BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Exhibitions of Rosa Menkman and Gary Zhexi Zhang\, Enter the Hyper -Scientific Program DTSTART:20240222T110000 DTEND:20240317T180000 DTSTAMP:20260526T033205Z UID:7b202f943bf2ae467a7dd55f87c503edd268daad7209c6e442b85cb4 CATEGORIES:Exhibitions DESCRIPTION:Artists Rosa Menkman & Gary Zhexi Zhang\nEnter the Hyper-Scien tific presents a joint exhibition at EPFL Pavilions\, premiering new works by Rosa Menkman and Gary Zhexi Zhang\, artists-in-residence in the second edition of the program. An installation and a video\, developed in collab oration with EPFL's scientific community.\n\n Rosa Menkman is a Dutch arti st and researcher. Her work focuses on noise artifacts that result from ac cidents in both analogue and digital media.\n Gary Zhexi Zhang is a Britis h and Chinese artist and writer whose projects explore financial fictions\ , weird temporalities and catastrophe.\n\nOPENING: Please join us for the opening of the exhibitions A Spectrum of Lost and Unnamed Colours by Rosa Menkman and METAMERS by Gary Zhexi Zhang\, on Thursday 22 February at 6 pm  in the presence of the artists.\n--------------------------------------- ------------------------\n\n Rosa Menkman\, A Spectrum of Lost and Unnamed Colours\, 2024\n Mixed-media installation: sigils\, rainbow generator\, a nd video\n Commissioned and produced in the framework of EPFL - CDH Artist in Residence Program 2023\, Enter the Hyper-Scientific\n Partners: EPFL C enter for Imaging\, Edward Andò\, CLIMACT Center for Climate Impact and A ction UNIL & EPFL\n Credits: Rosa Menkman\n Sound: Debit\n Curator & head of program: Giulia Bini\n\nIn a not-too-distant future\, a media archaeolo gist has tasked herself with compiling an atlas dedicated to lost or unkno wn ways of seeing. During this mission she finds herself captivated by a N eon Rainbow Fairy Light\, an object seemingly plucked from a child's bedro om. The archeologist proclaims the fairy light to be a quintessential arti fact that encapsulates the entire history of the decline of nature's origi nal "glitch"—the atmospheric rainbow.\n\nProper observation of rainbows has become rare due to a double process of pollution. On the one hand\, cl imate change\, environmental degradation\, and light pollution have dulled atmospheric rainbows’ brilliance\, making their occurrence increasingly unusual and their sightings more precious. On the other hand\, within the realms of image processing\, digital pollution has corrupted and distorte d the representation of rainbows even more: as generative artificial intel ligence struggles to differentiate between symbolic representations—the rainbow-alike—and actual depictions of natural phenomena\, images of aut hentic rainbows have become anomalous.\n\nPunctuated by crafted translucen t sigils and informed by practical and speculative dialogues with computer and environmental scientists at EPFL\, A Spectrum of Lost and Unnamed Col ours is a mesmerizing mixed-media installation that takes us on a journey while calling for a holistic categorization of various types of color los s.\n\nWith support from: Lotte Menkman\, Herman Hermsen\, and So Kanno\n\n Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and researcher. Her work focuses on noise a rtifacts that result from accidents in analogue and digital media\, artifa cts that can offer precious insights into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardization and resolution-setting. Menkman’s Glitch Moment/um (inc \, 2011) is a little book on the exploitation and popularization of glitch artifacts that acts as a compendium to her research. A second book\, Beyo nd Resolution (i.R.D.\, 2020)\, further develops and highlights the politi cs of resolution-setting\; it shows how the standardization of resolutions generally promotes efficiency\, order\, and functionality in our technolo gies but has the side effect of compromising and obfuscating alternative p ossibilities.\n\nIn 2019 Menkman was awarded the Collide\, Arts at CERN Ba rcelona residency\, which inspired her recent research into what makes thi ngs im/possible\, including im/possible images. In this new line of resear ch\, she aims to find new ways to understand\, use\, and perceive through interaction with technologies.