About Rhythm and Gestural Media
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Sha Xin Wei will show examples of gestural media: using free gesture and whole-body movement to continuously shape video and sound, bringing people together in physical play-spaces, free of screens and keyboards. Studio conditions permitting, we’ll offer students a chance to try some gestural media instruments from Synthesis. For example the delay sequencer takes a sound and streams out up to 16 delayed and modulated copies of it to make thicker streams and rhythms to your design. The video sounder maps activity in portions of a video to sound so you can match a “soundscape” to what a camera can detect as movement.
About the speaker
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Sha Xin Wei creates gestural time-based media – live video + sound – in responsive environments. His artworks include the TGarden playspaces, Hubbub speech-sensitive urban spaces, Membrane calligraphic video, Softwear gestural sound instruments, the WYSIWYG gesture-sensitive sounding weaving, Ouija performance-installations, and kinetic / light sculpture responding to movement and gesture, such as Cosmicomics Elektra, eSea Shanghai, the IL Y A video membrane Stanford/Berkeley, and Time Lenses Beall Center, and Palimpsest Paris. In collaboration with Khintirian, Ingalls, and Laurin, he created the Serra vegetal life environment. Dr. Sha teaches at the School of Arts, Media + Engineering and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems, directs the Synthesis Atelier for transversal art, philosophy and technology at Arizona State University. He has been a professor at Concordia University as director of the Topological Media Lab, and lives in Montréal Canada.
Event Details
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When: Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 - 6-8:00pm
Where: CIID, Via Astino, 16, 24129 Bergamo BG, Italy map
Tickets are free.
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The event is in-person and the talk will be in English. It will not be streamed or recorded.
Parking: Available in via Astino 650m before the Monastery. 10 min walk away.
