Taipei City Government

As an important urban art festival in Asia, the Digital Art Festival Taipei employs the city as a base and invites artists, all citizens and art enthusiasts to participate in digital art. Together, we shall create an ever happening collaborative relationship that brings together different fields, embraces all identities, includes all diverse interests and unifies the body and mind. Upholding the concept of Conflux．Infinity as the theme of the Digital Art Festival Taipei 2017, we use Taipei as a geographical center and encourage all participants to be more than just viewers and actively engage in the art festival through digital art and artworks.

Conflux．Infinity denotes multiple meanings: it refers to the convergence of energies from different parts of the world and conveys regional significance; it points to the tolerance of differences and demonstrates positive significance; it symbolizes the ensemble of multifaceted knowledge and manifests dynamic significance; and it also represents the accumulation of past and future, and therefore, has temporal significance. The conflux beckons at infinite possibilities that enable collaborations between artists and different professions and disciplines. Digital tools can form an online network that serves as a platform for displaying urban experiences within and without this island. Art enthusiasts or general citizens can enjoy a new aspect of equality, boundarylessness and free participation by applying the concept of identity as a vehicle without limiting themselves to a dichotomy defined by the roles of artists and viewers.

The artworks and activities featured in Conflux．Infinity - Collaboration Now & Forever are all conceived through the ideas of convergence, collaboration, and ever-going development. The creative approaches and artwork forms of digital art should not be fixed; neither should digital art be defined by how artworks are displayed. Meanwhile, all fields should enjoy the possibility of collaborating with digital art. Therefore, setting itself apart from the past eleven Digital Art Festivals, Conflux．Infinity - Collaboration Now & Forever hopes to offer a viewing experience that genuinely belongs to the city, provides participatory diversity, presents surprises in collaboration, and shatters barriers and limits.

Activity Schedule︱

Opening Performance
Date: 2017/11/10 (Fri) 19:00-19:30
Venue: No.5 Warehouse of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Performers: HH (YAO Chung-Han & YEH Ting-Hao) & As One (TAI Han-Chih & HUANG Jin-Wei)
Audio/Visual Collaborations: Viktor LIN, CHANG Yun-Chih & CHEN Yan-Ren

Workshop
Venue: No.5 Warehouse of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Workshop: Data Visualization for the Achievements of Digital Art
Date:11/11 (Sat) 10:00-12:00
Lecturer: Kirby WU

Workshop: Abandon Material Speaker
Date: 11/18 (Sat) 10:00-12:00
Lecturer: CHANG Yun-Chih

Expert Guides
Venue: No.5 Warehouse & North Tobacco Factory of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Dates:
11/11 (Sat) 14:00-15:00 Guide: LEE Chia-Hsiang
11/12 (Sun) 14:00-15:00 Guide: LIN Hao-Chiang
11/18 (Sat) 14:00-15:00 Guide: SUN Yi-Cheng

Venue: Digital Art Center, Taipei
Dates:
11/11(Sat) 14:00-15:00 Guide: YEH Ting-Hao
11/18(Sat) 14:00-15:00 Guide: CHANG Huei-Ming

Digital Art & Tech Talks
Venue: No.5 Warehouse of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Date: 2017/11/11 (Sat) 15:00-17:00
Speakers: LEE Chia-Hsiang, Kirby WU, LIN Ping, TSAU Saiau-Yue, Escher TSAI & HSIEH Chi-Min

Venue: Digital Art Center, Taipei
Date: 2017/11/12(Sun) 15:00-17:00
Speakers: YEH Ting-Hao, CHANG Huei-Ming, CHEN Yun-Ju & SUN Yi-Cheng

Venue: No.5 Warehouse of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Date: 2017/11/18 (Sat) 15:00-17:00
Speakers: CHIANG Yi-Hsuan, Viktor LIN, Chen Yen-Ren, Mao & SUN Ping

Artists:
Opening Performance: HH (YAO Chung-Han & YEH Ting-Hao)︱As One (TAI Han-Chih & HUANG Jin-Wei); Audio/Visual Collaborations: Viktor LIN︱CHANG Yun-Chih︱CHEN Yan-Ren
International Digital Art Exhibition: Youki Hirakawa︱Kimchi and Chips (Elliot Woods & Mimi Son)︱
Emerging Digital Artists Group Exhibition: CHIANG Yi-Hsuan x CHEN Yun-Ju︱WU Ping-Sheng x ZHANG Xu-Zhan︱CHANG Yun-Chih x CHEN Yan-Ren︱WANG Po-Yen︱CHANG Teng-Yuan︱CHENG Hsien-Yu
Retrospective Exhibition of Digital Art Festival Taipei: WANG Hsin-Jen︱YAO Chung-Han︱CHANG Yung-Ta︱TSENG Wei-Hao︱LIAO Chi-Yu

Organized by: Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
Executed by: HU’s ART COMPANY
Appointed Airline: Eva Airline
Sponsored by: Samsung, QSearch, Broshood Design Studio
Academia Partnership: Institute of Applied Arts of NCTU
Media Cooperated by: ARTCO Monthly, Chinese Contemporary Art
News Magazine, Artist Magazine, Joint Entertainment International Inc.

Curatorial Team
Curator│Sappho, L. C. LOH
Organizer│Sean C.S HU
Executive Team│CHAN Hua-Tzu, CHANG Yu-Chen, CHANG Yi
Assistant Researcher│HSU Chun-Chun, LEE Yueh-Ning
Visual Designer│CHEN Yen-Ru, WEI Wen-Ru
Exhibition Designer│CHEN Wei-Ting
Technical Equipment│ART WAR COMPANY
Lighting Designer│HO Chung-Chang
Social Media Marketing│AN Hsuan Hsuan, CHIANG Yi-Hsuan, Joy HSU
Video Production│Broshood Design Studio
Website Production│A COPY OF A COPY

Event Link: http://digitalarts-festival.taipei/?lang=en