<strong>Street Made Global Exhibition Tour (Day 2) – Xindanwei </strong>
Hosted by East China Normal University School of Design in partnership with Xindanwei, 
The One Minutes Foundation  (China), Saint-Etienne International Design Biennal and Art Channel of SMG(China)

<strong> Opening Party</strong>
16:30, Saturday, July 31st, 2010

<strong> Exhibition Date</strong>
Saturday July 31 2010  16:30 – 20:00
Sunday August 1, 2010 10:00 – 17:00

<strong>Cost</strong>
free

<strong> Exhibition Address</strong>
Address: 4C, Bld 4 IIInShanghai Hub,No.727 Dingxi Road，Changning District, Shanghai

<strong>Public Transportation </strong>
Bus: Line 946、71、127、57、925、925B、936、776
Metro Line 3 &amp; 4(Yan’an Rd West)

<strong> Co-Curators</strong>
Jennifer Rudkin /
Jiang Hongqing

<strong> Hotline</strong>
Xindanwei, 13621825849
Jennifer Rudkin 15021064943, Jiang Hongqing 13764376012

The street is somewhere we walk, live, work, parade, jostle, and sometimes even collide. Shanghai Street Made project aims to show the city today: a precarious equilibrium, by putting forward the contrasts which create the energy and the unique atmosphere of this vibrant city.

After 2 weeks of intensive work, 15 concepts have been developed by the students of East China Normal University School of Design  from product design, audiovisual and public art backgrounds. This is the FIRST time these prototypes are exhibited. They display their work showing broad interpretations of the Shanghai Street Made Life.

The work of this exhibition focuses on four main aspects:

- INSPIRATIONAL RESOURCE FOR CREATIVITY in all artistic fields, create applications which witness our time through the analysis of systems created by the language of Shanghai street furniture.
- HISTORICAL APPROACH since its goal is to show today’s era, to freeze a moment of history in continuous change.
- ECOLOGICAL APPROACH since the players themselves apply a process involving material recuperation and recycling.
- SOCIAL APPROACH as we observe the skills developed by the people in need in order to complete their everyday actions: earn money, eat, clean…

Come to try them out and be part of the STREET MADE life!

Street Made Global Exhibition Tour – Xindanwei
Hosted by East China Normal University School of Design in partnership with Xindanwei, 
The One Minutes Foundation  (China), Saint-Etienne International Design Biennal and Art Channel of SMG(China)

Opening Party
16:30, Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Exhibition Date
Saturday July 31 2010  16:30 – 20:00
Sunday August 1, 2010 10:00 – 17:00

Cost
free

Exhibition Address
Address: 4C, Bld 4 IIInShanghai Hub,No.727 Dingxi Road，Changning District, Shanghai

Public Transportation
Bus: Line 946、71、127、57、925、925B、936、776
Metro Line 3 & 4(Yan’an Rd West)

Co-Curators
Jennifer Rudkin /
Jiang Hongqing

Hotline
Xindanwei, 13621825849
Jennifer Rudkin 15021064943, Jiang Hongqing 13764376012

The street is somewhere we walk, live, work, parade, jostle, and sometimes even collide. Shanghai Street Made project aims to show the city today: a precarious equilibrium, by putting forward the contrasts which create the energy and the unique atmosphere of this vibrant city.

After 2 weeks of intensive work, 15 concepts have been developed by the students of East China Normal University School of Design  from product design, audiovisual and public art backgrounds. This is the FIRST time these prototypes are exhibited. They display their work showing broad interpretations of the Shanghai Street Made Life.

The work of this exhibition focuses on four main aspects:

- INSPIRATIONAL RESOURCE FOR CREATIVITY in all artistic fields, create applications which witness our time through the analysis of systems created by the language of Shanghai street furniture.
- HISTORICAL APPROACH since its goal is to show today’s era, to freeze a moment of history in continuous change.
- ECOLOGICAL APPROACH since the players themselves apply a process involving material recuperation and recycling.
- SOCIAL APPROACH as we observe the skills developed by the people in need in order to complete their everyday actions: earn money, eat, clean…

Come to try them out and be part of the STREET MADE life!

