大変光栄なことに、国立台湾美術館で展示がスタートしました。国際展覧会「Mediating Asia」は、”メディアアートは西欧中心の美術史の延長として捉えるべきではない”という視点のもと、アジアにおけるメディアアートの独自の美的言語に注目した展覧会です。
I am so honored to be part of the exhibition “Mediating Asia” at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibition is co-curated by internationally renowned curator Gunalan NADARAJAN and Taiwanese curator Yu Chuan TSENG, to teases out the unique aesthetic languages of Asian techno art within the global context.
Mediating Asia
2022 / 7 /30 – 2022 / 10 / 16
Exhibition venue：Gallery 202, 2F of Multipule screen area, Main lobby
https://www.ntmofa.gov.tw/
https://event.culture.tw/NTMOFA/portal/Registration/C0103MAction?actId=20104
▏Curator ▏
Gunalan NADARAJAN, Yu Chuan TSENG
▏Participated Artists ▏ In alphabetical order by English surname
Venzha CHRIST and ISSS – Indonesia Space Science Society (Indonesia)
Debbie DING (Singapore)
Tad ERMITAÑO (the Philippines)
Etsuko ICHIHARA (Japan)
IP Yuk Yiu (Hong Kong)
LIM Kok Yoong (Malaysia)
LIN Chi Wei (Taiwan)
LEE Tzu Tung (Taiwan)
MIAO Ying (China)
Ngoc Nau (Vietnam)
Joo Young OH (Korea)
Raqs Media Collective (India)
SHYU Ruey Shiann (Taiwan)
Tuang T (Tailand)
▏Exhibition Introduction ▏
“Mediating Asia” is a key exhibition of the 2022 Technology and Art Symbiosis Project. Co-curated by internationally renowned curator Gunalan NADARAJAN and Taiwanese curator Yu Chuan TSENG, the exhibition teases out the unique aesthetic languages of Asian techno art within the global context.
This exhibition features works of 14 artists/artist groups from Korea, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, Vietnam, and Taiwan, exploring the development of technology art in Asia from the perspective of 12 Asian countries/regions. The artists in this exhibition engage and explicate some of these aesthetic and cultural specificities as well as enable a larger global dialogue of their relevance. The issues artists explore in this exhibition range from the ways in which technology mediates our affective capacities and connections especially in enabling particular social formations, to critically projecting dystopian and utopian futures enabled by technologies, to mapping the intersections and cross-fertilizations between religion, the spirit world and technology, to deconstructing the urban imaginaries afforded and frustrated by the mediations of technology, to exemplifying cultural ingenuity in using elemental and simple technologies to mediate our everyday experiences.
The geographical contiguities, the shared and contested histories, and the shifting and settled populations and cultures that have come to be called ‘Asia’ represent distinct aesthetic notions and cultural agendas in the world of media arts and provide unique interpretations of the creative possibilities of the’ technological.’Therefore, this exhibition seeks to provide a platform for and snapshot of media arts in Asia with a view to highlight the specific historical, socio-cultural, political and aesthetic contexts within which old and new technologies are conceived and employed to produce distinct technological configurations.
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