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Guest: etoy.Zai (Michel Zai), Liu Yan, Gu Ling

Date: 2014-09-13  16:30 ~ 2014-09-13  18:30

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

cc 2014 SIMP Project
Date: 16:30-18:30, September 13, 2014
Venue: Chronuse Art Center (101, Bldg 18, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)
Guests: etoy.Zai (Michel Zai), Liu Yan, Gu Ling
Moderator: Art Yan
Language: English (with Chinese translation) and Chinese

Reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation).

SIMP Project is originally co-initiated by curator Art Yan and new media artist Wu Juehui in June 2013 in Hangzhou, China. It attends to the ‘Situation’ that today’s original creative work faces in visual and audio art, the two-way ‘Intervention’ between artists or artist groups, the micro-ecology in the field and broad social factors, and the ‘Mapping’ of the information and analysis of the above-mentioned active intervention. And at last, the project aims to form a ‘Perspective’ for future creative work. SIMP Talk Show is the first series ‘entertainment’ program that presented by the project.

For its second season, SIMP Talk Shwo push the probe further to the foundation and sources of creativity today: how could individuals or innovation groups establish (or in-house-sharing) their own structure of the knowledge and skills which support their daily operation? How should they do self-management in the facts of finance, copyrights retention and sharing, also to establish internal order, as well as to build up the external relations, in order to protect their independence and freedom in thinking and action.

This issue, we invited three guests, they are Swiss artist etoy.Zai (Michel Zai), creative leader and social entrepreneur Liu Yan, and also Gu Ling from British Council Shanghai. The entrance to this dialogue is etoy.CORPORATION, an art collective that works in the field between art, technology, and society, which co-founded by Michel Zai. It is actually a corporate sculpture registered as a privately held company. And they never sell isolated art objects, but sells trades, and exchanges parts of itself and its brand: etoy.SHARES represent participation in etoy and the cultural value generated by etoy. Between 1999 to 2000, when multi-billion dollar company eToys.Inc., at that time the biggest online shopping mall for toys, tried to shut down the etoy.BRAND. etoy mobilized nearly 1800 lawyers, hackers, journalists, professors, business people and artists to fight a decentralized, playful war against the corporation, and finally won this so-called TOYWAR… What etoy has experienced and archived is extremely enlightening. But today, how do they look at themself, or what's the new problems or challenges that they are facing now?

About Guests:
etoy.ZAI (Michel Z) is a Swiss artist/professor and one of the co-founders of etoy. He served as CEO of etoy between 1996 and 2009. ZAI holds a master's degree in visual communication from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He worked as an anchorman for the Swiss National Television (SF-DRS), and in 1992 he co-founded HIRN-lein, a telephone entertainment company. Beyond his commitment for etoy.CORPORATION, etoy.ZAI works for universities and corporate clients. Between 2003 and 2009 he was professor and head of unit "Media & Interaction Design" at ECAL (University for Art and Design in Lausanne). Currently, Zai became father and leads the preparation work for etoy's first retrospective series in Asia, Europe and the USA. He also prepares a two-year research project for the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel.

Liu Yan, has over 15 years of creative leadership and entrepreneurship experience working in China and the Netherlands. She served as the founder and chief catalyst of Ask Lab, a social enterprise that connects talent and idea's with business challenges through co-creation and experiential learning. Prior to this, She established Xindanwei, a Shanghai based coworking center, international innovation hub and one of the "World Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in China" listed by FastCompany. She is the author of “Coworking Manual” – a book published at App Store under Creative Commons to help entrepreneurs to set up coworking community. She also served as the jury member of Prix Ars Electronica 2011-2012, one of the most premium international award for digital art and community project.

Ling GU, A writer and translator for content and activities related to contemporary art. Now as head of digital arts in British Council China, Shanghai editor for Randian-Online (a bilingual online magazine about contemporary Chinese art). She worked for Rockbund Art Museum as manager of development and communication. Her articles are published on many arts magazines. She translated Curatorial Challenges: Correspondence Between Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist (published in 2013). She reads, plays, cooks and enjoying yoga when she's not working. Her blog: linggu.org

About Moderator:
Art Yan, media arts curator and producer. He is now Executive Director of Chronus Art Center, since December 2013.

