ZENDAI
MUSEUM OF
MODERN ART
199 Fangtian Road
Shanghai, China
Tel: 86 (021) 50339801
23 Jul–31 Aug, 2006
www.zendaiart.com
SUNDAY, 23 JULY, 2006 | 9am – 5pm
| Symposium overview | Schedule for the day | LIST OF SPEAKERS |
| Douglas Bakkum | Stuart Bunt | Christine Cargill | Oron Catts | Peter E Charuk | Philip Gamblen | George (Poonkhin) Khut | Jin Jiangpo | Hu Jieming | Ma Lin | Jon McCormack | Wang Nanming | Jane Quon | Julie Ryder | David Rye | Hellen Sky | Ionat Zurr |
Douglas Bakkum
Douglas Bakkum received BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering which
provided insight into the workings of the physical world, but he is now interested
in the workings of the mind and its perception of the physical world. Currently
a doctoral student in the Bioengineering Department at Georgia Tech under
the guidance of Steve Potter. He embodies cultured cortical neurons using
robots to study the importance of environmental interaction in the processes
of neural networks.
Stuart Bunt
Professor Stuart Bunt; Joint founder and now scientific director of SymbioticA,
Bio-Art research laboratory at the University of Western Australia. Has collaborated
and written about a number of bio-art pieces. Stuart studied zoology at St.
Catherine's College and, after stints as a photographer and entomologist on
various expeditions, he got his D.Phil in developmental neuroscience from
Oxford. Now a senator at UWA, president of the staff association and CEO of
the spin off company Paradigm Diagnostics – specialising in medical
diagnostic software. Stuart specialises in e-learning and runs the first year
medical, dental and podiatry courses at UWA.
Christine Cargill
Dr Christine Cargill PhD, is Curator of the Cryptogam Herbarium, part of the
Australian National Herbarium, at the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
(CPBR) in Canberra, and has been studying the biology, taxonomy and systematics
of bryophytes for over 20 years. She began her studies with the late Dr George
Scott at Monash University and undertook her PhD at Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale, USA under Drs B.J. Crandall-Stotler and R.E. Stotler.
Oron Catts
Oron Catts- Artist, researcher and curator. He is Co-Founder and Artistic
Director of SymbioticA – The Art & Science Collaborative Research
Laboratory at The School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western
Australia. His pioneering research is in wet biology art practices and in
particular the use of living tissue from complex organisms. He co-founded
the Tissue Culture and Art Project (TC&A) in 1996 and was a Research Fellow
at The Tissue Engineering & Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (2000-2001). Catts has exhibited
and published internationally. He curated the Biofeel exhibition and The Aesthetics
of Care? Symposium, BEAP 2002 and co-curated the BioDifferences exhibition
and conference, BEAP 2004. He is trained in product design (BA Hon), and Visual
Art (MA).
Peter E Charuk
Peter E Charuk is an active artist and educator. He has an extensive career
in the visual and electronic arts over 30 years. His experience includes exhibitions
in the U.S., Bulgaria, U.K. and numerous Australian Galleries. He has been
awarded a number of prestigious prizes and awards. He works with video, artists’
books, photographic imagery, sound and text. He is represented in several
major collections including the National Gallery of Australia, AGNSW, Artbank
and the Polaroid International Collection. In 2002, Peter was an inaugural
recipient of a Western Sydney Artists’ Fellowship. In 2005 he was an
ANAT Synapse Artist in Residence at the CSIRO Marine Research in Hobart.
Philip Gamblen
Born in England, trained and worked as a gem cutter in Canada before moving
to Australia and migrating into the arts where he graduated with a Honours
Degree in Fine Art (sculpture). Specialises in the use of mechanics, electronics,
and robotics to create kinetic art. Current artworks utilise motion and light
to investigate technological aspects of today’s culture and the overlap
of art and science. The physical forces and structures within nature are of
great interest to him and are a constant reference in his work. He has been
involved with MEART – the Semi-Living Artist since it’s beginnings
in 2001.
George (Poonkhin) Khut
George (Poonkhin) Khut is an artist working in the area of immersive and interactive
installation environments. He is presently completing a Doctorate of Creative
Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, researching the incorporation
of biofeedback training technologies into interactive music and sound environments.
His research focuses on the development of interactive sound and video environments
in which listeners experience and learn to influence aspects of their own
psycho-physiological (body-mind) processes, by learning to observe and differentiate
changes in the sound, colour and form of the artwork.
Recent works include Drawing Breath and Cardiomorphologies v.1 (with John
Tonkin) and Cardiomorphologies v.2 (with Lizzie Muller and Greg Turner).
George has exhibited throughout Australia (Pillow Songs; Snare; Nightshift
and Cardiomorphologies), Britain (Nightshift, Arnolfini, Bristol 2003, Cardiomorphologies
v.2, Arnolfini, Bristol 2006), and South-East Asia (Asian Traffic group exhibition,
Gallery 4A & Asialink, 2005–06) and has been the recipient of several
grants from the Australia Council for the Arts (New Media Arts Board) and
Arts Tasmania.
