"inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2013 - Micro Cities,” an exhibition organized by Taiwanese curators Chen Wei-ching and Lai Lih-huei, will be held at four different venues in New York City until Aug. 31.
Thirty-three artists from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and India are participating in this exhibition, which will be showed at the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, Residency Unlimited, the Queens Museum of Art, and the NARS Art Foundation in New York City.
The artworks extensively observe the phenomena our society has approved in silence, compromised, resisted and fought for, and raise many questions about development, damage to our environment, the changes in the entire social/economic structures, high tech and the "flat world” effect.
The exhibition re-defines art and attempts to integrate time-based media art, including digital art, multi-media art, video art or tech art. Creations by various media from video recordings, films, sounds, audios, computer technology, light, the Internet, to kinetic installations are all included.
The curators hope that the festival will become an arts and cultural platform in America that focuses on "Asian” time-based new media art, through which artists could present the various changes in contemporary Asia, both the internal and external systems, and discuss the impact on local culture from a micro perspective.
The exhibition is centered on creations by Asian time-based media artists, including video clips, short films, animations, power devices and real-time sound art performances, which are based on the connection between Asia and the social problems around the world. They display the assimilation of cultures and the urban experience in Asian cities as well as the artists' observations on local and global cultures.
The co-organizers of this event are inCube Arts, the Chew's Culture Foundation and Hong-Gah Museum in Taiwan. The exhibition is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, the Taipei Cultural Center in New York, the Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taichung City.
