No Man's Land | 數位荒原
No Man's Land is a media platform that continues to reorganize itself. NML positions itself peripherally in the field of contemporary art, technology, performance, narrative and imagination by utilizing creative connections and circulations among "networking/internet", "discourse" and "(art) community" as practice. In light of geographical proximity, NML aims to connect the art scenes in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines through decentralized media maneuvers. It invites the audience to take a turn on the monopolized perception of mainstream contemporary art under globalization or single capital market. NML was established as an online writing project since November 2011 (sponsored by Digital Art Foundation), and has diversified itself into media such as Meeting No Man's Land (since 2013, Jan) and NML Profile (since 2014, Aug). In 2014 No Man's Land launched ”Project Glocal Taipei“ (curated by Dayang Yraola) to build connections to the Southeast Asia art scenes. In 2015, NML co-curated "Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah" for DA+C Festival (Penang), as the art exchange platform for Taiwanese artists and glocal artists.
Digital Art Foundation, Taipei | 數位藝術基金會
Digital Art Foundation (since 2009) is run by artists and curators who have devoted to the development and promotion of digital and media art since 1995. It was known as ETAT which supported some important media art events at the beginning of this century. The Taipei Digital Art Festival is held by DAF annually. The goals of DAF are: researching, promoting, experimenting and innovating. In terms of the short-term residency exchange programs with GRAME (FR) and other well-known art centers worldwide, it also helps cross-disciplinary collaborations of media arts and theaters. The perspective of DAF is to demonstrate the realization of applying technology to induce the emergence of a brand new genre of art.
tamtamART TAIPEI
BERLIN tamtamART, founded in the early 2009, is an association dedicated to international cultural exchange and the advancement of Taiwanese Contemporary Art in Berlin. In order to increase the visibility of Taiwanese Contemporary Art, our team cooperates with different famous art spaces, and also participates in many major thematic festivals in Berlin. Through the ways of co-organization and cooperation, tamtamART has built up an international conversation bridge and a deeper connection with local organizations. In 2013, tamtamART starts cooperating with IPIX Imagination INC. and inaugurates tamtamART TAIPEI .IPIX in the center of Taipei. Offering an experimental contemporary art platform, this art space congregates various artists and creations of different domains and disciplines. At the same time, tamtamART TAIPEI .IPIX and Berlin tamtamART connect together and build up an international bridge to offer artists and publics both in Berlin and Taipei a prominent exchange platform.
(Note: tamtamART Taipei space had been closed in 2015)
Lacking Sound Festival | 失聲祭
Lacking Sound Festival was founded by the students of MFA Program in New Media Art of TNUA (originally Graduate School of Art and Technology), including YAO Chung-Han, YEH Ting-Hao, WANG Chung-Kun, TSAI Hsin-Yuan, Nat NU. They found then the lack of sound art event in Taiwan, and they wanted to create one which would present the creation of sound art. Therefore, they had the idea of starting a sound art activity which would cross different institutes and regions. Thus they raised the first Lacking Sound Festival in July, 2007. Since then, they continued to raise this festival once a month, staging two to three groups of artists. Till now, the end of 2013, they have raised Lacking Sound Festival like this more than 70 times, inviting hundreds of local and foreign artists to perform. In the future, Lacking Sound Festival will still be the sound performance activity which holds the most numbers of events and participating artists, and will definitely continue to “make sound” in Taiwan.
TheCube | 立方計畫空間
TheCube Project Space is an independent art space devoted to the research, production and presentation of contemporary art. Located in a 45-year-old apartment building on a bustling alley next to a traditional market in south Taipei, TheCube has held programs since its opening in August 2010, including curatorial art projects, development of individual and collective works, public forums, screenings and publications. Founded by independent curator Amy Cheng and Jeph Lo, TheCube aims to explore local culture in depth, connect people from diverse backgrounds, establish long-term relationships with artists and participants, and promote cultural exchanges between Taiwan and the international community. This has also led to an evolving and ongoing series of talks and workshops given by musicians, artists, cultural activists and critics.
Fablab Dynamic
Fablab (fabrication laboratory) is an international organization which originated from the collaboration between Grassroots Invention Group and Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) at the MIT Media Lab in 1998. Based on the tenet of "open source", Fablab is an open, well-equipped workshop, which later developed as an international community encouraging people to make things by themselves as well as to share knowledge with people. Based in Taipei, Fablab Dynamic is founded and led by LEE Po-Ting in DAC in 2013. It provides a lab equipped with a laser cutter, 3 3-D printers, 2 DIY CNC milling machines and a vinyl cutter. It aims at promoting the technological experiences of local users and encouraging global networking which suggests the collaboration with other Asian or global partners in order to stimulate the new possibilities of digital fabrication, furthermore, forging interactive platform for creative people with interdisciplinary practices. Also accentuating on the social design which tries to find innovative solutions for contemporary issues in the cities.
DA+C Festival
DA+C Festival began in 2011 and became Malaysia’s first culture and heritage-inspired digital festival. The inaugural festival happened out a 3-day period that took place at the UNESCO award-winning, Suffolk House, George Town, Penang in July 2011. It showcased Malaysia’s most innovative talents from animation, video, design, computer programmers and music. It was a part of the organizers’ attempt to kick-start a renewed interest in heritage buildings. Notable Malaysian artists were commissioned by the festival to reinterprate the history, stories and environments of Suffolk House into digital-based mediums. The works were then expressed through interactive art installations and building video projection mapping. A milestone for Malaysian digital art was the 1st heritage building projection mapping featured at da+c Festival.
In 2015, No Man's Land was invited to participate tHE DA+C Festival with concerted efforts. Serving as the guest curator of an exchange program titled "Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah" at the festival starting from 7 August, NML has recommended 3 Taiwanese artists to the program. Bearing the theme of CULTURETOPIA in mind, artists WANG, Ding-Yeh, WU, I-Yeh, and Lo, Shih-tung will take up temporary residence in the block of colonial style in George Town for weeks from 25 July.
Jiandyin
Jiandyin are duo artists from Thailand. They are interested in creating art space to construct human relationship. They explore processes and visual languages that could achieve the objective, not only through their artistic practices but also social practices. They initiated 2 ongoing projects: the “Dialogue : Seeing and Being” and On Adaptation, since 2010. The work bases on participatory and collaborative process. Within the past 5 years, the process has cultivated relationship between the artists and participants in different countries: San Francisco, New York – USA, 2010, Taipei and Kaohsiung – Taiwan, Bangkok – Thailand, 2012, 2015, Umbria – Italy, Berlin – Germany, 2013. Yangon – Myanmar, 2014. In 2011, they are founder of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture, a not-to-profit artist initiative that operates interdisciplinary art program and children short film program for Nongpo Community, Ratchaburi province, Thailand (where they live) and other. Baan Noorg partners include: jiandyin, Sakarin Krue-On, Lo Shih Tung and Hsu Chia Wei.
