SYMPOSIUM PI

The PI Symposium is a 3-day event on art and emerging technologies.  The idea is to bring together scientists (from robotics, biomedical ethics, sociology of the media, ethnology), transmedia artists (augmented reality, design, 3D animation) and video game developers (for therapy and entertainment) with personalities from the fields of art, culture, and academic research, to debate the relationship between man and technology in a rapidly developing, culturally digital world.

A selection from the student work (videos, animations, digital paintings, interactive installations, drawings, transmedia) entered for the “Imaginary Landscapes II” biennial international competition, initiated by Patrizia Abderhalden, who directs the EPAC, and Eng-Hiong Low, in collaboration with the MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) at Taipei on Taiwan (ROC), and the fruit of collaboration between arts academies and universities in Europe and Asia. The theme of this second edition was “Immortal quest – new spaces and codes – the post human”. 

Title, artist(s) and type of work on show:
Obfuscator, Chen-Chun Chen, an interactive installation
Circus, Guo-Wei Chiou, animation
Suspended Monsters, Nicolas Degaudenzi, digital painting
Landscape, Chih-Ming Fan, video
A Time and a Place, Chuang Ho, animated drawings
Floating Island, Hsin-Wen Hsu, wood and pencil
Live or leave, Po-Yu Huang, digital graphics
Bionic Orchid, Li-Chin Lin/Yun-Jun Lin/Cipto Hartanto, interactive
installation
Eternity, Julien Loutz, pencil
Rouge Statue, Dexter Maurer, colour pencils
Le Signal, Ramiz Morina, digital painting
Emissary, Kevin Péclet/Ramiz Morina, video
Blue Vegas, Aimé Salamin, digital painting
Goodbye, Goodbye! Ping-Yu Shen, animation
Uluru 1, Justyna Smolen, photograph
Untitled, Stanislawski, photograph
Epreuve 1-4, Alice Suret-Canale, gelatin silver print
Posthuman, Katarzyna Szymkiewiecz, video
Insect Swarm III, Bing-Hua Tsai, interactive sound installation
Post Human, Gautier Rebetez, photomontage
Le Titan, Florent Roh, digital painting
Cinis 13, Adam Vogt, digital painting
Stamp, Lewis Wang, artwork on paper
The Voyage, Po-Yen Wang, video installation
Murder, Tzu-Ting Yang/Jui-Ting Fan/Li-Ping Wang, animation
Ziggourat, Loïc Zanfagna, painting
Samara, Xiao-Kang Zhang, animation

Formal opening:
Friday 28 November at 7 p.m.
Opening hours:
9–12 a.m. and 2–6 p.m. (except Saturdays
and Sundays) plus the evenings when
there is a performance at the Theatre.
Until 1 March 2015.

The Théâtre du Crochetan,
Avenue du Théâtre 9 / CH-1870 Monthey,
Valais / Switzerland
Tel. 024 / 475 79 09

More information: www.symposium-pi.ch