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ajaimes [AT] ee.columbia.edu
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PRESENCE/ABSENCE
EXHIBITION
For
centuries, artists and philosophers have explored the notion of
presence from multiple perspectives, considering its physical,
psychological, and cultural dimensions. In that exploration,
technology has played an important role, not only in the development
of the tools used for the “representation” of presence, but also in
defining it: from the revolution in painting brought by photography,
to the new concepts of presence brought by technological advances in
the last sixty years (virtual reality, telepresence, immersive
presence, experiential systems, etc.). Such technologies, and in
particular those that combine multiple media (video, images,
computer graphics, audio, haptics), seem to increase “presence,”
questioning our embodied, singular sense of being in this world as
the only way of positioning ourselves. That questioning is closely
linked to cultural, social, and economic factors: presence can be
used to reaffirm power or control structures; it can multiply our
sense of being by erasing distance barriers and allow us to take on
new, virtual identities, or it can be interpreted as leading to
absence as in the belief in some cultures that photographs steal the
soul.
Artists
have worked with “technologies of presence” (e.g., image, light,
reflection, emotion), in traditional art for a long time. However,
while the rapid spread of technology has brought unprecedented
changes in the very basic notions of presence (“being there” can be
interpreted as being “on-line”), advances in transportation have
lowered costs and changed the physical landscape: those with enough
resources are able to travel to be “anywhere” in short periods of
time, and opportunities for the less fortunate have also opened up,
allowing the unprecedented movement of people creating great
challenges for humanity in the 21st century.
In
the scope of these new challenges and opportunities, we invite
inter-disciplinary works that address the issue of presence both in
artistic and technological, but even more, in political (migration,
home, sense of belonging and identification) contexts. We particularly seek
interactive multimedia works that by combining multiple media,
technologies, and novel technical ideas, realize strong artistic
concepts that give a new perspective on any aspect of
presence.
The conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore and the art exhibition will be held at the LASALLE-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
Please
read the Art Program Submission instructions (to be posted in due
course) for submission details.
Exhibition Curatorial
Committee
Jeffrey
Shaw [*] [*]
University
of New South Wales
Australia
Yukiko
Shikata
NTT
InterCommunication Center
Japan
Eugene
Tan
LASALLE-SIA
College of the Arts
Singapore
Wolfgang Muench
Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore)
Singapore
Alejandro
Jaimes [*] [*]
FXPAL
Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
Japan
Andrew
Senior [*]
[*]
IBM
T.J.Watson Research Center
USA
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