FaveLAB presents interdisciplinary artist Yu Zhang (Netherlands) who explores new formats of art production and consumption combining traditional and digital media to create mixed reality“ environments. With her cultural roots in the Asian tradition drawing and symbolism, Zhang’s interactive installations reflect on the use of art and technology in the Space Age. They include electronics, sensor- and computer-based material as well as traditional drawing, painting or printing techniques. For the FaveLAB/ONE+ONE residency in Athens, Yu Zhang plans to extend her ongoing installation project "TWO FULL MOON" which plays with historical cultural roots of the connection between human desire and the moon. The interactive and web-based project is a result of the artist’s research and experimentation with collecting, repurposing and grounding data streams from the World Wide Web. For Yu Zhang, "TWO FULL MOON" expresses the human desire to bond with nature without techie’s lens obscuring our being and feeling in the world. The artist will collect electronic objects and devices in Athens and combine them to an installation which produces interactive print works. Yu Zhang's exhibition will be accompanied by an artist talk with 3QUARTERS about digital art, contemporary design and urbanism.
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