Phd thesis on video and sound art available online

Phd thesis on sound and video art installation by Bruce Mowson of Melbourne is available online in its entirety here. You can also download a Pdf of the thesis for $2. A good study for anyone interested in the genre.

Abstract as follows:

This project aims to produce new material and understandings about audio/visual installation art and immanence. Immanence describes a subjective state that emphasises an embodied sense in time and space. It is explored in the project artworks by using materials and techniques that heighten one’s sense of being a receptor – of seeing and hearing, rather than being an identity formed in language. The research works through the derivation of my notion of immanence from my environmental listening experiences. I have used artistic and philosophical material to aid and extend these concepts in relation to their investigation through the practical works.

The research is conducted using non-linear audio/visual technologies to create installation art works that elude narrative sequencing through generative techniques. Typically this involves a computer generated image and sound, projected into space in ways that seek to heighten the audience’s sense of embodiment. These works are non-repetitive, and close attention to the materials reveals a structure of non-hierarchical variation, and of continual change. Philosophically, this emphasises immanent notions of the self as being in a state of becoming – of being simultaneously complete in the present moment yet continually in change.

The research explores and reveals a number of outcomes and shifts of position. At a technical level, a number of ways of combining generative sound and image are explored, and methods for creating variation within a continuum are implemented. A number of presentations of the works are made in installation spaces, and these document the tension between the framed format of video and the immersive and surrounding embodiment which is activated in installation practice.

Video: the future

An optimistic video containing loads of interesting nuggets on the future

More Shanghai World Expo pavilion designs

Shanghai’s World Expo HQ have updated their site with more glorious designs. You can review them here.
My current favourite is the Dutch effort below

Auction result

The Shanghai Eye painting was auctioned last night for $2500, proceeds go to Shanghai Sunrise and other charities. Nice.
Couldn’t find a very clear image of the painting, its from 2006, it appeared here.
Its the painting on the right.

Jogjakarta- city has 10,000 artists

The AGE has a piece on Indonesian upcoming artists here.

10,000? That’s a lot of artists…..

Shanghai Eye painting to be auctioned for charity

A painting by Shanghai Eye will be auctioned off at the production of Cinderella tonight at Dulwich College.

All proceeds going to local charities, the event starts at 7pm. Oh yes it will…

mini news round up

Not a lot of news out there on the interweb at the moment, but here is what we have at the moment:

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China and Taiwan are in talks over the art treasures in Taipei. As I understand it, China still hasn’t made any noises about an anti seizure law.

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Photoshop madness

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A weihai696 show

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Check out the cool art of Jason Chan

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Similarly visit IFA gallery’s latest show on Changde Lu.

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UCCA has published their upcoming show schedule
Qiu Zhijie: Breaking through the ice
February 15 - May 15, 2009

Mona Hatoum: Measures of Entanglement
February 7 - April 5, 2009

He An:
What makes me understand what I know
February 7 - March 22, 2009

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA)
798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Lu
Chaoyang District, Beijing P.R.China, 100015

http://www.ucca.org.cn

Art interview with HK art suprema

Eastday has published a long interview in English here with Catherine Kwai, Vice President of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Cultural Exchange Fund Association and Examiner of Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Some great quotes such as:
Oh, yes. 2008, I have met a lot of people who want to buy the art. And they went to Christie and Sotheby. Wow, my goodness. You need to spend so much money for one piece of art. It’s true. In the last 2 years, I do see a lot of real keen collectors and serious art lovers. They want to buy. But then they feel the price is too high. They wait until the good time now. There are a lot of new buyers waiting. I would say get a consultant first.

News- Beijing loses plot (again)

Bit behind (all right, very behind) on the news..anyhow Red Box does a good job, here’s a good piece on Beijing’s blocking of an important show.

Bali sketchbook

Here are a few images of work produced on Shanghai Eye’s, erm, research trip, to Bali…something of a busman’s holiday you might say. For some interesting Bali related info check out these sites - Bali blog (by an Oz journalist), another blog by an old Shanghailander, and some info on a painter who lived in Ubud, Bali’s painter town.