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xindanwei chitchat edition 15: Jerry Zhu’s Antarctica story
Time: 18:00-20:00pm Friday July, 30th

Cost:free

Jerry Zhu is a junior student from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and he was Vice President of AIESEC in Shanghai. In November 2009, Jerry was selected in “International Antarctica Treaty Expedition” program among more than 600 candidates, to go to Antarctica for 15 days, following Robert Swan. He is the 1st university student in Shanghai ever who’s been to Antarctica.
Shortly after Jerry came back from Antarctica, he started to share his unique experience in different universities and occasions, meanwhile to encourage more people to join in a green lifestyle and arise the awareness of environmental protection by providing the proof of global warming from Antarctica. He was speaking in different universities, such as Shanghai Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Huazhong Agriculture University, Hunan University, SunYat-sen University, The Hongkong Polytechnic University, etc., and events such as Global University Students Forum, and directly impacted nearly 2,000 youth on climate change and social responsibility awareness. Jerry would like to share you his Antarctica story as well as green lifestyle understanding. At the same time, he is willing to discuss with us how Chinese youth should act and contribute on social responsibility.

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OpenSourceCamp ShangHai 2010:Open Is The Future
Time: Sunday, July 25, 2010 from 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Cost:free

About OpenSourceCamp

Open Source Camp is ad-hoc and unconference event that brings together developers, Geek , entrepreneurs, academics, venture capitalists, and technology influencer, tech media for an intense user-created conference about open source, emerging technology topics. It’s organized by the community, for the community. The event combines, sharing, learning, networking, and fun. Participants, who are experts and innovators in their fields, are also the presenters. The goal is to boost open source communities and innovation around the world.

Agenda

1.00 pm Registration and networking
2.00 pm Welcome Session by Organizers and Sponsors( by OSCAMP and xindanwei)
2.15 pm
Session 1: what is MeeGoo Fleming Feng Intel  ( 30 min)
Session 2:  SuSe Studio Application Program Alex Lau President of BLUG
Session 3: Sharism in Action:-Brandigg and New Xindanwei, Andre Pan (a.k.a POPOEVER), Brandigg (15 min)
　　 * Who is Brandigg and what we’re doing (Might be some fast review of our running case)
　　 * Introduing Share – new social capital in new economic
　　 * New Xindanwei, frastructured with Share
3.45 pm Unpanel Discussion
4.15 pm Lightning Talks: 6 Ideas x 5 Mins
4.45 pm Networking and Drinks
5.30 pm close and leave.

Twitter:

http://twitter.com/opensourcecamp

Sina WeiBo:

http://t.sina.com.cn/opensourcecamp

Unpanel

In this activity there are no panelists and no questions until the moderator begins the Unpanel. The goal of the Unpanel is to identify experts in the speakers and audience who are experienced in Open Source, Android, Cloud Computing, Web20 etc, then providing them an opportunity to answer the 10 most interesting questions from the audience.

Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks are 5 minute presentations where audience share their ideas about open source, technology, web 2.0, or any innovation ideas. These lectures provide thought leadership an serve to inspire new ideas and questions. In general, it is conducted a maximum of six lectures.

If you have a interesting 5 minute, non product pitch, lighting talk please let me know
opensourcecamp at gmail dot com

Sponsors:

Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people’s lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop collectively delivering better solutions with greater benefits for everyone.

SNDA as a leading interactive entertainment media company Shanda by Shanda, Shanda Literature, and other subjects and other big online services, to provide customers with a wide range of interactive entertainment content and services. Snda has the most extensive intellectual property online gaming product line, to provide users, including massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), casual games and a variety of online game products, to meet the needs of all users of general entertainment.

Xindanwei, which literally means “New Work Unit,” is a co-working community which promotes and facilitates creativity, sharing, and the great scale of collaboration. The core idea of Xindanwei is to combine the best elements of a workspace (productive, functional) with a social media platform (hybrid, real-time, efficient) and a creative hub (social, energetic, creative).  This gives people their own workspace in a community, while also providing opportunities to share knowledge face-to-face, and to get inspired through collaboration with other members

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Open Source Force

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xindanwei chitchat edition 13: BEAN -the largest volunteer organization in Shanghai
Time: 18:30-20:30pm Friday July, 23th

Cost:free

BEAN – Shanghai, the winner of the 2009 and 2010 Best Charity award for Shanghai, hosts community outreach events every weekend and several weekdays a month.  With over 1,800 members, BEAN is the largest volunteer organization in Shanghai. BEAN helps connect people with ways to contribute to the local community through long-term projects and one-off events that support both its own endeavors and other area charities.  The philosophy of the organization is that everyone should have the opportunity to give back, regardless of language ability, time commitment, or skill set.

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Calligraphy Salon
Time: 16:00-17:00pm Sunday July, 18th
Cost:30yuan/person (materials fee included)

For more than a thousand years, a traditional Chinese style of art-brush painting-has been used to make pictures that are more than just pictures. These are images that harness your imagination, and capture on paper the true spirit of an animal…or a landscape…or a tree. All you need is black paint, white paper, and your best mental focus!
Step by step, it will show you how fun it can be to paint in the traditional Chinese way. Once you learn the basic strokes, you can put them together to create everything from a pine cone to a mountain scene. You will even be able to write some Chinese Calligraphy.
This Class will show you how to hold the brush Chinese style and make the basic brush strokes. You will learn to write some words and numbers in Chinese. Then you will learn how to use the same basic brushstrokes to create pictures of classic Chinese subjects, like bamboo, bamboo leaves and mountain.

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Lecture and film play presented by Linda Lai and Hector Rodriguez at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Time: 15:00-18:00 Saturday July, 17th

Cost:free

Host:Linda Lai
“Meditations on a Minor History” Part 1 – VOICES SEEN, IMAGES HEARD

11.2009 / Hong Kong / 27m 58s / PAL / aspect ratio 3:4 / color + b/w / Stereo sound A Linda Lai video

Synopsis: A historian, also an interdisciplinary artist, engages in a self-dialogue of how to write the history of her city, Hong Kong. Drilling the disparate mines of sights and sounds, she re-examines the power and limitation of ocular epistemology, which favors visual perception as the dominant form of knowing. As she makes her way through the scanty and homogenous visual documents available, she re-imagines a city that has a precarious history of holding onto its look or preserving its architectural integrity at the interest of real estate development. In response, she re-constructs a visual essay that is also a collage of lost surfaces and shadowy fragments of existence. Her meditation leaves open the potential meanings of each of the sight-and-sound fragments that seem to have spoken to her, asking how feasible it is to access the past.

Artist’s Statement:

Voices Seen, Images Heard is a work of experimental visual historiography based on visual ethnography. I have always been an earnest image-collector – photos, newsreels, movies with real location shots, drawings, found texts and graphics. I attend especially to the less noticeable details of these found objects, and I realize there’s a lot to the ‘surfaces’ of things handed down to us from the past. I naturally find collage a powerful artistic form and strategy, and have adapted it to videography. In the process of it, one intriguing creative problem is how to embed still images in a video work; the other is what to do with available fragments that do not immediately form a rationail whole. What I have done in Voices Seen is to liberate the fragments of found sounds and images from the domination of discourses, juxtapose them with my own video diaries, to let each fragment speak and perform to us.
 Voices Seen is the first of a series meditation notes in the form of video essays on the thought process of a historian attempting to re/un-cover the lost sights and sounds of a city whose ‘appearances’ constantly ‘disappear’ by the logic of progress and development. I have been driven by a strong desire to ‘see’ and ‘hear’ for myself… What did people look like? Who walks on the street? How did they talk? What did they sound like? In the light of phenomenological thinking, I highlight the historian’s desire to gain access to, and the impossibility of sensual perceptual dwelling in the past — even in the presence of a huge archive! The irony is – a lot of the Cantonese sounds I’ve found are not comprehensible to me. I look at them and listen – much like a stranger in the midst of a foreign tongue.

BIOGRAPHY:

Linda Lai is a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies (NYU), currently Associate Professor at The City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media, and Leader of Critical Intermedia Arts. She is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and founder of the new media art group The Writing Machine Collective (2004.7) and interdisciplinary art platform The Floating Projects Collective (2010.2). Her works have a strong concern for how language moderates our access to reality, subtly grounded in a feminist sensibility that integrates critical theory, film theories and auto-visual ethnography. Her digital works have been shown in the Hong Kong Art Biennial and funded exhibitions. Her videos often challenge genre boundaries and experiment with found footage, compilation, collage, image-text relations, soundscape, and micro/meta-narrativity. Her video works have been shown in Oberhausen, Barcelona, Paris, Birmingham, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Athens (Ohio), Sydney, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, Seoul and Hong Kong. She has developed an intimate image style that reflects her broader interest in history and cultural studies.
http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/smllai (personal website hosted at City U, HK)

http://floatingprojectscollective (The Floating Projects Collective)

http://writingmachine-collective.net/news.html (The Writing Machine Collective)

Host:Hector Rodriguez
Generative Image Creation Method Using Optical Flow

There is a tradition of contemporary art that aims to break away from preconceived goals. The aesthetic form and order of the work no longer precede the means or techniques employed. Instead of starting out with a predefined idea of the final outcome, artistic work unfolds as the experimental exploration of a set of technical operations.

The artist starts out by choosing one or more computational procedures (algorithms) without making any assumptions about the aesthetic possibilities that those procedures might be capable of. The working process involves treating the chosen algorithm as a black box that must be opened, analyzed, and transformed.

This procedural approach requires opening the digital black box to discover unforeseen effects that can only arise through experimental exploration. The artist thus refuses to regard technology as the transparent conduit of some previously fixed intention. To use the terminology of actor-network theory, technologies now function as mediators rather than intermediaries.

Flowpoints is a series of digital works, mainly videos and prints, which exemplify an experimental and discovery-oriented method of working with media technologies. This presentation outlines the details of this method, explaining how computer science concepts can function as expressive or artistic media while keeping faith with important tendencies of contemporary art. (Rodriguez)

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY:
Hector Rodriguez is a digital artist and theorist. His digital animation Res Extensa received the award for best digital work in the 2004 Hong Kong Art Biennial and has been shown in India, China, Germany, and Spain. His game system CoPerspective was a finalist in the Games Meets Graphics competition of the Eurographics 2006 conference held in Vienna. His essays about film theory/history and digital art have been published in Screen, Cinema Journal, and Game Studies, and he has participated in various art and technology conferences. He was Artistic Director of the Microwave International Media Art Festival, where he has also taught workshops on Java programming and organized an exhibition on art and games. He is currently Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses in Visual Studies, Contemporary Art, Play and Game Studies, Film Theory, Computation, and Critical Theory. He is also a member of the Writing Machine Collective in Hong Kong.

About 3S ReUnion:
An informal cross-disciplinary meeting held monthly in Shanghai by 3S Media Centre, an independent not-for-profit organization for experimentation, research and development in art, social and cultural, economical and political embedding of new media in the urban context. 3S ReUnion is established by culture/creative exchange advocate Liu Yan and new media artist Aaajiao (www.we-need-money-not-art.com), it has now rooted in the broader sense of knowledge sharing, collaborative knowledge creating and creative community building.

for more detail please check:

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http://www.we-need-money-not-art.com/archives/tag/3s-reunion

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xindanwei chitchat edition 14: WABC
Time: 18:00-20:00pm Friday July, 16th
Cost:free
Host:MiaoShiming

WABC: Worker ArtBrut Culture
For more information check http://www.wabc.net.cn

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Street Made Design Workshop
GLOBAL DESIGN CONFERENCE : SHANGHAI NOW!

Time: Saturday, July 10th, 2 – 5 pm

ORGANIZER

East China Normal University School of Design
3663 Zhonghshan bei lu
200062 Shanghai, China

Creative Director / Jennifer Rudkin
Responsible China Project / Jiang Hongqing

PARTNERS

Xin Dan Wei Creative Center
The One Minutes Foundation  China
Saint-Etienne International Design Biennal
Art Channel of SMG
Shanghai, China

Active pioneers of the Chinese creative scene will present their work and vision of Shanghai today. Shanghai is a vibrant city in constant movement and seeking for its own identity through the work of its creative people who want to make a change.
The Purpose of this gathering is to illustrate and confront different contemporary points of view on the constantly moving city of Shanghai. The conference will address the question of how to express a personal feeling and understanding of the world around us, through a chosen media, be it an object, a video or a sentence. The intention is also to undertake contemporary problems inspired by the slogan: ”Better City, Better Life”, such as ecology, are cities compatible with natural systems? Or, cultural heritage, how can we preserve our specificities?

The conference target will be the general public, more specifically, the students participating in the STREET MADE Design Workshop.
Please find here with the detailed explanation of the Workshop.

