新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）展览“是什么使今天的计算机如此有趣，如此荒谬？”于2019年10月19日举行了预览活动。展览将于2019年10月30日正式开始并持续至12月30日，呈现艺术家拉尔夫·贝克尔、亚瑟·甘森、马汀·豪斯、李学智、菲托·塞格雷拉、张画的作品。

本次展览通过展现艺术家自创技术与批判性技术所成就的代表性作品，召唤一个抗议的幽灵，去抵御流行、时髦和市场，以此来疏解技术的效用性，干扰其功能性，篡夺其熟悉性，从而对当前无孔不入的技术流行主义进行反思及批评。为企业与机构利益所绑架的技术流行主义并往往出于政治投机而一味地将艺术与技术苟合。

Chronus Art Center (CAC) Fall exhibition preview Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Computers So Intriguing, So Nonsensical? took place on October 19, 2019, featuring works by artists Ralf Baecker, Arthur Ganson, Martin Howse, LI Xuezhi, Fito Segrera, and ZHANG Hua. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 30, 2019, and remains on view through December 30.

Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Computers So Intriguing, So Nonsensical?  takes the virtually eponymous title of a work that once epiphanized an era, to call out, via representative works empowered by artistic and critical technologies, a ghost of discontent against the popular, the vogue and the market, to turn the technological utility into the estranged, to disrupt the functional and to usurp the familiar, in order to reflect on and critique the currently pervasive technological popularism hijacked by the corporate and institutional interests and coopted through the indiscriminating promiscuity of art and technology premised on the opportunistic investment of political ambition.

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 预览现场 

Exhibition Preview

2019.10.19

周六 Sat.

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 艺术家座谈 

Artist Talk

< 拉尔夫·贝克尔、李学智、张画 >

主持：张尕

< Ralf Baecker, LI Xuezhi, ZHANG Hua >

Moderated by ZHANG Ga

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 展览作品 

Exhibiting Works

张画

《人工直觉》，2018

动作交互动态雕塑

ZHANG Hua

Artificial Intuition, 2018

kinetic sculpture

马汀·豪斯

《测试执行主机》，2016 - 至今

图灵机装置

Martin Howse

Test Execution Host, 2016 ongoing

Turing installation

拉尔夫·贝克尔

《计算空间》，2018

雕塑

Ralf Baecker

Rechnender Raum, 2018

sculpture.

李学智

《造物》，2019

机械装置

Li Xuezhi

Genesis, 2019,

mechanical installation.

菲托·塞格雷拉

《生成的形态》，2018

人工智能雕塑

Fito Segrera

The Form of Becoming, 2018

artificial intelligence sculpture

亚瑟·甘森

《目睹大爆炸》，2019

雕塑  

Arthur Ganson

Beholding the Big Bang, 2019

sculpture

是什么使今天的计算机如此有趣，如此荒谬？

2019.10.30 – 2019.12.30

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

Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Computers So Intriguing, So Nonsensical?

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。

Established in 2013, Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lectures and workshop programs and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences. 

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