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The winning theses in the 2nd Digital Art Criticism Awards were announced on November 8 in Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art. The winners attended and presented their criticisms, which were judged by judges Jun-Jieh Wang and Chieh-Hsiang Wu etc, and the director of Taipei City Government’s Cultural Affairs Bureau presented the awards and took part in the judging of the criticisms, bringing this year’s Taipei Digital Art Festival to an end on a high note.
Digital Art Festival Taipei and Taipei Digital Art Awards began in 2006, while the Digital Art Criticism Awards were established in 2007. This year, the Digital Art Criticism Awards were included in Digital Art Festival Taipei, making Taiwan’s digital art awards more complete. Taipei Digital Art Awards encourages digital art creativity in Taiwan, while Digital Art Criticism Awards encourages discussion of digital art aesthetics and future creativity, the two together providing a complete stage for digital art creativity in Taiwan.
This year’s Digital Art Criticism Awards’ first prize was won by Po-wei Wang, a Sociology doctoral candidate at Germany’s Witten/Herdecki University. Chih-Yong Chiu, Ling-ching Chiang and Yi-chun Chen were finalists. Quite a few of the entries had interesting or new themes, showing the breadth and diversity of digital art topics in Taiwan and the interaction between mediums and art. The winning work and finalists each had unique features and each a really interesting subject, indicating that digital art criticism in Taiwan has a rosy future.
The Digital Art Criticism Awards and Taipei Digital Art Awards have become important and indicative awards in Taiwan’ art circles, the different forms of creativity cutting to the core of art, bringing into play the power of words and exhibiting creative works in one venue, and allowing dozens of artists in different creative areas to meet for dialogue and exchange, and, it can be said, extending the digital art platform.
Prize winners
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First prize NT$100,000 |
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Po-wei Wang |
Immersion in the Digital Age |
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Finalists (NT$10,000) (listed by order of entry) |
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Ling-ching Chiang |
Two tendencies of aesthetics of digital cinema
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Chih-Yong Chiu |
Inter/face: A Reconsideration of Myth of Transparency |
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Yi-chun Chen |
Turn Space into an Organic Form in a Digital Way:
On Wang Ya-Hui’s Space Related Video Production |
Media information download website:
http://www.dac.tw/daf08/2008comment.html
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