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¡@¡@Art Taipei 2008 Year Project Art & Tech - Wandering . With art and technology as the fundamental elements, co-organize by the Art Taipei Executive Committee and independent curator, Sean Hu, the principle of the art fair this year is to look into how new media art is used to express and analyze, amidst the urban modernization, human's many reactions in dealing with occurrences such as post-colonial conflicts, international confrontations, environmental protection, and economic unbalance, with a special attention on the emotional aspects. Regardless of people's numerous attempts in solving the current dilemmas, the results remain ineffective, and the problems continue to expand. The reality is that many are wandering without a set destination in mind. The different conditions resembling the state of ¡§wander¡¨, such as the inspection of the current situations, search methods, sense of aimlessness, and lost of directions, come to form the core of this exhibition, and the anticipation is for the six renowned new media artists from Taiwan, USA, Korea, Kenya/Germany, and Australia to present their responses towards the exhibition theme. The artworks that are under planning to be a part of the exhibition are works by Nam June Paik, internationally recognized Father of video art that passed away in 2006, pioneering video artists, Gary Hill, acknowledged master of new genre art forms, Jim Campbell, who is well known for using LED as a creative medium, to exhibit in Taipei for the first time will be the artist collective, IngridMwangiRobertHutter of Kenya/Germany, and the work by distinguished Australian artist, Shaun Gladwell , is included in this year's exhibition. Last but not least, also to be included is the important Taiwanese contemporary artist, Chen Chieh Jen. The public will not only be able to see the artworks created by these ground-breaking artists, and most importantly, they will be able to observe closely how these artists have ingeniously portrayed the issues of human spiritual existence through the uses of new media.
¡@¡@Nam June Paik's classic video installation work, Beuys/Voice , was created in the year 1990. The work was made to commemorate acclaimed German artist, Joseph Beuys, who Nam was close with, and Nam also humorously used the form of a robot to depict the mass consumption of images that have caused the alterations and replacements between human and high-tech products, such as the television. The work raises the question that is the modern man a hybrid of images and machines with the human body acting as the facade? The other pioneering artist, Gary Hill, will be personally bringing his video art work, Remembering Paralinguay , to Taiwan, and through the pure energies from the images and the sounds and with a backdrop of complete blackness , the space forms a tension between the physical presence and representation, and a pure confrontation between the image and the viewers expresses modern people's inner anxiety and fear in this technologically advanced era. The other artist to be on exhibit, Jim Campbell, who has degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds many patents in the field of image processing and specializes in using digital technology with custom electronics on themes of time, memory, and perception. His work is poetic and carries a sense of solitude, and the piece to be on exhibit will once again guide the spectators to wander in between the visual and the recollected realms of the physical and the virtual.
¡@¡@To be on exhibit in Taiwan for the first time, IngridMwangiRobertHutter has made use of differences in cultures, genders and individualities by combining their artistic positions into one art collective. Through the work, Being Bamako , the artist attempts to become acquainted with what the eye does not see, and moves forward with closed eyes in order to break away from the visible world and to be in touch with the spiritual world. Artist, Shaun Gladwell, links personal experiences with contemporary street culture and historical references in his works . He will be exhibiting his latest piece from the MADDEST MAXIMVS series , Approach to Mundi Mundi (the entire series will be presented in the Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2009). Through forms of urban expression of extreme sports, Gladwell crosses the Australian Great Outback, with no set beginning and no ending, the artist engages in a silent dialogue with the grand history and the nation. The only Taiwanese artist to be included in this international exhibition is Chen Cheih Jen, and the existence of human and the developments of its history have always been a focus for Chen. The work, On Going , depicts the living situation of marginalized Taiwanese in the era of globalization, and attempts to find a sense of direction as the history develops.
¡@¡@As artist Nam June Paik said in 1969, ¡§The real implied issue in 'Art and Technology' is not to make another scientific toy, but how to humanize the technology and the electronic medium.¡¨ The intention of the exhibition, Wandering , with the central theme on technology and art, is not to display technology via art; but to the contrary, technology is used to narrate and depict the many quandaries arising under the rapid waves of globalization and urban modernization. It is anticipated that these direct and realistic views and reminders could be offered to the spectators, and the ultimate value of man-kind rests on self reflection and realization about life. The meaning of technology in this case is defined by the artists' contributions of a new perception in this era of technological advancement.
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Gary Hill / Remembering Paralinguay / Single-channel video sound installation / 2000 ¡] representing by ZONE:Chelsea Center for the Arts ¡^ |
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2008 Year Project - ¡§Art and Tech¡¨ - Nam June Paik / Beuys voice / Multimedia / 1990 |
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2008 Year Project - ¡§Art and Tech¡¨ - Jim Campbell / Motion & Rest / LED Installation / 2008 |
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