THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 2022.
IDEAS - ENCORE Conversations (3 PM)
Hyunjun Park is co-founder and CEO of Catalog, started at Harvard Life Lab. He is leading the effort to handle the explosion of digital information, using cutting edge tools of synthetic biology. He is passionate about using biology to address complex challenges.
“The world will generate 160 zettabytes of data in 2025. That’s more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe. Conventional storage media like flash-drives and hard-drives do not have the longevity, data density, or cost efficiency to meet the global demand. DNA is the digital storage medium selected by nature that has been perfected over 3 billion years of evolution. It can store millions of times more data in the same volume as conventional solutions, can last for thousands of years, and gives you the ability to physically own your data – even massive amounts of it. By enabling the storage of previously impossible amounts of data in DNA, CATALOG has taken a huge step in harnessing DNA-based computation.”
Hyunjun obtained his BS at Seoul National University, PhD in microbiology at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and conducted postdoctoral research at MIT.
MUSIC - Sunday Discovery Series (4 PM)
ARTISTS:
collective A
PROGRAM:
Body-Go-Round: Round1
Body-Go-Round is a wordplay on Merry-Go-Around, in reference to Samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound. In Jinyeob Cha’s mind, the human body is a live testament of the concept. Everything leaves and returns. Life and death are one and the same.
A production of multi-disciplines, Body-Go-Round uniquely combines contemporary dance, visual installation, interactive media art, and music making in a LIVE, MR: Mixed Reality setting. A giant block of ice drops water from the ceiling as it melts. The sound of the dropping water is mixed live in the concert hall into a musical work to which dancers move. Visual installation is projected on the stage floor, guided by a movement sensor – it reacts and adjusts to the dancers’ movements in real time, controlled by the team of interactive media artists. The act of making art in real time between all disciplines creates a circle of harmony with the choreography, just like the circle of water and life, creating a trance where time stands still.
ABOUT COLLECTIVE A & JINYEOB CHA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Director of Choreography for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games’ opening and closing ceremonies, Executive Choreographer for the 2014 Asian Para Games, and Winner of Korean Ministry of Culture’s Person of Merit Award and Rising Artist Award winner, Jinyeob Cha is a national treasure of South Korea.
After completing her studies at London Contemporary Dance School, Jinyeob worked with world-touring dance companies such as Hofesh Shechter in the UK, Galili Dance Company in the Netherlands, and the English National Opera.
Known for audaciously crossing artistic boundaries, Jinyeob has fervently explored interdisciplinary art form, collaborating with rock bands, traditional musicians and dancers, and visual artists, as well as global brands such as Shiseido Cosmetics, MINI Automobile, and Lululemon. Throughout her prestigious career, Jinyeob has gained both extensive knowledge and practical experience across all forms of performing arts.
Based on her pluralistic experience, Jinyeob founded collective A in 2012, a performance group in pursuit of total art. Collective A productions have won Best Performance at the Korean Dance Critics’ Awards, Best Dance Performance at the 18th Critics’ Choice Awards, and Best Perspective Award from the Modern Dance Promotion of Korea.