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Guest: Oron Catts

Date: 2014-09-07  14:00 ~ 2014-09-07  16:00

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)

Due to seat limitation, we reserve the right to give priority to applicants with the most relevant experience. For reservation please email to: membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact info and the number of reservation).

ABOUT WORKSHOP:
Tissue engineering and regenerative biology are usually discussed in relation to biomedical research and applications. However in the last decade we witness a shift; there is a growing interest in exploring spin off tissue engineering and regenerative biology technologies for other ends, such as consumer products, art and design. This workshop will explore these developments in areas such as in vitro meat and leather, actuators and bio machine interfaces, speculative design and contemporary artistic practices. Oron Catts will draw on his extensive experience of using tissue engineering for non-medical ends to speculate about what lead to these applications and their possible future development and applications. Avoiding utopian and dystopian postures and using the notion of the contestable, this workshop will also highlight some philosophical and ethical consideration stemming from the use of non-medical approaches to regenerative biology.

ABOUT WORKSHOP LEADER:
Oron Catts is the Director of SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.
Oron Catts is an artist, researcher and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project which he established in 1996 is considered a leading biological art project. In 2000 he co-founded SymbioticA, an artistic research centre housed within the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia. Under Catts’ leadership SymbioticA has gone on to win the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007) the WA Premier Science Award (2008) and became a Centre for Excellence in 2008. In 2009 Catts was recognised by Thames & Hudson’s “60 Innovators Shaping our Creative Future” book in the category “Beyond Design”, and by Icon Magazine (UK) as one of the top 20 Designers, “making the future and transforming the way we work”.

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Guest: Davide Quadrio, Xiaowen Zhu

Date: 2014-09-06  14:00 ~ 2014-09-06  16:00

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

LANGUAGE: Chinese

Reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)

ABOUT LECTURE:
40+4 Art Is Not Enough! Not Enough! is a series of videotaped interviews, by curator Davide Quadrio, filmmaker Lothar Spree, artist Xiaowen Zhu, with some forty Shanghai-based artists, dealing not with artwork per se, but rather with how artists themselves perceive their activity, their role and position in a changing, post-conventional society. It seeks to “map out” some of the contours of the city’s artistic imagination, providing a cartography of the force fields of its subjectivities. And above and beyond an unsparingly critical, and at times partisan analysis of artistic imaginaries, it provides a heuristic focus on the urban subjectivities of one of the contemporary world’s most intense urban experiments – Shanghai.

This interactive panoramic version of 40+4, which is currently exhibited at Chronus Art Center on AVIE, was made by Lothar Spree, Xiaowen Zhu, in the collaboration with Bernd Lintermann from ZKM Institute for Art & Media, in Karlsruhe Germany.

The event is not only a lecture, but also reunite the original interviewer, Davide Quadrio and Xiaowen Zhu, with their interviewees (some of them are invited to attend) seven years later. They will together read their memoris, in retrospect, and also explore how the “Art Made In Shanghai” has been changed in the past few years.

ABOUT SPEAKERS:
Davide Quadrio (IT) is a China based producer and curator. He founded and directed for a decade the first not for profit independent creative lab in Shanghai, Bizart Art Center, as a platform to foster the local contemporary art scene. In 2007 Quadrio created ArtHub Asia, a production and curatorial proxy active in Asia and worldwide. He is currently hosted by Shanghai Visual Art Institute, Fudan University, and he is part of the Scientific Committee of PAC, Pavilion of Contemporary Art of Milan as well as Artistic Director of Scene 44 in Marseille.

