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29th June, 2010 [Internatinal_Hong Kong] Joao Vasco Paiva @ EYEBALL Media Arts Webzine Clik to view the Webzine	23th July, 2010 Sea of the Mountains Para/Site Art Space presents Joao Vasco Paiva’s Sea of Mountains. Standing on the brink between abstraction and representation, Sea of Mountains is a computational video in which footage of the sea is used as the score for a generative audio piece. Opening: 23 July, 2010, 6pm – 8pm Exhibition: 24 July – 23 September, 2010 Venue: Para/Site Central, Hanart TZ Gallery, 2/F., 5 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong. Curator: Dominique Chiu 00000000000 A shot of a small part of Victoria harbor is registered at some point of the day. The traffics at the harbor that create the wave oscillation are kept outside the frame, showing only their effects. Through an established digital protocol, the formless water within the frame functions as a dynamic print abundant in microscopic variations, which induces the audio component with a constant flow of diverse pitch and volume variations. Although the understanding of the relations between the video and the generated sound requires close observation, the piece does not demand an awareness of the calculus made within the computation. The focal point is on the possibilities within a framed parcel of the ocean instead of the hidden computation. With a background in Fine arts with a special focus on painting, Joao Vasco Paiva moved to Hong kong in 2006 where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media, by the School of Creative Media , City University of Hong Kong. His work is characterized by the appropriation of natural phenomena, by mapping apparently random situations and presenting them in an aesthetically organized framework. He presents his work in single channel videos, audio visual performances, sound recordings and installations. Since 2008 his work as been intensively shown both locally and internationally, in festivals such as Athens Video Art Festival, Art Beijing, FILE International Festival of Electronic Language, London Festival of Exploratory Music, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards, Microwave International New Media Festival, Moscow, Young Art Biennial, and in other venues and locations in places such as Athens , Beijing, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, London, Moscow, Porto , Sao Paulo and Vienna . Para/Site 藝術空間將於中環寄隅展出 Joao Vasco Paiva 的 Sea of Mountains 。 Sea of Mountains 透過電腦程式以作品中的維多利亞港的錄像衍生出聲音部份。海港上活動來往被拒諸框架外，收納的只有活動帶來的海濤波動。海浪微細的變化有如樂譜中的音符，通過電腦程式引動聲浪聲頻。作品影像與聲音之間的牽絆玄機要透過仔細觀察方能了解，然而作品概念重點並非在於揭示背後電腦程式的計算，而是旨在探索框架中海洋所能引發的可能性。 Joao Vasco Paiva修讀藝術，主修繪畫。於二零零六年移居香港，於香港城市大學創意媒體學院修讀藝術碩士課程。其創作手法以挪移及重整看似不規則的自然現象為主。他的作品有單頻道錄像、視聽表演、錄音及裝置藝術。自二零零八年，曾參展多個本地及國際藝術節，當中包括： Athens Video Art Festival、藝術北京博覽會、 FILE International Festival of Electronic Language、 London Festival of Exploratory Music、香港當代藝術雙年獎二零零九、微波國際新媒體藝術節、Moscow、Young Art Biennial，亦於雅典、北京、香港、倫敦、莫斯科、波圖、聖保羅及維也納等地展出作品。 Enquiries 查詢: Dominique Chiu 趙小姐—dominique@para-site.org.hk / +852 2517 4620	20th July, 2010 Osage Sigma - Listening Room 6: Seeing the Sound 00000 000 000000000	1st July-31st July, 2010 "Action through non action" is selected for the II Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, Moscow Showing at the national center for Contemporary Art	21st May- 1st Augest,2010 "Wide Rothko" is selected for the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009 Showing at Hong Kong Museum of Art	25th May- 1st June 2010 "Action through non action" showing in a collective exhibition at Double Happiness Dubble Happiness, A Story of Siamese Cities Curated by Rebecca Catching, Nana Seo, Organized by OV gallery and Studio Double Happiness. As port cities, Hong Kong and Shanghai have historically shared