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Juror's Statement

LIN Pey-Chwen

術 數 位 藝
The 28th Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City called for submissions from April 1 to 15, 2023. The Digital Art category received 55 entries,
including one from Mainland China/Macau, one from the Philippines, one from India, one from the U.K., and one from Italy. After the preliminary review
in late April, eight entries were short-listed.
During the submission of originals in late June, artists of short-listed installations were required to be present onsite for installation, and come back
again for removal after the evaluation. One work was eliminated in the process. Finally, after the final evaluation on June 27, the jury picked a total of five
prize winning works, including the top three prize winners and two Award of Merit winners.
Works of this year's Digital Art category have room for improvement in the areas of creative content, visual tension, grasp on digital media and
technology, and completeness of installation; most works are incomplete or not original enough. Below are simple descriptions of the five award-winning
works.
First Prize went to "Herbarium" by Italian artist Luca Bonaccori, which converts the pictures of plants taken by the artist in Hualien into abstract
images and videos in non-linear order through digital 3D scanning and digital algorithms. Plants are no longer the way we know them, as they are
digitally processed into a destroyed and dissociated state to express the idea the artist wants to convey: "Mankind's memory of space and time is not Digital Art
stored linearly; instead, memory is converted into abstract processes, and it all depends on personal perceptive experience." The artist changes the angles
of the objects in the 3D scanned files based on his aesthetic judgement and choice, and manipulates the camera and utilizes special effects software to
create visual spectacles, like veins of microscopic plants. The mixing and fluid editing of the images sometimes create poetic elegance and buoyancy in
slow motion, and sometimes integrate masterfully different languages of the lens, such as close up and long shot, drifting, and deconstruction, to finally
transform the pictures into abstract particles using visual effects software, constructing the exciting and surreal look of "Herbarium" and displaying the
intriguing charm of digital art.
Second Prize winner is "Covid-Somnia" by British artist LI Kin, which utilizes VR and 3D technology, and the point cloud image effect of
computation to express own physical experience of being infected by COVID-19, like a state of wandering lost in subconsciousness.
Third Prize went to "Heartache of Conical" by local Taiwanese artist LI Ying-Jung, which uses a conical kinetic device and sounds to express the
artist's experience of restlessness and insomnia due to the trauma of earthquake.
Award of Merit winner "Misplacement of Gaze-Restless Moiré Pattern" by Taiwanese artist HSIEH Yuan uses a mechanical installation of colorful
LED lights to create a visual experience of cut-off TV signal.
The other Award of Merit winner is "Transcendent Flow of Memories" by local Taiwanese artist KUNG Chao-Chun, which uses online open data of
artworks to review the course of change of Taiwan's native art and contemplate on the possible phenomena in the future through thin threads or particles
generated by AI algorithm.