Cluster: 5th Digital Art Festival Taipei 2010

Cluster: 5th Digital Art Festival Taipei 2010

Date:2010/11/26~2010/12/05
Venue: Digital Art Center, Taipei

Since 2006, the Digital Art Festival was hosted by Taipei City Government and executed by its Department of Cultural Affairs. From the first festival Aura Spurt at Zhongshan Hall, Openplay (the second) at Red House in Taipei Ximen space; while Trans (the third) and Funky Light (the forth 2009), both at Museum of Contemporary Arts Taipei. To be in accordance with the Private Sectors Participation in Public Construction Act, the execution was then handed over to Digital Art Center Taipei since its inauguration in 2009.

The Festival consists of five main activities: International Digital Art Exhibition, Digital Art Awards (including Digital Art Awards Taipei, Digital Art Criticism Awards, K.T. Creative Awards), Live Performance, and Digital Art Platform. Local artists and their counterparts from abroad joined in the Festival to convey their concern for humanity and their keen observations of society through digital art. By employing various types of media, friendly artworks will be presented to the audience, who by participating in activities and performances can experience the fascinating digital art.

To encourage more participation from the public and to provide more diversified activities, the 5th Digital Art Festival specially incorporates two new projects “Taipei Digital Art Festival – Exhibition Organizing Project" and 2010 “The First Digital Art Performance Project" sponsored with a budget of more than NT$1 million along with the “Digital Art Center, Taipei Residency Program," in an attempt to inspire more talented artists to partake in the Festival, fusing their creativity through the platform of the Festival, to share with Taipei citizens.

Titled “Cluster,” this year’s Digital Art Festival aims to bring visitors a refreshing combination of old and new. With the multiple meanings of “Cluster,” the Digital Art Festival obtains a balance among the different themes of the show. This way, the Festival will resemble an unceasingly expanding system, which continuously pours in energy and brings new perspectives to the fundamentals of digital art, ultimately pushing them forward.


2010 第五屆台北數位藝術節 Cluster 串

日期:2010-11-26 ~ 2010-12-05
地點:剝皮寮歷史街區+DAC 台北數位藝術中心+西門紅樓+台北歌德學院

自 2006 創辦的《台北數位藝術節》(Digital Art Festival, Taipei),今年已進入第五屆,以「Cluster 串」主題,由台北市政府主辦、台北數位藝術中心(DAC)精心策劃,將從 11 月 26 日正式於「剝皮寮」開幕,並從即日起到 12 月 5 日同時於台北的四個主要場地:剝皮寮、台北數位藝術中心、西門紅樓、台北歌德學院,如歲末嘉年華般熱鬧展開!

本屆台北數位藝術節「Cluster 串」的策展理念為:串近你我之間的距離,串起數位時代新思維!為期十天的藝術節主軸活動,大致分成六大項目:數位藝術展覽、專家導覽、創作論壇、數位藝術工作坊、數位藝術表演、數位藝術評論獎頒獎及發表。今年的台北數位術節規模為歷年之冠,不僅參展作品件數看得出數位藝術的蓬勃發展,同時還有來自海外各地共18位的國外藝術家帶著作品來台共襄盛舉。各場展演內容及場地簡述如下:

「剝皮寮」登場:404 國際電子藝術節,創辦於 2004 年的國際知名電子藝術節,由歐美和拉丁美洲等數個文化機構共同舉辦。每年邀請世界各地具代表性的網路藝術、影像、動畫、錄影、音樂、視聽裝置、表演等作品巡迴全球,今年第七屆 404 將首度巡迴到亞洲,第一站就來台北;內容有 17 件國際數位藝術新作及一場研討會。國際數位藝術邀請展,是台北數位藝術節與國際接軌的橋樑,本次邀請到今年奧地利電子藝術節剛出爐的金尼卡獎得主-日本知名音藝術家黑川良一(Ryoichi Kurokawa)、法國數位藝術家-西里爾˙布里索(Cyrille Brissot)、西里˙埃爾南德斯(Cyril Hernandez)、加拿大跨領域藝術家-讓-弗朗索瓦˙拉波特(Jean-François Laporte)及法國重要當代藝術家之一吉雍˙巴黎(Guillaume Paris)的作品。

 K.T. 科藝獎,鼓勵以「數位」媒材的純粹藝術創作獎項,內容有五件互動科技、六件數位遊戲、七件電腦動畫。2010 魔幻動畫展,延續 2009 年第四屆台北數位藝術節的國際動畫精選專題,邀請來自歐美、澳洲、日本、台灣等近 50 部作品;如去年奧斯卡最佳動畫短片日本導演加藤久仁生的作品「積木小屋」、奧地利電子數位藝術節前兩年的電腦動畫類大獎 Madame Turli-Putli 及 HAAKI 等片也將於此播映,帶起動畫熱潮。台北數位藝術徵件獎,與藝術節同時創辦,前四屆皆收到百餘件專業數位藝術作品,獲獎者極獲各界肯定與支持,今年獲獎作品有互動裝置、聲音藝術及數位音像等共計15 件作品。

 於「台北數位藝術中心」展出的國際交流駐村創作展,由年度四位榮獲交換駐村的台、德、法青年藝術家新作在此與您互動,台灣藝術家-陳韻如、黃致傑,來自德國的可思汀‧艾葛琴(Kerstin Ergenzinger)和法國的吉雍.曼明(Guillaume Marmin),連結了網路、音樂、影像、機械及空間裝置,邀您深入探討其中的奧妙美學。

 「台北歌德學院」德國錄像藝術特展-RECORD > AGAIN! – 40jahrevideokunst.de – Teil 2由 ZKM 數位媒體藝術中心館長Peter Weibel所策畫,年初曾於德國奧登堡艾蒂羅絲媒體藝術中心(Edith Russ Site for Media Art)展出,藝術節期間(11/26 至 12/17 日)於台北展映!內容為 1960 至 1980 後期的德國早期錄像藝術,展出的 50 多件作品不僅具有歷史重要意義,以現代眼光來看更是迷人。

  最後於「西門紅樓」登場的第一屆數位藝術表演獎,是今年首創的數位藝術表演首獎的第一場演出《交響樂計畫-壹、機械提琴》(Symphony Project–I. Violin)由編舞家黃翊、與聲音藝術家王仲堃,打造一個舞蹈與互動樂器的全新表演。此外,主辦也企劃了三場創作論壇、數位藝術工作坊與剝皮寮展覽的專家導覽,各活動的詳細介紹與最新訊息更新,敬請密切查詢台北數位藝術節「Cluster串」官網。

International Artist in Residence Exhibition

國際交流駐村創作展

2010 第五屆台北數位藝術節 Cluster 串

發表者:yjchen

as a media+digital+interactive artist and scholar, Yun-Ju Chen specializes in practice and research in new media art.