Center for Art and Technology’s iBoard wins award

 TNUA’s Center for Art and Technology has seen its iBoard – an interactive digital bulletin board – win the first prize in the digital life innovations category at the 2008 Insight Festival organized by National Taiwan University.

 Prof. Xiaoniu Su-Chu Hsu, director of the center, explained that the iBoard looks like a poster when seen from a distance. But when one comes close to within a meter from it, the iBoard starts playing the audio–visual contents of the poster

“I Have a Dream” – this is the theme of the Kuandu Biennale 2008, which has opened with solo exhibitions by 10 Asian artists at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.

 The 10 artists are Isa Ho and Shi Jin-Hua from Taiwan; Fang Li-jun from China; Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba from Vietnam; Jung Jeondoo from Korea; Pyuupiru from Japan; Handiwirman Saputra from Indonesia; Porntaweesak Rimsakul from Thailand; Shilpa Gupta from India; and Donna Ong from Singapore.

 The artists were selected by a committee from a list of recommendations. Then curators and critics from these artists’ countries were asked to help arrange their exhibitions. Such a process was meant to build up a stronger platform for direct exchange.

A forum, held the next day following the opening of the exhibitions, featured discussions by these curators and critics with experts and scholars from Taiwan.

 The solo exhibitions will run till November 30, 2008.