Xiaowen Zhu (CH/UK)  is a media artist, curator and writer, currently based in London. 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. She is the first receipt of the TASML Artist Residency Award and Marylyn Ginsburg Klaus Post-MFA Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Guest: Simon Maurer

Date: 2014-09-03  19:00 ~ 2014-09-03  20:30

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

MODERATOR: Li Zhenhua

LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)

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

YOUR OWN WAY

As Director of Helmhaus Zürich, an exhibition space mainly for art from Switzerland and financed in its entirety by the city of Zurich, Simon Maurer curates his program independently from the art market. He follows his own way with a passion for the local art scene. The town of Zurich in Switzerland, in the heart of Europe, is something like a model of the art world in miniature: key figures of the art world (like Harald Szeemann, Bice Curiger, and Hans Ulrich Obrist) have come from here. And there are a lot of unsatisfied artists who think they deserve more. Network is everything – and there are many forgotten artists who are not such good networkers.

Simon tries to make his own choices. He thinks that the art market, dominated by the Western World, is just a part of the many interesting movements taking place in the arts. Simon would like to encourage Chinese people working in the arts to go their own way, too: not to adapt too much to Western standards, but to develop their own traditions, in their own circumstances; to establish their own criteria of quality; to stay proud and truly Asian – not isolated, but prudently linking the best of every culture. He would like to debate some misunderstandings, to compare the conditions of artists in Asia and in the West. The West, he believes, is not paradise at all. There is no spirituality, everybody is just rushing after the money – which makes people sick. It’s not something to copy. On the contrary: It’s more hell than paradise. The message is: Build up your own art system, your own life, your own world.

ABOUT THE ENCOUNTER:

This new series is initiated and curated by Li Zhenhua, invites several professionals who work for institutions. They will talk about the popular issues including museums, curators and art system. Through the encounters with these professionals coming from the mainstream art industry, we could understand better about how to be independent, autonomous, and free. Through the introduction of these institutions and their ways of working, we could take as reference and think about how to push forward the new and experimental arts. And in the same time, we aim to build more healthy institutional culture in the mainland of China. CAC Encounter is a platform for communication, it wishes to benefit the participants of the growing art system, it bridges between the West and the East, it attempts to think independently and keeping the mainstream in mind, so as for a better future of the art system.

ABOUT GUEST:

Simon Maurer (born 1964), worked as an artist from 1983 to 1990, as an art critic from 1991 to 2001, as functionary and head of the art department of the City of Zurich from 2001 to 2012, and in museums as a (co-)curator from 1983 to the present. Simon Maurer now is the director of Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

Li Zhenhua (CN/CH) has been active in the field of art since 1996. His practice mainly concerns curation, art creation, and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (CH), as well as for The Prix Pictet (CH). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition “Digital Revolution” to be held at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014. He has edited several artists’ publications (e.g. Yan Lei, Hu Jieming, and Feng Mengbo). A collection of his art reviews was published under the title “Text” in 2013.

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Guest: Marc Glode

Date: 2014-09-02  19:00 ~ 2014-09-02  20:30

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

MODERATOR: Li Zhenhua

LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)

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

Not only has the exploration of the medium of film joined such classic art forms as painting and sculpture as an integral part of artistic discourse over the past few years, but also engaging with the moving image has in fact become an ineluctable feature of artistic practice.

A growing number of museum shows and film series have repeatedly demonstrated the strong correspondence between the various arts, showing how closely film is interwoven with art production, and confirming the compelling influence it has exerted on the arts. Even new cinematic forms shed light on a wide variety of historical controversies, such as analog vs. digital processes, low-tech vs. high-tech, original vs. assimilated material, or documentary reality vs. fiction.

Against the backdrop of private collectors’ increasing interest and many museum institutions’ new awareness of their own expanding film collections, the aesthetic scope of cinematic art has now become apparent. Emancipated from the rigid structures of often almost paradigmatic self-reflection and formal orthodoxy, the artistic debate has developed new potential.

The aim of this talk at CAC is to reflect some of these new dynamics between the moving image and the art discourse and give an insight in the latest discussions and developments at art fairs, universities and the academy.

ABOUT THE ENCOUNTER:

This new series is initiated and curated by Li Zhenhua, invites several professionals who work for institutions. They will talk about the popular issues including museums, curators and art system. Through the encounters with these professionals coming from the mainstream art industry, we could understand better about how to be independent, autonomous, and free. Through the introduction of these institutions and their ways of working, we could take as reference and think about how to push forward the new and experimental arts. And in the same time, we aim to build more healthy institutional culture in the mainland of China. CAC Encounter is a platform for communication, it wishes to benefit the participants of the growing art system, it bridges between the West and the East, it attempts to think independently and keeping the mainstream in mind, so as for a better future of the art system.

