CAC x Dunes | Workshop Cyberperformance
Date:
2021.05.15 (Saturday)
Time:
21.00 – 23.00（Beijing Time）
Co-hosting:
Chronus Art Center (CAC)
Dunes Workshop
Language:
English (with Chinese translation) / Chinese
Event on Zoom
“Cyberperformance”, also termed as “virtual theatre”, “digital performance”, “networked performance” …… As WAN spanned across the globe, they have appeared in many discourses around net art and the reformation of theatrical experience, mainly referring to “live performance that utilizes internet technologies to bring remote performers together in real-time, for remote and/or proximal audiences” (Helen Varley Jamieson, 2008). Along with the iteration in digital technology, the definitions of ‘liveness’ and ‘performer’ are constantly changing, while the internet is converted from a mere performance space derived from theatre to a performative subject.”
On May 15, the talk on the subject of cyberperformance will begin with CAC’s current exhibition We=Link: Sideways participating artist Ursula Endlicher’s sharing on her net-based performances in the backgrounds of the developing trajectory of cyberperformance, followed by participating artist duo exonemo whose artistic practices often dealing with the internet on a material level oscillating between the digital and actual environmentsBy looking into the project AFTERLIFE by producer Meuko!Meuko! and artist group NAXS Corp., the topic will then shift from the performativity of digital materials to the spatial theatrical experiences constructed by the analogous representation of 3D architectures on the computer screen. Furthermore, CHEN Feiyue and LI Yalun, the initiators of Dunes Workshop, will share their ongoing study on the physical counterparts of cyberspace and how such spatial analogies impact on our online performances.
About Dunes Workshop
Grounded in architecture and urban studies, Dunes Workshop publishes cross-disciplinarily about cultural and artistic content online. The initiators of Dunes Workshop are Chen Feiyue, Li Yalun, and Ren Beilei. They are currently graduate students at MIT and the Harvard School of Design. Their current research interests center around the conditions of the contemporary Internet, including the making of digital public realm and the spatial metaphors of the cyberworld.
Ursula Endlicher
Ursula Endlicher turns digital code into material form while, conversely, imposing a physical element onto virtual systems. A NYC-based Austrian (new) media artist who has worked since the early ‘90s with interactive media and the Internet, she is investigating and using the – often hidden – structural components, architectures and interfaces of the networked world as topic and creative engine for her own work.
http://ursenal.net/
exonemo
exonemo, the Japanese artist unit (by SEMBO Kensuke and AKAIWA Yae) was formed in 1996 on the Internet. Their experimental projects are typically humorous and innovative explorations of the paradoxes of digital and analog computer networked and actual environments in our lives. Their The Road Movie won the Golden Nica for Net Vision category at Prix Ars Electronica 2006. They have been organizing the IDPW gatherings and “Internet Yami-Ichi” since 2012. They live and work in New York since 2015.
http://exonemo.com/
LI Yalun
LI Yalun is an M.Arch II candidate at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and holds a B.Arch degree from Syracuse University (Philosophy minor). As a co-founder of Dunes Workshop, her research interests include posthumanism and personal identity in virtual and physical spaces.
CHEN Feiyue
CHEN Feiyue is a Master’s candidate at MIT, pursuing a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS Architecture and Urbanism). As a co-founder of Dunes Workshop, he conducts research and practices urban design, focusing on contemporary urban issues through the lens of civic culture and collective memory.
Meuko!Meuko!
Meuko!Meuko! bursted into the experimental music scene in 2017 with her unique sound – its shadowy atmosphere undercuts glitchy dance tracks loaded up with samples and toy noises together with A/V created in collaboration with Taipei Based Visual & Installation group NAXS Corp. Each performance contains improvisation and elements of new works, combining disciplines of improvisation with conceptual ideas of noise, clubbing, strange sounds, field recordings that conjure at times ritualistic performances with sources tracing back to Taiwan’s own spiritual landscape. Between traditional religion and techno-animism, is the myriad of a cityscape with tropical humidity, it’s greenery enveloping the molding concrete city blocks. In 2020, Meuko!Meuko! act as the main curator and performer for the online experimental performance AFTERLIFE网路来生, presented by UNSOUND Festival. Afterward, she co-founded the online platform “0xCORE” with NAXS Corp., integrating techno-animism, virtual avatar and motion capture in an online multiplayer scape.
http://about.meuko.co/