Pioneer Design Experience Pavilion

Curator Ideas

Sean C.S. Hu, CEO of Taiwan Hu's Art Company, acted as a curator, using real media and scene-based experiences through new media devices such as virtual reality, sound, interaction and power, to showcase different aspects between technology and design from the diverse issues and content touched by the works, and design’s role of transmission and connection from technology prototype to product. 


Exhibition Planning

International Pioneer Design Experience Pavilion is divided into future world exhibition (focus on visual glasses, emotion capture sensor, face recognition intelligence), technology symbiosis experience exhibition (focus on artificial intelligence, VR, 3D digital image) and urban design image exhibition (focus on technology in urban design, the use of world exploration), and displays the innovative new media installations of four Taiwanese new media artists, including Yao Zhonghan, Tao Yalun, Yu Shifu and Zeng Weihao.


Curator
Sean C.S. Hu

Sean C.S. Hu graduated from The Broadcasting & Television Section of Mass Communication Department, Fu Jen Catholic University. He then received M.A. degree in Art Administration in Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York in 1998. Now Hu is the board member for Jut Foundation for Arts & Architecture, the Adviser of the Association of Visual Arts in Taiwan, Taipei City Government Policy Consultant, VT Artsalon co-founder, as well as Doubles Square co-founder and curator, the CEO of Hu’s Art Company and the director of Taipei’s 2018 Nuit Blanche. Hu has won numerous awards and recognitions including a 2016 British Council visiting fellowship to Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, being named one of Vogue’s People 101 in 2009, acting as Asia Arts Curator to the 2008 Shanghai Arts Fair, and serving as Visual Arts Representative for a professional collaborative art project and exchange between Taiwan and France in 2005. Also, he was nominated as “The Best curator of the Year in 2017” of Asian best contemporary art by CANS Contemporary Art News Magazine. Sean C.S. Hu has curated many exhibition projects in the past years, such as “Spectrosynthesis - Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now,” 2017, “ Introduction of the Airport MRT Public Art Project: Interaction Crossing Zone,” 2011-2017. And among these exhibitions, a number have won awards:, such as 2017 Chinese Contemporary Art News Magazine’s “The Best Exhibition of the Year”.


Artists

  • Tseng Wei-Hao

    Tseng Wei-Hao holds an MFA from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts,Tainan National University of the Arts.He began his artistic career by making kinetic sculptures,using magnets to discuss invisible magnetic force and its expression.After graduation, he continues to explore the subject of invisible energy discussed in his previous works while researching on sound,visualizing invisible energy and looking for the orignal value in art.


  • Liam Morgan

    Liam Morgan is a Canadian artist. Since studying in Chiang Mai University in 2002, he has started to live and work in Thailand. At first, his focused on photograph, yet he startd to deconstruct camera and tried to reverse of the idea of camera. Liam has withdrawn from time and space and focused on the primary ingredient of photographic development, which is light. The artist has therefore shifted his attention towards manipulation of lights and installation art. He specializes in transforming the field through his works, where could invite the audience to temporarily soak in a sense of escape.


  • Yu Shifu

    Born in Miaoli, Taiwan, Yu Shifu graduated from the Department of Industrial Product Design at the University of Practice in 2010 with a bachelor's degree. In 2013, he graduated from the Department of New Media Art at the Taipei University of the Arts with a master's degree. Currently he is living in Taipei. Since 2008, he has devoted himself to the development and production of machinery, power and installation art. His works are mostly composite media art, mechanical art and installation art. He is good at integrating mechanical devices, metal crafts and dynamic institutions into new media art across fields to describe his own profound life experience, memory and feelings. His works have been selected as "Taipei Digital Art Award" and "National Art Award", won the "Art Bank New Media Art Collection", "Youth Collection Program New Media Art Permanent Collection", and participated in the National Art Exhibition, Taipei International Contemporary Art Fair. Large-scale exhibitions such as the Taipei Digital Arts Festival, the FORMOSA Sculpture Biennale, the Taiwan Arts and Culture Art Fair, the Science and Art Exhibition, and the Beijing Today Art Museum - Youth Art 100 Launch Exhibition. In 2016, he held his first solo exhibition "Small Torture". In the same year, he was selected as "Kyoto University of Fine Arts in Japan - Entering Artists". In 2017, he first published a large-scale local production work "The Angle of Flying" in Taichung City Center, Taiwan Avenue Public Welfare Road Ring In the same year, he was selected as the "Young Art 100" competition in Beijing, China.


