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Bio
Ellen Zweig is an artist who works with video, audio, installation and performance. Her most recent work is the video series, HEAP, a collection of experimental portraits of Westerners who have studied, invented, misunderstood and loved China. The series is currently expanding to include two installations, one at DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, April 2006 and one at the Cue Art Foundation, New York, October 2006. Her videos have screened at the New York Video Festival, 2005; Millenium Film Workshop, New York, 2005; San Francisco Art Institute Film and Video Festival, 2005; Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseilles, 2004; Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, 2004; the Thailand New Media Festival, 2004; Viper Basel, 2003; International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2003. In her installations, Zweig has used optics to create camera obscuras, video projection devices, and miniature projected illusions. She has also created multi-channel video installations that have toured the US (museums include: New Mexico Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, List Center for the Visual Arts at MIT, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, P.S. 1 in New York).

简历
Ellen Zweig 是录象，声音，装置和行为艺术家. 她最近的作品是录象系列--"堆" 是对中国有过研究，再发明, 误解及热爱的西方人的实验肖像集. 这个系列现在继续发展成两个装置，一个于2006年4月在上海的东大名创库展出, 一个于2006年10月在纽约的Cue艺术基金展出. 她的录象曾放映于2005年纽约录象节; 2005年纽约的千年电影工作室; 2005旧金山艺术学院电影录象节; 2004年马塞市的影像反自然节; 2004年俄亥俄州的雅典国际电影录象节; 2004 年的泰国新媒体节, 2003年巴塞尔Viper; 2003年罗特单国际电影节. 在她的装置中，Zweig曾利用光学制造照相暗盒, 一种录象投影设备，和微型投影错觉. 她还创作了巡回美国的多频道的录象装置（巡回艺术馆包括：在Santa Fe的新墨西哥美术馆, 在MIT的List视觉艺术中心, Scottsdale艺术中心，纽约P.S.1）

Acknowledgements
The installation at DDM Warehouse would not have been possible without the help of several dear friends. Thanks to Leslie Thornton, for continuing encouragement, advice, criticism and the conversation. Sometimes she’s even the one behind the camera. To Weidong Liu for welcoming me to Shanghai and for countless days of help. To my assistant, Roland Kniese, for helping with sound and installation and for just being there. To Ron MacLeod for sound design, to Toni Dove for aesthetic and technical help and those many cups of tea, to Robin Suri for inviting me to attempt this installation in the first place, to Hong Xi for our inter-cultural conversations and help with translation. To everyone at DDM Warehouse for making the installation a reality. To Patti Capaldi for the catalogue design. To S.B. Lee and everyone at Kyesung and Tripine Paper for making this catalogue possible.

鸣谢
如果没有几个亲爱朋友的帮助这个在东大名创库展出的装置将无法实现. 感谢 Leslie Thornton持续的鼓励, 建议, 批评和对话. 有时候她甚至是替我拍摄的人. 感谢刘卫东欢迎我到上海及对我无尽的帮忙. 感谢我的助理 Roland Kniese 对声音和装置上的帮助及在现场的支持. 感谢Ron MacLeod 的声音设计, Toni Dove 在美学和技术上的帮助和多次对她的叨扰. 感谢Robin Suri 邀请我举行这个展览, Su-Chen Hung洪素珍和方鹿与我文化交流的对话和翻译上的帮助. 感谢每个在东大创库帮忙的人. 感谢Patti Capaldi的书设计, 感谢S.B. Lee 和每个在Kyesung 和Tripine Paper 的人促成这本书的完成.

Installation Facts
All video stills from the installation, HEAP

The installation took place at DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China

April 7-30, 2006

Dimensions variable to site

6-12 DVDs with DVD players, amps and stereo speakers

3-9 projection screens, 3 monitors

5 CDs with CD players, amps and stereo speakers.

关于此装置
所有装置录象的图片来自作品--"堆"

"堆"在中国上海东大名创库展出

2006年4月7日- 30 日

尺 寸由地点而变更

6-12个DVD和DVD播放器, 扩大器和立体声音箱

3-9个投影屏幕, 3台电脑

5个CD和CD播放器, 扩大器和立体声音箱