A symposium with Sha Xin Wei organized by the Department of Critical Media Practices Funded by a Roser Grant, CU Boulder Center for Humanities and Arts. Organized with the support of NEST, CMAP, IAWP, ATLAS September 18-19 2019 This two-day event will open a space for collaboration and exchange at the intersection of media, art, […]
9:00-12:00 Media Lab, Stadium, Gate 7, Suite 255 Grad + Faculty Workshop with Sha Xin Wei (open to all grads and faculty – sign up required for presenters) Students & researchers can present projects, demos and research ideas for response and discussion. Graduate students and faculty from all disciplines are invited to participate in this […]
12:30-2:30 Roundtable on Ecologies of Practices Xin Wei + Friends (NEST, ATLAS, MAL and others?) Media Lab, Stadium, Gate 7, Suite 255 Recent research streams:Movement and Gestural MediaAlter-Eco; alternative ecologies and economiesMultiscale Rhythm A conversation. Participants will bring examples from their own practices of research-creation: making knowledge via artistic practices. In particular we will explore […]
Sha Xin Wei is professor and director of the School of Arts, Media + Engineering (AME) at Arizona State University. He directs the Synthesis Center for responsive environments and improvisation with colleagues in AME and affiliate research centers. From 2005 until 2013, Sha was the Canada Research chair in media arts and sciences, and associate […]
Sha Xin Wei’s overarching research is “a philosophical investigation that is conducted in a poetic mode of installation or event-based art and technology.” His collaborative practice weaves together, traverses through, and resists disciplinary methods that operate as doctrine, arguing that “poesis precedes theory-building, and theory-building precedes methodology, because methodology repeats a process that no longer […]