1-25/11/2018

See Dominik Mersch Gallery Website for more information and virtual 3d Matterport tour.

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Works:

Automated Logistics Simulation
Combinatorics
Perspectives [temporal]
Melt (Integrated Circuit)
City Constructed from Sleeping Brain Activity Data
Metamodel.DNA
Prints (Abstract Causation)

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Exhibition text:

In my artistic practice, I try and make sense of the complexity of computational systems through the becoming-sensory of data and algorithm. I’m concerned with how data and algorithm are understood and utilised in contemporary society, in that they are abstracted and made into something separate from their materials, conditions, and relations. Computation colours everything it touches with an algorithmic logic, a particular kind of ordering and sequencing that also brings forth apprehensions and paranoias.

Permutations explores the way data is continually produced, manipulated, reordered, and made sensory. The works in this exhibition play with the seemingly endless permutations of data to investigate the scale and scope of data as well as its elegance and anxieties. Through 3D-printed sculpture, video, sound, simulation, and generative installation, these works find ways of making sensory the invisible data that subtends our experience of the world. In doing so, the works create new renderings of data that articulate both its darkness and our underlying fears, as well as how the extension and repetition of simple actions finds balance between order and complexity.

I am particularly interested in the limits of data, such as the extent to which we can generate data. Although current logic in governments, corporations, and computer science (such as in machine learning and artificial intelligence) calls for ever more data in order to better predict and model behaviours, I am interested in how we can aesthetically investigate this glut of data, and what this mass of data means as it moves beyond our scales of comprehension. Here I hope to come to an understanding of computation through its affects and aesthetics, questioning what it means and how it feels to live alongside the interrelated complexity of data and the many ways it manifests.

23 AUGUST – 19 NOVEMBER 2017

Primavera 2017: Young Australian Artists brings together artworks by eight artists that question natural and human-made archives, from the physical to the digital.

For the 26th edition of Primavera, curator Sophia Kouyoumdjian will work with the participating artists to explore the theme of ‘Ancient Futures’. Each work in the exhibition will consider the relationship between existence in the present, and the past, in relation to archives and collections.

Working across a range of disciplines such as collage, installation, painting, photography and video, the Primavera 2017 artists include Jacobus Capone (WA), Adam John Cullen(VIC), Nicole Foreshew (NSW), Teelah George (WA), Laura Hindmarsh (TAS/UK), Elena Papanikolakis (NSW), Tom Polo (NSW) and Kynan Tan (WA/NSW).

Curator Sophia Kouyoumdjian has worked in the arts sector for over 15 years across directorial, curatorial and exhibition management roles and is currently the Coordinator of Parramatta Artist Studios. Previously she worked as the Acting Director and Curator at Blacktown Arts Centre and has comprehensive experience in Western Sydney’s contemporary art community.

Primavera is the MCA’s annual exhibition of Australian artists aged 35 years and under. Since 1992, the series has showcased the works of artists in the early stages of their career, many of whom have gone on to exhibit nationally and internationally.

Primavera was initiated in 1992 by Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM and their family in memory of their daughter and sister Belinda, a talented jeweller who died at the age of 29.

https://www.mca.com.au/exhibition/primavera-2017/

Artists: Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, Owen Leong, Kynan Tan

LONGLI ANCIENT TOWN, JINPING COUNTY, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA
OCTOBER 1-5 2016
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art will present the works of three Australian artists as part of the inaugural Longli International New Media Arts Festival in Longli Ancient Town, China, in early October 2016.
Three Sydney-based artists of Chinese heritage have been selected for participation by 4A: Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, Sydney-based singer, producer and performance artist whose works investigate translation, diaspora and the fluid relationship between original and copy; Owen Leong, a contemporary artist exploring the transmission of culture and the body as a physical site of exchange; and Kynan Tan, a Perth-born, Sydney-based artist interested in networks, relationality and digital systems of control.Accompanied to the Festival by 4A Program Manager Pedro de Almeida, the three artists will respond to the Festival’s theme “Metabolism” with a series of media works, to be installed within an ancient temple.

Longli International New Media Arts Festival is supported by the China Culture Industrial Investment Fund, and focuses focused on the integration of regional culture with the folk culture of Longli, to make artistic works strike a chord with the Ancient City of Longli in various new ways.
Longli International New Media Arts Festival runs from 1 – 5 October, 2016.

Festival dates:
1 – 5 October, 2016

Festival venue:
LONGLI ANCIENT TOWN, JINPING COUNTY, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA
#4ALongli

www.4a.com.au

To find out more or arrange an interview with the artists or curator, contact Bridie Moran, Marketing, Communications and Development Manager at 4A: bridie.moran@4a.com.au, +61 402926031

ABOUT LONGLI MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
The Longli Media Arts Festival is to be situated in Longli Ancient town, listed as one of the ecological museums in Guizhou for the cooperation between China and the Kingdom of Norway due to its profound ecological cultural deposits. The town has enchanted artists from all over the world.
As a result, the China Culture Industrial Investment Fund will offer critical support to the Longli International New Media Arts Festival in terms of partnership promotions, investment and financing, talent training, technical support and expert consulting. The Fund will also encourage the organizers to apply for China’s special funds for cultural industry development this year.

// Christchurch
Sculptures: 5 – kinetic sound art installation
Opening: 2nd April, 6-8pm
Show runs 2nd April – 5th May 2015
The Auricle :: Facebook event

// Dunedin
Friday 3rd April
The Dunedin Art Gallery
Facebook event

// Auckland
Sunday 5th April
Audio Foundation

// Wellington
Tuesday 7th April
Pyramid Club

All shows with Andrew Brooks as té.

