Science and Technology in Cultural Context

Digital Art Weeks 2010

DAW XIAN 10 Programme

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010, 09:00 - 12:30

Workshop: "Live Audio & Visuals" → more

Stefan Müller Arisona (CHE), Steve Gibson (CAN/GBR)
Location: Xi'an Conservatory of Music → more info

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010, 09:00 - 12.30

Workshop: "Performance Workshop to Vienna Underground" → more

Anna Dumitriu & Margarete Jahrmann
Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010, 09.00 - 16.30

Special Event: "Academic Research Presentation" (Talks & Demos) → more

Xian Jiaotong University → more info

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010, 09.00 - 12:30

Workshop:"New Improvisation" → more

Roland Dahinden (CHE) & Hildegard Kleeb (CHE)
Location: Xi'an Conservatory of Music → more info

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010, 09.:00 - 12:30 (tentative)

Workshop: "Physical Computing for Artists and Designers" → more

Justin Love (CAN)
Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Thursday, July 1st , 09:00 - 16:00

Symposium: "Transdisciplinarity" → more

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info
Chairs: Steve Gibson and Donna Leishman

09.00-9.30 Welcome and introductions, Donna Leishman

09.30-10.30 Keynote: Transliteracy: Crossing Divides
Prof. Sue Thomas, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, UK

10.30-11.15 Talk: Creating a Transdisciplinary Research Institute: the Institute Of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Prof. Andrew Hugill, Director, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, UK

11.15-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.15 Talk: Prolonging Software Life for Digital Art Systems
Hongji Yang, Software Technology Research Laboratory (STRL)/Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, UK

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.15 Talk: The Art of Mobility
Prof. Martin Rieser, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, U

14.15-15.00 Talk: This Is Not A Game
Donna Leishman, Programme Director, Illustration, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland

15.00-15.15 Coffee Break

15.15-16.00 Talk: Game Arts and Ludic Society
Prof. Margarete Jahrmann, Department of Interactive Design, Zurich University of the Arts

Thursday, July 1st, 16.15

Panel Discussion with Prof MA Qinyun: "Artificial Life and Virtual Suburbia"

Yifan Wang (CHN), Simon Schubiger (CHE), John Craig Freeman (USA), Anna Dumitriu (GBR)
Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Thursday, July 1st, 16.30

Pre-Event Lecture, Prof. Dr. Andrew Hugill

Location: Xi'an Conservatory of Music → more info

Thursday, July 1st, 18.00

Departure via Bus to Jade Valley

Location: Jade Valley Resort → more info

Thursday, July 1st, 20.00

Concert: Piano Pataphysics, Hildegard Kleeb, Piano (CHE) → more

Location: Jade Valley Resort → more info

Wine-Tasting Event and After-Concert: Snacks O' Night → more

Tom Kuo, DJ/laptop (CHN/CAN) and Steve Gibson, Synth/Vocoder (CAN/GBR) Location: Jade Valley Resort → more info

Friday, July 2nd, 2010, 10.00 - 17.00

Official Opening: "Trans-Art Exhibition" → more

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Friday, July 2nd, 2010, 10:15 - 11:15

Opening Addresses to Trans-Art Exhibition: Various Speakers

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Friday, July 2nd, 2010, starting at 11:15

Live Performances to the Trans-Art Exhibition. → more

Vienna Underground with Anna Dumitriu, Margarete Jahrmann, Martin Rieser & Workshop Participants
Virta-Flaneurazine Clinical Trial with Will Pappenheimer & John Craig Freeman

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Friday, July 2nd, 2010, 2010 from 13:45 - 16:45

Symposium: "Re-Expanding Cinema" → more

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info
Chairs: Art Clay, Steve Gibson

13.45-14.00 Welcome and introductions, Steve Gibson

14.00-15.00 Keynote: The Mega Pixel. New Medium, Or Just a Shinier Surface?
Peter Richardson, Programme Director, Time Based Art & Digital Film, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland

15.00-15.45 Talk: Spatial and Physical Art
Steve Gibson, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, UK

15.45-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-16.45 Talk: New Understandings of the concepts of the mimetic and the diegetic in the creation of Art
Terry Flaxton, AHRC Senior Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Bristol, UK

16.45-17.30 Talk: Exploring Digital Space in Musical Performance Art
Lily Dai, Shanghai Music Conservatory

17:30-18:15 Panel: Social Psychology And Digital Aesthetics
Moderator: F. Scott Taylor (CAN) Panelists: Ted Hiebert (CAN), Margarete Jahrmann (AUT), Donna Leishman (GBR), Martin Rieser (GBR), Sue Thomas (GBR)

Friday, July 2nd, 19.30

Pre-Event Lecture: "The Outlook of Digital Media"

Prof. Liang Hongqi, Dean, Xi'an Conservatory of Music

Location: Xi'an Conservatory of Music → more info

Friday, July 2nd, 2010, 20.30

Concert: "Scores & Screens" → MORE

Roland Dahinden (CHE), Trombone & Alphorn; Hildegard Kleeb (CHE), Piano; Art Clay, (USA/CHE), Found Objects
Location: Xi'an Conservatory of Music → more info

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010, 09:00 - 16.45

Symposium: "Intangible Materialism and the Tangible Spirit" → more

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info
Chairs: Doug Jarvis & Yifan Wang

09.00-09.30 Welcome and introductions, Yifan Wang

09.30-10.30 Keynote:
Mr. Scott Taylor, Bhutoparikalpo'sti, Unreal Imagination Exists

10.30-11.15 Talk: The Wonderland of Virtual Reality
Yi Fan Wang, Visual Arts, University of Victoria, BC Canada

11.15-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.15 Talk: When am I? Avatars as a Persistence of Form
Doug Jarvis, University of Guelph, ON Canada

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.15 Talk: The Emergence of Consciousness
Anna Dumitriu, University of Brighton. England

14.15-15.00 Talk: Imaginary Selves and Impossible Solutions
Ted Hiebert, University of Washington Bothell

15.00-15.15 Coffee Break

15.15-16.00 Talk: The Church According To Marchall McLuhan tentative
Art Clay, Artistic Director, Digital Art Weeks, Switzerland

16.00-16.45 Talk: Virta-Flaneurazine Clinical Trial Results
Will Pappenheimer, Pace University & John Craig Freeman, Emerson College

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010, 20:00

Opening Address to Event: Speakers to be announced

Location: to be announced → more info

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010, starting after 20:30

Performance: "Swiss Re-Mixed" → more

Roland Dahinden & Co, Justin Love (CAN)
Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010, starting after 21:30

Performance: "Volumes & Visions" → more

DJ Tom Kuo (CHN/CAN); Steve Gibson (CAN/GBR); Scheinwerfer (Corebounce, CHE); and Justin Love (CAN)
Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Sunday July 4th, 2010, 09:00 - 16:30

Excursion → more

Sunday, July 4th, 2010, 18:00

Pre-Event Lecture: "L’intervention artistique et critique dans les médias numériques, jouabilité du film, écrans mobiles et creation partagée"

Prof. Jean Louis Boissier

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Sunday, July 4th, 2010, starting at 18:30 ending at 20.30

"Screening: Digitally Asian" → more

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

Sunday, July 4th, starting at 21.00 ending at 22.30

"SCREENING: RE-EXPANDING CINEMA" → more

Location: Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts → more info

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