The Innovationists

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

The Innovationists

2013 / 02 / 02 Sat.

2013 / 04 / 14 Sun.

10:00 - 18:00

About

Artists

Artworks

About

“New Media Art” began during the 1960s as a response to the artistic demands of Conceptual Art, and was further influenced by early period Dadaism. With advances in scientific and industrial technologies from the 1970s, the avant-garde, experimental nature of New Media Art led it to gradually incorporate various elements including sound, light, video, and mechanical power, transforming technological invention into artistic intervention. From the 1980s, art returned from the pure aesthetic exploration characteristic of modernism to an approach more focused on observing and echoing contemporary society and culture. New Media Art also responded to these developments and entered into a new era of a triangular relationship between art, technology and culture. The Innovationists, as a New Media Art exhibition in the 21st century, attempts to transform the space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei into a multi-faceted experiential journey transcending mere sight through the dialogues and artworks created by artists from United States, Britain, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. This exhibition brings together 18 pieces created by 9 different units. All are in some sense pieces of mechanical art which unite concepts of technology, design and creativity. However, these pieces also lend themselves to multiple observations, readings and interpretations: interactive wearable device casts light on the culture of Otaku/ Geeks/ Computer nerds; gentle appeals for environmental concerns and protection from a series of cold kinetic installations; creative works and ideas inspired from our daily lives/phenomena/ objects/ environment, which created the dialogue among art, social lives and contemporary culture; kinetic sculptures which applied wind power and connected with the principles of animation; huge paper sculptures which consisted of the concept of archeology; or through small interactive objects to reflect contemporary media phenomena, and so on. The Innovationists, like alchemists, inspired from daily lives and surroundings, together to create a spectacular journey for all of us. New Media Artists are the forward-looking observers of our society, as well as artistic rebels. They apply technology and science to challenge existing concepts and values which intrinsic to humanity. Thus, they re-examine the new position art holds within human life, and the ever-changing relationship between people and art; these are what the Innovationists attempts to inspire audience to understand, investigate and explore.

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Artists

Scott Hessels

Chris Honhim Cheung + XEX GRP

Samson Young

Dimension+

Eric Siu

COGOO × SEMITRANSPARENT DESIGN × TBWA\HAKUHODO

Ryota Kuwakubo

circumstance

Tiffany Holmes

Scott Hessels creates works in different mediums, including film, video, music, Internet, and others; he specializes in mixing image elements into technological devices to create a new form of viewing experience. These works have been exhibited in New York City’s MoMA in the United States, at Japan New Media Art Festival, ARS ELECTRONICA in Austria, ISEA, etc.

Chris Honhim Cheung is an international new media artist and designer. He focuses mainly on the creation of interactive new media art, and so he established the XEX GRP in 2007 with five core members, each specializes in a particular field, including performance, music, advertising, film and animation. The works of XEX GRP are diverse and have been exhibited in Italy, Russia, China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and many other places.

Samson Young’s media art works are fused with classical music, technology and cultural phenomena. For instance, using brainwaves as live data input to control and perform percussions, turning an entertainment console into a sound device, and using iPhone as an instrument so that general public can group into an instant orchestra. All of these serve as a token of his experimental characteristics and symbolic manner in terms of artistic expression.

Dimension+ is a New Media Art group established in 2009 by Escher Tsai (Taiwan) and Keith Lam (Hong Kong). They mainly focus on the integration of artistic creation with technological medium and the relationship between artwork and space. Their works could be viewed as a dialogue between technology and interdisciplinary knowledge.

Eric Siu is a Hong Kong artist, who studied media arts in the United States. His works have been shown in major exhibitions and art festivals around the globe, included FILE, Transmediale, EMAF, WRO, SIGGRAPH Asia, ISEA and Microwave. He has a broad interest in device art, interactive art, kinetics, installation, video and animation; his recent works combine designed objects and human interactive experiments to further explore the potential possibilities of media art.

Ryota Kuwakubo is a Japanese new media artist. He is renowned for his utilization of electronic and everyday objects and the integration of the digital and analogue. The core concept of his works is about the dialogue between human and machines, and also the transmission and reception of information.

It is an art event which took place on the streets of Ximending, Taipei December 8th, 2012. It was a rainy day, and more than 1000 people took part in it. The subtlemob project is created by circumstance, an artist group formed by Duncan Speakman, Sarah Anderson and Emilie Grenier. Three of them all come from very different backgrounds, including theatre, interaction design, music and research of wearable devices. They created amazing collective cinematic experience in urban spaces through live interaction of audience.

Tiffany Holmes is the Associate Professor of the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artworks

Sustainable Cinema No. 3: PRAXINOSCOPE WINDMILL

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1 - 14 messed up

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