First of its kind in Asia – Taiwan’s Digital Art Center officially opens
Posted by artradar on July 2, 2009
DIGITAL ART TAIWAN
First of its kind in Asia and six years in the making, the NT$25 million (US$756,000) avant-garde art facility, the Taipei Digital Art Center, is now officially open to the public.
Taiwan News has the full report:
.. the site of Digital Art Center is very close to the future location of the Taipei Performing Arts Center in Shilin, and it also neighbors the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, making the whole surrounding area a cultural stronghold in Taiwan’s capital city.
Ma Chun-fu, Kodomo Manufacture at Taipei Digital Art Center
The first DAC exhibitions include The Light of Historical Ending by Tao Ya-lun and Kodomo Manufacture by Ma Chun-fu.
The Light of Historical Ending is a laser projection piece that creates stunning effects when light beams pass through a visitor’s body.
Ma’s Kodomo Manufacture employs suspended channels to symbolize factory production lines – a cynical take on an educational system that churns out “good children” as production line outputs.
The centre’s first example of installation art is Tseng Wei-hao’s Speaker Tree, which won top prize in the first Taipei Digital Art Awards in the interactive installation category.
Tseng Wei Hao, Speaker Tree, sound installation, ink, speaker, pencil 2006
The Taipei Digital Art Center is located at 180, Fuhua Rd., Shilin, Taipei, near Zhishan MRT station. For more information, please call (02)77360708.
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