TNUA’s Center for Art and Technology will kick off the “Transjourney - 2012 Future Media Festival” on January 1, 2012 to systematically showcase Taiwan’s achievements in digital media art.
The digital world has pushed civilization to an unprecedented phase where the intervention of art has created endless imagination of the future.
The festival is designed around the concept of interplay between interaction and innovation, documentation and representation, the virtual and the real, and the present and the future. It will engage top local and foreign digital artists and performing groups in a multi-media display of lights and sounds and cross-disciplinary interaction at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (KdMoFA).
Participating artists will articulate their views of future media art and concepts through their works. The event will also invite related academic and business groups to demonstrate their conceptual and visual applications of multi-media art.
One of the artists to be featured is Herman Kolgen from Canada. His “Train Fragments” is a live percussion performance integrating audio-visual effects with contemporary music to present a new aspect of digital performing arts. It will be the festival’s opening performance taking place at the KdMoFA outdoor square at 6 p.m. on New Year Day.
The festival has several themes. There is a special international exhibition of works by Nils Voelker from Germany; Zimoun from Switzerland; Bill Viola from the United States; and Nam June Paik from Korea. In the digital art section, there will be works by artists and groups from TNUA and other local universities to showcase Taiwan’s amazing creativity.
A selection of international digital animation films will be screened in a series of activities curated by Yi-ching Chen, who has successfully promoted Taiwan’s animation art at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
A symposium will also be held, inviting local and foreign professionals from related fields to discuss the possibilities of cross-disciplinary integration of art and technology.
The festival will run from January 1 till February 19. For more information, please visit: http://2012fmf.cat.tnua.edu.tw/ .