Artists from Taiwan, Germany, Japan, Sweden and Spain working in interactive installation, sound and video art will show off their work as part of the Fourth Digital Arts Festival. This year’s theme, “Funky Light” (光怪), probes the nature of technology and its effect on civilization. The festival, which takes place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MOCA, Taipei) and the Digital Arts Center (台北數位藝術中心), is accompanied by a series of performances and an artist forum.
■ Digital Arts Center (台北數位藝術中心), 180 Fuhua Rd, Taipei City (台北市福華路180號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Tel: (02) 7736-0708; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MOCA, Taipei), 39 Changan W Rd, Taipei City (台北市長安西路39號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm.
Tel: (02) 2552-3721. On the Net: dac.tw/daf09
■ Begins Friday. Until Nov. 15
Taiwanese contemporary artist Chang Chih-Cheng (張志成) presents a new series of portraits and dream-inspired works in his solo exhibition Beyond Words (意外). Chang’s oil paintings of human figures on a featureless landscape are rendered in subdued hues that depict a lonely and desolate picture of human existence.
■ Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space (陳綾蕙當代空間) 2, Alley 24, Ln 300, Renai Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市仁愛路四段300巷25弄2號). Open Tuesdays to Fridays from 11am to 7pm.
Tel: (02) 2703-2277
■ Until Nov. 29
Norwegian ceramicist Ole Lislerud examines consumerism in Metaphorical Signs. Employing visual references to the marketplace and stock exchange, Lislerud’s series of ceramic tiles, porcelain panels and plaques employs markings, signs, calligraphy, photos and graffiti that are meant to symbolize the pressures of advertising and the assumption that the meaning of life is attained through the acquisition of cash and commodities.
■ Yingge Ceramics Museum (鶯歌陶瓷博物館), 200 Wenhua Rd, Yinge Township, Taipei County (台北縣鶯歌鎮文化路200號). Open Tuesdays to Fridays from 9:30am to 5pm, closes at 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Tel: (02) 8677-2727
■ Until Dec. 6
Taiwanese contemporary artist Chang Pei-chun (張培均) exposes his internal world in Inner Heart Memories (心象追憶). The series of abstract and expressionist oil paintings is a mixed bag of colorful shapes built up on the canvas, as though an array of disparate emotions and memories are competing for the viewer’s attention.
■ Dynasty Art Gallery (朝代藝術), 41 Leli Rd, Taipei City (台北市樂利路41號). For a viewing, call (02) 2377-0838
■ Until Nov. 17
Brushing aside realism as an artistic trope, Taiwanese artist Hung Yi-chen (洪藝真) offers an unconventional approach to painting in her solo exhibition at IT Park Gallery (伊通公園). Chen draws on the ideas of theorists such as Roland Barthes to focus the viewer’s attention on the process of creating a painting rather than the painting itself.
■ IT Park Gallery (伊通公園), 2F-3F, 41 Yitong St, Taipei City (台北市伊通街41號2-3樓). Open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 1pm to 10pm. Tel: (02) 2507-7243
■ Until Dec. 5
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