\n\n---------------------------------------- -----------------------\n\n Gary Zhexi Zhang\, METAMERS\, 2024\n Video\, 1 3 min.\n Commissioned and produced in the framework of EPFL - CDH Artist i n Residence Program 2023\, Enter the Hyper-Scientific\n Partners: Prof. Mi chael Herzog\, EPFL Laboratory of Psychophysics\n Credits: Gary Zhexi Zhan g\, with Cameron Graham and Fergus Carmichael\n Curator & head of program: Giulia Bini\n\nAre the stars out tonight?\nI don't know if it's cloudy or bright\nI only have eyes for you (dear)\n\nHow real is a hallucination? M etamers are different states of physical reality which produce the same ph enomenal experience. It is generally believed that what appears as mental representation corresponds\, via the sensory apparatus of the body\, to th e reality of an external world. Upon waking from a dream\, the ancient phi losopher Zhuangzi wondered: had he been Zhuangzi dreaming he was a butterf ly\, or a butterfly dreaming it was Zhuangzi? The founder of psychophysics \, Gustav Fechner\, theorized mind and body—which he extended to the ina nimate world—as a curve which is convex from one view and concave from a nother\; he sought to scientifically measure their duality. Contemporary n eurological evidence demonstrates that far more of our reality is made in the mind than we may like to believe: we live in a world that dreams of us \, far more than we can dream of it.\n\nUnfolding as a psychological and a coustic descent inside anonymous subterranean architectures\, METAMERS is an extended hallucination\, invoking exchanges between the history of perc eptual knowledge and the development of industry\, war\, and primordial bi ological memory. Time flows\, but without spatial constancy\; like a dream \, ambiences breathe through one another across icons\, portals\, and rhym es. A frog watches\, but we do not know what its eyes are telling its brai n.\n\nGary Zhexi Zhang is interested in unstable knowledge. Operating indi vidually\, in collaboration and within organizational frameworks\, his wor k explores systemic connections between cosmology\, technology\, and econo my. He recently edited Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor Press\, 2023)\ , a book about time which brings together finance\, science fictions\, and interviews with leading climate modelers. The opera he cowrote with Waste Paper Opera\, Dead Cat Bounce\, premiered at Somerset House in 2022 and t ours in 2024. In September 2023 he presented The Tourist\, a documentary e ssay exploring an uneasy exchange between Afrofuturism and Sinofuturism vi a the life of Zanzibari revolutionary Ali Sultan Issa.\n\nHe has held teac hing positions as lecturer in critical studies at Goldsmiths MFA\, adjunct lecturer at Parsons School of Design\, and PhD external examiner at the R oyal College of Art. He cofounded design studio Foreign Objects\, which re ceived the Mozilla Creative Media Award in 2019. He has undertaken fellows hips at Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles\, Sakiya in Ramallah\, and Rock bund Art Museum in Shanghai\, where he leads on strategic initiatives. Wit h the Serpentine R&D Platform\, he cowrites the Future Art Ecosystems seri es on advanced technologies and the cultural sector. His writings on art\, technology\, and economy have appeared in Frieze\, ArtReview\, Verge: Stu dies in Global Asias\, Journal of Cultural Economy\, the MIT Journal of De sign and Science\, e-flux Architecture\, among others.\n\n---------------- -----------------------------------------------\nEnter the Hyper-Scientifi c\nInitiated by the EPFL College of Humanities (CDH)\, amplified by EPFL P avilions\, and in partnership with the City of Lausanne\, the EPFL-CDH Art ist-in-Residence (AiR) Program Enter the Hyper-Scientific reflects the CDH mission of fostering transdisciplinary encounters and collaborations betw een artists and EPFL’s scientific community. The program invites profess ional Swiss and international artists for three-month residencies to reali ze innovative and visionary projects at the intersection of art\, science\ , and advanced technologies. LOCATION:EPFL Pavilions\, Pavilion A https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ART%20A0% 20100 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR