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)
