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2013-04-06

War. Requeim: interdisciplinary performance (dance, theatre, new media projection, music...)

Shang-Han & Sammy Chien (Chimerik) got invited by Vancouver based Choreographer Rob Kitsos to work as guest artists in an interdisciplinary performance in SFU Fei & Milton Wong Theatre (Vancouver, Canada). It has been a while since Shang-Han and I get to work together intensively on a dance performance.

We're very happy to have this chance to push boundaries and try out some new experiments, as well as getting to work with some of the top choreographers and artists in town.

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SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts: War. Requiem

April 4th to 6th, 2013 | 8 PM daily, 2 PM matinee on April 6th
Tickets: General: $15 | Students and Seniors: $10

Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Presented by the Dance Program at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts

war.requiem is a collaborative interdisciplinary live performance exploring ideas related to the experience of war. Each artist in dance, music, media, light and costume contributed ideas that culminated into full evening work performed in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theater by dance students from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

Choreography: 605 Collective, Shawna Elton, Vanessa Goodman, Rob Kitsos
Music: Gabriel Saloman
Projection & New Media Design: Chimerik
Dramaturgy: Elysse Cheadle
Costume Design: Carmen Alatorre
Lighting Design: Sarah Nutbrown Bourdeau, Rui Su
Guest Artist: Nancy Tam

Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:00 PM
Friday, April 5, 2013 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 6, 2013 2:00PM & 8:00 PM

Tickets: General: $15 | Students and Seniors: $10. Tickets are now available online athttps://www.2mevents.com/index.php/event/war-requiem/store or will be for purchase at the Box Office one hour before showtime.

2011-09-17

WEEKENDSOUND @ IAC Berlin!

WEEKENSOUND
週末聲音

SEP 17, 2011
OPENING: 8:30PM
VENUE :
IAC BERLIN
BRUNNENSTR.29, 10999 BERLIN

WEEKENDSOUND is a sound project and an artist is invited to do a live concert.

On this evening IDOLON STUDIO is pleased to present Shang-Han Chien簡上涵(CA) + Sammy Chien簡上翔(CA) + Hun-Chun Lin林惠君(DE) + Mirae Rosner(CA) + Jesse Scott(CA) + Maria Pyatkova(RU).

Shang-Han Chien(簡上涵) & Sammy Chien(簡上翔) are inter-disciplinary artists who seek to merge cinema, visual art, sound art, graphic design, animation, new media and dance performance techniques into a new individual practice. They frequently collaborate both visually and aurally in multi-disciplinary projects range from film, dance performance, improvised audiovisual performance, live electronics, concert, theatre, video installation, art exhibition and interdisciplinary collaborative-performance. They began their interdisciplinary collaboration and new media journey with Dr. Henry Daniel (Vancouver) & Troika Ranch (NYC/Berlin) in 2008. Since then, they continue their deep interest in interdisciplinary collaborations and forge deep connections within images, sound and movements. Both of their work has appeared in various films, music, media and dance festivals. Sammy holds his B.F.A in Film Honors at School for the Contemporary Arts in Simon Fraser Unveristy. Shang-Han holds his B.D in Graphic Design at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University (NSCADU), Canada.

Musician, Hui-Chun Lin(林惠君), Classical piano and cello education, Studied with Professor Peter Bruns at Dresden Conservatory, Postgraduate studies in improvisation with Tilo Augsten at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Worked as solo cellist and ensemble musician, Improvisation, theatre music, contemporary music, dance, performance, classical music, world music and cello solo with live electronics, Participated in a workshop with "Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road, Ensemble" at Carnegie Hall in New York 09/2006, also participated the workshop "Dave Douglas: Composition and Improvisation in New York 02/2010", Leipziger Jazztage 2007 (jazz festival) with "Beat Freisens Spelunkenorchester" Lectureship for improvisation at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig 2006-2008, Conducted an improvisation class at a middle school in Tainan/Taiwan 2008/09, World music series "Passagen" of the Bayerischer Rundfunk with Mahoott 01/2010 ans also Free Improvisation Concert at Leipjazzig Festival 03/2010, Contemporary Music, Concert at Resonanzen Festival Leipzig 04/2010 and "Codes" Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music in Lublin (Poland) 05/2010, "Artist in Residence" in Cit des Arts Paris 07/2010-01/2011.

Jesse Scott is a new media artist, producer, coder, designer, visualist, curator, writer, and blogger. Under various aliases and operating within several artist collectives, he produces work for live performance, for site-specific actions, for listening, for viewing, for reading… his work has spanned the domains of a/v performance, locative media, telematics, improvisational practice, urban projection, installation design, public workshops, and the written word.

Mirae Rosner's her dance training in Novosibirsk. She moved from Russia to work at the Max Plank Institute in Göttingen in the field of Molecular and Genetic Biology. Here, in the absence of any training possibilities she taught classes in ballet and modern. She moved to Berlin a year and a half ago to pursue artistic projects, and complements performing and creating films with research in the field of Social Psychology.

Maria Pyatkova undertook her dance training in Novosibirsk. She moved from Russia to work at the Max Plank Institute in Göttingen in the field of Molecular and Genetic Biology. Here, in the absence of any training possibilities she taught classes in ballet and modern. She moved to Berlin a year and a half ago to pursue artistic projects, and complements performing and creating films with research in the field of Social Psychology.

