Daniel Howe – Veridical Fakes

Artworks & Documentation

Daniel HOWE

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Veridical Fakes

Ten AI-synthesised character studies of celebrity influencers, both living and dead, pay homage to Spectre, the true God of surveillance capitalism. Together these “deepfake” videos, selected from the Big Dada series, reveal the depth of algorithmic propaganda in popular culture, and provide new evidence that such manipulations have deep historical roots.

Artists: Daniel Howe & Bill Posters

Credits: Supported in part by grants from Arts Council England,
Site Gallery, the British Council and MUTEK.
https://rednoise.org/daniel

Artwork Documentations

PerMagnus Lindborg: LW24 (2015)

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5 minutes, 14 seconds, 24/7 streaming

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LW24 (2015), sculptural auditory display playing a sonification of the future climate in South-East Asia (2015–55). Twenty-four channel system consisting of synchronised fixed-media playback devices, pre-amplifiers, amplifiers, custom-built loudspeakers, and large portable grid structure. Mixed materials.

LW24 was shown at the National Gallery of Singapore, Official selection for the Inaugural Exhibition in December 2015. In addition to being a standalone installation, it was featured in Scroll of Nanyang Ink (2015), live dance performance by ArtFission Dance Company choreographed by Angela Liong.

LW24 demo: https://vimeo.com/272069085

LW24 is part of Locust Wrath series : http://soundislands.com/2019/02/06/locust-wrath/

CREDITS:

Concept & Sonification: PerMagnus LINDBORG

Narration: Älvi Weiyu LINDBORG-KOH

Source data: Shie-Yui LIONG & TMSI, NUS

Construction: PerMagnus LINDBORG & YONG Rongzhao

Thematic Curated Exhibitions

AN!MALS

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ANiMAL – Art Science Nature Society is a storytelling exhibition about the animal world seen through the lenses of Art, Science, Nature and Society. Animals are an elemental presence in our cognizance of the world; they occupy virtually all of earth’s habitats and microhabitats, and they have been the subject of art since the earliest times of cave paintings. Insects, birds and mammals play compelling roles in literature and film, and they are the enduring protagonists in mythology and religion. The human population exploits a large number of animal species for food, while animal pets provide their owners with physical and emotional benefits.

The ANiMAL exhibition seeks to weave these threads together into a compelling narrative that elucidates our multi-various interactions with the animal domain via the treasury of animal-related artworks in the collection of the National Palace Museum. This aesthetic trajectory is conjoined with the One Health sciences, coming out of CityU’s new Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, and the critical practices of contemporary art championed by CityU’s School of Creative Media.

CREDITS:

Advisors: CHEN Chi-Nan, HUANG Yung-Tai, LEE Ching-Hwi, HSU Hsiao-Te

Executive Producers: Paul LAM, Jeffrey SHAW

Presented by: City University of Hong Kong, National Palace Museum

Venue: CityU Exhibition Gallery, CityU HK

(City University of Hong Kong Team)

Curator: Jeffrey SHAW

Co-curator: Isabelle Jennifer FRANK

Curatorial Advisors: Michael P. REICHEL, Sarah KENDERDINE

Project Manager: Carey CHENG

Technical Manager: LEE Hin Ching

(National Palace Museum Team)

Co-curators: HSIEH Chun-Ko, WU Shao-Chun, LIN Zhi-Yan, PU Li-An

Curatorial Executives: KAO Yu-Chun, LI Deih-Yi, CHEN Hung-Ling

Thematic Curated Exhibitions

Leonardo da Vinci: Art & Science. Then & Now

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This exhibition presents original drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Pinacoteca and Biblioteca Ambrosiana for the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death. The drawings are accompanied by five machines modeled on Leonardo’s designs, and by works of contemporary artists, most faculty at SCM CityU HK, reflecting Leonardo’s ongoing legacy and influence into the digital age.

CREDITS:

Curator: Isabelle Jennifer FRANK, Alberto ROCCA

Associate Curators: Jeffrey SHAW, Nicolas PATRZYNSKI

Presented by: City University of Hong Kong, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Venue: Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, CityU HK

Collective Curated Exhibitions

Algorithmic Art: Shuffling Space & Time

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In this interdisciplinary media art exhibition, Algorithmic Art: Shuffling Space and Time, twenty-three artists showcase how art and science are engaged in a rich and complex dialogue. We aspire to bring machine work and computational thinking into the domain of common knowledge.

The exhibition is an effort to move beyond the focus upon perceptual experience alone in most media art shows. Instead, we want to “open the black box” – to reveal what is not seen. The assumptions behind the exhibition are that what makes media art interesting is the process of mediation, that is, the machine processes that lie between the maker’s deliberation and what we perceive and experience; and that knowledge of these processes enhances our appreciation and understanding of machine-made art. Algorithmic Art is a parallel event to Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art, 4-7 January 2019, at the School of Creative Media.

CREDITS:

Project Advisor: Richard William ALLEN

Curator/Principal Researcher / Project Director: Linda Chiu-han LAI

Organizers: School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

Venue: Hong Kong City Hall Central, Lower Block Exhibition Gallery

Collective Curated Exhibitions

On the Road, Young Media Artist in China

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6 minutes 35 seconds, 24/7 streaming

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A collaborative project between SCM/CityU HK and Guan Shang Yue Museum of Art, Shenzhen, presenting 50 installations by 35 artists, which involved 15 curators, art critics and scholars from China and Hong Kong. It provided an overview of the media art scene across China today and demonstrated how young Chinese artists are exploring and combining both older and ‘newer’ media to new ends.