ABOUT GUEST:

Marc Glode is an internationally acclaimed curator and art critic. His work focuses on the relation between images, technology, space, and the body, as well as the dynamics between artistic fields such as art/architecture, art/film, or film/architecture. He received his PhD in film studies from the Free University Berlin and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, the Free University of Berlin. Since 2013 he has been working as Assistant Professor at the ETH Zürich.

From the middle of the 1990s onward Glode worked as a curator. He was invited curator for the Experimenta Festival 2007 in Mumbai/Bangalore and curated the exhibition STILL/MOVING/STILL – The History of Slide Projection in the Arts in Knokke/Belgium. From 2008 until today he has been curator of Art Film, Art Basel's film programme. Some of his internationally outstanding curatorial projects include art berlin contemporary (Berlin 2010–2012), (Re-)locating the Self (Y8, Hamburg), and the film program of Beyond the Museum – The Art of Projection (Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof). Most recently he curated the exhibition Tom Marioni – Actions 1969–2014 focusing on the work of conceptual artist Tom Marioni.

His writing has been published in Fantom, Texte zur Kunst, Parkett, Art in America and X-TRA Magazine, among others. His newest book Farblicht. R?ume., has just been published by Fink Verlag in 2014.

Marc Glode lives and works in Berlin (Germany) and Zürich (Switzerland).

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

Li Zhenhua (CN/CH) has been active in the field of art since 1996. His practice mainly concerns curation, art creation, and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (CH), as well as for The Prix Pictet (CH). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition “Digital Revolution” to be held at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014. He has edited several artists’ publications (e.g. Yan Lei, Hu Jieming, and Feng Mengbo). A collection of his art reviews was published under the title “Text” in 2013.

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http://v.qq.com/page/g/t/4/g0137qoryt4.html

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Guest: Reto Thüring

Date: 2014-09-01  19:00 ~ 2014-09-01  20:30

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

MODERATOR: Li Zhenhua

LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)

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

This new series invites several professionals who work for institutions. They will talk about the popular issues including museums, curators and art system. Through the encounters with these professionals coming from the mainstream art industry, we could understand better about how to be independent, autonomous, and free. Through the introduction of these institutions and their ways of working, we could take as reference and think about how to push forward the new and experimental arts. And in the same time, we aim to build more healthy institutional culture in the mainland of China.

CAC Encounter is a platform for communication, it wishes to benefit the participants of the growing art system, it bridges between the West and the East, it attempts to think independently and keeping the mainstream in mind, so as for a better future of the art system.

The Encounter is initiated and curated by Li Zhenhua, one of the first three guest speakers is Reto Thuring from Cleveland Museum of Art.

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Reto Thüring, joined the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2012, where he is responsible for overseeing the Museum’s collection of contemporary artwork and the programming of exhibitions at the Museum and the Transformer Station. Thüring obtained a PhD in art history from the University of Basel in 2011 with a dissertation on Venetian portraiture of the 16th Century. Since 2004, Thüring’s primary focus has been on working with contemporary art and artists as a curator, editor, and art critic. In 2007 he co-founded the association Kunstwollen. In 2008 he joined the exhibition committee of the Kunstraum Riehen where he curated the group exhibitions Tracing Reality (2009), Chasing Dreams (2010), and one-person exhibitions with Emilie Ding, Karin Hueber, Boris Rebetez, and Bernhard Hegglin (2011/2012). He also curated a solo exhibition of works by Josse Bailly (2011), the group shows Wall Floor Piece at the Von Bartha Garage (2011) and Kill All Monsters at the Ausstellungsraum Klingental (2014), and co-curated the group exhibition If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend six sharpening my axe (2012). Recent projects at the Cleveland Museum of Art include installations and solo exhibitions with Martin Creed, Fred Wilson, Janet Cardiff, Ai Weiwei, Damián Ortega, and the group show The Unicorn at Transformer Station. Upcoming exhibitions this year will include a solo exhibition featuring three monumental works by Jennifer Bartlett and the first institutional survey of the career of Julia Wachtel.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

Li Zhenhua (CN/CH) has been active in the field of art since 1996. His practice mainly concerns curation, art creation, and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (CH), as well as for The Prix Pictet (CH). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition “Digital Revolution” to be held at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014. He has edited several artists’ publications (e.g. Yan Lei, Hu Jieming, and Feng Mengbo). A collection of his art reviews was published under the title “Text” in 2013.

