[spectre] Manifest Dynasty : Media Arts in China 彰显的王朝：新媒体艺术在中国

[Melinda Rackham]

-empyre- in November

Manifest Dynasty : Media Arts in China  彰显的王朝：新媒体艺 
术在中国

[Scroll down for Mandarin]

It is said that a new Gallery or Museum opens in China every 3 days;  
Ai Weiwei installs another monumental sculpture across the globe; and  
70 million visitors trudge through the World Expo in Shanghai. Three  
or so centuries after Chinoiserie entered the Western Art Vocabulary,  
and despite some recent market deflation, China is definitely still IT.

Like Chinese contemporary art, media art is flourishing beyond the  
Great Firewall, and increasingly appearing in the international Media  
Festival scene. There has been a rush in Western Europe and Australia  
to introduce regional specific art to China and embrace Chinese  
cultural exchanges.  Whilst the concept of equal exchange beyond the  
social, political and geographical constraints of a supposed  
globalised world is problematic in so many ways, the number of new  
collaborative projects is accelerating.

A recent example is 2010 -The Year of Australian Culture in China,  
where a dizzying array of Opera, Exhibition, Film, Theatre and Dance  
events were produced and mediatised.  Reciprocally, 2011 is The Year  
of Chinese Culture in Australia. As part of this cultural exchange the  
DreamWorlds: Australian Moving Image introduced diverse genres of  
Australian media art to Chinese audiences outside the art gallery  
context, exhibiting continually on massive urban screens in Beijing  
and Xi’an.

The DreamWorlds project was also designed as catalyst for a more  
specific exploration of media art in China:- How do exhibitions,  
symposia or publications decode across cultural sexual and political  
bounds to Chinese audiences? What are the emergences, frictions and  
dialogues between artists and curators within contemporary Chinese  
distributed and digital practices?

We welcome you join us at -empyre- in November to engage in critical  
enquiry, beyond the 20th century spectres of censorship and  
conservatism, of the complexity of media art production, curation,  
exhibition and networks in China.

Melinda Rackham and Edward Sanderson
http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Facilitators:
Melinda Rackham
Curator, artist and writer, Adelaide, Australia
http://www.subtle.net

Edward Sanderson 李蔼德
Writer, cultural producer at CPU:PRO Beijing, China
http://blog.escdotdot.com


Guests:

Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai)
Artist and producer, We need Money not Art, Dorkbot, CornerSound,  
Beijing
http://www.eventstructure.com/#85868/aaajiao

Rececca  Catching,
Director and curator, OV Gallery, Shanghai
http://www.ovgallery.com

Alvis Choi ,
Project Coordinator, Videotage, Hong Kong
http://www.videotage.org.hk/

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Scholar of Film, Media, and the Politics of Visual Culture in China,  
RMIT, Melbourne
http://www.stephaniedonald.info

Isaac Leung
Artist, curator and researcher on art, technology and sexuality, Hong  
Kong
http://www.isaacleung.com/

Ellen Pau
Filmmaker, media artist and curator, Founder of Videotage, Hong Kong

Robin Peckham
Writer and curator, Society for Experimental Cultural Production,  
Kowloon
http://www.kunsthallekowloon.org

Li Zhenhua
Multi-media artist, curator and producer, Laboratory Art, Beijing/Zurich
http://www.bjartlab.com/

Michael Yuen
Media Artist, DICA; DreamWorlds Producer Beijing/Melbourne
http://www.michaelyuen.com.au/


-empyre- 十一月

彰显的王朝：新媒体艺术在中国
据说在中国每三天就有一家新的画廊或美术馆开幕；艾 
未未再次装设了一件全球性里程碑式雕塑；七千万观众 
不辞辛苦远赴上海参观世博会。在中国风进入西方艺术 
词典近三个世纪之后，抛开最近的市通货紧缩不谈，中 
国绝对仍旧是热点。

与中国当代艺术一样，新媒体艺术正在中国强大的防火 
墙后蓬勃发展。而且越来越多地在国际媒体盛会中崭露 
头角。在西欧和澳大利亚，将其本土艺术介绍到中国以 
及促进与中国文化的交流已形成热潮。虽然超越社会、 
政治以及地理限制的平等交流仍然在很多方面存在问 
题，但如雨后春笋般，众多新生的协作计划在不断加速 
涌现。

最近的一个例子是，在2010年的中国澳大利亚文化年 
中，目不暇接地出演了一系列歌剧、展览、电影、剧院 
以及舞蹈表演节目。与之对应的，2011年是澳大利亚的 
中国文化年。作为这次文化交流的一个组成部分，《梦 
想世界：澳大利亚的移动影像》持续地在北京和西安的 
大银幕上映，带领中国观众脱离美术馆背景体验了澳大 
利亚丰富的媒体艺术流派。

《梦想世界》项目设计的另一个意图是，针对媒体艺术 
在中国进行一次更为具体的探索：展览、座谈会、出版 
物是如何跨越文化、性别以及政治的界线向中国观众进 
行解析的？在当代中国的阶段性以及数字化实践中，艺 
术家与策展人之间出现的意外、摩擦以及对话是什么？

欢迎你与我们一起参加十一月举办的《empyre》，抛开20 
世纪的审查机制与保守主义的影响，对中国的新媒体艺 
术产品、策展、展览以及网络的复杂性作出重要的考 
察。

Melinda Rackham与Edward Sanderson

http://www.subtle.net/empyre


协助人：

Melinda Rackham

《梦想世界》策展人、艺术家、作家，阿德莱德，澳大 
利亚

http://www.subtle.net


Edward Sanderson 李蔼德

作家、文化制作人，CPU:PRO，中国北京

http://blog.escdotdot.com


嘉宾：

Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai)

艺术家兼制作人，我们需要金钱而非艺术，Dorkbot,  
CornerSound, 上海

http://www.eventstructure.com/#85868/aaajiao



Rececca Catching

经理兼策展人，OV 画廊, 上海

http://www.ovgallery.com


Alvis Choi

计划协调员，Videotage，香港

http://www.videotage.org.hk/


Stephanie Hemelryk Donald教授

电影、媒体、中国视觉艺术政策学者，RMIT，墨尔本

http://www.stephaniedonald.info


Isaac Leung

艺术家、策展人、艺术、技术与性研究者，香港

http://www.isaacleung.com/


Ellen Pau

电影制作人、媒体艺术家、策展人、Videotage创始人，香 
港


Robin Peckham

作家、策展人，实验性文化产品社团，九龙

http://www.kunsthallekowloon.org


Li Zhenhua

多媒体艺术家、策展人、制作人，Laboratory Art，北京/苏 
黎世

http://www.bjartlab.com/


Michael Yuen

媒体艺术家，DICA；《梦想世界》制作人，北京/墨尔本

http://www.michaelyuen.com.au/