This event is part of the exhibition "LIQUIDSHELL"(09.09
-01.10.2011) at IAC-Berlin Gallery : "Sound Disc" by Wang Fujui (TW), "Foreground" by Shingo Inao (JP), "Vibration Lake" by Kuo-Wei Lin/ SUMO STUDIO (DE), "relativity" by Chang Yung-Ta (TW), "Window, projector and magnifying blinds" by Kim Westerström (SE) and "permeable super real" by Elke Marhöfer (DE) /sound by Olaf Hochherz (DE).

http://www.idolonstudio.com/main/event.php

http://www.myspace.com/linhuichun/

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special thanks to dear Wang, chun-chi, our curator.

2011-03-25

Creative Commons:W2 prezents a fundraising interactive visual + sonic spectacle

Creative Commons:W2 prezents a fundraising interactive visual + sonic spectacle

Kicking off the W2 Storyeum Closing Month Series. Help celebrate a year of operating Vancouver's creative commons!

Come out for a night of grimy beats and dancing while you show your love and support for the creative commons that our local community has built this past year at W2 Storyeum.

Saturday night will be a fundraiser towards W2 Community Media Arts Society and an active night of sounds and visuals. Our eclectic lineup of... Dj’s and Vj’s present an edgy mix of ambient, experimental and some grinding live electronics, dubstep, and breaky techno sounds.

check out this recent cover article in WE Magazine:

http://www.westender.com/cover-story-free-speech

LINEUP

Square Root of Evil
Echo Pilot
Andrew Van Hassel
Chaotic Grey
Hitori Tori
Platypus Toof
Sammy Chien [vj]
Shang-Han [vj]
Lomax [vj]

more info:

http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/creative-commons

http://www.tribalharmonix.org/events/details1760.html

2011-02-08

Spring Break Social: Fundraiser Party for the Dance Grads 2011

I'm helping out SFU Dance's fundraiser party Spring Break Social: Fundraiser Party for the Dance Grads 2011 this Friday night, DJing all nigh with Aaron Kelsh + live visuals by Shang-Han Chien as well as some interactive lighting that I've created recently.

Upstairs will be film screening by recent and past selected works from SFU Film.

Much much thanks to Rheanna Toy for helping out coordinating the screening. contact Erika Mitsuhashi (elm5@sfu.ca) about tickets or info for the event, lovely dancer who choreographed and performed for my upcoming film... Patterns of Liquid Stars.

Please come support SFU dancers to help them put on their grad show. It should be lots of fun... cool space, beautiful dancers, sweet films, cool visuals, and music that will keep you smiling and dancing all night.

Event: Spring Break Social: Fundraiser Party for the Dance Grads 2011
Time: February 11, 2011 7pm - midnight
Place: Chapel Arts 304 Dunlevy Avenue Vancouver, BC V6A 3A6
Tickets: $15
facebook event

DJ: Sammy Chien (+lights) & Aaron Kelsh
Live Visuals: Shang-Han Chien

the last time Shang-Han and I performed at chapel arts for Art For Impact...
(photo by Sheng Ho)

2011-01-17

performing in Seattle: PLOP! presents "FABRICATION"

I'm performing an cozy live audiovisual set with my bro Shang-Han & my frequent collaborator Anny Lin on Violin at a sweet gallery in Seattle! Working with Josie Davis again is quite exciting... last time was at Miko Kuro's Midnight Tea. There will be soundscapes, ambient, live improvised violin & free-form experimental music with audience's improv story telling, as well as improv abstract images and live visual projections on the gallery walls... along with Seattle's wonderful writers, poets and performers.

Get Intimate ... and Get Global: PLOP! in the New Year!

"FABRICATION"
Gallery ArtXChange
512 1st Ave.
Seattle, WA 98104
Thursday, January 20
7-9:30pm

more info on PLOP!

http://www.plopliteraryseries.blogspot.com/

josie elizabeth davis

facebook event

2010-09-07

"The Objecthood of Chairs"-an interdisciplinary performance

My brother and I have been commissioned to work on this performance "The Objecthood of Chairs" in the past weeks as new media designer / video coordinator. This show is an interdisciplinary collaboration, although more heavily towards the theatrical/text aspect, the collaborators are very talented and inspiring profs from SFU contemporary arts.

there will be a free preview show Tuesday Sept 7th 8pm at SFU Woodward's Studio T. The official show runs for 2 weeks.

I'm working on the new media design/ projection mapping for Rob Groeneboer's film that is projected with 3 projectors in this performance. I think the excitement for me would be that this is the first time we've used serious video snitching to create a uniquely wider imagescape.

2010-06-16

Media Design for Interdisciplinary Performance- Imprint at SFU Woodward's

Dear Friends,

I’m currently working on the Media Design for Imprint II with my brother Shang-han, an interdisciplinary performance piece with dance, music, media and telepresence technology. This project is co-created by choreographer Henry Daniel and composer Owen Underhill with the Turning Point Ensemble.

The last Imprint has successfully performed in MoA in January 2010. This time we’re performing at SFU Woodward’s spectacular Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre

Our work involves real-time visual processing and interactive media in dance, music and theatre environment. Although the visual projection isn't the main dish of the show, but experimenting alternative ways to present images and motion on unconventional platform might be somewhat interesting to you.

There will also be an interactive/telepresent installation created by Majid Bagheri, Xiaonan Mah & James O'callaghan in the gallery before, during and after the show. You can see the dancers performing in the gallery in the first half of the show, then they'll leave to the theatre and the that's when telepresence comes into the gallery. This part of the show is accessible for free.