Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

Lu Yang, a multimedia artist, has long been making efforts to understand human body from the perspective of neuroscience, as shown by her works featuring the concept of related technologies such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). In 2018, she introduced Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), a technology developed by NTT DOCOMO and Osaka University, into her latest work Electromagnetic Brain Brainology! Brain Control Messenger! (Brain control messenger refers to a person who can take control of brain). Lu believes other parts of body will automatically be controlled if the brain is.

We are honored to invite Professor Hideyuki Ando from Osaka University to give this talk together with Lu Yang. They will begin with the usage of GVS in Lu’s works to discuss how advanced technologies contribute to present virtual reality in artworks, if human perception of real space depends on individual wills, how this perception can be changed, and how we can “save ourselves.”

一直以来，陆扬持续地关注从脑科学的概念认识人类身体的观点，在以往作品中曾应用“大脑深层电刺激技术（DBS）”以及“经颅磁刺激技术（TMS）”技术概念进行创作。2018年全新作品《电磁脑神教！脑制御士！》结合了日本NTT DOCOMO 与大阪大学共同开发研究的“前庭电气刺激技术” （Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation），在日语中，脑制御士中的“制御”一词意为控制，也就是“控制大脑的人”，而能控制大脑，便意味着能控制身体其他部位。

本次讲座我们很荣幸地邀请到大阪大学教授安藤英由树与艺术家陆扬一起，他们将从“前庭电气刺激技术”在陆扬的艺术作品中的运用开始，讨论先进的科学技术在艺术作品中是如何辅助呈现了虚拟现实。人类对于现实空间的感知是否依赖于个人意志？它可以如何被改变？我们又如何“拯救自己”？

Lu Yang using a variety of media: video, installation, animation, and digital painting, game, the artist unflinchingly explores existential issues about the nature of life and where it resides. Armed with an overlaying mix of strategies taken from Science, Religion, Psychology, Neuroscience, Medicine, Games, Pop Culture and Music, among others, Lu Yang overrides the often delusional belief that humans control are privileged within this universe. Instead, she highlights the biological and material determinants of our condition reminding us of our transient and fragile existence, but with an edge of dark humor that leaves no room for sentimentality.

Lu Yang’s works have been featured in important group exhibitions at the UCCA (Beijing), Centre Pompidou (Paris), 56th Venice Biennale 2015 China Pavillion, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, Liverpool Biennial 2016, Shanghai Biennale 2012, Montreal International Digital Art Biennial 2016, Musée d’art contemporain of Lyon, Momentum (Berlin), Tampa Museum of Art, The 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, etc. Solo exhibition such like: Tokyo Spiral, MWoods museum, MOCA Cleveland, UCCA, etc.

Hideyuki Ando is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University. He has made extensive studies on human illusion-based interfaces, related to virtual reality, sensation, consciousness and motion, as well as bionics. His belief that his studies and artistic presentation of technologies are beneficial to society showed him the path of creation in the first place. In 2008, he was awarded Excellence Prize at the Media Arts Festival by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. In 2009 and 2011, he received Honorary Mention (interactive art) two times from Ars Electronica, an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute.

陆扬工作涉及科学、宗教、生物学、神经科学、心理学、医疗科技、游戏、流行文化与音乐等层面，并且使用装置、编程、游戏、录像与动画等媒介来展示她的作品。陆扬否认人类在宇宙中享有特权，她从生物学角度突出人类的的短暂与脆弱。她的创作语言充满黑色幽默，避免了过于感性的表达。

她的作品在全世界范围内的重要美术馆机构参与群展如：上海K11，巴黎蓬皮杜，56届威尼斯双年展中国馆，第三届伊斯坦布尔设计双年展，2016年利物浦双年展，2012年上海双年展，2016年蒙特利尔国际数字双年展，第五届福冈亚洲艺术三年展，第六届莫斯科双年展，2018年雅典双年展，重要个展有：东京Spiral，北京木木美术馆，美国克利夫兰当代美术馆与北京尤伦斯艺术中心等。

安藤英由树，大阪大学研究生学院信息科学研究科教授，他的研究内容包括：利用人体幻觉现象进行的人类介面研究；虚拟实境；感觉，知觉，运动的交互界面研究；仿生学等等。通过对这些交互界面的开发研究，加之对先进科学技术的艺术化表达能够带给社会更多贡献这一点的认同，他开始了自己的创作。2008年，获第12届文化厅媒体艺术节艺术部门优秀奖，2009年，2011年荣获Ars Electronica互动艺术部荣誉奖。