LASER talks at Roy Ascott Studio * TECHNOETIC AESTHETICS * Psiborgian Incursions

LASER chair: Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro, Associate Professor at Roy Ascott Studio, Pete Townshend endowed senior lectureship awardee, www.clarissaribeiro.com IG @clarissa__ribeiro

EVENT INFO

- When: July 14th 2023 5:00 PM  to 7:00 PM (UTC+08:00 eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time) Find your timezone here
- Where: Roy Ascott Studio at SIVA DeTAO, DeTao Building, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, 2200 Wenxiang Road, 
Songjiang, Shanghai, China 201620
- Website: https://www.royascottstudio.com/

From July 2023 to February 2024, LASER talks at Roy Ascott Studio in Shanghai, will be inviting artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal gatherings to explore Roy’s 100 Terms and Definitions for the Post-biological Era coined in his ‘Technoetic Aesthetics’ written in 1997. For the first edition on July 14th 2023, hybrid, the invited speakers choices from the glossary include: 

- Double Consciousness (Dr. Claudia Jacques) The state of being which gives access, at one and the same time, to two distinctly different fields of experience: psychic space and cyberspace, the material world and the virtual, in an artwork and outside of it.

- Telemadic (Dr. Mujin Bao) Where the ancients were nomadic, we are restlessly telemadic, our minds traversing the vast interspaces of the worldwide networks of technology and consciousness.

- Techno-qualia (Dr. Chen Yufei) The philosophy of the senses must recognize that the human sensorium is expanding to include entirely new sensations and perceptions .

- Mystemics (John Bardakos) The systems study of mystical consciousness, in architectural, iconic and ritualistic form.

- Bio-myths (Frank Cong) We are still bound up with the search for myths. The context now is biological and behavioral - zooming through the micro/macro levels. Get ready for the great biomyths, A-life legends.

From this we hope to produce a dialogued version of the glossary, updating the understanding of the terms from the perspective of researchers that have been influenced by Roy Ascott visionary thinking. 

SPEAKERS BIOS

Claudia Jacques, PhD, MFA, is a Brazilian-American interdisciplinary technoetic artist, designer, educator and researcher based in NYC. Her focus is on Information in HCI through the lens of Cybersemiotics. She photographs and designs interactive hybrid art and information environments that aim to construct experiences in consciousness and to promote the expansion of human knowledge. She is an adjunct associate professor of art and design at CUNY BCC and SUNY WCC; is the founder and Creative Director of Knowledge Art Studios; serves as associate editor for Cybernetics and Human Knowing Journal; and is a member of the Editorial Organism of Technoetic Arts Journal.
Personal website:https://claudiajacques.com/

MUJIN ( Lixin Bao ) Film Director / Media Artist, lives and works in Shanghai. Department Head of Digital Media Art Major in Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. She was nominated for the "Porsche Biennial Artist" at the ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair (2019) and her work was selected for UNESCO's Art and Society Project (2020). Her research interests are focused on the navigation space in digital media, considering analyzing the multiplicity of image paradigms from a narrative perspective. Her work have been selected into the art project “FILTER THE PUBLIC" for the fifth anniversary at the Shanghai World Financial Center and Photo Arts Fair Shanghai (2015) and in several international film festivals, including Festival de Cannes 2010 (SFC), shortlisted by Air France Jeunes Talent Prize (2010), and also nominated as Best Director Award in 2012 Madrid International Film Festival. Mujin was also the winner of Grand Prize of the Jury in Festival d’art vidéo et de cultures numériques-videoformes (2012), France.

Chen Yufei , sound artist ,electronic musician,PHD of philosophy and Professor at Roy Ascott studio.During his doctor's degree, he researched into the problem of free will ,studying about the relationship between freedom and randomness in the view of libertarianism. Yufei has been engaged in live music performance and sound creation for many years, and also he has rich experience in cooperation with different artists and studios, such as low-tech laboratory (Wuhan), UFO studio (Hanzhou), SLATE Contemporary Dance Group (US), to mention a few.

John "Iannis" Bardakos is an artist, academic, and researcher who oscillates between Athens, Paris, and Shanghai, acting as a hunter-gatherer of forms and non-localities. His academic journey spans the fields of Mathematics, Digital and Traditional Media with a keen focus on Applied and Fine Arts. This led him further into a PhD in the Philosophy of Technology, Aesthetics, and Art.Bardakos' artistic mastery extends beyond the practical. He possesses an in-depth and extensive knowledge of theoretical aesthetics, narrative, and the technical elements of artistic research. His work represents a profound understanding and innovative experimentation with cybernetics, where he seamlessly merges theory and practice. He employs a variety of methodologies, including Traditional, Analog, Digital, Generative, Virtual, and Interactive approaches. As an experienced educator, Bardakos has collaborated with both traditional academic structures and experimental ex-stitutional environments within the realms of art, technology, and philosophy.
Personal website: http://www.johnbardakos.com/

Haotian (Frank) Cong is a Shanghai-based media artist. His practice and research explore potential poetic relationships between computational systems and biological media, with an emphasis on a transdisciplinary understanding of art and biotechnology. He has exhibited, curated, and spoken at various art, design, and technology events, including Première Vision (2016), Consciousness Reframed Conference (2017), Out of Control Exhibition at Songjiang Art Museum (2018), Ars Electronica (2019), Shanghai Science Festival (2020), Flare Media Art Exhibition Shanghai (2021), and Lab2 Exhibition at Liu Haisu Art Museum (2022). Frank holds a B.A. degree from the Advanced Degree Program of Roy Ascott Technoetic Arts Studio, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. He is currently pursuing his MSc degree in Art, Culture, and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Personal website: www.frankkong.com