ZENDAI
MUSEUM OF
MODERN ART
199 Fangtian Road
Shanghai, China
Tel: 86 (021) 50339801
23 Jul–31 Aug, 2006
www.zendaiart.com
| Drew Berry |
Justine Cooper | Peter
E Charuk | George Khut
| Jon McCormack |
Jane Quon | SymbioticA
| Tissue Culture & Art
Project | Julie Ryder
| Hellen Sky |
Mari Velonaki |
Drew Berry
uses high-end digital animation tools to visualise the medical
worlds with previously unimagined accuracy and illuminate the wondrous landscapes
concealed beneath the surface of the human body in his work body code.
Justine Cooper’s
photographic series Saved by Science reveals biodiversity
as the greatest container of all knowledge that helps us understand how life
functions, how it evolved, how it might continue to evolve. The series was
produced at The American Museum of Natural History in New York as part of
Australia Council for the Arts residency.
Peter E Charuk’s
video work AquaLux II—inspired
by a novel seabed mapping technique developed by scientists at the CSIRO Marine
and Atmospheric Research Group in Hobart—provides a wondrous portal
to the world at the ocean bed. | Symposium >>
At the centre of George Khut’s
art is the lived, sentient body. His work, Drawing Breath,
incorporates biofeedback technologies and translates the participant’s
breathing patterns into oscillating audio-visual scapes. How will we experience
nature in the future? If we destroy the nature we know, could we produce a
‘new nature’? | Symposium >>
In Jon McCormack’s,
interactive installation Turbulence: A Museum of Unnatural History
and his digitally generated print series Morphogenesis
this future nature comes to life artificially—created entirely by computer
software written by the artist. | Symposium >>
Ecological sustainability is the focus in Jane
Quon’s video work
The Net is Cast, which was
realised in collaboration with WorldFish, a Malaysian organization whose core
activity is aquatic scientific research and sustainable fishing practices.
| Symposium >>
Is it alive?... Is it intelligent?... Is it creative?...
These questions are at the heart of MEART: the semi-living artist
created by the SymbioticA Research
Group at The University
of Western Australia. This mind-boggling apparatus demonstrates how far has
strayed from generally held conceptions of life, intelligence and creativity.
www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au
| Symposium >>
For the Tissue Culture &
Art Project biotechnology
is not merely an application of science but a tool of creative inquiry. Works
such as Pig Wings and The Remains of
Disembodied Cuisine directly critique and confront socially
debatable biotechnological trends. www.tca.uwa.edu.au
| Symposium >>
The beauty and intrigue of cryptic plants that carry the
secrets to prehistoric life on Earth are revealed in Julie
Ryder’s work art
and the bryophyte, developed with botanist Dr Christine Cargill
at Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. | Symposium >>
Hellen Sky
collaborated worked with a team of astrophysicists to create Deep
Space, which explores our intrinsic connection to the infinite
universe. | Symposium >>
Mari Velonaki and a team of scientists from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics collaborated intensively for three years to create the ghostly, photonic screen for her interactive work Embracement.