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Activities
Date & Time:
OCT 19 – DEC 16, 2022
Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
12:00–6:00 PM
Visits are free and pre-registration is required.
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CAMLab Cave Public Visits
Beginning October 19th, Harvard FAS CAMLab invites visitors to explore immersive installations that integrate historical research, digital technologies, and multisensory media art. This fall, Public Visits will feature Cave Dance, a project that harnesses the power of machine learning to recover dances depicted in the medieval Buddhist caves of Dunhuang. Also included in the Public Visits are immersive experiences of episodes from the Embodied Architecture, Shadow Cave, and Digital Temple projects.
Type of news
Activities
Date & Time:
OCT 19 – DEC 16, 2022
Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
12:00–6:00 PM
Visits are free and pre-registration is required.
Watch Trailer:
Installations On View
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Based upon multi-year interdisciplinary research on the Buddhist culture of dance in Dunhuang, the Cave Dance project uses data from Dunhuang Dunhuang murals and motion capture of professional dancers to train a machine-learning model and generate a human-computer collaborative choreography of animated movement sequences. Through this process, Cave Dance reconstructs—and reimagines—medieval dances in a contemporary manner. |
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With photogrammetry, digital modeling, CG animation, 3D printing, and mixed reality, Embodied Architecture creates a multi-sensorial theater of cultural heritage. Combining new media and technology with contemporary artistic expression, the project unfolds the imaginary universe embodied by Buddhist monuments, as well as a spiritual journey of ascension and transcendence. |
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Shadow Cave addresses a foundational myth of Buddhist art that originated around 400 CE in the kingdom of Gandhāra and inspired a millennium of icon- and cave-making practices across Asia. The project explores issues inherent in the Shadow Cave, such as the nature of images and vision, theatricality and ritual in aesthetic experiences, and dynamics between materiality and transcendence. |
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Digital Temple draws the audience into an exploration of Kaihua Monastery beyond the limits of borders, time, and artifact examination. Its main Buddha Hall stands in the western foothills of China’s Shanxi province but simultaneously in this experimental form of art-education: the project allows viewers to survey the structure and follow the temple’s transformation through each of its murals. A story that has danced from Medieval Asia to the digital realm plays out a ritual that ends in transcendence. |
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The art film To the Moon reinterprets the artistic and cognitive journey of the ink painter Liu Kuo-sung (b. 1932). As it retraces Liu’s ambulatory life—moving from his birthplace in Anhui, throughout war-torn mainland China, and eventually across the strait to Taiwan—the film unfolds Liu’s ultimate artistic aim: to fill the cold, dark cosmos with the warmth and brightness of a home. |
