Artist Statement: I like to call myself A Walking MAN. I enjoy walking in Music, Architecture and Nature. That is the M.A.N who constantly enlightens me. Music gives me abstraction, passion and fluidity. I enjoy embodying them and translating between sonic and visual. Herbert von Karajan’s visual virtuosity in conducting music inspired me for developing a gestural methodology in many of my works. I called it post-conducting, which is also extended into people’s gesture in a networked experience. Architecture teaches me how to read a space and to find relationships between spaces; Nature ignites me by its randomness and profoundness. That is why I chose digital media, which enables to create a system with which, I could enrich my work with a constant flow of structure, a highly complex hierarchy and a controlled randomness and versatility. I have been struggling to create works that could dialogue with the M.A.N. who inspired me. I will keep walking. Biography: Yan Da is a designer and artist in motion graphic, visual music and digital media. From 2007 he has been enrolled in the MFA Digital + Media program in Rhode Island School of Design, where he began an in-depth study and art practice in procedural motion graphics, physical computing, and electronic music. He was self-taught in music and developed a gestural methodology that he termed as “post-conducting”, which was frequently projected into the context of visual music, urban space, nature and network. After he studied visual communication (BA) and architecture (MA) at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Yan became a full time lecturer in digital media at Tongji University. Meanwhile, he has been working for clients including one of Chinese largest broadcast design firms — Motion Magic Studio and one of the largest broadcasting networks —Shanghai Media Group. His works has been exhibited internationally, such as Shanghai Biennial Academic (China), Gasteig Cultural Center (Germany) and RISD Museum (USA). Website: darajan2.com Projects: Across*, 2008 http://www.darajan2.com/risd/+/av_across.html Across* is a real time system that generate lines from anything moving in the space. These lines would fill inside the contours of the moving objects and randomly cross connect other moving objects’ edges, thus constantly constructing and de-constructing a fluid volume of people’s motion and gesture in the space. Contact, 2008 http://www.darajan2.com/risd/+/av_Contact.html Contact is a study between fingertips and plane; points and lines; motion and still; wireless and fearless; minification and immersion; imaginary and mystery. Contact incorporates iPhone’s multi-touch screen, motion sensor and wi-fi network to create an immersive sonic and motion graphic landscape in real-time wirelessly. The Contact software system is composed of Max/msp, Processing, Logic Pro 5.1 channel and OSC applications. Iris unveiled, 2008 http://www.darajan2.com/risd/+/va_iris08.html Iris unveiled is a live music visualization using gestures, video feedback and in-camera techniques. It is based on an orchestral suite by Qigang Chen. expressing nine aspects of woman to reflect her unfathomable richness and the plenitude of diversity.