Nova Jiang

In Residence:
December 3, 2012 - December 22, 2012
Discipline:
Design, Technology
Country:
China

Nova Jiang’s projects are open systems that explore new forms of participation and the uncommon connections between different fields of cultural production. She was born in Dalian, China, in 1985 and grew up in New Zealand. She is currently based in Los Angeles. She holds a MFA from the Design Media Art Department, University of California, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of a Wave Hill Van Lier Visual Artist Fellowship, an Eyebeam Fellowship and a Skowhegan Fellowship. She has exhibited public and participatory projects at Sundance, 01SJ Biennial, Ars Electronica, Glow Festival and the Milan Public Design Festival.

 

Nova Jiang will design a series of costumes and props to be used by participants when interacting with her ongoing project Ideogenetic Machine, an installation that transforms participants into the protagonists of an algorithmically generated comic book. The comic is created live using custom software, combining portraits of participants captured with a camera and a database of drawings Jiang has been adding to since the beginning of 2011. These drawings illustrate speculative narratives based on current events. Jiang will be making extensive use of the Watermill Study Library and drawing inspiration from the eclectic collection as part of her design process. Because Ideogenetic Machine encourages the audience to take on the role of the performer, Jiang hopes to gain further insight into the long history shared between performance art and participatory art while in residence at Watermill.

 

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