Year: Friday July 3rd, 2015

Guest: Xin Xingzhi

Date: 2014-06-07  14:00 ~ 2014-06-07  16:00

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

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

About lecture：
Media art often involves the remix of the creativity of others’ media materials. According to the Copyright Law, works----including multimedia works, once completed, are protected by Copyright Law. Only to obtain authorization from the obligee can users legally use the works. With the Copyright Law and the law enforcement become more and more strict, the cost of the creators legally using others’ works increase higher and higher. The original aim of Copyright Law is to protect innovation, but the extreme protection may become obstacles. This situation urges persons with breadth of vision to start to rethink and the idea of sharing was put forward and spread. Creative Commons is one of them. It reduces legal obstacles and promote the dissemination and creative commons as well as the works by providing a set of standardization of copyright license based on the framework of Copyright Law nowadays. Creative Commons is more an idea of sharing than CC protocol.
About Artist:
Xin Xingzhi
Since 2006 member of Creative Commons Mainland China. Participated in the localization of the CC licences and PR work. Before joining Creative Commons, Xin Xingzhi worked as a journalist and editor at China Radio International, Xinhua's Globe magazine, and Southern Metropolis Daily.

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Guest: Zhu Xiaowen, Hu Weiyi

Date: 2014-06-01  14:00 ~ 2014-06-01  16:00

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

Time: 14.00-16.00, June 1st (SUN), 2014
Venue: Chronus Art Center ( Bldg.18,No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai)
Speakers: Zhu Xiaowen, Hu Weiyi
Moderator: Art Yan
Language: Chinese
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About Share Session
Summer Sessions Talent Development Network has been held for three sessions since 2011 and a number of artists have created many excellent art works through the professional platform for creation provided by Summer Session association. For this activity, we invited the artists of the first and third session---Zhu Xiaowen and Hu Weiyi. They will share as well as discuss their resident trips combining their art creation during the session.

About Speakers
Xiaowen Zhu is a media artist, scholar and curator. Described as a visual poet, social critic, and aesthetic researcher, She uses video, photography, performance, installation and mixed media as platforms to communicate the complicated experience of being an international and to wrestle with the notion of a disembodied identity. Zhu is currently based in Los Angeles, USA. She is the first receipt of the TASML Artist Residency Award and Marylyn Ginsburg Klaus Post-MFA Fellowship. She received her MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University, USA and BA in Film, TV Production & Media Art from Tongji University, China. Zhu’s works have been shown at Art Basel Hongkong, ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), ISEA2011 (Istanbul, Turkey), Dumbo Arts Center (New York, USA), Videonale (Berlin, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, USA), Strozzina Art Space (Florence,Italy), Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts (Norwich, UK), DOK Munich (Munich, Germany), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, USA), Shanghai eArts Festival(Shanghai, China) and more.

Hu Weiyi (b. 1990, Shanghai) is a young Artist work and live in Shanghai, now continuing his studies as a graduate student of Zhang Peili at the Media Department of the China Academy of Art, after having graduated from the Department of Public Art at the China Academy of Art in 2012. Hu is a multimedia artist and curator, whose work combines video, installation, sculpture, action, and sound. In 2012 he curated a young artists exhibition titled The Bad Land, in which the occupation of a public crossroad in Shanghai functioned to address the limits between art and life, public and private. His works has been widely exhibited in China and abroad. Recent exhibitions include The Summer Session at V2 in Rotterdam 2013, “The Unpainted” Media Art Fair in Munich, “PANDAMONIUM” Exhibition at Momentum in Berlin both in 2014.

About Moderator
Art Yan is new media art curator and producer. He has been Executive Director of Chronus Art Center since December 2013.

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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.Video：PART ONE:

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Guest: Hu Jieming, Shi Yong，Lu Leiping，Richard Castelli，Zian Chen

Date: 2014-05-11  14:00 ~ 2014-05-11  16:00

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

Language: Chinese and English (with Simultaneous Interpretation)

About Round Table Tour:
Using new media as his means of artistic expression, what Hu Jieming has accentuated is not so much the newness of mediality, but its gilded datedness that one can perceived from the materials he applied, whereby the length of time itself is brought to the front by the contrast. From Witness·Game in 1994 to Tai Chi this year, Hu’s vast body of work was rendered with his play of forms and is enriching by the converged attention to the sense of history, and from personal impulsive led by chance towards a collective cultural aspect. The meaning of Hu Jieming’s oeuvre is, in many ways, multiple and has to be deciphered in a dynamical reading. This round table creates an intellectual entrance for Hu Jieming’s latest solo show by the discussion about the new media and the consciousness of time and Hu’s singular approach of his enthusiastic quest for an image to come.

