The “New Media in China” Colloquia are a year-long series of programs sponsored by the Luce Foundation that will bring outstanding scholars, visual artists, writers, and documentarians from around the world to address various aspects of media in China, from the emergence of new media in early China, to modern print culture, the impact of the internet on journalism, and the use of new media to document contemporary social and cultural transformations.

Friday, December 5, 2008

10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Location: Sproul Room, International House

Panel I: Sound as a Documentary Medium

Moderator: Andrew Jones, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley

Words and Sound in New Taiwan Documentary
Guo-Juin HONG, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

Stereo Worlds as Everyday Art
YAN Jun, Sound Artist and Poet

China Sound Unit: Theory After Praxis
YAO Dajuin, Artist

2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Sproul Room, International House
Panel II: Visual Documentary

Moderator: Andrew Jones, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley

Ceci n’est pas un documentaire: Truths, Lies and Online Videos

Paola VOCI, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago, New Zealand

The Moving Image between Theater and Gallery

Jean MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University

The Practice and Politics of Documentary Film in Taiwan

Mickey CHEN, Documentary Film-maker

5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Location: Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall

Documentary Screening and Discussion with the Director

Memorandum on Happiness
Director, Mickey CHEN