both a sense of entrepreneurship and cosmopolitanism, yet their similarities have also lead to sibling rivalry and competition. In “Dubble Happiness: A Story of Siamese Cities,” we examine themes common to both cities including property rights, freedom of expression, alienation, transience, public and private spheres and changing of urban landscapes. “Dubble” is an amalgamation of the words bubble and double and “Dubble Happiness: A Story of Siamese Cities” plays on the duality of these cities, and the idea of a family which shares the same cultural roots but which was separated by political circumstances. At the same time, it also conjures up the idea of bubbles, utopias and the issues of face and artifice. Curated by Rebecca Catching, Nana Seo, organized by OV Gallery and the newly-opened Studio Double Happiness in the Foo Tak building, this is a special exhibition is held for the occasion of ARTHK10 in Hong Kong.	April,2010 Essay by Robin Peckham on <Hong Kong Gallery Guide>	March, 2010 Featuring on <Hong Kong Gallery Guide> 0000000000 Link : Interview with <Hong Kong Gallery Guide>	7.30pm, Wednesday 31st March 2010 Unmeasured Music HK, Curated by João Vasco Paiva Featuring: Dickson Dee, [ch`os], NERVE, William Lane (NME) Input/Output Gallery, Central, Hong Kong. Unmeasured Music began in July 2007 at the contemporary arts venue, Spike Island (Bristol, UK). A monthly night devised by Rachel Connelly, where artists, musicians and ideas joined together to create sublime performances and more ‘unsettling’ moments. It is a club, a social event, a place where sound and music events are un-tempered. Risk is intrinsic. Dedicated to the promotion of sound related events and the art of listening, it aims to provide a place where projects can happen, people can meet and your ears can be challenged. http://www.myspace.com/unmeasuredmusic 4 performers play amongst the backdrop of Paiva’s installation, Experiments on the Notation of Shapes. Turntables are back, but not in a way you expected. [ch`os] and Dee, usually more known for their digital compositions, take on an ‘old media’. Using turntables in unique ways, each performer creates a sometimes surreal but captivating soundtrack. NERVE provides sublime and edgy improvisations from his recent compositions, while William Lane (New Music Ensemble) takes Paiva’s installation as inspiration and uses the street outside I/O for his improvisation. 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 This event is sponsored by:	7pm, Wednesday 24th March 2010 Artist Talk, Input/Output Gallery, Central, Hong Kong. João Vasco Paiva presents a talk set around his audio visual installation. 00000000	12 Feb- 2th April 2010 "Experiments on the Notation of Shapes" Input/Output Gallery, Central, Hong Kong. 00000000000000000	10th Jan-26th Jan 2010 fuse:: Artist-in-Residence: João Vasco Paiva Presented by Videotage chirps (v.2) by João Vasco Paiva 鳥鳴 (了哥交響版) Opening Reception Date & Time: Jan 9, 2010 (Sat), 5:30pm Artist Talk: 6:15pm – 6:45pm (During the opening night) (*The Artist Talk will be conducted in English) Exhibition Date: Jan 10 – 26, 2010 Time: 12:00pm – 7:00pm (Daily except Mondays) Venue: Videotage Address: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kln, HK FREE ADMISSION, ALL ARE WELCOME On the opening night, the artist will share his creative process and concepts that became the pillars of Chirps. He will also talk about how the ideas of mapping, generative art and automata merge together with his own experience of Hong Kong and lead to his work. The prototype of the work (v1) was presented in the Microwave International New Media Art Festival 2009 in which a set of toy birds performed a sequence of calls and movement interfered by the passers-by at the lobby of Langham Hotel, while this time, Vasco has made the toy birds migrate to the