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Cross-Cultural Roots for Media Practice: Chinese Aesthetics

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Thursday, October 22, 2020
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Thursday, November 5, 2020
7pm
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9pm

Inspire your media art practice with non-Western history, art, science, and philosophy with media theorist Siying Duan.

Sign up: https://crosscultural-with-siying.eventbrite.ca

Registration closes Oct 15, 4pm

6 hours total, over 3 sessions, online // $66, or $45 for members

** By donation for those facing reduced income due to COVID-19

Session 1: Thu Oct 22, 7pm - 9pm

Session 2: Thu Oct 29, 7pm - 9pm

Session 3: Thu Nov 5, 7pm - 9pm

Listed times are Pacific Time

Prerequisites:

  • Suited for practicing media artists, curators, and writers who who seek cross-cultural inspiration and want to expand their idea and approach.
  • Participants must bring a project idea they are developing or reworking and that they wish to workshop in a group discussion format.
  • To join the workshop, download the free Zoom Desktop Client. Go to https://zoom.us/download and click on the Download button under "Zoom Client for Meetings".

How do your questions, process, and aesthetics change if you re-imagine technology itself as having roots in, for example, Islamic culture? Chinese culture? Indigenous culture?

This discussion-based workshop is intended to enrich your creative process and approach to media art by drawing inspiration from the particular histories, arts, sciences, philosophies, and everyday practices of so-called non-western cultures, using a method Laura Marks of the Substantial Motion Network developed for identifying Islamic roots of media art.

Bring your project ideas to the group, and discuss ways to explore your work-in-progress through specific cultural lenses. You'll study examples, and revise your own project ideas based on the feedback you receive from the instructors and other participants. The instructor Siying Duan will present examples from Chinese cultures. Between each session, you'll continue researching, editing, and refining your project for further feedback with the group.

Looking for more like this? Sign up for this same workshop led by Farshid Kazemi to explore further examples from Persian and Islamic cultures. It's begins the week after this one ends: https://crosscultural-with-farshid.eventbrite.ca

Venue Accessibility

VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.

Wheelchair/Walker Access

A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.

Washrooms

There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.

To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.

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