NEW PARADIGMS OF ART IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Thursday, 24 March 2016
12pm – 1pm
Conducted in English
Digital media and technology has in recent years become a progressively functional platform to
create and develop works that can unite, engage and produce a dialogue between artists and
their audience. But even with awareness of technology continually expanding, new media art
has only just begun to overlap with the mainstream art world because of its challenge to the
marketplace, and its often dematerialized condition making it difficult to collect. This panel
aims to provide a basic distinction between digital art and new Media and address how the
medium is defined by curators, artists and collectors. Panelists will discuss what it is that
draws technology to an artist, and give an insight into understanding the mechanisms of the
medium.
SPEAKERS:
ANITA BECKERS (moderator) / Galerie Anita Beckers Booth D9
Anita Beckers was until 1984 a teacher for office management and more than
thirty years of experience in collecting Contemporary Art lead her to mediation
of art. In 2003 Beckers was appointed a directing member of LOOP Barcelona, a
fair dedicated to the promotion of video and media art and in 2005 was granted
the Media Art Award of the Saarländische Rundfunk Saarbrücken for the
mediation of Video Art. 2006 saw the opening of a secondary exhibition space
(„Satellit“) for interdisciplinary projects in the center of the city Frankfurt.
Backers Founded Blinkvideo.de in 2012 an internet platform for research in
video art, together with Julia Soekeland and just recently in 2015 she opened a
new gallery space in Frankfurt’s inner city alongside design and art dealer
Frank Landau. Beckers has curated several local and international video shows
and participated would-wide in international fairs.
FEI JUN / Artist
Fei Jun holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University’s
School of Art and Design in New York. Fei Jun is the head of CAFA Media Lab, an
associate professor in interactive media art and design, China Central Academy
of Fine Arts as well as a working artist and designer. He is also a co-founder of
Moujiti interactive. His art and design work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally in galleries, museums and festivals, and has received many
international awards including IF design award and Red dot design award. As an
artist, he is particularly interested in the hybrid space that constructed by
virtual and physical space; as a designer, Fei Jun has been creating mobile
applications and interactive installations for Clients, including the Palace
Museum, Audi, Trends Media Group and etc.; as an educator he has been
teaching interactive art and design program in CAFA since 2005.
SUZANNE MOONEY / Artist
Suzanne Mooney is an Irish artist based in Japan. She graduated with a PhD
from Tama Art University in 2014, and received an Aesthetica Art Prize in 2015.
She has been awarded residencies in Iceland, Korea, Ireland and Spain. Her arts
practice examines how representations of landscape in visual arts can reflect
the lived-space of our contemporary culture, exploring issues of globalization,
urbanization and the effects of technological developments on our societies.
Mooney is a writer for Art Bridge Institute, and an artist-in-residence in
Koganecho, Yokohama.
GINA WONG / Founder of Experimenta
Gina See-Yuen Wong is the producer/ director / co-producer of La Salamander
(100min, Chile/HK), The Lives of Hamilton Fish (86min, 2012), of The Southern
Journey (93min, 2013) and Orient Top Town (87min, 2011). Her short
experimental films include Shanghai Ge (30min, 2009), A Quiet War (30min,
2015) and Road to Day Dream Mine (23min, 2015). Screening of Gina's most
recent film was at the Raindance Film Festival in London in September 2015.
She is the founder of PUFF Independent Film Festival in Hong Kong. Gina is also
the curator/founder of experimental video and art space, Experimenta for the
past 7 years. Her curated exhibitions include iTrust HK, The Personal and the
Political, Free Rider and Tacit Knowledge. Gina graduated from the London
School of Economics and the University of Hong Kong. Gina works and lives
Hong Kong and London.