The Two-Way City exhibits at Digiark, National Taian Museum of Fine Arts which will run until June 30th and Gallery E that runs until May 18th.
Skyscraper, office, street, metro, bus, flow, speed, crossing, traffic light, where we can walk freely as we like.
The Two-way City: the Pedestrians-emerging Digital Arts from Taiwan.
The exhibition provides a way of appreciating the artworks; specifically, the audience would observe these works as they walk in the streets. The pedestrians, referred to the artists, capture some city views with their creativity. Finally, they gathered their works and put into the ark.
The artworks include:
◎"
If I were" by Chung-Kun WANG
◎"Postcard" by Chun-Chiang NIU
◎"
On/Off" by Ming-Hsueh LEE
◎"
Listen" by Chun-Ming CHI
◎"
Fading away" by An-Chih TSAI
◎"Passenger" by Hsin-Chien HUANG
◎Chun-Chiang Niu's artwork "Postcard"
The Dissection of City – International Animation Exhibition
Curated by Sharon Wu
"The Dissection of CITY" is a new curative work from internationally renowned animation scholar and filmmaker, Sharon Wu. It is an international animation festival within an installation, which includes films from all over the world.The designated space in the DigiArk for this exhibition, long and progressive, is regarded as a dissection of a city. It is intended to bring the audience into the anatomy of a city, to see the "layers" inside a city, sequentially the cityscape, the streets, the buildings, and the living being behind the walls, which are illustrated through the animated films screened in each layer. The exhibition itself is also a conceptual city.
"The Two-way City" Talks and Workshops at digiark
◎3/29 Saturday 14:00-16:00 Special Presentation by Sharon Wu
◎3/30 Sunday 11:00-17:00 Animated Special Project directed by Sharon Wu and assistants
◎4/19 Saturday 14:00-16:00 "Open the Pandora Box of Animation" lecture by Vance Yang and Stella Huang, CGI Supervisor and Creative Supervisor of SOFA Studio
◎5/10 Saturday 14:00-17:00 Mother's Day Animation Project: Hands-on Workshop for parent-child pairs
◎5/17 Saturday 14:00-16:00 The Pedestrians – Emerging Digital Arts from Taiwan
Opening: 2008/3/23
Exhibition: digiark till 6/30 and Gallery E till 5/18 at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Website: http://digiark.ntmofa.gov.tw