This evening welcomes a new generation of Chinese and Swiss artists whose practices move freely between cultures. They work with slime moulds and satellite data, with insect fieldwork and architectural research, with living façades and shifting weather fronts. What connects a mould learning to navigate a maze, an insect repaired with gold lacquer after a collision with artificial light, a building that breathes through its skin, and a monsoon that arrives earlier each year? Each is a form of knowledge that exceeds the human, and each asks us to pay attention differently.
Across two countries and very different traditions, these practitioners are discovering something shared: that the more-than-human world is not a concept to be applied but a neighbour to be met.
Program
Moderator: Yuting Huang, Researcher, BY ART MATTERS
18:30-19:00 – Registration
19:00-19:05 – Opening Remarks
19:05-19:10 – Where the Cloud Lands: Seeing AI Infrastructure through Art and Architecture – Yiqiu Liu, Lecturer and Project Co-Lead, ETH Zurich and TU Munich
19:10-19:15 – A chimeral duet towards the end of time – Sulamith Tamborriello, Artist, ZHdK
19:15-19:20 – Sympoietic Entanglement: Slime Mold, Machines, and the Weaving of the Material-Semiotic Poetry – Jue Wang, PhD Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
19:20-19:25 – Small Lives, Big Histories – Shuai Liu, Artist
19:25-20:00 – Panel Discussion
