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April 01, 2005
New Canada Research Chair
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On March 15th, 2005 Dean Christopher Jackson invited friends of the faculty to join him in celebrating Sha Xin Wei’s Canada Research Chair in New Media Arts. Sha’s research involves studying gesture and creating new forms of responsive media that blend sound, video, and soft wear (active and sensate fabrics) into rich interactive settings. |
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The research involves complex engineering interlaced with artistic and philosophical creativity and enquiry. Sha has long been interested in hybrid physical and computational materials that can change shape or colour or make sound when stroked or tugged, or bathed in light or other environment stimuli. |
| At the Montreal-based TML, apprentices and experienced practitioners from all walks of life flex their wings by working together on a variety of projects such as installations that evoke thoughtful or playful responses in public events. The studio-lab draws on knowledge from experimental performance and gestural electro acoustic music as well as the critical studies of media and technology. By putting such insights to work in a creative studio-lab that marries the practices of the art studio, the pre-industrial atelier, and the scientific laboratory, Sha’s TML is helping us discover ways to breathe a bit more life into our everyday environment. |
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| The reception honoring Sha took place at 357c, a not-for profit establishment with a privileged relationship with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and Technology. |  |
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