CURATING:Data Mania


Special project of International Video Art Festival Now&After’18
DATA MANIA
Exhibition of Taiwanese Digital Art
5.03 – 29.03.2018, CCI Fabrika
Opening 5.03 at 7pm

"To compulsively download as much data as possible during the last few days of each billing cycle in order to use up as much of the leftover internet usage allowed in your plan before it all expires. Data mania will distort your sense of time and in many cases affect your social life." (Available from https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=data+mania [Accessed 19 Feb 2018] )

Curators: Yun-Ting Hung, Wen‐Chi Wang
Artists:
Pei-Shih Tu, Abstraction and Pixilation of “Gennady Golovkin vs Marco Antonio Rubio 18 10 2014”, 2-channels animated video 
Wen-Hsin Teng, Blue tears, three-channels video 
Tsan-Cheng Wu, Still Life, mixed media
Chih-Ming Fan, In the Fog - The Abandoned City, 2-channels video installation
Hsien-Yu Cheng, Portrait 2013 Douglas Engelbart, video installation
I-Yeh Wu, Dollar-Post, website, documents
I-Yeh Wu, Wave, 2016, 4:40, single-channel video installation


Screening program 

Digital Break: New Perspectives on Taiwanese Moving Image 
A new collection of artists’ film and video curated from Osmosis, Taiwan’s leading film, video and music festival. A varied collection of film and video by some of Taiwan’s cutting edge artists working with moving image and creative technology. All the artists grew up in the digital era, and their works respond to an age obsessed with digital culture and imagery, creating dialogues between technology, film and video art.
Artists:
Chen Yin-Ju & James T. Hong, End Transmission, 2010, 15:40
Lin Shih- Chieh, A Short History of Decay, 2014, 5:45
Niu Jun-Qiang, When I'm Getting Older with You, 2009, 5:10 
Hsu Che-Yu, Microphone Test: A Letter to Huang Guo-Jun, 2015, 25:18
Wu Tzu-an, Stargazing, 2017, 4:44
Wu Chi-Yu, Nosedive, 2017, 15:00 


Organized by Media Art Centre Now&After, Osmosis Audiovisual Media Festival
Partners: CCI “Fabrika”, ASC (The Art Shelter and Cinema)