Panelist for New Forms Festival 17

News, Talks
September 21, 2017/by
Sammy will be speaking on the panel for New Forms Festival 17, presented by the festival, CURRENT (A Pacific Northwest Feminist Electronic Art Symposium) and the Western Front, Sept 30th 5pm The topic is on "Shifting narratives in the electronic art & music industry: social change through curation and reclaiming space in the global underground”, this is the perfect place to talk about intersectionality, decolonization and...
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W(e)aves 0.2 at MOA

Interdisciplinary Performance, News, Research
September 18, 2017/by
Sammy Chien will be presenting his work-in-progress work at the MOA in Vancouver Oct 6th, 2017, a work that investigates migration, race & gender politics, transcultural identity and spiritual philosophies using digital technologies, audiovisuals, text, contemporary dance, and qi-gong. Friday, October 6 | 8:30 pm Tickets: $25 (on sale soon) What is the language of movement, light, and sound? Join us for a special evening of live...
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WESTWARD MUSIC FESTIVAL with Peregrine Falls

News
September 12, 2017/by
Sammy Chien will be creating live visuals in Peregrine Falls' performance, around 10:30pm Thursday September 14th @ Fox Cabaret, as part of Westward Music Festival 2017  ----- Westward Music Festival 2017 Presents: Gang Signs w/ Peregrine Falls Spruce Trap ACTORS at Fox Cabaret 19+ Thursday, Sept 14, 2017 Doors: 8pm Visit www.westwardfest.com for more info. Line-up subject to change. Tickets on sale July 4 at 10am https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1516286 --- WESTWARD MUSIC FESTIVAL: MRG Concerts presents Westward Music Festival, which features some of the today’s most influential music...
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performing for Accordion Noir Festival

News, Sound
September 5, 2017/by
Sammy Chien will be playing live electronics for the event Underdog Instrument Grudge Match: Millennial Edition as part of The 10th Annual Accordion Noir Festival. Sammy will be representing Team Silicon Valley North along  with his long-time collaborator and veteran musician/media artist Stefan Smulovitz + more. The Accordion Noir Festival wraps with a revival of this fan favourite mash-up of music, competition and spur-of-the-moment theatre....
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LIVE Kick Off in SWARM

Media Presence, News
September 5, 2017/by
Sammy Chien will be joining forces with LIVE International Performance Art Biennale to VJ for LIVE 2017's 'Kick Off Party’ as part of SWARM edition of CinemaShine. info: Join us for a special SWARM edition of CinemaShine. We are pleased to present LIVE 2017's 'Kick Off Party’ celebrating the launch of the LIVE 2017 website, and catalogue. Featuring DJ's Ian Prentice, and DJ duo Doug & Suzee, with LIVE...
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On Richmond News

Media Presence, News
September 2, 2017/by
Congrats to Cinevolution for the success on Your Kontinent Digital Carnival this year again as part of the Richmond World Festival. I am very honoured to be featured on the news again to help support the festival. According to the curator Wynne Palmer, it was 7500+ attendance for the Digital Carnival, and around 50K for the world festival. Big congrats to the curator, organization...
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Eclipse: Total Alignment

Art & Science, Dance, Interdisciplinary Performance, News
August 10, 2017/by
Sammy Chien will be performing a brand new work at the planetarium in H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, choreographing a dance trio performed by Kelly McInnes, Sophia Wolfe and himself,  programming reactive lights & composing electroacoustic sound + live music by Brady Marks & Maren Lisac Aug 17th Thursday 7:30pm & 9pm Eclipse: Total Alignment presented by Curiosity Colliderr and the H.R.MacMillan Space Centre Art and Science Explore the...
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Ballet BC Program 2 2017

Dance, Electroacoustic Music, News, Sound
March 15, 2017/by
Excited to have my newly composed electroacoustic score/sound design premiered in choreographer Wen Wei Wang’s (Wen Wei Dance ) new work in Ballet BC's new season Program 2! March 16-18 2017, 8:00 p.m. Queen Elizabeth Theatre 630 Hamilton Street at Georgia Vancouver New Work: Choreography - Company 605 Vancouver-based Company 605 is one of Canada’s most exciting emerging dance companies and is dedicated to producing new dance through a...
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Becoming Chimera on newspaper in Taiwan

Media Presence, News
March 13, 2017/by
Revisiting an old press on Becoming Chimera (2012), an interdisciplinary experimental new media performance, that was on the newspaper in Taiwan on 2015/03/13, one of my first work that was on the news in Taiwan. Involving live visuals, live electroacoustic/experimental music, contemporary dance/movements and new media. The performers improvise with instructions of specific signs and rules that's conducted or by aleatoric algorithm of the computer, or...
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03/11 @ Rhythm Alley (Taipei)

Dance, Electroacoustic Music, Improvised, Interdisciplinary Performance, New Media, News, Sound
March 8, 2017/by
improvised experimental performance: experimental jazz, live electronics/ electroacoustic, movement art, conceptual, new media— one night of play time in Taipei I feel so lucky to get booked to play with some of the craziest and most veteran musicians in Taiwan: Sonic Deadhorse, Min-Yen Terry Hsieh, Shih-Yang Lee, I actually REALLY love their work. first time improvising with Sophia Wolfe (FORM Festival of Recorded Movement /Company 605) Sonic...
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