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CAC · Co-production | ALIA: ZǓ TÀI

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Date
April 27 (Sat.)

Time
8pm

Venue
McaM Ming Contemporary Art Museum, 436 East Yonghe Road, Shanghai

Presented by
McaM Ming Contemporary Art Museum

Co-produced by
CAC Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), CTM Festival (Berlin)

Supported by
Goethe-Institut

Admission
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Co-produced by Chronus Art Center (CAC) and CTM Festival under the support of the Goethe-Institut's International Coproduction Fund, the project ALIA: Zǔ TàI ideated by artists Marco Donnarumma and Nunu Kong will premier at Ming Contemporary Art Museum on April 27, 2019. Created across China and Germany, the project showcased its preview at Shanghai Chronus Art Center and traveled to Berlin subsequently for the premier at Haus der Kulturen der Welt on November 24, 2018. ALIA: Zǔ TàI is a performance project that intends to investigate the complex relations between human bodies and robotics based on the local social-cultural context.

About the Project

Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) and robots monitor regualte human bodies and their relations at a social and personal level. Far from being passive coomodities, 'intelligent' software, body sensors and robotic devices drastically affect the physiological, psychological and cultural basis of human life. Which kinds of identities do AI and robotics produce? How do those technologies influence the way we understand and discriminate human bodies? Who is 'normal' and why?

ALIA: Zǔ TàI is a piece combining dance theater and biophysical music with state-of-the-art AI robotics. Three humans and two AI robots inhabit an aseptic space, whose uncanny whiteness is interrupted by neatly ordered computer screen, cables and circuit boards. As in a lucid dream, woman nurses one of the robots, a primitive form of sensuality hidden behind an apparently everyday routine. The robot responds to her, caressing her with sinuous movements, wagging its limbs, moving as an eerie, alive piece of metal.

The sweet quietness is only a prelude. As other humans and robots enter the stage, hidden hostilities start to surface. Biosensors on the performers’ bodies amplify their muscular activity into a sound storm, a fleshly sound attack manifesting to the audience the straining tension of their desires. Already wavering relationships are crashed under a choreography of cruelty. The desire of possessing those robotic limbs, the violent wish to own those robotic bodies overturns any rational response, to the point where the technology seems to own the human.

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Taking its title from the Latin “alia” – the other – and the Chinese “zǔ tài” – configuration, ALIA: Zǔ TàI unleashes the violence and celebrates the frailty of both the human being and AI technology. It's a portray of hybrid identities and mongrel relationships, where both utopia and dystopias are shattered by the psychological power and dangers of technology. Should those identities find a landing spot after the madness of this power play? And where to land?

ALIA: Zǔ TàI is part of the 7 Configurations

cycle (2014-2018), a series of performances and installations at the crossroad between body art, dance theater, sound art and media art. In the 7 Configurations, Donnarumma, in collaboration with a range of artists, probes the physical, psychological and cultural conflicts surrounding the huamn body in the era of artificual intelligence (AI).

The cycle features machine performers in the form of AI prosthetic robots. Created by Donnarumma in collaboration with the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory in Berlin, the prostheses use tools from AI and humanoid robotics to mimic animal’s body coordination. Through haptic sensors and neural networks the machines sense and respond to the actions of the other performers on stage or to the physical constraints of their own environment.

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Credits

Concept, artistic direction, music, AI robotics: Marco Donnarumma

Choreography: Nunu Kong

Dramaturgy, performance: Marco Donnarumma, Nunu Kong

Performance: Lingling Chen

Stage production: Andrea Familari

Light design: Eduardo Abdala

Robotics visual design: Ana Rajcevic

3D modeling and printing: Christian Schmidts

Scientific partner: Neurorobotics Research Laboratory, Beuth Hochschule

Photography: Dario J Lagan?§ | norte.it, Underskin Photography

The project is supported by the UdK Berlin Graduate School, the Berlin Center for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences, the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory of the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven), and Resonans Festival (Frederiksberg).

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生长

2019.03.21 – 06.30

新时线媒体艺术中心 (CAC)

上海市普陀区莫干山路50号18号楼

Growing

March 21– June 30, 2019

Chronus Art Center (CAC)

BLDG.18, No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai

新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）荣幸宣布联合中央美术学院艺术与科技中心、中央美术学院实验艺术学院、同济大学艺术与传媒学院 (上海)、华东师范大学 (上海) 合作开展主题为 “后人类转向：再遇控制论“ 的联合工作室项目。

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新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）成立于2013年，系国内首家致力于媒体艺术之展示、研究/创作及学术交流的非营利性艺术机构。通过展览、驻留、奖学金、讲座、工作坊及相关文献的梳理与出版，CAC为媒体艺术在全球语境中的论述、生产及传播开拓了一个多样化且富有活力的平台。CAC以批判地介入不断改变进而重塑当代经验的媒体技术来推动艺术创新及文化认知。

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