The Speakers:
Hu Jieming was born in 1957 in Shanghai. He is one of the pioneers of digital media and video installation art in today`s China. One of his primary themes is the co-existence of the old and new in a modern society. In his art he constantly comments upon, and questions, this concept with a variety of media including photography, video, digital interactive technology. He continuously conducts creation and experimentation, and his work were exhibited and collected widely at home and aboard.
Shi Yong (b.1963), graduated from Light Industrial School, Fine Arts Department. He resides and works in Shanghai. Shi Yong has exhibited widely since the early 1990's. Recent shows include Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2012); Grasstress 2011, Venice, Italy (2011); Negociation, The Second Today's Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing (2010)

Lu Leiping, currently enrolled as a PhD student in Chinese Art History at China Academy of Art where she served as an employee at its library before she moved to Shanghai. Since then, Lu communicates herself to contemporary art while working at a number of prestigious institutions, such as Shanghai BizArt Center and ShanghArt Gallery. At present, Lu is a lecturer in College of Fine Arts at Shanghai Normal University as well as Director of Archives Center at Xiling Yinshe Auction Co., ltd, a top-ranking auction company in China.

Richard Castelli is the director of Epidemic and curatorial practice has been in Berlin (Berliner Festspiele, Martin-Gropius-Bau), Shanghai, Roma (with Romaeuropa, also at MACRO), Istanbul (Borusan Foundation) and France (last one in Paris until January 2015 about Robotic Art). He is the producer of Bruyère, Du Zhenjun, Dumb Type, Granular Synthesis, Hentschl?ger, Langheinrich, Lepage, Jeffrey Shaw, Takatani and Teshigawara. He produced several 360°, immersive, interactive or 3D artworks. He was the Senior Curator of Lille 2004 Cultural Capital of Europe.

The Moderator:
Zian Chen works as curator and freelance writer mainly based in Taipei. He has curated Prattle (2010) at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei and Collected Matters (2013) at ICC in Sapporo. He also co-curated Live Ammo (2011) at MOCA Taipei, Video Acrobatics (2010) and Post Office (2012) at Pingpong Art Space. His serial writing, Possible Exhibitions, examines the boundaries of art criticism via fictionalized subjects.

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Guest: Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine

Date: 2014-05-10  14：00 ~ 2014-05-10  16:00

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

Mediating Cultural Memory
Seminar: New Media, Cultural Heritage and Museums

Time: 14:00 - 16:00, May 10 (Sat.), 2014
Venue: Chronus Art Center (Bldg. 18, No. 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai)
Speakers: Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine
Moderator: Hans-Georg Knopp
Language: English (with Simultaneous Interpretation)

Free for admission. Please make reservation via HYPERLINK "mailto:info@chronusartcenter.org"
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About Semina：
How can media art practices help conserving our cultural patrimony and making it accessible to the public? How can they help museums to represent intangible cultural content?
Jeffrey Shaw gives an in-depth description of the creation process of Hampi for the immersive display system AVIE. Sarah Kenderdine examines how these new technologies can transform the experience of museum visitors and enable them to have a more sensorial and experiential experience of museum exhibits.
Moderated by Hans-Georg Knopp, who has a long standing interest in cultural heritage and politics, this panel illustrates two innovative projects: PLACE-Hampi and PLACE-Ruhr, using media art strategies to convey a new dimension to archeology and cultural heritage preservation. The audience will not only be able to see cultural patrimony in an enjoyable way, but will also be inspired to investigate new forms of representation of cultural heritage in our media-driven era.

About the Speakers:
Jeffrey Shaw (AU) is one of the pioneers of new media art. His PLACE series uses an innovatively designed visualisation and interaction environment to articulate the viewer’s co-presence in a narrative re-discovery of this cultural landscape.

Sarah Kenderdine (AU) is specialized in interactive and immersive experiences for museums where she combines cultural heritage with new media art practice. She is specialist in panoramic display systems.

About the Moderator:
Hans-Georg Knopp (DE) was the Director of the House of World Cultures, Berlin, and Secretary General of the Goethe Institute. He is Senior Strategic Advisor Shanghai Theater Academy and Visiting Professor at the Tongji University Shanghai. He holds a PhD in Indology.

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Guest: Jeffrey Shaw

Date: 2014-03-29  14:00 ~ 2014-03-29  16:00

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

FUTURE CINEMA
Artist Talk by Jeffrey Shaw

Jeffrey Shaw (1944 Melbourne) is the Chair Professor of Media Art and Dean of the School of Creative Media of City University in Hong Kong. He has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of the 1960s to its present day technology-informed and virtualized forms. His work has been shown in many famous art galleries and festivals. Professor Shaw was founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe (1991－2002). In 2003 Professor Shaw was awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship and returned to Australia to co-found and direct the UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research in Sydney. Professor Shaw also is the director of ALiVE and ACIM of City University in Hong Kong.
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/

http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au 

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Guest: MAP OFFICE (Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix)

Date: 2014-03-01  15:00 ~ 2014-03-01  16:30

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

Free admission, please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org.