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http://v.qq.com/page/r/s/h/r0137zk7rsh.html

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Guest: Reto Thüring, Marc Glode, Simon Maurer, Li Zhenhua

Date: 2014-09-01  ~ 2014-09-03

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

This new series invites several professionals who work for institutions. They will talk about the popular issues including museums, curators and art system. Through the encounters with these professionals coming from the mainstream art industry, we could understand better about how to be independent, autonomous, and free. Through the introduction of these institutions and their ways of working, we could take as reference and think about how to push forward the new and experimental arts. And in the same time, we aim to build more healthy institutional culture in the mainland of China.

CAC Encounter is a platform for communication, it wishes to benefit the participants of the growing art system, it bridges between the West and the East, it attempts to think independently and keeping the mainstream in mind, so as for a better future of the art system.

The Encounter Series is co-initiated by Li Zhenhua and CAC.  The first three guest speakers are Reto Thuring,  Marc Glode and Simon Maurer.

THE ENCOUNTER I

2014/9/1 – 2014/9/3

Chronus Art Center (101 Bldg18, No.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

THE ENCOUNTER: Reto Thuring x Li Zhenhua

1st September 2014 | 19:00 – 20:30

THE ENCOUNTER: Marc Gl?de x Li Zhenhua

2nd September 2014 | 19:00 – 20:30

THE ENCOUNTER: Simon Maurer x Li Zhenhua

3rd September 2014 | 19:00 – 20:30

ABOUT GUESTS:

Reto Thüring joined the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2012. He is responsible for overseeing the museum’s collection of contemporary artwork and the programming of exhibitions at the museum and the Transformer Station.

Marc Glode is a film historian and critic who has curated various film series on the subject of film and art. He has authored several publications and has taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Dresden Art Academy, Columbia University, and is currently a lecturer at the ETH Zurich. Marc has curated the Art Basel Film program in Basel since 2008.

Simon Maurer (Born 1964) worked as an artist from 1983 to 1990, as an art critic from 1991 to 2001, as functionary, head of the art department of the City of Zurich from 2001 to 2012, and in museums as a (co)-curator from 1983 to the present. Maurer now is the director of Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland.

ABOUT MODERATOR:

Li Zhenhua has been active in the artistic field since 1996, his practice mainly concerning curation, art creation and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (CH), as well as for The Prix Pictet (CH). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition "Digital Revolution" to be held at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014.

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Guest: Zhao Qianfan

Date: 2014-08-31  14:00 ~ 2014-08-31  16:00

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

LIVE INFO MAPPING: Li Zhenhua, Hu Jieming, Hu Weiyi, aaajiao (Xu Wenkai), Wu Juehui, Yuan Keru (in no particular order)

LANGUAGE:Chinese

a New Series of Lectures on Art at Chronus Art Center——Lecture 2: Rethinking the Problem of Distraction

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

ABOUT THE LECTURE:

‘Distraction’ was a concept developed by German cultural philosophers in the early 20th century (Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin). In this lecture ‘distraction’ will be re-examined against the new developments of digital media and the internet. In relation to this a set of themes will be investigated, such as the transformation of the human apparatus of perception, the technological innervation of the bodily collective, and media space as play space.

Another highlight of this event is the 'Live Info Mapping', which will take place simultaneously with the talk. This will change the traditional binary relations within a talk – that of speaker/audience, and speaking/listening. The things which appear on the screen become divorced from the speaker. Instead, they are controlled and transmitted by a group of media artists, including Li Zhenhua, Hu Weiyi, Hu Jieming, Wu Juehui, aaajiao, Yuan Keru, etc. In this way a 'distractive' environment is established.