Jin Jiangpo
Artist. Born in 1972, graduated from and currently working at School of Fine
Art, Shanghai University.
Hu Jieming
Artist. Born in 1957 in Shanghai. Currently working at the Shanghai Arts &
Crafts Vocational College.
Ma Lin
Theorist, Curator. Received PhD degree from College of Fine Art, Nanjing Normal
University in 2006. Currently working at the Art History Department, School
of Fine Art, Shanghai University.
Jon McCormack
Jon McCormack is an Australian-based electronic media artist and researcher
in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Music and Art. His research interests
include generative evolutionary systems, machine learning, L-systems and developmental
models. He holds an Honours degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
from Monash University, a Graduate Diploma of Art from Swinburne University
and a PhD in Computer Science from Monash University. He is currently Senior
Lecturer in Computer Science and co-director of the Centre for Electronic
Media Art (CEMA) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. CEMA is an
interdisciplinary research centre established to explore new collaborative
relationships between computing and the arts
His artworks have been exhibited internationally a wide variety of galleries,
museums and symposia, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA),
Tate Gallery (Liverpool, UK), ACM SIGGRAPH (USA), Prix Ars Electronica (Austria)
and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia). His work has received
a number of international awards for new media art including prizes at Ars
Electronica (Austria), Images du Futur (Canada), New Voices, New Visions (USA),
Alias/Wavefront (USA) and Nagoya Biennial (Japan). The monograph “Impossible
Nature: the art of Jon McCormack" was published by the Australian Centre
for the Moving Image in 2005, and documents McCormack’s creative achievements
over the last decade. | www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc
Wang Nanming
Born in August 1962 in Shanghai. Graduated from School of Political Science,
Huadong University in 1983. Currently working and living in Shanghai as an
artist, freelance writer/editor and curator.
Jane Quon
Dr Jane Quon is an installation/multimedia artist who has regularly exhibited
major works internationally in gallery and non-gallery public settings. She
has conducted research into interdisciplinary applications of art, in particular
regarding the synergies between art and science. She is coordinator of the
Art, Communication and Marine Ecology (ACME) research hub of a University
of Tasmania project that investigates potential applications of the arts within
environmental education. Her current research and artwork focuses upon the
fragile ecologies of the marine environment and the crucial issue of food
security in the Mekong Delta. As such, a principal objective of her work is
the belief that visual communication, through works of multimedia, can assist
the development of environmental responsibility.
Julie Ryder
Julie Ryder, MA (Vis. Arts), has been a professional practicing artist, textile
designer and educator for the past 16 years and is currently based in Canberra.
She exhibits regularly, both nationally and internationally, and her work
is represented in many public and private collections. An early career in
science has informed the content and context of her work, which explores ideas
of perfection and beauty, and the tenuous link between control and chaos.
In 2004 she was awarded the ANAT/Synapse New Media Art residency at the Australian
National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.
David Rye
Dr David Rye works in embedded and applied control of machinery, and in the
design and creation of computer-controlled systems. Although his background
is in mechanical engineering he now works principally on computerised machinery,
electronics, software and systems design. Dr Rye is active in industrial research
and development projects related to automation and control of machinery, including
crane systems and autonomous vehicles. He had collaborated with media artist
Mari Velonaki since 2002. David is also internationally recognised as a pioneer
in the introduction and development of university teaching in mechatronics,
having created the first Australian engineering degree in Mechatronic Engineering
in 1990.
Hellen Sky
Hellen Sky is a Fellow of the Australia Council Dance Fund (2004-2006), Nominee
of the inaugural MIT Rockefeller Ford Foundation-2005 Leonardo Global Crossings
Award -and co-founder, co-director of Company in Space (CIS). Her work spans
new media performance and installations to catalyse relationships between
the body, media, and the site/architecture of the event. Her performed texts
– Liquid Time and CIS projects Escape Velocity, C0 3, The Light Room
have been presented in a range of International Festivals and Symposia. Current
projects include–The Darker Edge of Night performance, Deep Space installation
with scientific visualiser Paul Bourke and Global Drifts – developed
with Sarah Rubidge, UK, a streamed performative event occurring simultaneously
in three international sites where motion data permeates global networking
systems to animate civic space merging experiences of physical and virtual
architectures.
Ionat Zurr
Artist and a researcher. Exhibited and published internationally. Artist in
residence in SymbioticA - the Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory
at The School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia.
Co-Founder of the Tissue Culture and Art Project. Co-Curator of BioDifferences
exhibition and conference, BEAP 2004. A Research Fellow at The Tissue Engineering
& Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard
Medical School (2000-2001). Studied photography and media studies and is presently
a PhD candidate researching the ethical and philosophical implications of
wet biology art practices. Currently teaching and developing a programme in
Biological Arts offered by SymbioticA.