January 04, 2007
Upgrade! Seattle
annie on ni wan + eunsu kang
Upgrade! Seattle :: 7 pm Thursday January 11, 2007 :: 911 Media Arts Center • 402 9th Ave N • Seattle, WA.
Annie On Ni Wan is a young activist in audiovisual performance, interactive art and an innovator in interactive technologies. She achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, in 2002. She has lived in Singapore, London, Brighton and Gothenburg (Sweden), earned a Master of Science in Art and Technology at Innovative Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2005. Her work includes locative media, audiovisual performances and interactive installations.
Eunsu Kang will talk about her media art work such as videos, interactive installations and interactive performances. These are her attempts to represent her consistence subjects; Alien, who is someone or some creature has been shunned by "normal" communication method, Unknown Zone and the new forms of communication which will open more channels among aliens and others. She explores a new form of communication in the form of Art, especially Media Art that concerns communication in the matter of theme and modality simultaneously.
Annie Wan is a young activist in audiovisual performance, interactive art and an innovator in interactive technologies. She achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, in 2002. She has lived in Singapore, London, Brighton and Gothenburg (Sweden), earned a Master of Science in Art and Technology at Innovative Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2005.
Her works, including locative media, audiovisual performances and interactive installations, have been shown at the Mondal Museum (Sweden); Syndicate Potential (Strasbourg, France); Art+Communication Festival 2004 (Riga, Latvia); Piksel 2004; FLOSS in Motion, (Bergen, Norway); Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference 2004 (Singapore); and Oppositional Architecture (Berlin, Germany). She received travel and project grants from various organizations in Hong Kong, Sweden, and Norway, including the Nordic Fund and EU Culture Fund.
Recently, she co-curated the locative media gallery for Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), participated in ZeroOne/ ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) 2006 in San Jose and 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy as an invited artist.
Eunsu Kang is an international media artist from Korea. She has been invited to more than sixty exhibitions and film festivals around the world. She was awarded her first and second solo exhibitions for her video installations. Her third solo exhibition was held on cellular phones with wireless internet connections. She is also a winner of the Korean National Fund for Emerging Artists in 2005, the Insa Web/Mobile Art Project Award in 2003 and the Korean National Juried Project for 2000: the Year of New Arts. Kang received her MA in Media Arts and Technology from the MAT program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her MFA and BFA from the Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.
She is currently a PhD student at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media in the University of Washington. Her current research interests are the use of non-verbal languages as a new forms of communication and interactive video installations representing questions, but not necessarily pursuing answers. Recently she presented an international telematic project between Seattle (USA) and Seoul (Korea) that uses video and sound interaction by participants' shape and motion as a communication interface.
Posted by jo at January 4, 2007 04:22 PM