ABOUT THE SERIES OF LECTURES:

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.

ABOUT SPEAKER:

Zhao Qianfan (1977–), Associate Professor in Philosophy, Tongji University, 2008–2009, German Chancellor Scholar of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in Philosophical Seminar, Hamburg University. 2013–2014, Visiting Scholar in Institute for Philosophy, Humboldt University in Berlin. Research fields: Frankfurt School (especially Adorno and Benjamin), Nietzsche, Mimesis theory.

ABOUT LIFE INFO MAPPING ARTISTS:
Li Zhenhua, hasbeen active in the artistic field since 1996, his practice mainly concerning curation, art creation and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (CH), as well as for The Prix Pictet (CH).

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. For more than two decades, Hu continuously conducts creation and experimentation via a variety of media including photography, video and digital interactive technologies. His works are widely exhibited.

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.

WU Juehui, Media Artist, Teaching at School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, Art Director of UFO Media Lab, Recipient of TASML | Carroll Fletcher Residency Award @Eyebeam.

Aaajiao (XU Wenkai) was born in 1984 in Xi’an, and later moved to Shanghai, where he continues to live and work. Aaajiao is one of China’s foremost media artists, bloggers and free culture developers.

Yuan Keru, Artist, 1990 Born in Hangzhou Province, China, 2009 BFA, School of Inter-media Art, China Academy of Art , 2011 Experimental Image Studio, China Academy of Art, 2013 MFA, Experimental Image Studio.

ABOUT PLANNER OF THE LECTURE SERIES:

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).

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Guest: Lu Xinghua, Zhao Qianfan, Hu Jieming, etc.

Date: 2014-08-23  ~ 2014-10-12

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

On the Borders of New Media Art: Creation, Spectatorship, Presentation, and Collection
- a New Series of Lectures on Art at Chronus Art Center

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.

LECTURE 1: Some Theoretical Reflections on Hu Jieming’s Archaeology of Image in His Recent New Media Works
SPEAKER: Lu Xinghua
TIME: 23rd Aug, 2014 14:00-16:00

LECTURE 2: Distraction and Carelessness--On the Spectatorship in the Age of New Media
SPEAKER: Zhao Qianfan
TIME: 31st Aug, 2014 14:00-16:00

LECTURE 3: The Times and Histories of New Media Art — The Exhibition of New Media Art
TIME: 13th Sep, 2014 14:00-16:00

LECTURE 4: New Publicity and Commonality — The Future Political Role of New Media Art
TIME: 11th Oct, 2014 14:00-16:00

LECTURE 5: Archaeology, Hospitality and Open Sharing — Collecting New Media Art
TIME:12th Oct, 2014 14:00-16:00

ABOUT PLANNER:
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).

reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)

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Guest: Lu Xinghua

Date: 2014-08-23  14:00 ~ 2014-08-23  16:00

Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

LANGUAGE: Chinese

a New Series of Lectures on Art at Chronus Art Center——LECTURE 1:Some Theoretical Reflections on Hu Jieming’s Archaeology of Image in HisRecent New Media Works

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ABOUT LECTURE

Thespeech mainly discussed that new media art have challenged our historicalsense,different mode of watching and exhibiting from Hu Jieming’s recent exploration.It introduced some theoretical subjects which are the most popular currentlyabout new media art to expand our understanding and reflection of new media artin practice.

Considerationsof Hu Jieming’s recent new media art work:

1.’Bound’ of new media art in his art work

2.The development of ‘Ink painting’ spirit in his new media art work

3.New sense about ‘Animation’ in his art work

4.Hu’s rearrangement of ‘Watching’

5.Impact of ‘Archaeology Image’ on historical view and practice

ABOUT SPEAKER

LuXinghua, teaches at School of Humanities of Tongji University and at the Center ofSocial Thought and Contemporary Art, China Academy of Art. His researchinterests go across modern Chinese politics, aesthetics and Chinesecontemporary art since 1985. He was member of acting committee for 2010Shanghai Biennale. His recent works includeAgainst Claims from Contemporary Art (2012) and The Future of Political Art(2014).

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