raw space of Videotage where they would react to the motion and sound of a new player - a real mynah bird. This autonomous species, with its amazing imitative abilities, will respond to the sounds and motion of the 120 plastic birds while the electronic songbirds inherit their own kind of copying ability and react to the environment accordingly. The duo combination is a blown-up orchestra inviting visitors to observe both the psychology and intelligence of the natural-born and the computational singers. Together they become a feedback loop system, a true cybernetic nature. Words from Artist “Every toy bird is built with an audio sample and movements that resemble the real birds, a cheap attempt to emulate the real ones. The mechanical bird is therefore the perfect object to create an artificial output based on the natural conditions of the environment. The sound and motion of the mynah bird will be used as the value that calibrates the amount of voltage sent to control the movement of the bird toys and the playback of the samples. With amazing imitative abilities, the mynah bird will respond to the sounds and motion of the plastic birds. This process will create a feedback loop, the circuit direction will be from the reading of the mynah bird’s behavior to the interference of the work itself with the environment. The orchestra will be divided into several groups and each group will have its own interpretation of the given data. The overall musicality from the bird toys together with the myna bird will be the final product of the piece.” -- João Vasco Paiva About the Artist Talk The artist will share his creative process and the concepts, his doubts and the further developments of ‘Chirps’. He will talk about mapping, generative art and automata merge together with his own experience in Hong Kong. Can we define a determinate culture through the visual and sonic elements that constitute its basis? The artist relates his experience towards a new culture became a core part of the creative process in his artwork. He will look into art history about representation and the study of patterns, and address a new daily life experience in Hong Kong, an ethnographical approach outside the social and cultural connotations that it holds. It is not only aiming to encourage the appreciation of everyday experience in Hong Kong, but also to initiate a discussion on data manipulation in digital and analog media. João Vasco Paiva (left) and John Cage (right) usful links: http://www.videotage.org.hk/projects/20100109_chirps.htm http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=222958784119 Proudly presented by: Supported by:	14th Nov-11th Dec 2009 2009 Mircowave International New Media Arts Festival Sound installation "Chirps" Project room exhibition, Langham place Hotel, Monkok, HongKong.	7 Nov- 14 Nov 2009 "Action Through Non Action" Exhibiting at "se numa noite de Inverno um viajante" ( If in a winter night a traveller) An exhibition in an abandoned train station dedicated to Italo Calvino. Coimbra. Portugal	7 Nov 2009 "Wide Rothko" Screening at London International Festival of Exploratory Music, UK =	Oct 2- 3 2009 “Architecture is… Discourse with Music” Architecture is Art Festival Audio Visual performance at Hong Kong Cultural Center, TST “Architecture is...Discourse with Music” is an experiment and a creative dialogue between music and architecture. Beginning with electronic music, local artists will share their feelings and experiences of architecture with the audience. In the second half of the programme, four architects from mainland China will give lecture and lead the audience to embark on an adventurous journey into the unlimited world of architecture. Creating scores through the mapping of urban sctructures. Experiments on the notation of shapes (teaser) Architecture is ... Discourse

