic. The artists experiment with sound and visual configurations, basing their approach on a free exploration of modern technologies and their interaction with humans.

Tonoptik participated at many international music and new media art festivals. The project is a laureate of the Spanish MADATAC Award, in 2020 won a special prize from the CYLAND MediaArtLab for an audiovisual work, in 2016 and 2018 Tonoptik was twice nominated for the Sergei Kuryokhin Award in St. Petersburg.

 

Other Works

 

Leuchkraft

Audio-visual interactive installation

2019

Leuchkraft is an audio-visual interactive installation that explores various visual effects through the artistic interpretations of operating the hadronic colliders, a branch of particle physics. Like quantum accelerators, this work aims to explore various effects using a multi-layered configuration and video projections (particles) on two opposite sides. Within the frame of special forms, the projection of video contents is split into zones. Viewers are invited to observe from different angles and distances, so that the installation reveals its multifaceted nature, its dynamics of the generated video and sound. When two projectors are opposite to each other on both sides of the screens, they create a volumetric composition with a certain stereo effect. Depending on the viewer’s proximity to the centre of the work, the interactive installation exhibits various impacts of the observer on the observed system.

 

Courtesy the artists.

 

http://www.tonoptik.com/p/leuchtkraft.html

Video: https://vimeo.com/256285094

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Artist

HE Zike was born in Guiyang, 1990, and lives and works in Beijing. Her works focus on personal perception and individual's fate under flows of information, and the uncertainty of narrative and meaning, with recent projects exploring patterns, visons and imagination over digital and consumer life, around specific databases, material libraries and memory, as well as their physical and temporal extension. Most of her works are in forms of video, writing, installation and computer program etc.

She graduated from the department of Future Media Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts with master degree in 2018, and studied media art in Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany, in 2017. In 2012, she graduated from Communication University of China with bachelor degree in Digital Film Making. She also attended residency program of Pink Factory in Korea, 2019. Her works exhibited at Hic sunt leones (798 Art Center, Beijing, Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2019), Lying Sophia & Mocking Alexa (HYUNDAI motorstudio Beijing, 2019, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, 2020), Gender Travel (Hongcheon Musuem, Korea, 2019), Sichtbarkeit (Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany, 2017), Moments and More, Documents of Culture Pavilion Wen Hua Guan Online Project (OCAT, Shanghai, 2017), Why the Performance? (Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016), Are You Normal? (Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, 2016).

 

 

Other Work

 

Download Life

Video, interactive platform, digital print

2018 - 2021

Download Life is an ongoing project that is developed loosely, including a series of works in forms of video, interactive program and digital prints. It revolves around large-scale model sharing repositories that expanding with the development of cloud storage and infrastructure, and the manifestation of "building" or "making" as a method of human intervention to the world in everyday life. In this series of independent and interconnected works, the model repositories become containers for individual or collective memories, and the models produced and shared by users shift into fictional scenes of everyday life and heterochromatic stories, which present scenes in an apartment during a day, depicting a time when people have mutated into objects. At the same time, at different ports of the world, those digital creations are carrying knowledge, styles, and ideas about modern life, which are rapidly spreading through the Internet with under-rendered images and superficial structures, and finally re-pouring to reality.

Technical support: Xiang Weihao

 

One day in eternity, Video 1′ 35′′, 2020. Courtesy the Artist

 

Gift, Interactive platform, 2018. Courtesy the Artist

 

 2:32 p.m. June 21, 2020, Solar Eclipse with eSpa Digital Printing, 2020. Courtesy the Artist

 

Control Room, 2020, Digital Printing. Courtesy the Artist

 

12:36 p.m. 22 Aug 2018, I haven't had my breakfast, Digital Printing, 2018. Courtesy the Artist

 

 Palm tree at 2 p.m. on the afternoon of September 22, 2018, Digital Printing, 2018. Courtesy the Artist

 

 

 

 

 

 

关于艺术家

贺子珂,1990年生于贵阳,现工作生活于北京。贺子珂的作品关注信息流动下个体的感知与命运,以及叙事和意义的不确定性。近期项目围绕特定的数据、记忆和素材库展开,探索其在物质和时间维度上的延展,以及数字和消费生活中的模式、愿景与想象。媒介包括影像、文本、装置、计算机程序等。

