Guest: Fan Junfeng
Date: 2014-09-13 14:00 ~ 2014-09-13 16:00
Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)
Time: 13th Sep, 2014 14:00-16:00
SPEAKER: Fan Junfeng
LANGUAGE: Chinese
reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)
ABOUT LECTURE:
Recent events indicate that human being is likely to enter an era with “zero privacy”. We have observed huge technological progress in ubiquitous surveillance, big data collection and data analysis. As a result, governments will be capable of monitoring every detail of a normal person and eventually reconstructing his whole life. This lecture will reveal how private information is mined, and why the efforts in protecting privacy ended up with constant failure. Although many cryptographers are still trying their best to build privacy-friendly protocols and applications, the return to their efforts are not satisfying. With the increasing development of cloud computing and wearable electronics, the users may very likely lose all their private data.
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 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).