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About the Artists

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Guest: David Elliott

Date: 2014-01-24  15:00 ~ 2014-01-24  16:30

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

The ‘Best’ and The ‘Worst’ in Contemporary Art

Curator’s Talk on the Exhibition “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times”

Time: 3:00pm, Jan 24 (Fri.), 2014

Venue: Bldg.18, No.50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai

Speaker: David Elliott

Language: English （with Chinese Translation）

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

David Elliott, the founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2001-2006), the first Director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art [Istanbul Modern] (2007) is a celebrated curator on the Asia Advisory Board of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The Exhibition of “THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES”, originated from the selected video works at the 1st Kiev Biennale curated by David Elliott, is his directorial debut in China, as well as the special New Year Project of Chronus Art Center (hereafter referred to as CAC) collaborated with MOMENTUM Berlin.

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, the 1st International Kiev Biennale of Contemporary Art, is the most recent of many large thematic exhibitions that David Elliott has curated in different cities and continents. All of them have examined in distinct ways and from different points of view the varying conditions of contemporary art by reflecting the cultural contexts and critical climates in which they were made. The work in them has been generated by different ideas of aesthetic quality as well as by diverse histories and experiences of life.

In one way the “best” and “worst” may be understood as opposites, as part of the dialectic of rational, western materialism, in which existence is formed by choice and circumstance. Yet, in another sense, the best and worst are embedded within the same cyclical motion. Within the “worst” redemption lies dormant, while the “best” may be an illusion that harbours the seeds of its own destruction.

The intelligence, intuition and humanity of the artists who contributed work to this exhibition give inspiration by its example. Their critical, sardonic, sometimes humorous or iconoclastic views of the world, their ability to think and see outside the cages into which we are so often willingly confined, and their clarity and commitment to truth in art, energizes us to go a step further - to experience and analyse more keenly for ourselves the causes and effects of life, the very fountainhead of art. And this is a necessary prelude for action.

To provide a better and full understanding of the exhibition, David will talk about his curatorial concept, the theme of this exhibition as well as the artworks of seven artists by introducing the exhibition and also the 1st Kiev Biennale, to finally explore and discuss the ‘Best’ and the ‘Worst’ in  contemporary art under the social context.

About the Speaker

David Elliott is an English born curator and writer. From 1976 to 1996 he was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England, Director of Moderna Museet [The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art] in Stockholm, Sweden (1996-2001), founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2001-2006), the first Director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art [Istanbul Modern] (2007), Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2008-2010) and Artistic Director of the 1st Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011-12), Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor in Art History at the Humboldt University, Berlin (2008) and Visiting Professor in Museum Studies at the Chinese University in Hong Kong (2008/11/13). From 1998 until 2004 he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums of Modern Art). He is Hon President of the Board of Triangle Art Network/Gasworks in London and on the Asia Advisory Board of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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Guest: Mishi Saran

Date: 2013-11-16  15:00 ~ 2013-11-16  17:00

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

Speaker: Mishi Saran

Language: Chinese

Organized by Chronus Art Centre and West Heavens

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

Indian writer Mishi Saran was living and working in Hong Kong, when in 2000, she decided to quit and set off on a journey to India, replicating the route taken 1400 years ago by the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang. The journey, she felt, would connect her life in China – the world she had studied and worked in—and India, her mother country that felt far away from her soul. She found herself spatially crossing a seemingly permanent presentation of landscapes and repeatedly divided borders and peoples, while temporarily passing through layers of past and present. She spent a year tracing the footsteps of Xuanzang along the Silk Road from China to India, passing through Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The courage and encounters of Xuanzang unfolded in front of her, along with the intercourses in cultures, economies and spirits that are still living on this route. At the same time, her journey recalls the other side of an East Asian story.

About the Speaker

Ms. Mishi Saran was born in India and spent the first ten years of her life in New Delhi. Since then, she has lived in Switzerland, Indonesia, the United States, China, Hong Kong and Korea. After majoring in Chinese studies at Wellesley College (USA), she worked as a journalist in Hong Kong for a decade. She moved to Shanghai in 2006. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed travel book-cum-memoir Chasing the Monk’s Shadow: A Journey in the Footsteps of Xuanzang (Penguin, 2005). Her second book, a novel, The Other Side of Light (HarperCollins India, 2012), was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize, a literary award open to writers from 54 countries. She is currently working on her third book, also a novel, set in Shanghai in the 1930s.

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