Superposition Composition

When: Donnerstag 11.12.25, 19 Uhr
Where: HfG Lichtbrücke
Guests: Jia Liu (Karlsruhe) & Edy Fung (Stockholm/Belfast) mit dem Talk "Superposition Composition."

Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing is an ongoing lecture series with invited guests from the expanded fields of media art and theory, co-organized by members of HfG Karlsruhe and ZKM. During winter semester 2026, the series discusses unconventional conceptions and materializations of computers as well as alternative ways of dealing with them. In the light of the quasi-monopoly of big tech companies and in view of powerful presets and standards, guest lectures and conversations will address the questions: To what extent can computers look or function differently? In which ways can we reflect on, perceive or handle computing devices differently or change them?

About our Guests:

Jia Liu (*1990) is a composer and computer musician. She studied composition and music computer science at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (CN) and the University of Music in Karlsruhe. Her works for orchestra and ensembles, electroacoustic music compositions, computer music, and multimedia compositions have been performed at festivals and international conferences in Nice (FR), Saint-Étienne (FR), Karlsruhe, Graz (AT), Shanghai, and Daegu (KR). Her current focus is on algorithmic music and the potential of network-based collaboration. She lives and works in Karlsruhe.

Edy Fung is a post-disciplinary artist, curator and music composer. Her current research focuses on the origins of machine electronics, logic and philosophy of information. With interest beyond the anthropocentric perspectives, she works with sound, text, documentation, archive, installation, sculpture, public intervention and transmission art. Together with her sonic project Quantum Foam//QNTMFM, her practice seeks to explore and address current technological paradigms and the resulting epistemic limitations. Fung’s work has been presented at museums, art and music contexts internationally, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Somerset House Studios, FACT Liverpool, MUTEK Montréal, Galway International Art Festival, Fylkingen Stockholm, Royal Hibernian Academy, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Irish Arts Center New York. She holds an MA in architecture from the Royal College of Art London with the RCA/NLA Award. In 2019-2020 she was a visiting research associate at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, QUB. She is currently a resident composer at the Elektronmusikstudion EMS Sweden. She has contributed for the &&& Journal of the New Centre’s Research and Practice and co-edited publications for Sternberg Press. In 2023, she is a CCA x Jerwood Supports Mentor.

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