自2010年9月18日至24日，18画廊荣幸举办新媒体艺术周。本项目由比利时VZW DE INVENTIE机构与18画廊共同主办，由上海eARTS协办。整个项目由三部分构成：“共鸣”新媒体艺术展、系列讲座，以及比利时媒体艺术小组CREW(领衔艺术家Eric Joris)在世博会比利时馆与18画廊内所进行的表演。

以2010上海世博会布鲁塞尔周为契机，18画廊总监Magda Danysz女士与上海策展人颜晓东有幸与比利时策展人Christophe de Jaeer、艺术家Anouk De Clercq，以及助理策展人Pieter Vermeulen共同合作，策划举办此次附有创新精神的艺术项目，并着意促成优秀中国艺术家、布鲁塞尔艺术家、学者之间的交流对话。

根据策展人的理念，比利时设计工作室Tenfinger将“共鸣”展的展厅设计成一处昏暗的附有超现实意味的实验室。两国艺术家的作品透露着神秘的气息，整个空间由一系列围廊和通道构成。

“光”是这个展览的线索：Anouk de Clercq的录像作品“指挥”表现了茫茫夜空中矗立着一束光之指挥者；Aaajiao(徐文恺)的作品“云”以一种全新的方式再度关注天空；Kris Verdonck的作品“盒子”为我们呈现了世界上最为强烈的人造光；Hans Op de Beeck的作品的“场景1”是一件逼真却又透露着别样气质的模型，表现了一处寻常的交叉路口，昏暗的街灯，寂静无人；胡介鸣的作品“嗨！一个世界正在建设中”呈现了月球表面的一项巨大工程，工程建设的逻辑依据来自与当今互联网上的丰繁数据。

来自合作伙伴之间的不同观点、创见最终汇成了“共鸣”这个项目。其间，对于造型艺术、音乐、戏剧的跨领域创作诉求，以及对于新技术的创新运用构成了本项目对艺术家和作品的选择标准。

Exclusive Press Preview: Tuesday September 19th, 2010 from 4:00 – 6:00pm
Opening: Tuesday September 19th, 2010 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Venue: 18Gallery, 18 Zhongshan East Road (E1), 4F, Shanghai

Artists: Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai), Anouk de Clercq, CREW, Hans Op de Beeck, Hu Jieming, Kris Verdonck/A Two Dogs Company, Martines Go Home, Yin Yi

Curated by : Christophe de Jaeger, Magda Danysz, Pieter Vermeulen, and Yan Xiaodong.

From September 18th to 24th, 2010, 18Gallery is glad to host the New Media Art Week. In the framework of this event, which is co-organized by VZW DE INVENTIE and 18 Gallery, supported by Shanghai eARTS, three projects will be organized; the new media exhibition Resonance, together with a lecture series, and the performance C.A.P.E. by CREW (Eric Joris) in the Belgian Pavillion, located on the site of the World Expo.

Magda Danysz as the director of the 18Gallery and curator Art Yan from Shanghai eARTS are glad to have invited Christophe de Jaeger (curator), Pieter Vermeulen (Assistant Curator) and Anouk De Clercq (artist) on the occasion of the Brussels Week to develop together an unprecedented program presenting a dialogue between selected Chinese artists and artists from Brussels.
For the Resonance show, the exhibition space will be restyled into a darkened, surrealistic laboratory in which different installations of Chinese and Belgian artists create an enchanting atmosphere. The space is sculpted by a series of corridors between the works. This scenography is realised by Tenfinger, a Brussels-based studio for exhibition design.
 
The ‘light’ component runs as a thread throughout the whole show, as the following examples illustrate. The video ‘Conductor’ by Anouk de Clercq shows us a lightning conductor with a small light in the middle of a darkening sky. The attention to the sky is reinforced in the work ‘Cloud.Data’ by Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai). ‘Box’ by Kris Verdonck/A Two Dogs Company confronts us with the strongest light in the world. Hans Op de Beeck’s ‘Location 1’ is a maquette of a nocturnal landscape, consisting of empty streets and lampposts gently illuminating the scenery. ‘Hi ! A world which is being bulit’ by Hu Jieming presents a huge construction on the Moon with logically response to the massive data real time generated on the internet world.

Different discussions with all partners resulted in the program Resonance, a crossing point between plastic arts, music, theatre and technology. A multidisciplinary attitude and the use of innovative technology directed the selection of participating artists.