Digital Matters Symposium

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The Digital Matters Symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition <A HREF="http://www.cfcca.org.uk/exhibition/gallery-1-digital-matters-the-earth-behind-the-screen/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Digital Matters: The Earth Behind the Screen</A>, opening at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art on 3rd November 2017, exploring the relationship between the natural and the technological through artworks produced in Hong Kong, China and in the UK.
The <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-matters-symposium-tickets-38071494866" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">Digital Matters Symposium</A> wishes to host a debate around the interconnection among technology, nature and art. The symposium will give artists, curators and scholars the opportunity to reflect on the visual and theoretical expressions of the paradoxical relationship between technological progress and environmental destruction and discuss the role of new media art on the development of a new understanding of this relationship. Furthermore, it will explore how the curatorial space can inspire different geopolitical imaginaries by interrogating the “material alter ego” of our digital technocapitalist society.  The symposium takes place at the University of Salford. Confirmed speakers are MAP Office (Artists, Hong Kong), Dani Ploeger (New Media Artist, UK), Dr Christopher Payne (Lecturer Chinese Studies, University of Manchester), Dr Steven Gartside (Curator, Holden Gallery), Dr Beccy Kennedy (Senior lecturer in Art History, Manchester Metropolitan University). As part of the symposium we will be screening Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang's Behemoth (Venice Film Festival 2015).  The symposium is supported by <A HREF="http://www.cfcca.org.uk/asia-research-network-for-arts-and-media/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Asia Research Network for Arts and Media</A> (ARNAM).
Lunch will be provided. 
S C H E D U L E
10.00 a.m. Registration
10.30 a.m. Introduction Zoe Dunbar, Director, Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art Lindsay Taylor, Art Curator, University Art Collection, University of Salford
10.40 a.m. Digital Matters: Contemporaneity, Capitalocene and the Curatorial Marianna Tsionki, Research Curator, CFCCA & University of Salford, PhD Candidate Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
11.00 a.m. Solid Sea | Liquid Land MAP Office, Artists duo, Hong Kong
11.30 a.m. Coffee break
11.45 a.m. Garbage Cyborg Genesis Dani Ploeger, New Media Artist, UK & Netherlands
12.15 p.m. Curatorial Remains Dr Steven Gartside, Curator of the Holden Gallery & Research Fellow at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
12.45 p.m. Lunch (to be provided) & Screening of Behemoth (screening starts at 1.00 p.m.) 72nd Venice International Film Festival Dir. Zhao Liang / 2015 / Documentary / 95mins / Mandarin with English Subtitles
1.45 p.m. Manipulated Environment—Li Yuan-chia’s (Pre-digital) Photographic Landscape Adventures Dr Christopher Payne, Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Manchester
2.15 p.m. Chinese Industrialisations and contemporary humanising art practices Dr Beccy Kennedy, Senior lecturer in Art History, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
2.45 p.m. Digitised canvases: Explorations of space in contemporary Chinese art Dr Angela Becher, Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Manchester
3.15 p.m. Coffee break
3.30 p.m. Screening of Leviathan Episode 1, by Shezad Dawood Introduction by Dr Alice Correia, Researcher, Arts & Media, University of Salford & Lindsay Taylor, Art Curator, University Art Collection, University of Salford
4.00 p.m. Digital rot: the online afterlife of the Shougang Steel Plant Annabella Mei Massey, DPhil candidate in Chinese literary and visual culture, University of Oxford
4.30 p.m. End of programme

The Studio Theatre, New Adelphi Building

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