Art in the Cloud – Marco DONNARUMMA

Art in the Cloud – Marco DONNARUMMA

Marco DONNARUMMA (Artist)

Donnarumma is an artist, performer, stage director and scholar weaving together contemporary performance, new media art and interactive computer music since the early 2000s. He manipulates bodies, creates choreographies, engineers machines and composes sounds, thus combining disciplines, media and emerging technologies into an oneiric, sensual, uncompromising aesthetics. He is internationally acknowledged for solo performances, stage productions and installations that defy genres, and where the body becomes a morphing language to speak critically of ritual, power and technology. 

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Video: Humane Methods [℧R]

℧R is a solo performance for a faceless body, AI algorithms, lights and the vibrational force of sound. Developed and produced by Fronte Vacuo as a new rhizome of the project Humane Methods, ℧R reflects on violence as a foundation of current algorithmic societies: a violence of instructions, of systems, of infrastructures created with the specific purpose of abusing all living beings. Such systems work through loops, organized repetitions of machines and of humans.

The piece takes the loop as a starting point to combine multi-sensorial stimulation with human-computer interaction and somatic practices to test the seeming impossibilities of bodily articulation and repetition. https://frontevacuo.com/humane-methods/

Art in the Cloud – Joseph CHAN

Art in the Cloud – Joseph CHAN

Joseph CHAN (Artist)

Being a kinetic art artist is an uncommon practice in Hong Kong. Chan’s works often focus on three core elements – form, motion, and engineering ingenuity. Subjects of his creations include flying birds automatons, orrery, time machines, marble machines, transforming machines, and walking machines. His machines subtly reflect the influences of being lived in one of the most multicultural cities in the world, at a revolutionary time when science, art, and technology are full of discoveries, inventions, and wonders. 

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Video: Joseph Chan and His Machine

This is a video that illustrates some of my works, including some making-of. My machines often emerged from the inspirations all around me that intertwined with my own imaginations. And in the visual language of kinematics and forms, they later translated into reality through computer-aided design and engineering. The background chimes in the video were the sound of a tone-chimes machine I created for a musician years ago. Also the ambiance with some slight mechanical noises was recorded in my first solo exhibition.

Art in the Cloud – Ken UENO

Art in the Cloud – Ken UENO

Ken UENO (Artist)

Rome Prize and Berlin Prize winner Ken UENO is a composer, vocalist and sound artist. Ueno’s collaborators include the Hilliard Ensemble, Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Steve Schick and SFCMP, and Frances-Marie Uitti. As a vocalist, he has performed his concerto with orchestras in Boston, New York, Poland, Lithuania, Thailand, North Carolina, and California. His sound installations have been installed at MUAC, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Art Basel, and at SCI-Arc.  Ueno is currently a Professor in Music at UC Berkeley.  His bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.

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Video: Kitchen Breath 

Kitchen Breath is a one-minute performance, that recalls another piece, TARD.

 In TARD, I hold my breath in a bowl of water for 2 minutes, as an analog to how I have felt my breath has been suspended since November 2016, as well as how I feel my voice as a person of color has been muted. I am the hunger artist. I risk my life on stage as entertainment for a largely white audience. As a form of protest against the underlying premise of being of Asian descent in America: invisibility, I am asking, “How close to death do I need to come?

Art in the Cloud – TSENG Yu-Chuan

Art in the Cloud – TSENG Yu-Chuan

TSENG Yu-Chuan (Artist / Curator)

Artist, curator, and academic Tseng is a pioneer digital artist who has been pondering human existence in the digital age since 1998. In the 2003 solo exhibition Let’s Make Art at the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, she staged the first art show that employed instantaneous web-based interaction. Many media art and net art exhibitions have featured her work, such as Digital Vision 2005. Her curatorial practices on gender and digital culture were shown in the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington DC, off-spaces of DOX, in Prague.

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Video: Jane-December 2020 

When I was a child, my English teacher gave me a name: Jane. Since then, this name seems to represent “I”. However, I can never find me when I search in google. I, as Jane, don’t exist in the digital world. The series of Digital Portraits-Jane started in 2013. The program searches photos with the tag “Jane” on the Flickr and creates portraits automatically every day. The original idea of portrait is the evidence of existence. But, the portraits of Jane are flowing, variable and changeable. The portraits present a synthesized Jane. https://www.instagram.com/i_digi_jane/

Art In The Cloud – Ellen PAU

Art In The Cloud – Ellen PAU

Ellen PAU (Artist / Curator)

Pau is a video artist, curator and researcher in Hong Kong. Her early works first appeared in local screening clubs and emerged on the international scene in 1987. In 1986, Pau co-founded Videotage, a media art collective aiming at creating an umbrella organization for local media artists, facilitating artistic and cultural exchange and promoting new media arts to the public. She is the founding director-cum-curator of Microwave International New Media Arts Festival. Her single channel videos and video installation works have been extensively exhibited worldwide, including the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennial. 

