Xiaoying (Juliette) Yuan
Female | lives and works in New York | Permanent resident in the United States of America Email: [email protected] Website: http://julietteyuan.net
CURATORIAL | PRODUCTION
Curator/Producer for Exhibitions
Jul. 12 to Aug. 31, 2013 Lost in the Labyrinth: Sound Art in China group exhibition Cloud.Data interactive iPad installation for 2013 New York Electronic Art Festival, organized by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (NYC)
Oct. 1, 2012, to Mar. 31, 2013 Roy Ascott: Syncretic Cybernetics, the first retrospective for the British pioneer artist and theorist, commissioned by the 2012 Shanghai Biennial (Section Resources), Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Oct. 1-3, 2011 Gravitational Field: 2011 Himalayas Cross-Media Festival, commissioned by Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Jun. 18 to Aug. 28, 2011 Beijing International New Media Arts Festival, organized by Songzhuang Art Center [Beijing, China], Association of Digital Art China [Beijing, China], in collaboration with Ars Electronica [Linz, Austria] Anxiety: Chinese young video artists group exhibition, Xiaoping Gallery, Shanghai, China
Sep. 28 to Oct. 1, 2006 PLAY(S) – International Digital & Multimedia Arts Exhibition, within The Third China Animation Film Festival, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture in China, Changzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center, Changzhou, China
June to September, 2005 Tiles and Drawings, interactive installation by Dutch artist Geert Mul, supported by v2_Institute for the Unstable Media (the Netherlands), commissioned by the 2005 Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Organizer for Conferences | Workshops
Oct.3-15, 2012 IMMERSION | Art and Technology Workshops, commissioned by the 2012 Shanghai Biennial, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
1 Aug.26-27, 2011 Transcultural Tendencies | Trensmedial Transactions: International Conference on Media Arts Research, commissioned by Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, in collaboration with University of Plymouth [UK], Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
April to September 2009 Uncertain Future, about New Media Art·Games conference in series, in collaboration with Beijing Art Museum of Imperial City, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (CAFA)
September to October 2004 Digital Art and Architecture conference tour, featuring the innovative collaborations between pioneer media artist in France, Miguel Chevalier, and the 1994 Pritzker Prize winner, the French architect Christian de Portzamparc, hosted by Shanghai Jiaotong University [Shanghai], Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts [Sichuan] and Kunming Academy of Fine Arts [Yunnan]
Speaker @ Presentations | Lectures | Panel discussions
Presentations
July 2013 Survey on Lost in the Labyrinth: Sound Art in China at the 2013 New York Electronic Art Festival, presentation at Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), New York, USA
December 2012 From Data Immersion to the Continuity of Art and Technology in China, presentation at MutaMorphosis: Tribute to Uncertainty International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
November to December 2011 Media Arts | Curatorial | Identity, presentation at Presence in the Mindfield: Art, Identity and the Technology of Transformation, The Planetary Collegium's 12th Annual International Research Conference, Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era, Belem Conference Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
August 2011 The Social Properties of Media Arts in an Open Source Era, presentation at Transcultural Tendencies | Transmedial Transactions International Conference for Media Arts Research, Shanghai, China
November 2010 China - Living in between Real and Unreal, presentation at Meta Morf 2010, TEKS Biennial for Art and Technology, Trondheim Arts Centre, Norway
Lectures
December 2012 Paris|Beijing Research Exchange in Art and Technology, lecture at L'École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs (Ensad), Paris, France 2
April 2012 Performing Arts in China, lecture at the Department of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, USA
December 2010 A Casual Talk about BioArt, lecture at the 2011 Beijing International New Media Arts Festival, Songzhuang Art Centre, Beijing, China
June 2010 Curating New Media Art in China, lecture at Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), within the cultural exchange program between CAFA and the University at Buffalo (NY), Beijing, China
November 2007 798 Factory and Chinese Contemporary Art, lecture at Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Panel discussions
November 2012 Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, book launch & China Panel Discussion, Harvestworks, New York, USA
September 2011 Curating New Media Art in China, a creative approach from within, round table at the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Istanbul|Beijing
PUBLICATIONS
Media Arts Collection (3 Volumes), project curator/editor/supervisor, published by Beijing Beepub Ltd. Co. and Gold Wall Press, Beijing, China, 2011 to 2013 Including: l The Future is Now: Art, Technology and Consciousness, worldwide first collection of 50 year writings of Roy Ascott in Chinese translation, ed. Xiaoying Juliette Yuan, Chinese translation by Ling Zhou/Aifan Ren, published in China by Beijing Gold Wall Press, May 2012, pp.335 l Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, ed. by Margot Lovejoy (USA) / Christiane Paul (USA) /Victoria Vesna (USA), original publication in English by Intellect Books (UK), Chinese translation by Aifan Ren, published in China by Beijing Gold Wall Press, Aug.2012, pp.312 l Nahaufnahme Robert Lepage. Herausgegeben von Renate Klett (CLOSE Robert Lepage. Conversation with Renate Klett), original publication in German by Alexander Verlag Berlin (Germany), Chinese translation by Yilun Song, published in China by Beijing Gold Wall Press, Jul.2013, pp.304
3 Shanghai TT|TT International Conference for Media Arts Research proceeding, a special issue for Technoetic Arts Journal, ed. Roy Ascott, special issue guest editor Xiaoying Juliette Yuan, published by Intellect Ltd., UK, 2013
Seed, essay for the catalogue of BEIJING | BUFFALO: TRANSLATION cultural exchange program between the Department of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo [USA], and School of Fine Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts [CAFA, Beijing, China], published by the Department of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo [USA], 2013
CURATING NEW MEDIA ART IN CHINA: A CREATIVE APPROACH FROM WITHIN, presentation paper published in the conference proceeding for "PRESENCE IN THE MINDFIELD: Art, Identity and the Technology of Transformation, The Planetary Collegium's 12th Annual international Research Conference, Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era," published by ArtShare, Lisbon, 2011, pp.304
The social properties of Media Arts in an Open Source era, presentation paper published in the conference proceeding for "Transcultural Tendencies | Transmedial Transactions: International Conference for Media Arts Research", published by Intellect Ltd. UK, 2013, pp.378
China-Living in between Real and Unreal, presentation paper published in the conference proceeding "Making the Reality Really Real: the 11th Consciousness Reframed International Research Conference", published by the Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, Norway, 2010
STAGE PERFORMANCES
June to September 2007 Supervisor for video set design of Guan·Shi·Yin (Sight·Universe·Sound), multimedia dance and theater, produced by National Theater of China
October 2006 to February 2007 Script writer/Supervisor of interactive set design for Jing Meng (Peony Pavilion), multimedia dance and theater, produced by Beijing Youth Media Group, China National Theater for Children
ART ADEMINISTRATIVE | MANAGEMENT
March to December 2008 Director Exhibitors Relation, ShContemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
September 2001 to November 2005 Gallery co-owner/director, Trace de Chine Chinese Antiques Gallery, Paris, France
OTHER OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE | MANAGEMENT
January 1997 to December 1999 Assistant to General Manager, Air France Beijing Delegation, Beijing, China
4 EDUCATION
2010 to 2017, PhD candidate in Media and Arts, Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK
September 1999 to July 2001, Master in General and Comparative Literature, Paris III-La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
September 1993 to July 1997, Bachelor in French language, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluency (speaking, writing) in English, French, Mandarin
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