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Exhibition
Hello, Human!
One year project – Outing
Phantoms－Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Semiotics of the Home
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2019 / 10 / 25 Fri.
2019 / 11 / 10 Sun.
10:00 - 18:00
Curator ｜ Li-Chen Loh In an age when everyone enjoys free expression and technology is developed at an exponential pace, technophiles advocate an optimistic view on changes facilitated by technology and uphold technical hedonism in their acceptance of a brand new world characterized by a mixture of the physical and the virtual, with a wide range of new technologies, including physical enhancement, regenerative reproduction, artificial intelligence, biometric recognition, remote control system, internet communication, data mining, etc. To a certain extent, optimistic technophiles already idealize and sanctify the originally neutral technology. They believe that the world needs to consistently progress, and technology is the best way to refine or optimize our society. Such a belief has its root in the faith in modernism when the Industrial Revolution and emerging industries in the 18th-century validated the fact that technology could power social progress while altering social structure. The 20th-century philosopher of technology, Ernst Kapp, mentioned in his Elements of a Philosophy of Technology that technology is humanity’s means of self-salvation whereas instruments and machines represent the externalization of our organs. More followers of technology now put their faith in visionary technological inventions that are to come in the near future, which should resolve problems such as resource depletion and environmental plights faced by the world today. These optimistic technophiles have always contended that technology can be employed to cure diseases and rule nations. Being entrusted with the responsibilities to solve problems troubling most people, technology has obviously been put on the pedestal of salvation. Technological progress and assistance are meant to give human beings the abilities that are lacking or lost. In the expansion of our abilities and competence to communicate with the external world, do the convenience and changes introduced by a wide range of technologies take the form of products for consumption, or are they, re-defining human perception and creating new values? In the ideological network constructed with the faith in technology, do the followers act with self-awareness or are they just blindly following the constructed mainstream of technology? In 2019, the 14th Digital Art Festival Taipei adopts the theme of #RTS: ReTranSens to discuss how our imagination of the world has been realized, and at the same time, changing because of rapidly evolving technology. The knowledge system built upon accumulated experiences has also been transformed with new physical perceptions and feedbacks due to regeneration, bionic and artificial life technologies. These feedbacks, in turn, further expand into new perceptive systems, creating a network connecting individuals and communities. These fast-paced changes enable us to adapt and respond in a quicker way, allowing us to view the world in a new light. Meanwhile, the drastic change that is re-programming the logic of communication also serves as a way for people to affirm their existence. With the focuses mentioned above, #RTS: ReTranSens explores the following issues: how artificial life regenerates and expands human perceptions, how artists incorporate predictions of scientific results, imagination of the technological life and the future of technology into their art practices, how more issues can be included in the dialogue between art and technology, how to put these issues into practice in our present life, how these changes shape the modes of new human behavior, and how art represents these changes and the multi-plural forms of existence outside of our perceptive experiences when science, technology and science fiction are bravely venturing beyond virtuality and imagination.
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Semi Su was born in Taipei in 1983. He graduated from the MFA program of Film, Video,New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. His art practice explores the interaction between technology, natural environment and human behavior in contemporary society. Through the integration of different media and modern technologies, the artist examines the interconnection and interaction between virtuality and reality as well as their influence and impact on contemporary society.
Taiwanese interdisciplinary art collective Whyixd was founded in 2011, and has engaged in interdisciplinary integrative and innovative creation, using installation design to shatter the boundaries of two-dimensional visuality while infusing technology with fresh aesthetic interpretation. Members of the art collective come from various and diverse background, including art, architecture, design, engineering and mechanics. The integration of different disciplines brings about superb works. Whether in performances with interactive stage designs, concerts and even the Golden Bell Awards, Whyixd has amazed the audience with their creative brainchildren.
Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos founded their art, architecture and design practice Minimaforms in 2002. Using design as a mode of enquiry, the studio explores projects that enable new forms of communication. Embracing a generative and behavioral approach the studio constructs participatory and interactive frameworks that engage the everyday. Their work has been acquired by international art and architecture collections.
Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for expanded cinema at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. His films and video installations have been shown in exhibitions as dOCUMENTA(13), skulptur projekte münster 07 or the Berlin Biennial. He had solo shows in institutions as MAXXI, Rome, Kunsthalle Hamburg and MCA Chicago and his films were shown at Filmmuseum Wien, Anthology Film Archives or Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen.
Su Hui-Yu was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1976. He holds an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003, and has channeled his energy into creating new media art. The issues he takes up in his works include the impact of mass media on viewers and people's projection of desire onto media. Su is fascinated by the intricate tapestry interwoven by images, media, history, and daily life. Recently, his interest in old books and historical texts, from which he re-reads, revises and appropriates texts for his work, has led him to a new understanding of physicality, existence, and history.
The art team is headed by Hsu Chun-Cheng and Li Jian-You, who lead a group of graduates from the Institute of Applied Arts, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).
