歷史網站｜Historical Website：
Benjamin Efrati（法國｜FR）
十方青年駐留藝術家｜DAC Emerging Resident Artist
駐留周期｜Residence Period：
2023.5.30 - 2023.7.8
駐留周期｜Residence Period：
2023.5.30 - 2023.7.8
藝術家簡介｜CV of the Artist：
作為電子音樂製作人和藝術家多重身份，他還為獲獎動畫短片（「Amok」，Balazs Turai在2022年的作品）和沈浸式電影（「Inner Feels：Everything Flows」，Carin Klonowski在2021年的作品）創作了原創配樂。
1985年出生於日內瓦，畢業於里昂第三大學哲學系和巴黎美術學院多媒體實踐專業。自2020年以來，他在法國社會科學高等研究院（巴黎）攻讀博士學位，研究電子遊戲中對史前史的描述。他在2013年結識了武當武術學校Yuan Xiu Gang的學生Fabien Fromont後接觸了太極拳。
Benjamin Efrati is a media artist. His work questions the relations between experience, language and imagination. He creates a multi-layered transmedia universe reminiscent of Dadaist and Psychedelic aesthetics through texts, installations, performances, sound pieces, films, illustration,VR, web-based practices, video games. Electronic music producer and artist using a multiple digital identities, he also composes original soundtracks for award-winning animated shorts (Amok, Balazs Turai, 2022) and immersive cinema (Inner Feels : Everything Flows, Carin Klonowski, 2021). Born in 1985 in Geneva, graduated Université Lyon 3’s Philosophy Faculty and Beaux-Arts de Paris in multimedia practices. Since 2020, he studies depictions of prehistory in video games as a PhD candidate at EHESS (Paris). He discovered Tai Chi in 2013 upon meeting Fabien Fromont, a student of Yuan Xiu Gang from the Wudang Wushu School of Martial Arts.
關於本次駐留｜About Residency：
宇宙的交匯
Intersection Of Universes
在十方藝術中心駐留期間，藝術家Benjamin Efrati和Shu Isaka將作為二人組，探索多重媒介實踐（動畫和靜態圖像、裝置、VR、表演）並將於6月29日至7月5日期間舉辦面向觀眾的新媒體藝術展。
During their Artist in Residency at Dimensions Art Center, Benjamin Efrati and Shu Isaka will work as a duo. Exploring multiple practices (animated and still images, installation, VR, performance), they will produce a media art exhibition from June 29th to July 5th.
此次展覽內容將圍繞二人組在重慶駐地進行的一系列行動事件，如表演和音樂會，與當地藝術評論家、大學研究人員、藝術收藏家的會談，以及電影放映，最大限度地通過駐留與當地不同人群交互，交流主題圍繞科學、精神和技術等領域交匯處，形成一個交流研究社群。
This exhibition will be augmented by a series of events around the duo’s artistic practices, such as performances and concerts, talks with local art critics, university researchers, and art collectors, as well as film screenings, maximizing the residency’s potential to create a research group around the affordances of the intersection of science, spirituality, and technology.
該項目主要目的是在21世紀技術持續不斷更替語境下，創造一種基於重慶在地、重慶城市環境、中國武術和其哲學含義表達的虛擬現實體驗。在連接久遠的歷史經驗領域和知識領域的同時，「宇宙的交匯」提出了一種新的敘述性冥想，重點關注在技術與精神、地質學與哲學、物理學與人類學的交匯處。這個敘述框架也涉及對實體考察所用到的技術媒介（攝影測量建模、音景、360°視頻）的重新思考。VR體驗目的是為觀眾提供科學的知識、新穎的思辨以及虛構的想象。
The project’s main goal is to create a VR experience based on Chongqing, its urban environment, ancient Chinese body practices and philosophy, in the light of the relentless technological evolution which characterizes the 21st Century. Connecting distant areas of experience and fields of knowledge, Intersection of Universes proposes a narration-based meditation focusing on the intersection of technology and spirituality, geology and philosophy, particle physics and anthropology. This narrative framework involves rethinking the documentation tools used in scientific field research (photogrammetric modeling, soundscapes, 360° videos). The VR experience is intended to provide the audience scientifically accurate knowledge as well as novel speculative and fictional ideas.