Neomythos is a multi-sensory showcase of new media works by artists from China and Japan, who are transcending and transforming existing narratives of aesthetics, gender and environment through performance, video and sound.

From Lu Yang’s frenetic expansive motion-capture VR performance, as saturated with manga and anime influences as it is with religion, neurology, and the human body, to Wang Meng’s computer generated landscapes resembling traditional Chinese 国画 (guó huà) paintings, to Shigetoshi Furutani’s collages using found internet imagery, these works imagine the possibility of human existence beyond current constructs.

This genre-bending approach is also reflected in the audio works, crafting in parallel an audio-sensory realm. Chinese techno producer Shao’s ambient work, ranging from looming to ecstatic, pushes custom spatial sound design to new territories. Yu Miao layers effects pedals over a custom-tuned 古镇 (guzheng) to create a new soundscape from the traditional instrument.

Works will be presented in two large-scale cinema environments, and include the premier of several works for the historic RML CineChamber, a 360° panoramic spatial sound cinema environment, originally conceived in the 90’s in San Francisco’s Recombinant Media Labs.

Presented by Gray Area, Recombinant Media Labs, STRRR TV and Minds over Matter.