Media Art 21 — A Symposium
Practices, Reflections, and Pedagogies of Global Media Art Since 2000
Thur, March 27, 2025 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm (HKT)
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Media Art 21 (MA21) is a new bi-lingual online editorial platform hosted by the Center for Art and Media | Karlsruhe (ZKM). It addresses some of the most urgent topics of our time through three key themes - Ecologies, Post-human, The Commons.
With a specific focus on the Global South and a commitment to pedagogies centered in our daily use of technologies, this platform seeks to provide access to content produced since 2000 and to expand horizontally in organic ways through a network of artists, curators, and scholars who share a belief in accessibility of content as much as in the need of criticality and contextualization. To offer both in one platform is one of the stated goals of MA21. To imagine uses and directions for the project is the topic of this symposium.
Media art is an essential part of global contemporary art practice. It addresses the world of the present through a shared discourse of the media of the past, present, and future. With the increasing artistic production of media art and its growing presence in international art exhibitions comes a growing need for critical and scholarly reflection, as well as for the inclusion of this field of practice in art education. For artists, scholars, curators, and students, access to original materials in conjunction with critical reflection is of prime importance for the study and development of an artistic field that has remarkably influenced, shaped, and stimulated contemporary art.
On March 27, 2025, in Hong Kong, we will convene advisors, contributors and scholars to discuss their needs for a pedagogy of the 21st century centered on the three thematic topics. The half-day convening, planned as a collateral event of Art Basel Hong Kong, is aimed at the larger public interested in a more accessible approach to contemporary and media-based practices.
Organized by ZKM and CAFA with the co-artistic directors of the platform, Rudolf Frieling (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), Alistair Hudson (Center for Art and Media | Karlsruhe), and Zhang Ga (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), Media Art 21 is an ongoing project with initial funding from the HE Foundation and additional support from the New Media Arts Foundation, and is hosted by the ZKM. The project encourages contributions from potential partners—artists, scholars, critics, and curators—to participate in all constructive ways, making it a rich intellectual resource for the study of media art in the new millennium.
Program
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Program March 27
at McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Center
2:00 – 2:10 pm Welcome remarks
Alistair Hudson (Chairman, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe)
CHAI Zhikun (Chairman, New Media Arts Foundation)2:10 – 2:30 pm Introduction
ZHANG Ga (Professor, CAFA)
Rudolf Frieling (Curator and Head of Media Art, SFMOMA)2:30 – 3:15 pm Session I: Reasoning Media Art in the Age of AI (45 Minutes with Q&A)
Joanna Zylinska (Professor, Kings Collage, London)
Monica Narula (Raqs Media Collective, India)3:15 – 3:30 pm Coffee break 3:30 – 4:15 pm Session II: Multitudes in the Making (45 Minutes with Q&A)
Giselle Beiguelman (Professor, University of São Paulo)
Dr. Karin Oen-Lee (Director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Senior Lecturer)4:15 – 5:15 pm Section III: Platforms (60 Minutes with Q&A)
HATANAKA Minoru (Chief Curator, NTTICC, Tokyo)
Lai Chui Han Linda (Associate professor School of Creative Media, HK)
Doris Poon (Program Director Videotage)5:15 – 6:00 pm Panel Discussion with all keynote speakers
Moderated by ZHANG Ga
媒体艺术21
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媒体艺术21
