[spectre] Cyberasia Part Three: Asian Cyberart

[Floor van Spaendonck]

INVITATION

ASiA, IIAS and Waag Society organise Cyberasia Part Three:

Asian Cyberart - Technology, Memory and Place

*Wednesday May 10* 20.00 – 22.00 hrs *

Language: English

Location;  Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
livestream; http://connect.waag.org

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New media are changing the contemporary art world profoundly. Under  
forces of intense globalization, the internet is being transformed  
into a worldwide spectacle of utopian fantasies and lost memories. In  
our highly networked society, however, the longing for a place, for a  
sense of identity - ‘virtual’ or ‘real’ - remains. At the same time,  
rapid urbanization and the related destruction of nature, old  
buildings, and neighbourhoods put places under constant threat.  
Particularly in Asia. art and technology provide a virtual resort,  
where the self can have it's own space. This seminar explores the  
encounters of technology with contemporary Asian art, bringing  
together four pioneering artists whose works, often involving the use  
of new technologies, engage in old questions of memory, place and  
identity. They will present their works, and discuss the impact of  
new technologies on contemporary Asian art scenes.

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*The speakers are:*

*Mu Yuming* (1971) is an artist from Lijiang, a remote village in  
Yunnan, China. Mu defines his existence in the art world as a  
temporary one, as one step toward his great goal in life, that is, to  
become Farmer Mu: an average farmer. To reach this utopian and  
perhaps nostalgic goal, Mu makes extensive use of new technologies.  
See http://www.farmermu.cn/ and http://www.lijiangstudio.org/web/home/ 
index.jsp

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*Sookoon Ang* (1977) was born and raised in Singapore where she  
trained at the Nanyang Academy of fine Arts and the LaSalle/Royal  
Melbourne Institute of Technology University. She is also a graduate  
of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her works, including  
drawing, videos and installations, have been featured in exhibitions  
worldwide. Her goal is to dive into the depths of ordinary existence  
and uncover the multi-faceted, multi-layered, multiple universes  
beyond the simplistic planes of realism and delusion. She explores in  
her multidisciplinary works feelings of loss, memory and nostalgia.  
See http://www.sookoonang.com/

*Onno Dirker (Nono), *a Dutch artist, is part of “Atelier Veldwerk,”  
together with Rudy Luijters. His works are driven by a desire to  
grasp the changes in urban landscapes, and to see how these changes  
affect our sense of identity and memory. In Shanghai, he has tried to  
capture the radical changes taking place in the city, often involving  
the massive destruction of buildings and neighborhoods, wondering how  
such changes will alter our sense of the past and of ourselves. See

http://www.atelierveldwerk.nl <http://www.atelierveldwerk.nl/> and  
http://www.artlog.nl/pages/left/l_tube.html

*Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar* studied literary theory and Scandinavian  
languages and cultures at Groningen University, where he is now a  
staff member of the department of Arts, Culture and Media. His  
research deals with the autonomy of literature, concerning the way in  
which literature, the literary field and the public debate relate to  
each other. He lives and works in Amsterdam and Groningen and writes  
poetry under the name of Munan. His poetry deals with issues from  
different mystical and romantic traditions and seeks its influences  
and themes in the poetry of a variety of national and international  
currents, such as medieval Scandinavian poetry, Sufi love poetry and  
the Dutch romantics of the 1880's.

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*Cyberasia *is a* *series of three seminars that brings together  
Asian activists, academics and artists to reflect on contemporary  
political, religious and artistic uses of new technologies. Together,  
they showcase the current state of Internet affairs in Asia, opening  
up a unique meeting ground beyond the “Western” world. The previous  
seminars were held on March 29 on Asian Cyberpolitics and on April 18  
on Asian Cyberfundamentalism.

For reservation: reserveren at waag.org <mailto:reserveren at waag.org>

For more information: Dr. Jeroen de Kloet (moderator)  
b.j.dekloet at uva.nl <mailto:b.j.dekloet at uva.nl>

Livestream: http://connect.waag.org <http://connect.waag.org/>





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