29th June, 2010

[Internatinal_Hong Kong] Joao Vasco Paiva @ EYEBALL Media Arts Webzine

23th July, 2010

Sea of the Mountains

Para/Site Art Space presents Joao Vasco Paiva’s Sea of Mountains. Standing on the brink between abstraction and representation, Sea of Mountains is a computational video in which footage of the sea is used as the score for a generative audio piece.

Opening: 23 July, 2010, 6pm – 8pm
Exhibition: 24 July – 23 September, 2010
Venue: Para/Site Central, Hanart TZ Gallery, 2/F., 5 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.
Curator: Dominique Chiu

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A shot of a small part of Victoria harbor is registered at some point of the day. The traffics at the harbor that create the wave oscillation are kept outside the frame, showing only their effects. Through an established digital protocol, the formless water within the frame functions as a dynamic print abundant in microscopic variations, which induces the audio component with a constant flow of diverse pitch and volume variations.
Although the understanding of the relations between the video and the generated sound requires close observation, the piece does not demand an awareness of the calculus made within the computation. The focal point is on the possibilities within a framed parcel of the ocean instead of the hidden computation.
With a background in Fine arts with a special focus on painting, Joao Vasco Paiva moved to Hong kong in 2006 where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media, by the School of Creative Media , City University of Hong Kong. His work is characterized by the appropriation of natural phenomena, by mapping apparently random situations and presenting them in an aesthetically organized framework.
He presents his work in single channel videos, audio visual performances, sound recordings and installations.
Since 2008 his work as been intensively shown both locally and internationally, in festivals such as Athens Video Art Festival, Art Beijing, FILE International Festival of Electronic Language, London Festival of Exploratory Music, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards, Microwave International New Media Festival, Moscow, Young Art Biennial, and in other venues and locations in places such as Athens , Beijing, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, London, Moscow, Porto , Sao Paulo and Vienna .

Para/Site 藝術空間將於中環寄隅展出 Joao Vasco Paiva 的 Sea of Mountains 。 Sea of Mountains 透過電腦程式以作品中的維多利亞港的錄像衍生出聲音部份。

海港上活動來往被拒諸框架外，收納的只有活動帶來的海濤波動。海浪微細的變化有如樂譜中的音符，通過電腦程式引動聲浪聲頻。

作品影像與聲音之間的牽絆玄機要透過仔細觀察方能了解，然而作品概念重點並非在於揭示背後電腦程式的計算，而是旨在探索框架中海洋所能引發的可能性。

Joao Vasco Paiva修讀藝術，主修繪畫。於二零零六年移居香港，於香港城市大學創意媒體學院修讀藝術碩士課程。其創作手法以挪移及重整看似不規則的自然現象為主。

他的作品有單頻道錄像、視聽表演、錄音及裝置藝術。

自二零零八年，曾參展多個本地及國際藝術節，當中包括： Athens Video Art Festival、藝術北京博覽會、 FILE International Festival of Electronic Language、 London Festival of Exploratory Music、香港當代藝術雙年獎二零零九、微波國際新媒體藝術節、Moscow、Young Art Biennial，亦於雅典、北京、香港、倫敦、莫斯科、波圖、聖保羅及維也納等地展出作品。

Enquiries 查詢: Dominique Chiu 趙小姐—dominique@para-site.org.hk / +852 2517 4620

20th July, 2010

Osage Sigma - Listening Room 6: Seeing the Sound

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1st July-31st July, 2010

"Action through non action" is selected for the II Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, Moscow

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21st May- 1st Augest,2010

"Wide Rothko" is selected for the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009

Showing at Hong Kong Museum of Art

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25th May- 1st June 2010

"Action through non action" showing in a collective exhibition at Double Happiness

Dubble Happiness, A Story of Siamese Cities

Curated by Rebecca Catching, Nana Seo, Organized by OV gallery and Studio Double Happiness.

As port cities, Hong Kong and Shanghai have historically shared both a sense of entrepreneurship and cosmopolitanism, yet their similarities have also lead to sibling rivalry and competition. In “Dubble Happiness: A Story of Siamese Cities,” we examine themes common to both cities including property rights, freedom of expression, alienation, transience, public and private spheres and changing of urban landscapes.

“Dubble” is an amalgamation of the words bubble and double and “Dubble Happiness: A Story of Siamese Cities” plays on the duality of these cities, and the idea of a family which shares the same cultural roots but which was separated by political circumstances. At the same time, it also conjures up the idea of bubbles, utopias and the issues of face and artifice.

Curated by Rebecca Catching, Nana Seo, organized by OV Gallery and the newly-opened Studio Double Happiness in the Foo Tak building, this is a special exhibition is held for the occasion of ARTHK10 in Hong Kong.

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7.30pm, Wednesday 31st March 2010

Unmeasured Music HK, Curated by João Vasco Paiva

Featuring: Dickson Dee, [ch`os], NERVE, William Lane (NME)

Input/Output Gallery, Central, Hong Kong.