CREDITS:

Producer: Way KUO, FAN Dian, CHEN Xiangbo

Advisors: Richard William ALLEN, QIU Zhijie

Convenors: Isabelle Jennifer FRANK, YAN Youxin

Chief Curator (HK): Maurice Benayoun

Head curators (Shenzhen): FAN Dian, CHEN Xiangbo

Deputy Curators: Ann MAK, SHENG Wei, WU Hongliang, ZHANG Xinying, ZHU Xiaojun

Organizers: CityU HK, China Artists Association Curatorial Committee,

Guan Shanyue Art Museum

Venue: CityU Exhibition Gallery, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

Solo Exhibitions

Tomas Laurenzo: Smile

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Smile, is a mixed-media installation consisting of a screen situated in a black box, mounted on the wall. The screen is black. However, when an interactor smiles at the installation, the drone-footage of the ruins of Gaza, digitally slowed-down by the artist, fades in. If the interactor stops smiling, the video stops. It only plays when the interactor widely smiles at it.

The installation reflects on the construction of a spectacle from otherwise dramatic news, as well as reflecting on the otherness and dehumanization of war.

The piece also explores on the power asymmetries that technology crystallises where spectators are forced to surrender to the imposed narratives. The piece aims to provide with a reflection on the aesthetics of our relationship with it, while simultaneously showcasing the advancements in computer vision and human-computer interaction.

CREDIT:

Artist: Tomas LAURENZO

http://laurenzo.net

Solo Exhibitions

Max Hattler: Receptive Rhythms

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RECEPTIVE RHYTHMS is the title of a well-balanced juxtaposition of three recent works by video artist Max Hattler. All three videos play in different ways with symmetries, with repetitions, with alienations, with breaks and with counterpoints.

The two-channel video ALL ROT (2015/2019) makes the beauty of the transient, the ephemeral visible using the example of a miniature golf course. CONCRETE ABSTRACTION: ROAD TRIPTYCH (2019) shows on three large monitors the street as canvas and the structure of living traffic as wall-filling snapshots. The nine-minute experimental animation SERIAL PARALLELS (2019) depicts the surfaces of Hong Kong’s highrise architecture in an original way. The fast cut and skillful repetition takes up the perspective of a celluloid film and applies the technique of film animation to the photographic image.

All works deal with repetition and rhythm in different ways. They are ornamental and abstract at the same time. To what extent viewers rediscover the motifs used in the outside world is the challenge of receiving what they perceive: RECEPTIVE RHYTHMS.

Concrete Abstraction: Road Triptych, 2019

3-channel video, HD, 4 min (loop)

Director: Max Hattler

Animation: CHAN King Lam Osmond, Hinyi CHEUK, YU Ka Man Carmen, Helen CHOW, KWAN Tsz Ching Jenny, Aurelia Giovanni LAKSMANA, Marvin HAUCK, ZHANG Riwen

Photography: Alexandra WOERMANN, Max HATTLER, ZHANG Riwen

Editing: Max HATTLER, ZHANG Riwen

Sound: Eduardo NOYA

This work was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Project No. 21609017)

Serial Parallels, 2019

Multi-screen video installation, HD, lengths variable (loops)

Director: Max HATTLER

Production: Relentless Melt

Production management: Max HHATTLER, Iresa CHO

Animation: ZHANG Riwen, Iresa CHO

Photography: Iresa CHO, ZHANG Riwen, Max HATTLER

Editing: Max HATTLER

Sound: David KAMP

Additional sound: Sky KUNG

Sound research: James BANBURY

This work was supported by Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, a project grant from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and a grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Project No. 21609017)

All Rot

2015

Split-screen video, HD

4 min (loop)

Director: Max HATTLER

Animation: Max HATTLER, Christopher MACFARLANE

Sound: Matthias KISPERT

This work was devised during a Directional Forces artist residency at ArToll Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany.

CREDITS:
Artists: Max HATTLER
Curator: Harald KRAEMER
Organized by: Goethe-Institut Hong Kong
Venue: Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio

Solo Exhibitions

Tobias Klein: Metamorphosis or Confrontation

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This film is a short documentary of the solo exhibition Metamorphosis or Confrontation of the German artist Tobias Klein at the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery. The documentary is structured as the exhibition in four parts with an introduction. Bones, Masks, Mutations, and Forces are the chapters and provide a detailed insight into the various curatorial strategies – making the diversity in the artist’s work visible. A chamber of curiosities, an experience in a virtual environment, different aspects of mutations and the juxtaposition of traditional Chinese and digital craftsmanship are the components of this exhibition and its documentation.

CREDITS:
Artist: Tobias KLEIN
Curator: Harald KRAEMER
Museum Director: Florian KNOTHE
Voice-over: Harald KRAEMER, Florian KNOTHE
Cinematographers: Louis LEE, Machina XING
Photographer: Tobias KLEIN
Editor: Machina XING
Sound Engineer: CHAN Cheuk Wah Charles
Translation: HONG Rae
Production Coordinator: Daniel LIU
Supported by:
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Museum Society School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
© / Contact: Dr. Tobias KLEIN office@kleintobias.com

Solo Exhibitions

Maurice Benayoun: Value of Values

5 minutes 10 seconds, 24/7 streaming

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Morphogenesis of Values (MOV) video reveals the stakes and objectives of the VoV project and the outcomes for the coming show in 2021. MOV is developed from the research project of VoV, a neuro-design transactional art project that provokes questions of human values in relation to art, philosophy, poetry, ethics, environment and surveillance. It resonates with how we define human goals in what will be a post-pandemic world.

Maurice BENAYOUN received the Ars electronica Golden Nica interactive Arts, 1998.

CREDITS:

Artists: Maurice BENAYOUN, Nicolas MENDOZA, Tobias KLEIN

Curator: Ann MAK, Osage

Organised & Presented by: Osage Art Foundation

Content Production: Charlie YIP, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM