dorkbot Shanghai #2
Time: Sunday 16 May 2010 from 3:30pm
Cost:free
This Sunday, 16 May 2010, dorkbot returns to Shanghai with another afternoon of electronics and art. dorkbot Shanghai #2 will include presentations from Super Nature Design, ARTLINKART, and live electronic trumpet performance by artists Ben Houge and Justin Sebastian.
About dorkbot Shanghai:
With electricity connecting the dots; artists, hackers, engineers, inventors, DIY enthusiasts, and people just like you, regularly meet at dorkbot events in over 85 cities around the world to exchange ideas in casual surroundings. The trusted motto of dorkbot worldwide is “people doing strange things with electricity.” dorkbot Shanghai is simply the Shanghai chapter of dorkbot.
More info: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotshanghai
About the presenters:
Super Nature is a Shanghai based multi-discipline design company. It specialises in interactive design, visual communication & media technology. It takes on challenges through experimentations in new media and physical computing.
More info: http://www.supernaturedesign.com
ARTLINKART is an online database project for Chinese contemporary art – a bilingual art website for both Chinese and English readers.
More info: http://www.artlinkart.com
Ben Houge has been active in the Chinese experimental music/sound art scene since 2004, having performed at most of China’s major festivals and venues. He has presented his real-time, algorithmic sound and/or video installations at Beijing’s Today Art Museum, Shanghai’s OV Gallery, and Art+Shanghai Gallery. Ben holds a Master’s degree in classical composition from the University of Washington, but has also been a pop songwriter since grade school, and the main subject of his art is to find connections between all of these disparate threads, disciplines, and practices.
More info: http://benhouge.com/
Justin Sebastian studied jazz-trumpet at Folkwanghochschule in Essen. Between 2000 and 2003 he gained experience in Thai traditional music in Bangkok. Throughout his career he has worked independently with artists such as Nusara Mai-ngarm, Peter Kowald, Geraldo Si, DJ Orson, Sebastian Gramss, Christoph Iacono, Adam Holzman, Jean Sasportes. Currently Justin Sebastian is a member of the “WIO” (Wuppertal Improvisers Orchestra) and is active in smaller formations and as a soloist in Germany.