Article Notes on Translation by té (Kynan Tan + Andrew Brooks) is featured in issue 33 of Das Superpaper.

Read the article or download the full issue here.

city constructed from sleeping brain activity data was judged Highly Commended at the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2014.

city constructed from sleeping brain activity data (2013)
twenty one 3D-printed sculptures

This set of sculptures was created using data collected from sleeping brain activity that has been converted into 3D meshes, rendered using computer software and then printed. This data presents a non-narrative view of the thought activity occurring in sleeping individuals. Abstract relationships are formed – the constructed ‘buildings’ are at times peculiar, dark and dream-like, and other times reminiscent of modernist architecture, drawing links between abstract/subconscious thought, creativity and conversions between media.

The work is inspired by Carl Jung’s writings surrounding dreams and the commonly expressed view that the internet is a repository of outsourced information, thoughts and memories. This work addresses this idea by procuring this data from the expanse of the internet and connecting multiple individuals’ brain activity to form a 3-dimensional array, linking the collective unconscious of the internet with sound, video and physical structures.

SUCCESSOR STATES
ZAC CORRIE / SAM GILLIES / STUART JAMES / STEVE PARASKOS / KYNAN TAN
In association with Tura New Music

One show only: 31 October, 7.30pm-9.30pm (5x20mins sets with interval)
$15 pre-sales / $18 door

http://www.psas.com.au/pages/now_and_future/successor_states/

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Premiere of new work

graph sketch of DNA data
2014
32ch sound

This work uses DNA data analysed from a complex ecosystem as the control information for the reproduction of sound. The DNA data is formatted in long strings of nucleobases identified by G, A, T or C. Self-built software interprets the range of serial combinations of nucleobases and maps these to a range of sound control parameters (sample read position, filter frequency, spatialisation, amplitude envelope, duration, delay between events).

The work investigates the complexity and noisiness of data and signal in the biological world, and how this can be combined with personal and sonic histories in making creative decisions towards aesthetic outcomes.

didactic tools group project with Sam Fox + Hydra Poesis

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Fremantle Arts Centre
Opening Fri 20 Nov | 6:30pm | Free
Exhibition runs Sat 21 Nov 2015 – Sun 24 Jan 2016
Workshop Symposium Sat 21 Nov 2015, 9:00am-5:00pm

Tarsh Bates (WA)
Keg de Souza (NSW)
Sam Fox (WA)
Jake Oorloff (Sri Lanka)
Kynan Tan (WA/NSW)

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Didactic Tools features five artists responding to the current explosion of instructional and educational culture; from YouTube tutorials and TED to the proliferation of data visualisation and analytics, digital whistleblowing and new political movements.

The ensemble of artists brings together disciplines of performance, visual, sound and media art with biological science and architectural practice.

Through collective research – sharing their own tools and conducting experiments in peer-to-peer education – the artists have drawn lines between the vast field of sub-cultures and movements in which teaching and learning now thrive.

Didactic Tools presents five artists embracing the challenges of working with knowledge in art, each considering in their own way how the transference of the work’s ‘source code’ (information/intention/meaning/provocation/polemic) might resonate with its evocative qualities.

This project has been convened by Perth-based company Hydra Poesis and organised by artists Kynan Tan and Sam Fox.

www.fac.org.au

city constructed from sleeping brain activity data is being exhibited as part of the Fremantle Art Centre Print Award.

Opening Thurs 25 Sept | 6:30pm | Bar Open | Live Music By Mei Saraswati
Runs Fri 26 Sept – Sun 16 Nov | Free

The annual Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing is Australia’s premier printmaking award and presents a showcase of our nation’s finest prints and artists’ books. Returning for its 39th year, the award and exhibition reflects the state of printmaking in contemporary Australian art practice. Emerging and established artists submit some 300 entries a year with a selection of the best entries exhibited.

ZHO 111: KYNAN TAN, WALO

8pm Monday 8th September 2014
The Bakery

Tickets available through The Bakery or at the door.

Club Zho 111 continues at The Bakery with a diverse array of new electronic music. Kynan Tan presents his thought-provoking laptop electronics stylings following on from his recent audiovisual work at PICA, whilst the Western Australian Laptop Orchestra presents new commissioned works by Australian composers Mitchell Mollison, James Paul and Jarryd Bird.

Kynan Tan

Kynan Tan is an artist who works with digital processes to investigate networks, data transference and relational structures between multiple senses. These works take the form of multi-screen audio-visual performances, installations, 3D-printed sculptures, improvised sound, and kinetic artworks involving electronic circuits, speakers and lights. Kynan has been the recipient a DCA Young People and the Arts Fellowship (2013), Australia Council Artstart grant (2013), and participated in the JUMP Mentorship Program (2012), studying with renowned audio- visual artist Robin Fox. Kynan has performed in Japan, Germany and throughout Australia, including events such as Test Tone (Tokyo), Channels Video Art Festival (Melbourne) and the NOW now Festival of Art (Sydney), and his works have also been exhibited at MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan, NH7 Festival, Pune, India and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

https://kynantan.com/

The Western Australian Laptop Orchestra

The West Australian Laptop Orchestra (WALO) is an electroacoustic ensemble, based at The West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, that specialises in presenting new and unique live electronic music. Drawing it’s influence from other successful laptop orchestras from around the world, WALO is interested in forging relationships with arts organisations and live music programs to bring an exciting and diverse range of new ensemble-based electronic music from out of the shadow of academic institutions and into the public eye.

http://jameswpaul.com/
http://www.mitchellmollison.com/

Club Zho 111 is presented by Tura New Music in association with the Bakery

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