——2000年以来全球媒体艺术实践与反思，及其教学探索 专题研讨会
媒体艺术21（Media Art 21，简称：MA21）是一个由卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心（ZKM）主持的全新双语在线编辑平台。其旨在探讨一系列当下最为紧迫的话题——生态、后人类与共同体。平台特别聚焦于全球南方，并致力于围绕我们日常使用的技术展开教学的探索。其致力于提供2000年以来媒体艺术的产出内容的访问渠道，同时通过艺术家、策展人和学者所组成的网络，以有机方式对这些内容进行横向扩展。这些艺术家、策展人和学者共同持有对于内容可访问性的信念，以及对批判性和语境的需求。媒体艺术21的既定目标之一即是在一个平台提供兼顾这两种需求的功能。此次专题研讨会将聚焦于如何构想这一项目的应用与发展方向。
媒体艺术是全球当代艺术实践中不可或缺的组成部分。其以媒介的过去、现在和未来诠释世界之当下。伴随着媒体艺术实践及其在国际艺术展览中占比的日益增长，对其展开批判与学术性反思，同时将这一实践领域纳入到艺术教育的需求也在不断增加。艺术家、学者、策展人和学生能够访问原始资料并进行批判性思考，这对于研究和发展媒体艺术这样一个已经对当代艺术产生显著影响、塑造和促进作用的领域而言至关重要。
2025年3月27日，我们将在香港召集项目顾问、撰稿人以及其他学者，共同探讨围绕三个主题构建21世纪媒体艺术教学的需求。本次为期半天的会议计划作为香港巴塞尔艺术展的平行活动，旨在吸引更广泛的公众，关注更具可访问性的方式来理解当代和媒体艺术实践。
媒体艺术21由中央美术学院与卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心联合主办，联合艺术总监为鲁道夫·弗里林（Rudolf Frieling，旧金山现代艺术博物馆）、阿利斯泰尔·哈德森（Alistair Hudson，卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心）以及张尕（Zhang Ga，中央美术学院）。媒体艺术21是一个持续进行中的项目，最初由和的慈善基金会资助，并受到新媒体艺术基金会的额外支持，同时，由卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心为项目提供技术平台。本项目欢迎艺术家、学者、批评家和策展人以各种建设性方式参与，共同打造一个关于新千年媒体艺术研究的丰富智识资源。
媒体艺术21联合主办：卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心（ZKM）、中央美术学院科技艺术研究院
专题研讨会联合主办：新媒体艺术基金会
合作机构：香港艺术中心
特别鸣谢：奥沙艺术基金会
议程
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议程
地点：麦高利小剧场，香港艺术中心
时间：2025年3月27日，下午2:00–6:00下午 2:00 - 2:10 欢迎致辞
阿利斯泰尔·哈德森（Alistair Hudson，卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心主席）
柴志坤（Chai Zhikun，新媒体艺术基金会主席）下午 2:10 - 2:30 引言
张尕（Zhang Ga，中央美术学院教授，“后人类与生态紧迫性下的媒体艺术”）
鲁道夫·弗里林（Rudolf Frieling，旧金山现代艺术博物馆策展人，“新共同体与平台中的媒体艺术”）下午 2:30 – 3:15 第一场：人工智能时代的媒体艺术思辨（45分钟，包括问答环节）
乔安娜·瑞林斯嘉（Joanna Zylinska，伦敦国王学院教授）
莫妮卡·纳鲁拉（Monica Narula，Raqs媒体小组）下午 3:15 – 3:30 茶歇 下午 3:30 – 4:15 第二场：多元化的创生（45分钟，包括问答环节）
吉赛尔·贝格曼（Giselle Beiguelman，圣保罗大学教授，“南美媒体艺术概览”）
卡琳·厄恩－李（Karin Oen-Lee，新加坡南洋理工大学当代艺术中心总监，“想象未来技术东南亚媒体艺术”）下午 4:14 – 5:15 第三场：平台（60分钟）
畑中实（HATANAKA Minoru，日本互动艺术中心首席策展人）
黎翠珩（Lai Chui Han Linda，香港城市大学创意媒体学院副教授）
多丽丝·彭（Doris Poon，香港录映太奇主席）下午 5:15 – 6:00 圆桌讨论（所有发言人，45分钟）
主持人：张尕
Commons
The Commons in a Post-virtual World - Giselle Beiguelman
The Commons is a resource shared and managed by a community. The concept ranges from natural resources, such as air and water, to cultural and information goods produced and shared by a community and its members. This approach was at the heart of the debates of digital culture in the early days of the Internet.
Ecology
The Ecological Imagination in Time-based Media Art - Shannon Jackson
Media and video art practice of the last twenty years coincided with the harrowing expansion of climate degradation. While the effects of climate change had been anticipated before 2000, they took shape ubiquitously and lethally post-2000, bringing new challenges about whether and how to imagine a future for shared life on the planet. These effects coincided also with a deeper historical understanding of how we got here, tracking the history of extractive economies and their imbrication with the forces of gender, race, colonialism, and anthropocentricism.
Posthuman
Machines are not Alone - Zhang Ga
The world is machinic. Not only does its function depend on a network of machines, such as data farms of distributed servers over the surface of the earth, assembly lines that stretch endlessly long, and transportation vessels and vehicles crisscrossing the continents, out into space and traversing oceans; but also the land, rivers, mountains, trees, animals, cultures, and histories are all machines of some sort when seen from an operational point of view or an abstract sense of the word because they are systems of interconnected biospheres, geochemical aggregates, hydrodynamic flows, neural synapses, motor-sensor coordinates, psychosomatic attributes, social relationships and technical milieus, imbricated, intertwined, transversal and reciprocal, as intricate as the relationship between humans and thoughts, knowledge and freedom.
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