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Synthetic Times: Media Art China — Edited by Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga: We live in a world that operates on bits and bytes. Reality has become synthetic, a convergence of the material and the immaterial. The synthetic power of new media art — integrative, interdisciplinary, interactive — expresses the blurred boundary between the physical and the digital. Synthetic Times collects new media art created since 2001 by artists and art collectives from nearly thirty countries. These innovative and groundbreaking works investigate how we perceive reality and what it means to be human on the threshold of human-machine symbiosis.

The artworks in Synthetic Times (which accompanies a milestone exhibition at the National Art Museum in China, an Olympics Cultural Project) explore a trajectory of uncanny visions ranging from the desire to transcend the corporal to the construction of synthetic worlds; from telematic dreaming to transgenic hybrids; from whimsical apparatuses to the deadpan gaze of magnetic fields. They reveal the tension between man and machine, between the animated and the inert, rekindling a discourse about relationships between nature and culture, the perceived and the imagined. Essays by leading new media theorists accompany the artworks, and an appendix documents additional programs held in conjunction with the exhibition.

Essays: Jordan Crandall, Oliver Grau, Erkii Huhtamo, Caroline A. Jones, Friedrich Kittler, Arthur Kroker, Mike Stubbs, Peter Weibel, Zhang Ga

Artists: 1000 Cell Phones Team, AL and AL, Blendid, Jean-Michel Bruyère, Rejane Cantoni, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Convergeo + Media and Design Lab, Luvc Courchesne, Du Zhenjun, etoy, exonemo, f18 institute, Paula Gaetano Adi, Usman Haque, Edwin van der Heide, Kurt Hentschläger, Mateusz Herczka, Christoph Hillebrand, Daniel Palacios Jiménez, Kichul Kim, Knowbotic Research, Daniela Kutschat Hanns, Paul Lincoln, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Chico MacMurtrie, Eva and Franco Mattes, Anthony McCall, Henrik Menné, Miao Xiaochun, Yves Netzhammer, Marnix de Nijs, Magdalena Pederin, David Rokeby, Mariana Rondon, Bengt Sjölén, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Stelarc, Sissel Tolaas, Transmute Collective, Tsai Wen-Ying, VERDENSTEATRET, Marek Walczak, Martin Wattenberg, Herwig Weiser, Wu Juehui, Xu Bing, Xu Zhongmin

Copublished with the National Art Museum of China

About the Editors

Fan Di’an is Director of the National Art Museum of China.

Zhang Ga is a media artist and independent curator. He is the artistic director and curator of the exhibition this book accompanies.

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Qualitative Analysis of Visual Performance Algorithms as a Function of Internet Search Queries from Amy Alexander on Vimeo.

VJ’ing, live TV, theatre, vaudeville, Internet narrative and webcasting collide as VJ Übergeek and the ÜberSERF research team star in “Qualitative Analysis of Visual Performance Algorithms as a Function of Internet Search Queries.”

This is a recording of a live broadcast streamed from San Diego to Be Community / Dock 18 in Zürich, May 2009. VJ Übergeek performed a special streaming-video-friendly version of the CyberSpaceLand VJ Textperience. The multi-camera broadcast was mixed live by VJ Randstrøm, and dramatic real-time research assistance was provided by the ÜberSERF.

A ÜLabs Production. Featuring: Amy Alexander, Randell Baltazar, Fabiola Hanna, Tristan Newcomb, Simon Quiroz, Roberto Rosales, Annina Rüst. Equipment support provided by Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD (CRCA).

Recent videos of VJ Ubergeek CyberSpaceLand club performances available here.

Experimental-Internet-Meta-VJ-Research-Theatre!

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[Images by KCET] Departures: L.A. River — An Online Documentary Mapping 52 Miles of the River :: Narrated by river advocates, residents and political figures :: Co-Produced by KCET Web Stories and Friends of The Los Angeles River with Local Students.

Once home to wild animals and wildlife, the Los Angeles River provided desperately needed water to the region. Until the 1930s, that is, when the Army Corps of Engineers began the process of paving 80% of the river, turning it into a ribbon of concrete. With the launch of Departures: L.A. River, the Los Angeles River comes alive through an intimate collection of interactive panoramas showing the incredible diversity connected with a nearly extinct natural resource that locals now work to restore. Departures - hailed by the New York Times as a project that “strongly suggests a new twist on the Los Angeles muralism of the 1970s” - is an online documentary series of neighborhood portraits co-produced with community partners for Web Stories, KCET’s exclusive online magazine of cultural journalism.

Departures: L.A. River takes online visitors into often neglected and nearly forgotten portions of the river, spanning more than 50 miles of terrain, concrete and flowing water. The project was produced by KCET in collaboration with Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR), a non-profit organization founded in 1986 to protect and restore the river, and with participation from students at Los Angeles Leadership Academy, a social justice charter school that prepares urban secondary students to succeed in life.

Provided with digital cameras and video equipment, students worked with KCET producers to create a visually compelling online experience in which visitors can casually scroll through the river’s many personalities or explore in-depth through audio interviews and video portraits with community leaders, activists and residents. In addition, FoLAR complemented the production by designing a comprehensive curriculum that included in-class presentations and field trips - all designed to raise awareness about the significance of the river and the challenges faced by those engaged in restoration and clean-up efforts.

“This is one of the most comprehensive online documentaries about the Los Angeles River,” says Juan Devis, KCET New Media producer, who blogged about his experiences throughout the project’s production process at KCET’s Web Stories site. “The scope of the project included environmental lessons and hands-on multimedia training for students that empowered them to help us tell this amazing story from multiple perspectives.”

Departures: L.A. River is one of four youth media initiatives, with support from the Adobe Youth Voices Venture Fund, that are inspiring young people to work with educators in their communities to create compelling digital media content. Through the PBS Foundation, three PBS member stations — KCET in Los Angeles, WGBH in Boston, and WILL in Urbana, Ill. — and McNeil/ Lehrer Productions, producers of the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, received funding for projects that offer outstanding educational value and youth engagement.

Departures: L.A. River is produced for KCET by Juan Devis, Director of Production, KCET New Media and co-produced by Justin Cram, in collaboration with Friends of the Los Angeles River. Multimedia and content curricula were created by Alica Katano, Friends of Los Angeles River; and KCET New Media Staff, under the leadership of Jackie Kain, Senior Vice President, KCET New Media. Historical Images appear courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library, SPARC and Metabolic Studios.

Student participants from Los Angeles Leadership Academy: Sandra Cach, Lizbeth Sierra, Arthur Salcedo, Brenda Ramos, Alma Sanchez, Yosselin Melgar, Kiara Hernandez, Jesus Hernandez, Vanessa Covarrubias, Gabriel Kim, Ely Hernandez, Cindy Irineo, Giovanni Jimenez, Yessenia Hernandez, Mengi Luo, Mo Rahman and John Aod Alvarez.

KCET, public television for Southern and Central California, offers extensive content at www.kcet.org, including web-exclusives and podcasts, plus complete episodes of the PBS series Frontline, NOW, Tavis Smiley, Bill Moyers Journal and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Daily webcasts of NewsHour and Nightly Business Report are also available. Each issue of Web Stories offersan insider’s glimpse of the cultural diversity found in Los Angeles.

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