Unmeasured Music began in July 2007 at the contemporary arts venue, Spike Island (Bristol, UK). A monthly night devised by Rachel Connelly, where artists, musicians and ideas joined together to create sublime performances and more ‘unsettling’ moments. It is a club, a social event, a place where sound and music events are un-tempered. Risk is intrinsic. Dedicated to the promotion of sound related events and the art of listening, it aims to provide a place where projects can happen, people can meet and your ears can be challenged.

http://www.myspace.com/unmeasuredmusic

4 performers play amongst the backdrop of Paiva’s installation, Experiments on the Notation of Shapes. Turntables are back, but not in a way you expected. [ch`os] and Dee, usually more known for their digital compositions, take on an ‘old media’. Using turntables in unique ways, each performer creates a sometimes surreal but captivating soundtrack. NERVE provides sublime and edgy improvisations from his recent compositions, while William Lane (New Music Ensemble) takes Paiva’s installation as inspiration and uses the street outside I/O for his improvisation.

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7pm, Wednesday 24th March 2010

Artist Talk, Input/Output Gallery, Central, Hong Kong.

João Vasco Paiva presents a talk set around his audio visual installation.

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"Experiments on the Notation of Shapes"

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10th Jan-26th Jan 2010

fuse:: Artist-in-Residence:
João Vasco Paiva

Presented by Videotage

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Opening Reception
Date & Time: Jan 9, 2010 (Sat), 5:30pm
Artist Talk: 6:15pm – 6:45pm (During the opening night)
(*The Artist Talk will be conducted in English)

Exhibition Date: Jan 10 – 26, 2010
Time: 12:00pm – 7:00pm (Daily except Mondays)
Venue: Videotage
Address: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kln, HK
FREE ADMISSION, ALL ARE WELCOME

On the opening night, the artist will share his creative process and concepts that became the pillars of Chirps. He will also talk about how the ideas of mapping, generative art and automata merge together with his own experience of Hong Kong and lead to his work.

The prototype of the work (v1) was presented in the Microwave International New Media Art Festival 2009 in which a set of toy birds performed a sequence of calls and movement interfered by the passers-by at the lobby of Langham Hotel, while this time, Vasco has made the toy birds migrate to the raw space of Videotage where they would react to the motion and sound of a new player - a real mynah bird.

This autonomous species, with its amazing imitative abilities, will respond to the sounds and motion of the 120 plastic birds while the electronic songbirds inherit their own kind of copying ability and react to the environment accordingly. The duo combination is a blown-up orchestra inviting visitors to observe both the psychology and intelligence of the natural-born and the computational singers. Together they become a feedback loop system, a true cybernetic nature.

Words from Artist

“Every toy bird is built with an audio sample and movements that resemble the real birds, a cheap attempt to emulate the real ones. The mechanical bird is therefore the perfect object to create an artificial output based on the natural conditions of the environment. The sound and motion of the mynah bird will be used as the value that calibrates the amount of voltage sent to control the movement of the bird toys and the playback of the samples. With amazing imitative abilities, the mynah bird will respond to the sounds and motion of the plastic birds. This process will create a feedback loop, the circuit direction will be from the reading of the mynah bird’s behavior to the interference of the work itself with the environment. The orchestra will be divided into several groups and each group will have its own interpretation of the given data. The overall musicality from the bird toys together with the myna bird will be the final product of the piece.”

-- João Vasco Paiva

About the Artist Talk

The artist will share his creative process and the concepts, his doubts and the further developments of ‘Chirps’. He will talk about mapping, generative art and automata merge together with his own experience in Hong Kong. Can we define a determinate culture through the visual and sonic elements that constitute its basis? The artist relates his experience towards a new culture became a core part of the creative process in his artwork. He will look into art history about representation and the study of patterns, and address a new daily life experience in Hong Kong, an ethnographical approach outside the social and cultural connotations that it holds. It is not only aiming to encourage the appreciation of everyday experience in Hong Kong, but also to initiate a discussion on data manipulation in digital and analog media.

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