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0 5 0 2 ? e k i l k o o l Keynote lecture Kai Syng Tan 2021 January 30 @kaisyngtan www.kaisyngtan.com/artful
Will we augment humanity?
La Jatee Chris Marker 1962
Will we see with our body?
The Arrival of Train Lumiere Brothers 1896
Will we embrace death?
Kaidie’s 1000 Day Trans-Run Kai Syng Tan 2010
Will we kill cinema?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuoQ3AEc0MZ9g9QeCOfZIYA
Will we kill the film school? Arnaulf Rainer Peter Kubelka 1960
Will we create the perfect love child of Beuys + Warhol + Kahlo?
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https://www.instagram.com/i ntermission.art/
Will this (mis)match making app have run its course?
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Hinder (app) Kai Syng Tan 2015
DIS-CONNECTING …
Will we create digital wealth?
Will we grasp the true purpose of the internet?
Keyboard Cat Charlie Schmidt 1984
Will we celebrate the visionaries?
Man with a Movie Camera ‘Woman with an Editing Bench’ The New Economy Elizaveta Svilova 1900-1975 Karen Pearlman Perry Chen 2001
Will we celebrate the visionaries?
How Not to be Seen Hito Steyerl 2014
Will we celebrate the visionaries?
#MagicCarpet (detail) Kai Syng Tan 2018
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See/Saw Kai Syng Tan 2020
Sight / Site of Dissent Kai Syng Tan 2020
A Trip To the Moon Georges Méliès 1902
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Will the art school up its game?
Genco GĂźlan, 2018. Homage to Paik. Smartphone installation.
Will schools up their game?
Rückblick, Andreas Gursky 2015 With Tan’s reflection taking a selfie 2018
Will schools up their game?
Photographer unknown; some time in the last century
Will artists fight state funding?
The New Economy Perry Chen 2001
Will artists fight big tech?
Nam June Paik and his Buddha TV, 1974, at Projects: Nam June Paik (August 29-October 10, 1977), Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1977. Photograph: Eric Kroll
Will curators curate spaces for healing?
• Photographs of china Agnes Varda 1957
Will we look out for one another? Photographs of China Agnes Varda 1957
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0 5 0 2 ? e k i l k o o l Keynote lecture Kai Syng Tan 2021 January 30 @kaisyngtan www.kaisyngtan.com/artful