  • Tao Yalun

    Tao Yalun was born in Taipei, Taiwan, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Taiwan Normal University. Now living in Taipei, he is engaged in artistic creation. He currently teaches at the School of Communication of National Chengchi University. He has held more than 10 solo exhibitions and more than 50 joint exhibitions, and has exhibition experiences in Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States, Finland, France, Poland, Spain, Italy, Austria. His works are full of profound philosophical dialectic and reflection, profound and thought-provoking, and have been collected by many public and private institutions. From images, sound, light and shadow creation to mechanical power devices, he always pays attention to the situation and existence of people in the information technology era.


  • YAO Chung-Han

    YAO Chung-Han holds an MFA in Technological and Art from Taipei National University of the Arts. He is a representative figure in the creation of acousto-optic Art in Taiwan, his has been involved in creation more than 10 years. His works include audiovisual installations, live performances and music productions. He employs the corresponding and contrasting relations of light and sound to trigger viewers’ imagination of physical senses. Since 2005, the artist has devoted himself to sound artworks and has won the First Prize in Sound Art in Digital Art Festival Taipei (2008), Honourable Mention in Taipei Art Awards (2017). He has been invited to participate in various international exhibitions and events in cities such as Fukuoka, Tokyo, Amsterdam and Los Angeles. 


Exhibition Area

Urban Design Image Exhibition Area

Tseng Wei-HaoWatching the Sounds, Hidden Sounds, Planting SoundsThe motivation of creating Watching the Sounds is related to Cymatic, the experiment of visualizing sounds. The images of the work were captured from the moment when 25Hz sounds being conveyed to the surface of water. The artist recorded them with photography and printed them on planks with conductive ink. He then split the images, trying to imitate the shape of ripples. As the planks move from left to right, the audience could randomly interrupt the images and create sounds. The images and the planks could be ...

Technology Symbiosis Experience Exhibition Area

Yu ShifuAngle of Flyingand Flying around the Corner  The exhibition featured 2018 new works The Angle of Flying and Flying around the Corner. Displaying machinery, power and equipment products, giving full play to process technology, composite media design, and mechanical device effects, integrating mechanical devices, metal processes, and dynamic mechanisms into a cross-technology design experience, reflecting the creativity and technological symbiosis of industrial design materials.The inspiration of The Angle of Flying is from the fluttering wings. The w...

Urban Design Image Exhibition Area

Liam MorganUntitled Monochrome Liam Morgan is a Canadian artist. Since studying in Chiang Mai University in 2002, he has started to live and work in Thailand. At first, his focused on photograph, yet he started to deconstruct camera and tried to reverse of the idea of camera. Liam has withdrawn from time and space and focused on the primary ingredient of photographic development, which is light. The artist has therefore shifted his attention towards manipulation of lights and installation art. He specializes in transforming the field through his works, where could invite t...

Technology Symbiosis Experience Pavilion

Tao YalunSanta Fe No. 1 (U.S.A.) and EP7 No. 1 (Paris)    When the audience enters the virtual reality and interactive device, they will see the same space and perspective as the exhibition site of Santa Fe New Media Art Exhibition. The audience can watch freely as if they were in the exhibition space. Thentheirbody will move slowly from the exhibition space to the huge virtual space, and then slowly move back. Audienceswill havedreamlike experiences, perceive the extended "time" dimension, and recognize the power of overlapping reality and virtual space.The e...

Future World Pavilion

YAO Chong-HanCurrent Light    The art work Current Light shows the sense of fluidity of time. “Time is the universal rhythm; people always work after its steps.”Current Light is consisted of 90 circle fluorescent lamps, which YAO Chung-Han arranged and reconstituted to display numbers indicating hours, minutes and seconds at the moment. Due to physical characters of fluorescent lamps, it takes more than one second from the moment when the lightings start up to become steady. Therefore, we can see the numbers continuously flicker. It is always too late to com...