Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin. #EMO. 2014. Music videos (still)
with Chris Fernald, JS Tan and Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin
Curated by Chelsea Liu and David Xu Borgonjon of SCREEN
Seeing has become noisier. Our stars are our images, and new constellations are being projected onto our eyes daily. Our tastes have become as networked as our means for expressing them, and in the process, domesticated.
SCREEN’s curatorial project, which spans the digital, the performative, and the exhibitionary, aims to bring a fuller body into the image. Mathematically, any f : X → Y, the arrow which transforms one domain into another is called an image. This kind of transformative relation has little to do with the problems of representation, and a lot to do with the fun of getting together.
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ONLINE PROJECTS
Fullscreen
www.onscreentoday.com/fullscreen
Limited release beginning October 30
Selected through an open call process pivoting on digital intimacy, these online projects were developed with the support of SCREEN. This collection of objects become tools will launch Fullscreen, our dedicated site for online curatorial projects.
Chris Fernald’s Treatment uses songwriting and the desktop interface to reflect on casual web browsing and dance club environs. It examines and induces an alternate state of being.
JS Tan’s Silent, built in collaboration with JJ Tan, is a web application that allows users to be together online with no other form of interaction but sharing a URL.
Vivian Vivian Xiaoshi Qin’s #EMO v.2, developed with Jing Lin, is a platform that allows one to enter a hashtag and generate a rap song with information scraped from twitter emojis.
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JS and JJ Tan. Silent. Web application (promotional image). 2015
EXHIBITION
Face to Interface
October 30 – November 8
Chinatown Soup, 16B Orchard St
Open Tuesday-Sunday 12-7PM
Just what is it that makes today’s internet so different, so appealing? In collaboration with Chinatown Soup as part of Asia Contemporary Art Week, this exhibition will comprise related works on paper and sculptures by Fernald, Qin and Hello Velocity, a creative agency contracted by Tan for Silent.
Fernald’s Pop Effigies I-IV map indices of bodily presence as they traverse the digital netherworld.
Tan and Tan contribute an interactive installation that analogizes their web application Silent. Marketed by their digital-only agency Hello Velocity,
Qin contributes a time capsule-like sculpture created from dummy iPhones.
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PERFORMANCES
“Request Microphone Access”
Performances followed by closing reception
November 7, 7:00-9:00PM
Chinatown Soup, 16B Orchard St
These performances pervert the orthodoxy that having a voice = being heard = possessing power. What about silence, breathing and stuttering, as alternate forms of embodiment?
Fernald will premiere In The Feel in Myself (feeling myself), which adapts the heavy breathing of Britney Spears into an audio collage of the bubble gum life both haunting and haunted.
A user testing experience for Tan and Tan‘s newly-launched web platform, Silent. Marketing by Hello Velocity.
Qin will premiere a Socratic dialogue Do You Want to Immigrate to the Future?, which uses Google Translate. Developed with Jiao Ouyang and Qinyi Zhang.
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Chris Fernald is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. His interest in the poetics of the post-human condition underlies his explorations of the popular music industry, new age cultures, and networked experience. Recent exhibitions include group shows in New York and Mexico City. In 2016, Yyz Artists’ Outlet in Toronto will host a video collaboration between Cindy Ji Hye Kim and Fernald examining the modern zen koan. You can explore more work at www.chrisfernald.com
JS Tan graduated from the Brown | RISD Dual Degree Program in 2015 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Furniture and a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science. He is a founding member of the creative agency and artist collective Hello Velocity (http://www.hellovelocity.com/) with Lukas Bentel and Kevin Wiesner, and currently works at Microsoft as a Program Manager on the Azure Compute Team.
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin (born 1989, Guangzhou) is an artist based in New York. She received her MFA from Columbia University (2015) and BA in communication & studio art from Denison University (2012). Her work has been screened or exhibited in Fisher Landau Center for Art, Queens(2015), Wallach Art Gallery, New York (2014), Flux Factory, Queens (2015), Judith Charles Gallery, New York (2015), Jewish Museum, New York (2014), HB Station at Times Museum, Guangzhou (2014), Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus (2012), Upcoming exhibitions will be at 221a Gallery, Vancouver, Chinatown Soup, New York and Art F City in Brooklyn. She received the Lotos Foundation Prize in 2015. She writes about art and technology for Modern Weekly Magazine.
