Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Tuesday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public   

Project Leader:
Dajuin Yao, sound artist, media artist, curator, art historian, music producer, radio host and software designer (Hangzhou, China)

Project Description:
IdeoRhythm is the artist’s unique homage to the Chinese script system, exploring the ideographic writing’s extreme possibilities in expression in this “post-handwriting” era of global culture. IdeoRhythm is a real-time software algorithm system projecting animated Chinese characters on large projection screens or gallery walls. With the pervasiveness of computer inputting, the ideographic writing system is already much removed from the motor memory and practice of our hands. In future Chinese calligraphy of the “post-handwriting” era, the art will be executed via the agent of fonts, software and algorithm, instead of traditional writing instruments. The recontextualization and indecipherability of Chinese characters seen in this series signify the alienation and auto-exoticism of Chinese culture in this and future centuries.