2024.12.29 Sunday 19:00
Location
Xiangsun studio，F4, 117 Pingwu Road, Changning District, Shanghai
Speaker: Cao Jiamin
In the digit-mediated quotidian, what does it mean to touch? This performative lecture explores the faculty of touch, investigating the development of the primitive sensation into haptics—“the science of touches”— and its shift from the laboratory to the digital interface. The lecture also intends to reveal the technology inherent in this modality while further delineating the reality reassembled through the mediation of touch from finger counting to clicking and scaling on (virtual) interfaces. Amid countless attempts to approach and grasp—a perpetual pursuit of intimacy that remains elusive—what new fiction might touch enable us to connect with?
CAO Jiamin works on writing, translating and curatorial practices engaged with digital media technologies that shapes the contemporary social-cultural discourse, investigating the potentials of artistic-research-oriented methodologies in the intersecting area of art and technology.
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VORTEX, launched by the MACA in Shanghai in 2022, is an art and cultural salon in the form of lecture performances occurring once or twice every month. The programme calls for non-institutionalised artistic and academic production in which contemporary art practitioners and scholars get to explore cross-disciplinarily the issues of the macro or micro, the global or local, the collective or individual. VORTEX, hence, is where you spin in the whirlpool of spontaneous whims and intuitive approaches represented by individual research and enquiries. Being present here at VORTEX, you are experiencing versatile forms of lecture performances that experiment with new mechanisms and methodologies.