Speakers

Introduction by Jennifer and Hongqing

Wang Rihua – General Secretary of the Shanghai Industrial Design Association – www.sida.org.cn
General speach on the status of Product Design in China today and more specifically in Shanghai.

Zoe Zhang Bing – Contemporary Art Curator – zoezhangbing.com
A wide view on Creativity in China today and more specifically Shanghai, through the theme of the Double Act exhibit.

Qiu Anxiong – Video and Animation Artist – www.qiuanxiong.com
Presentation of chosen works to illustrate 1. The tools that you can play with to create a video story 2. How to keep chinese traditions alive by reinterpreting them in a personal way.

Pan Jianfeng – Graphic Designer – www.shtype.org ; http://blog.sina.com.cn/pjfdesign
Presentation of chosen works exploring Shanghai people

Ding Wei – Industrial Design – www.mooma.com
Presentation of chosen works

Wei Shaonong – Dean of ECNU School of Design
Conclusion

01. INTRODUCTION

Some say «Shanghai is not China». Some say Shanghai is the city of the future.

Shanghai is a contemporary city, a city in perpetual movement, building up and out day and night. The population, the architecture, the cuisine, illustrate the superimposition and accumulation of past and present influences.

Shanghai is a mix between ancient and new, between skyscrapers and traditional houses, between cars and bicycles. The city is filled with contrasts which provoke both a charming and uncomfortable feeling, projecting its beauty and strength.

The population of Shanghai takes over the streets and fills them with sounds, movements and objects. Some people work in the streets to earn money. To live, people develop their own tools, they develop street design, design to survive. They make their everyday life objects to cook, cut, sew, transport. Hybrid objects are exhibited in the streets, accumulated, stacked, assembled with function as only concern.

02.CONTENT

Shanghaï street made aims to show the city today: a precarious equilibrium, by putting forward the contrasts which create the energy and the unique atmosphere of this vibrant city.

The work focuses on four main aspects:

- INSPIRATIONAL RESSOURCE FOR CREATIVITY in all artistic fields. The goal of this project is to create applications, which witness our time through the analysis of systems created by the language of Shanghai street furniture.

- HISTORICAL APPROACH since its goal is to show today’s era, to freeze a moment of history in continuous change.

- ECOLOGICAL APPROACH since the players themselves apply a process involving material recuperation and recycling.

- SOCIAL APPROACH as we observe the skills developed by the people in need in order to complete their everyday actions: earn money, eat, clean…

03. CALENDAR

WEEK ONE

DAY 1 GLOBAL DESIGN CONFERENCE : SHANGHAI NOW! (open to public for free)
Saturday, July 10th
2 – 5 pm @ Xin Dan Wei

DAY 2 « STREET MADE » WORKSHOP OPENING (not open)
Workshop Presentation + Lesson on how to develop a concept
Sunday, July 11th
9 – 12 am 1 – 4 pm  @ Xin Dan Wei

DAY 3 + 4 FIELD WORK (not open)
Research, Observation, Develop idea
Monday, July 12th and Tuesday, July 13th
@ ECNU Design School and in the city

DAY 5 1st CONCEPT PRESENTATION (not open)
Crit 1 with professional designers and artists
Wednesday, July 14th
9 – 12 am @ Xin Dan Wei

DAY 6 + 7 FIELD WORK + CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT (not open)
Thursday, July 15th and Friday, July 16th
@ ECNU Design School and in the city

WEEK TWO

DAY 8 2nd CONCEPT PRESENTATION (not open)
Crit 2 with professional designers and artists
Saturday, July 17th
9 – 12 am @ Xin Dan Wei

DAY 9 to 13 PROTOTYPE + ONE TO ONE MEETINGS(not open)
Sunday, July 18th to Thursday, July 22nd
@ ECNU Design School Studio and in the city

DAY 14 PROTOTYPE PRESENTATION (not open)
Friday, July 23rd
9 – 12 am @ ECNU Design School Studio

DAY 15 FINALIZE PROTOTYPE CONSTRUCTION(not open)
Saturday, July 24th
@ ECNU Design School Studio

DAY 16 PRESENTATION OF FINAL OBJECTS (open to public)
Sunday, July 25th
9 – 12 am @ Xin Dan Wei

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