贺子珂2018年获中央美术学院未来媒体艺术专业硕士学位。2017年于德国卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与设计学院媒体艺术系学习。2012年毕业于中国传媒大学,获数字电影制作学士学位。参与的展览包括此地有狮(画廊周新势力单元,798艺术中心,北京,剩余空间,武汉,2019),撒谎的索菲亚和嘲讽的艾莉克莎(现代汽车文化中心,北京,2019,余德耀美术馆,上海,2020),“Gender Travel”(洪川美术馆,韩国,2019),“Sichtbarkeit”(弗莱堡当代美术馆,德国,2017),朋友圈+:文化馆线上艺术计划OCAT,上海,2017),为什么表演?(明当代美术馆,上海,2016),你正常吗?(博而励画廊,北京,2016)等。

 

 

其他作品

 

下载生活 (Download Life)

影像,互动程序,数码印刷

2018 - 2021

《下载生活》是一个断断续续地开展、正在进行的项目,包括一系列以影像、互动式平台和数字印刷品的形式的作品。该项目是一个围绕云上储存及基础设施的发展而不断扩展的大型共享模型库,同时也建造制造作为一种人介入世界的方法在日常生活中的显现而存在。在作品之间相互独立又关联的网络中,模型库成为了个人或集体记忆的容器,由用户制作分享的模型被改造为虚构的日常生活场景及异色故事——在人变异为物品之后的世界,一所公寓内一天之间的景象。与此同时,在世界的不同端口,这些数字造物正搭载着有关现代生活的知识、风格与理念,通过未充分渲染的图像和表面化的结构经由网络快速传播,并重新涌向现实。

技术支持 : 项炜皓

 

《永恒的一日 (One day in eternity)》,影像 1′ 35′′,2020 ©艺术家

 

《礼物 (Gift),互动程序,2018 ©艺术家

 

20206211432分日环食与电子Spa (2:32 p.m. June 21, 2020, Solar Eclipse with eSpa )》,数码喷绘,2020 ©艺术家

 

《控制中心 (Control Room)》,数码喷绘,2020 ©艺术家

 

20188221236分我还没有吃早餐 (12:36 p.m. 22 Aug 2018, I haven't had my breakfast)》,数码喷绘,2018 ©艺术家

 

2018922日下午两点的棕榈树 (Palm tree at 2 p.m. on the afternoon of September 22, 2018)》,数码喷绘,2018 ©艺术家

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

关于艺术家

 

Tonoptik来自俄罗斯圣彼得堡,作为一个艺术项目,在新媒体、视听、声音艺术以及艺术与科学领域内进行艺术实践。Tonoptik的创建围绕着一个共同的理念,也是一个具有代表性的极简主义美学项目。基于对现代技术及其与人类互动的自由探索,艺术家们尝试用声音和视觉组合进行实验创作。

 

Tonoptik参与了众多国际音乐和新媒体艺术节,曾获得西班牙MADATAC奖。并在2020年获得了CYLAND媒体艺术实验室颁发的视听作品特别奖。同时,分别在2016年和2018Tonoptik获得圣彼得堡Sergei Kuryokhin奖提名。

 

 

其他作品

 

流光溢彩 (LEUCHTKRAFT)

视听互动装置

2019

 

《流光溢彩》以艺术的视角来解读强子对机(粒子物理学的分支)的运行方式,探索它的各种视觉效果。

 

与量子加速器一样,这项工作旨在探索使用多层配置/算法(探测器表示)和相对两侧的视频投影(粒子)的各种效果。在特殊形式的框架内,视频的投影被划分成不同区域。这种方法使该配置/算法的特殊性得以展现,也不会暴露某些层的独立区域。通过这种方法配以亮度的降低,当投影通过两侧的几个屏幕时,整个结构由不对称的视频填满。

 

观众可以从不同的角度和距离观察,从而展示装置多方面的性质,以及生成的视频和声音的动态。当两台投影机在屏幕两侧彼此相对时,它们会产生具有一定立体效果的体积构图。观众与作品中心的接近程度不同,互动装置也能展示观察者之于被观察系统的各种影响。

 

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