Title: The Digital New Voice/Sound of Ancient Ghost Culture: Hesitation as a Form of Intellectual Perception
TimeOctober 17, 2025, 6:30 PM - 8:20 PM
Venue: Room 102, Gulou Campus, Nanjing University
Speaker: Wang Jing, Associate Professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University.
Moderator: Chen Jing, Nanjing University
Content Summary
This lecture focuses on the "Digital New Voice/Sound of Ancient Ghost Culture," examining "hesitation" as a concept, method, and form of intellectual perception, and how it organizes the creativity in contemporary sound art. Hesitation is understood as a perceptual logic that emerges from uncertainty and propose two typical aesthetic operations: withdrawal and resonance. The lecturediscusses how traditional Chinese ghost culture and Taoist/Buddhist narratives are reactivated in contemporary contexts, and their connection to "noise" aesthetics, using specific case studies.
