Doors 7pm
Show 7:30pm
Gordon Fung (b. 1988, San Francisco) is a transdisciplinary artist who primarily works with multi-/new media performances, experimental film/video, noise music, DIY electronics, installations, media archaeology, and curatorial/collaborative practices. His works highlight unconventional executions like equipment misusing, noises, lo-fi presentations, and glitches. Such aesthetics confronts the viewers’ understanding, perspective, and point of view on reality through a more philosophical, if not esoteric, investigation.
To expand the possibilities of artistic idioms, he intertwines both analog and digital technologies—also to signify the co-existence of mundane and spiritual worlds. By overloading software and hardware, he collapses the two worlds to expand the audience’s perception of reality. As a break-maker, he deliberately misuses electronic equipment and software to regain consumers’ sense of agency through artistic means. Through media archeology, he strives to unearth concealed potentials of obsolete equipment and to revive them to artistic life.
Informed by his multivalent approach, he forms and directs the experimental time-based arts collective //sense to showcase works through performances, workshops, and seminars. By curating large-scale experimental theater performances, he fosters a collaborative common ground for sound/video/performance/electronic/technological artists to create gesamtkunstwerk through synergy.
As a new media artist, he performs with a wide range of gears: synthesizers (audio and video), analog camcorders, webcams, video projections, experimental films, CRT TVs, and Max/MSP/Jitter programming. His has performed in major locations including: Comfort Station, Elastic Arts, Experimental Sound Studio, Links Hall, MacLean Ballroom, No Nation Art Lab, Tritriangle, the Red Museum, Mosswood Chapel, and beyond. His video, film, and installation works have been shown in Gene Siskel Film Center, UMA Gallery Oakland, Root Division, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Mac Fine Arts Gallery, PLAYsPACE gallery, Re–Fest, Wonder Valley Experimental, Santa Ana Noise Festival, etc.
As an award-winning but runaway contemporary music composer, his compositions have been performed in Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the US.
Riley Leitch plays trombone and thinks about it.