"Your Skin Makes Me Cry," a media art exhibition, opened at TNUA in May, with one of its curators Mr. Olaf Stüber presiding over an opening ceremony and giving lectures on the development of media art. The exhibition, which runs till July 5, is co-sponsored by TNUA and Goethe Institute Taipei.
"Your Skin Makes me Cry" held at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition of 20 videos selected from a total of 234 entries created by students from than 30 different colleges and universities in Germany.
Apart from being a curator, the Germany-based Mr. Olaf is also an art critic and educator.
He has organized more than 70 exhibitions, showcasing over 200 artists over the past 20 years or so, with a particular focus on moving images.
He has also played active roles in many international art events, serving as curator and juror.
In his lecture, "50 Years of Time Based Media Art," delivered at TNUA on May 15, Mr. Stüber explained how media art has evolved during the past five decades. He also showed a number of historically significant works of media art.
Mr. Stüber noted that the development of technology is an important influence on artistic creativity.
He also pointed out that the birth of video art is usually attributed to an exhibition, "Exposition of Music - Electronic Television," that Nam June Paik organized at the Parnass Gallery in Wuppertal, Germany in 1963. While Nam is dubbed "father of media art," the Parnass Gallery is now generally regarded as the birthplace of media art.
Mr. Stüber gave another lecture, "The Artist, the Moving Image and the Art Market," at the Graduate Institute of Art Administration and Management on May 18.