Techno-Futures
Film screenings, artist talks, and research presentations investigating the intersections of new technologies and performance in East Asia and Asian diasporas.
Techno-Futures: Collaborations in Performance, Technology, and Creative Scholarship
Event Overview
Thu, March 7
Graduate Student Workshop
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
3–4:30 pm Publishing as Process: A Workshop for ARHU Graduate Students
Film Festival
Dance Theatre, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
*This event is open to the public. No registration needed.
5–5:30 pm Filmmaker Meet and Greet Featuring Jaime Sunwoo and Mengtai Zhang
5:30–7:30 pm Film Festival - Documenting Placelessness: Nowhere to be Found
Fri, March 8
Graduate Student Symposium
Rever Studio, Room 3736, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
9:10–9:25 am Installation Viewing
9:25-10 am Graduate Student Creative Work Presentations
10:05–10:35 am Talkback with the Artists
11–11:50 am Graduate Student Research Presentations and Discussion
Technology in Contemporary East Asian Performance: An International Symposium
Cafritz Foundation Theatre, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
1–1:15 pm Welcome
1:15–2:15 pm Opening Keynote: “Technologies of the Real in Chinese Documentary Theatre: Virtual
Materiality and the Digital Analogue” by Rossella Ferrari, Professor of
Chinese Studies, University of Vienna
2:30–3:30 pm Panel 1: Mediatized Spaces with Justine Wiesinger, Tarryn Chun, and Zihui Lu; moderated
by Marjan Moosavi
3:30–4 pm Featured Artist Talk: Meiro Koizumi
4:30–5 pm Featured Artist Talk: Katherine Hui-ling Chou
5–6 pm Panel 2: Nonhuman Collaborators with Mari Boyd, Yatin Lin, and Walter Byongsok Chon;
moderated by Belinda Qian He
6–7 pm Creating with Media and Technology: An Artists’ Roundtable, with Katherine Hui-ling
Chou, Meiro Koizumi, Jaime Sunwoo, and Mengtai Zhang; moderated by
Alexa Alice Joubin
Sat, March 9
Technology in Contemporary East Asian Performance: An International Symposium
Cafritz Foundation Theatre, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
9–10:30 am Featured Artist Talks: Hayoun Kwon and Wang Chong (Virtual)
11:30–12:45 pm Panel 3: Alternate Realities with Yizhou Huang, Kyueun Kim, Chee-Hann Wu, and Mina
Kawahara; moderated by James Harding
12:45–1:45 pm Closing Keynote: “Risky Networks: Subverting Block Chain Technology and Intellectual
Property in Millennial North Korea” by Suk-Young Kim, Professor of Theater and Performance
Studies and Associate Dean of faculty and students, School of Theater, Film, and Television,
University of California Los Angeles
1:45–2 pm Closing Remarks
Keynote Speakers
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- Rossella Ferrari, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
- Suk-Young Kim, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies & Associate Dean of Faculty and Students, School of Theatre, Film, and Television, UCLA
Participants
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- Artists: Katherine Hui-ling Chou, Meiro Koizumi, Hayoun Kwon, Yusef Najafi, Jaime Sunwoo, Wang Chong, and Mengtai Zhang
- Symposium Presenters: Mari Boyd, Walter Byongsuk Chon, Yizhou Huang, Mina Kawahara, Kyueun Kim, Yatin Lin, Zihui Lu, Justine Wiesinger, and Chee-Hann Wu
- Symposium Moderators: James Harding, Belinda Qian He, Alexa Alice Joubin, and Marjan Moosavi
- Organized by Jyana S. Browne, Tarryn Chun, and Van Tran Nguyen
- Graduate Student Symposium curated by Atiya Dorsey, Yasmin Eubanks, Chris Henrriquez, and Mina Kawahara
2. Wang Chong, Thunderstorm 2.0, image courtesy of the artist
3. Katherine Hui-ling Chou, Hun Dian Ji, or the Apocalypse of Fudinjing, photo courtesy Chen Chian-kuo (photographer) and National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
4. Hayoun Kwon, XXth attempt towards the potential of magic, image courtesy of the artist
5. Mengtai Zhang, Diagnosia, image courtesy of the artist
6. Jaime Sunwoo, Specially Processed American Me, image courtesy of the artist
7. Meiro Koizumi, “Prometheus Bound (2019)” at Theater Commons ‘21, image courtesy of the artist, Annet Gelink Gallery, MUJIN-To Production, and Arts Common Tokyo
8. Yusef Najafi, Jameela, image courtesy of the artist
Techno-Futures is generously supported by Arts for All, American Society for Theatre Research, Center for East Asian Studies, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Cinema and Media Studies Program, College of Arts and Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, International Program for Creative Collaboration & Research of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Jim Henson Fund for Puppetry, Maya Brin Institute for New Performance, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Korea and Japan Conference Grants funded by the Korea Foundation and Japan-US Friendship Commission, PhD Program in Theatre and Performance Studies, and School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.