Creative Director: Chun-Cheng Hsu, Jian-You Li
Technical Director: Jian-You Li, Ke Wang, Yan Liu
Visual Planning: Chun-Cheng Hsu, Yun Jhuang, Chiao-I Lin
Feeling the Flow: Hao-Ping Chien, Ming-Cheng Wu, Jian-You Li
Sonar Vision: Yi-Hsuan Li, Ke Wang, Chia-Ching Lee, Jian-You Li
Pheromones in Sync: Kai-Wen Su, Lin Liu, Yun Jhuang, Jian-You Li
Olifa Hsieh was born in Hualien in 1979. She started studying in Germany in 2004 and subsequently obtained her MA in Horn Classical Performance from MH Lübeck, a certificate of new media composition live electronic performance from HfMT Hamburg, and her MA in New Media Performance from HfBK Hamburg. Her art practice centers on the integration of sound and technology by incorporating "performance" into immersive sensory device in the form of diverse space to create unique sensory connections and temporal states posited between the real and virtual space. In 2018, she entered the PhD Program of the Graduate Institute of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, and has been researching about sensory interactive art and performance related to space and the audio sense.
Wu Tzu-Ning was born in Kaohsiung in 1978. She holds a PhD in Art Creation and Theory from Tainan National University of the Arts. Her art practice revolves around contemporary art-making and curatorial endeavor featuring issues related to technology and body. Her early works resemble poems embodied by theatrical and literary spatial installations created with mixed media; and her recent works adopt the form of new media digital interactive projection and performance. Throughout her career, the artist excels in arranging the exhibition space to achieve the effect of mise-en-scène between creator, artwork and audience while posing conceptual questions regarding issues and relations about life and society through her works.
Ka Hee Jeong is an artist and curator who lives and works in Berlin. She studied at Kaywon School of Art and Design (Korea) and University of the Arts Berlin (Germany). Her works are based on the visualization of thoughts that are unpredictable in nature but impactful in our lives. She combines several aspects of disciplines such as philosophy, neuroscience, literature and methodologies include 3D-printing, video, and installation into her work.
Interactive origami artist and technology art engineer Lee Chia-Hsiang holds a master's degree from the Graduate Institute of Automation Technology, National Taipei University of Technology. His research mainly focuses on the development of interactive system, multimedia interactive design and internet interactive interface integration. He currently engages in the creation and education of digital and interactive art. He is also fascinated with the art of origami and insists on creating origami without cutting or pasting, creating a wide range of creative works based on the most basic paper box form.
Hung Yu-Hao was born in Taipei in 1989. His art practice focuses on the virtual and real expression of multimedia. Basing his works on long-term observation of urbanscape and projecting social cognition and collective, fluid gazing experience in ordinary space, he adopts aerial filming, 3D scanning and virtual reality to create his works with an attempt to understand individual's awareness of time and explore the varying sense of place perceived by local communities.
Shota Yamauchi Born in Gifu, Japan in 1992. Graduated in 2016 from the Department of Filmand New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts with a specialization in new media. Yamauchi studied sculpting and film during his university days, and more recently pursues portraying the world around him through live action films, the production of film works branching into 3DCG, and sculptures made from oil-based clay. Yamauchi has exhibited at Pokoyhof – EEC / Eco Expanded City, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, NTT InterCommunication Center, Mori Art Museum and other exhibitions.
Huang Han-Po was born in Kaohsiung in 1988. Currently a student of the Graduate School of New Media Art, National Taiwan University of Arts, Huang's work centers on the flow between urban space and streets to explore the connections between human living space and urban memories. The artist specializes in combining video and mapping projection to create immersive experience.
Ku Kuang-Yi was born in Taipei in 1985. A dentist, bio artist and social designer, Ku holds an MA in Social Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands and an MDS (master of dental science) from National Yang-Ming University. Through his art practice, Ku aims to expand the possibility of combining art, design and science, and his work focuses on clinical medicine, human body, connection between human beings and other species as well as gender issues. He explores ethical issues in the field of science through art-making and design approaches while contemplating on the relationship between technology, individuals and the environment.
MoBen (Maurice Benayoun) is a Professor of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, and a pioneer of new media art. Through VR, AR, AI, and urban media art, MoBen explores and unveiling their societal impact beyond their technological and aesthetic potential.
Tobias Klein currently works as an assistant professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His works in the fields of Architecture, Art, Design and interactive Media Installation. His work generates a syncretism of contemporary CAD/CAM technologies with site and culturally specific design narratives, intuitive non-linear design processes, and historical cultural references.
Nicolás Mendoza is a Colombian multidisciplinary scholar, architect, artist, researcher and investor. His research explored the structures that support the emergence of non-state currencies, such as blockchain technology, from an anthropological perspective.
Jean-Baptiste Barrière, music Composer, media artist, VoV sound interaction. Former director of Musical Research, at IRCAM in Paris, the work of J.-B. Barrière concentrates on the intersection of music, image, and mathematics.
Li Guo-ding (K.T.) Science and Technology arts Competition Designed to memorize the life of Guo-Ding Li who build up Taiwan's technology and economic development, and to encourage humanities and scientific and technological arts talents, known as "the founder of Taiwan's Economic development Miracle—known as “K.T”.
"K.T. also has the significance of" Knowledge "and"Taiwan", which was initiated by the Secretary general of the Li Guoding Science and Technology Development Foundation Wan chi-chao and Professor Zhu Yun-peng, director of the then Central University Taiwan Sutra Centre, in the Year of 2006.It is hoped that teachers and students of colleges and universities will work together for the innovative application of digital technology in the visual arts in Taiwan.
The future will continue to work in the field of science and technology art!
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