19.10.2014 (Sunday) 4:00 – 5:30pm
Connecting Space-HK, Fort Street No. 18-20, North Point Hector Rodriguez and Felipe Cucker
In this talk, software artist Hector Rodriguez will describe in detail the creative process leading to the production of his recent work Theorem 8 (2013), now on show at the 5th Writing Machine Collective exhibition. The main challenge of the project was to transform an abstract mathematical concept into a visual artwork. In particular, the basic idea for this piece is to assert and explore the geometric structure of digital images. The artist will outline this conception and the process of developing it. While the content of this talk necessarily contains mathematical ideas, these will be presented in an elementary way suitable for a non-technical audience.
This talk offers a unique opportunity for audiences to experience a very detailed and in-depth description of the production of a specific work of art, from the standpoint of its creator.
The mathematical consultant to the project was Felipe Cucker, Chair Professor of Mathematics at the City University of Hong Kong. Professor Cucker is the co-presenter of the talk.
About the Artist/ Speaker 關於藝術家/講者
Artist 藝術家
Hector Rodriguez (WMC Research Director) is an experimental software artist whose work investigates the specific possibilities of information technologies to reconfigure our experience of moving images and our relation to film history. His work integrates video art with mathematics and computer science, exploring the tension between digital abstraction and cinematic representation. His work has been shown at the Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), the National Science Museum (Seoul, South Korea), the Museum Friedericianum (Kassel, Germany), Siggraph Asia (Singapore), and the WRO Media Art Biennial (Wroclaw, Poland), among other venues. He was a jury selection of the Japan Media Art Award. His digital experimental animation Res Extensa won him the Best Digital Work Award in the Hong Kong Art Biennale 2003. He received Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award’s Achievement Award 2012 with his computational installation system Gestus. His theoretical writings have appeared in Screen, Cinema Journal, Game Studies and various anthologies. He currently teaches computer arts, film theory, and art/science at the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong. His work Gestus-Beta was premiered at WMC_e4 (2010). He also conducted a 12-hour workshop series on interactive fiction using Inform 7 at WMC_e2, 2007, among other educational events at the various WMC exhibitions.
Felipe Cucker (Chair Professor, Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong)
Talk 講座
No ideas. Just things. The Hatter’s wisdom and an exhibition about writing. Or reading 實作評閱一個有關讀寫的展覽
19.10.2014 (Sunday) 5:30 – 6:00pm
Connecting Space-HK, Fort Street No. 18-20, North Point Harald Kraemer (School of Creative Media City, University of Hong Kong 城大創意媒體副教授)
Talk 講座
Datafied Research 數據化的研究 (Transmediale series / Transmediale 短講對話系列) – an evening of short position papers
19.10.2014 (Sunday) 7:15pm
Connecting Space-HK, Fort Street No. 18-20, North Point
Christian Ulrik Andersen (丹麥DK), Manuel Bürger (德國GER), Geoff Cox (英國UK/丹麥DK), Søren Pold (丹麥DK), Jane Prophet (英國UK/香港HK), Daniel Howe (美國US/香港HK), Damien Charrieras (法國FRA/香港HK)
The Transmediale Series is organized by the Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University,
transmediale/reSource, and the School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong.
Workshop 工作坊
Digital Data Funeral: ne.me.quittes.pas 請別離開我，或，如何為電子數據舉行葬禮
12.10.2014 (Sunday) 3:00 – 5:00pm
Connecting Space-HK, Fort Street No. 18-20, North Point Audrey Samson (新媒體學博士候選人 / 藝術家Ph.D. researcher in new media and Artist) Conducted in Language / Free admissions
This workshop examines the different forms of digital data traces that we (often involuntarily) leave online. How is our data being used? How do issues of privacy, data ownership, surveillance and cyberbullying relate to networked digital data? In the workshop we discuss these issues and we think about how data deletion can be a form of gesture against quantification and surveillance. We will think about creative ways we could ritualize the erasure of data and what kind of personal data we would like to delete. No technical experience is required.
Audrey Samson is an artist and researcher currently based in Hong Kong. She holds a BFA Major in Design Art from Concordia University (Canada), an M.A. in Media Design from the Piet Zwart Institute (The Netherlands), and is currently a PhD researcher at the City University of Hong Kong. She has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Willem de Kooning Academy in The Netherlands, and set up and managed the Digital Art Lab at the Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur. She co-founded Roger10-4 together with Sabrina Basten, a duo of women that make/break discarded electronics to build wearable electromagnetic field ‘sniffers’. She is also member of genderchangers; a collective of women which promote the exchange of technical skills between women; and a member of Aether9, a collective which explores the dramaturgical possibilities of remote real-time storytelling. She routinely gives workshops on subjects such as wearables, FLOSS, and networked performance.
Audrey Samson 藝術家、研究員，現居香港。於加拿大康克迪亞大學取得藝術學士，專修設計藝術，又於荷蘭的Piet Zwart Institute取得媒體設計碩士。現為香港城市大學新媒體學博士候選人。曾於荷蘭Gerrit Rietveld學院及Willem de Kooning學院任教。創立及管理Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur 內的數碼藝術實驗室。又與Sabrina Basten共同創立「Roger10-4」二人組，生產電子廢物，也分解被扔掉的電子物品以製作可穿戴的含電磁場的「嗅探器」。Samson亦是「genderchangers」和「Aether9」成員之一。前者是一個推動女性之間交換技術的組織，後者則探討遙距即時式說故事的戲劇理論可能。她亦定期舉辦有關可穿戴的電子衣裝、「FLOSS」及網絡表演的工作坊。
