A team from Taiwan has been shortlisted in the London International Creative Competition’s (LICC) Create (art) category for their experimental sculpture titled Pump.
The annual international competition looks for “the world’s most fresh and progressive creative” talent, its Web site says.
The team, led by Cho Yen-ting (卓彥廷), an associate professor at National Cheng Kung University’s (NCKU) Institute of Creative Industries Design, has been searching for a connection between human and digital creativity, hoping to take digital art to a wider audience.
Photo courtesy of National Cheng Kung University via CNA
Pump was created using an advanced printing technique and is carved by computers. It explores the decomposition and recomposition of data through art.
The inspiration for Pump came from the human heart, which is the center of the circulatory system, pumping blood to vessels all over the body, just as the layered, concentric rings of the art piece draws people’s eyes toward its center, Cho said.
With vibrant colors and a circular structure, the patterns on Pump overlap and intertwine, creating a visual that is blurred and clear at the same time.
The team comprises people from different backgrounds, including Li Yu-ting (李昱廷), a student from NCKU’s Department of Architecture, and Li Cheng-lin (李承霖), a student from its Department of Industrial Design, the university said.
Their teamwork sparked creativity and they transcended traditional media, resulting in freer artistic expression that shone on the global stage, it said.
South Korean K-pop girl group Blackpink are to make Kaohsiung the first stop on their Asia tour when they perform at Kaohsiung National Stadium on Oct. 18 and 19, the event organizer said yesterday. The upcoming performances will also make Blackpink the first girl group ever to perform twice at the stadium. It will be the group’s third visit to Taiwan to stage a concert. The last time Blackpink held a concert in the city was in March 2023. Their first concert in Taiwan was on March 3, 2019, at NTSU Arena (Linkou Arena). The group’s 2022-2023 “Born Pink” tour set a
CPBL players, cheerleaders and officials pose at a news conference in Taipei yesterday announcing the upcoming All-Star Game. This year’s CPBL All-Star Weekend is to be held at the Taipei Dome on July 19 and 20.
The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld a lower court’s decision that ruled in favor of former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) regarding the legitimacy of her doctoral degree. The issue surrounding Tsai’s academic credentials was raised by former political talk show host Dennis Peng (彭文正) in a Facebook post in June 2019, when Tsai was seeking re-election. Peng has repeatedly accused Tsai of never completing her doctoral dissertation to get a doctoral degree in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1984. He subsequently filed a declaratory action charging that
The Hualien Branch of the High Court today sentenced the main suspect in the 2021 fatal derailment of the Taroko Express to 12 years and six months in jail in the second trial of the suspect for his role in Taiwan’s deadliest train crash. Lee Yi-hsiang (李義祥), the driver of a crane truck that fell onto the tracks and which the the Taiwan Railways Administration's (TRA) train crashed into in an accident that killed 49 people and injured 200, was sentenced to seven years and 10 months in the first trial by the Hualien District Court in 2022. Hoa Van Hao, a
RSS