Two Taiwanese videos were among the 125 videos shortlisted for a project that will see the winning videos featured at Guggenheim museums in the US and Europe next month.
The works of Taiwanese architect Archiz Lin (林嘉慧) and Taiwanese filmmaker Hung Shih-ting (洪詩婷) were selected from more than 23,000 entries from 91 countries for the “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video” project, the Taiwanese branch of search giant Google Inc said in a statement.
The social video Web site YouTube and the Guggenheim Foundation, co-organizers of the project, will select 20 from the 125 finalists and feature them at Guggenheim museums in New York, Berlin, Venice and Bilbao, Spain, from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24.
In her video titled Frame of Imagination 0921 edition, Lin presented her observations on society and human behavior during a trip she made to London.
“As an architect, it is a totally different experience for me to use video images, not paper and a pen, to show my perspectives of urban space,” Lin said in a press release. “It’s also new for me to use this new medium, the Internet, to do so.”
Hung, who named her video Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant, said in the statement that the emergence of Internet media has profoundly changed how and why artists create works.
“They are now able to develop highly entertaining visual creations that can quickly capture Internet users’ attention,” she said.
Hung described the project, the first of its kind, as a combination of “tradition and innovation.”
YouTube Play juror and Japanese visual artist Takashi Murakami said in the statement that information technology had greatly reshaped art.
“In both the global art world and beyond, the speed at which information technology is developing is accelerating at an astounding rate,” he said. “These innovations have brought with them drastic changes in both the form and dissemination of artistic expression.”
The 20 winning videos will be announced on Oct. 21. Viewers can watch the shortlisted videos at www.youtube.com/Play.
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