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Video: Sight, Sound and Site

On the occasion of “Art in the cloud”, this one-minute video is based on my contribution to “Video Ensemble 2”, a group video exhibition made for networked robots.  On-site, images were displayed on small screens in a miniature black box gallery space. Visitors could watch with their naked eyes. Off-site visitors are expected to turn to the internet to control four robots to pick up images and sound from the exhibits. “Video Ensemble 2” was curated by Makin Fung and Wo-Bik Wong and was held in a room at the HK Polytechnic University during the COVID lockdown. The original “Video Ensemble” was curated by May Fung in 1997 at 1Aspace.

Art In The Cloud – Cedric MARIDET

Art In The Cloud – Cedric MARIDET

Cedric MARIDET (Artist)

Maridet is a research-based artist working in Hong Kong since 1999. His work often explores sound through the act of listening, collecting and archiving with a strong interest in system of knowledge and fiction. His work takes multiple forms such as  video, installations, photography, sound compositions and works on paper. Maridet has exhibited, performed and lectured at many international sites including Tate Modern, Para Site, Tai Kwun Contemporary and Suomenlinna in Helsinki. Maridet currently holds a position of Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University. 

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Video: (not quite) a catalogue of birds

(not quite) a catalogue of birds is a performative protocol to sound out and listen to dislocated bird songs – as a way to explore forms of common ground with the non-human inhabitants of the urban. This project takes root in the great tradition of imagining a universe without humans, where animals take over cities as they did during the aftermath of the catastrophe of Fukushima, or during more recent events like the COVID-19 lockdown. This work welcomes these forms of ‘non- verbal’ communication, inviting group vocalisations of various bird calls – not as an attempt at interspecies communication, but an invitation to explore other forms of being, being together, and habitation.

Art In The Cloud – Tobias KLEIN

Art In The Cloud – Tobias KLEIN

Tobias KLEIN (Artist)

Klein is a German Artist and Architect. His work articulates a syncretism of contemporary CAD/CAM technologies with cultural narratives, intuitive non-linear processes, and historical references, establishing the practice of Digital Craftsmanship as an operational synthesis between digital and physical materials, methods and tools as poetic (Poïesis) and technical (Technê) expressions. He is an associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

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Video: Unruh

Unruh, German for “Restlessness”, refers to device storing and releasing kinetic energy in mechanisms. It is propelled by a linear motion in one axis. The main glass body of the work is balanced by two-axis, suspended within a gyroscope-like structure. Shifting the first axis, results in an imbalance that, through the second axis, is continuously rebalanced. The third, is a system of spherical magnets, moving within a series of hollowed 3D printed black structures. The continuous shifting magnetic field leads to change in the ferrofluids, contained within the central body. The interchange of linear and dynamic forces creates  an entropic state in the work.

Art In The Cloud – Joanna HOFFMANN

Art In The Cloud – Joanna HOFFMANN

Joanna HOFFMANN (Artist / Curator)

Hoffmann is a Professor at the University of Arts in Poznań, and leader of the Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects & Research (WEAiK/UAP). She is also co-founder and Chair of the Art & Science Node in Berlin. Her artistic works have been widely presented in venues such as the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Warsaw; the Science Museum/DANA Centre and MOCA in London; Transmediale Festival and European Patent Office in Berlin; MUSE New York. She was the Artist of Honour of the XII Florence Biennale and was awarded the medal Gloria Artis by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland.

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Video: RhiZone: [ PapiLLa ]  

Soundscape: Andre Bartetzki, Programmer: Arkadiusz Rataj  RhiZone: [ PapiLLa ] was inspired by natural symbiotic systems of the rhizosphere and Wood Wide Web. It questions how our identity will change when the Internet of Things turns into the Internet of Minds, in the world where organic and inorganic systems will merge into a new hybrid form of data processing. RhiZone: [ PapiLLa ] is  an imaginative organ of a new cyber symbiosis. The title refers to biological nodular formations associated with senses of touch, taste or smell, and to root organs of symbiosis between plants and bacteria. Let’s imagine our world as a rhizosphere, the big network of small worlds, based on diversity, symbiosis and interdependence. Our smallest actions, and even thoughts, affect its well-being.

Art In The Cloud – Jeffrey GEIRINGER

Art In The Cloud – Jeffrey GEIRINGER

Jeffrey GEIRINGER (Artist)

Geiringer (they/them) is an artist and technologist working at the forefront of 3D-space generative Machine Intelligence methods. Their work is centered around questions of iconography, identity, self-reflection, and the dubious value of nationalism. Their current body of work partners with a Machine skillset to combine objects into new sculptural icons. A recent immigrant to Hong Kong from New York City, Jeffrey has found their new environment to be a daily source of inspiration.

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Video: Object Americana NFT Compilation [Unminted]

2020 was a wrenching year for us all. In the midst of the long, hot, quarantine summer, I learned of the concept of Non-Fungible Tokens and was happy to prepare my central body of work for ‘minting.’ The romance was doomed; a series of exposés showed normal blockchains to be horribly carbon-heavy. As an artist who tries to center ethics in my work, it was unacceptable for me to continue. There is hope yet! In the form of low-carbon NFT protocols and new communities springing up around them.