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Juror’s Statement, Digital Art Category

LU Ching-Fu

Visual art aims to create an unprecedented visual experience, and One-quarter of the short-listed works are from overseas, including
this experience can be divided into physical and image contents today. works from Hong Kong and Mongolia. “Flowing” by Rebecca HON
Traditionally, physical experience has been the focus, but since the from Hong Kong features five ink rendered lotus leaves, which have been
beginning of the age of information, we have now entered a world of covered up one after another through dynamic processing to represent the
image experience. This kind of experience mostly comes from media; unnatural life cycles in the age of technology. “My Blue Friend” by T.
whether they are images seen on printed materials, TV, or the Internet, Tergel from Mongolia utilizes simple animation to express the feeling of
they are all considered this kind of experience. They come in great anxiety and depression, and uses a small monkey to suggest that it is hard
quantity and at a rapid speed. In the past, we said, “The grandfather to control, but we should not be taken control by it. “If One Day …… ” by
has crossed more bridges than the distance the grandson has travelled;” LIN Wei-Kai from Taiwan conveys the lament of “great years will not
today, it will be the other way around: “The grandson has crossed more return, morning cannot be relived;” while also imagining if time could
bridges than the distance the grandfather has travelled.” However, the be turned back. Although this is a static collage, it still conveys rich
grandfather's experience will be mostly physical experience, whereas the substances.
grandson's experience is made up of impressions of images. Since the
emergence of pop art, images have gained the upper hand; sometimes The more uplifting works including YE Pei-Yi's projection, “Yuan.”
people may find images to be more authentic than physical contents. Just as the Chinese character in the title suggests, the projection shows
Artists may not have seen celebrities in person, yet they can still create water existing in frames; frames come in different shapes, while water
portraits of stars. They do not use traditional portrayal methods; instead, comes in three states that correspond to the graphic elements of point,
they directly copy or twist images and thus enhance these images. line, and plane. CHEN Shu-Yu's animated stop-motion animation, “World
Saver: Gua Bao” has environmental-protection implications; but the
The Third Prize-winning “Drowning” by WU Yu-Hsuan mainly exaggerated designs and bright colors shape her personal style. Stop-
expresses “the breathless feeling,” or even the feeling of struggling. motion animation requires intensive labor, and shall be encouraged.
Compared to works that aim to express social issues or consist of lots HUANG Yuan-Yu's work of digital collage, “Image Quilts-Beautiful
of metaphors, this work is much easier for people to understand. The Homeland,” remains consistent with his signature features in the past, but
dance movements in the work may be parallel to the images of drowning, is quite different compared to normal collages. This work seems rather
expressing the impression of “limbs are compressed and distorted;” but natural and logical, and can be regarded as another kind of fabricated
the distortion of the images has enhanced the images instead. The Second truth, exposing all the strengths and weaknesses of Taiwan's metal
Prize is vacant. As for the First Prize-winning work, “Suffer,” the artist shacks.
later disclosed that other classmates participated in the production of
the work, therefore the work did not comply with the exhibition's rules, This year's exhibition did not receive many submissions, only 32,
and the artist forfeited the right to receive the prize. The work expresses and we need to encourage more people to participate. Overall speaking,
“suppression of emotions,” as people hide own emotions to humor others, foreign submissions accounted for one-quarter, but some works entered
or have problem properly conveying inner thoughts. However, why does two separate exhibitions, simultaneously participating in Huangxi Fine
“Suffer” uses a display for the face? This does not only imply the hiding Arts Exhibition, and may have added to the staff members' workload.
of emotions; if we examine the entire screen, the appearance of the I served on both juries, and it felt quite strange when the same works
display is really a nice idea. It no longer just displays regular emotions. appeared in front of my eyes at two separate locations. The good thing
More importantly, it may have touched on the weakness of digital art. In was that most of the works showcased contemporaneity, and demanded
the digital world of the age of information, people often view or interact more than one look.
with the world through digital media, and this definitely has its temporal
significance.

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