Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Comments on the Finalist

It pioneers Yuan's other excellent work last year Urban Disqualified in concept and develops new possibilities out of traditional medium techniques.

It fascinatingly renders us an impressive interface of viewing the familiar city from the category of reasoning rather than that of senses, and particularly derives new forms of art from its use of new technology and such a new view of where we are.

Artwork Introduction

Goang-Ming Yuan habitually utilizes the creative motif of people with the exhibition on this occasion focusing on "Disqualification". The term "lost" (disqualified) or "dropped frame" is a technical film editing term. When editing images from a film, the video has first to be transferred from a camera to a computer. During this process if the capability of the computer is poor or the hard drive is insufficiently quick, then it’s possible for frame to be "dropped". If there are 30 frames a second and of these several are "dropped" then the phenomenon delays or slows down the playing of the piece, making it seem paused and irregular. In this sense, other than meaning "loss of qualification" the term "disqualified" can also be understood in the technical sense above as "an incomplete representation of original materials".

About the Artist

Born in 1965, graduated from National Institute of the Arts, and got his diploma in Media Arts in Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany. He had been working in art for more than 20 years, and also been invited to some important exhibitions all over the world, such as the International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Seoul international media art biennale, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico, ect. His awards honor include Hsiung Shih New Promising Artists, Excellent Culture Videotape, Excellent Experimental Videotape, and Art future 2000 Jury Prize. Impoirtant works: Out of Position , The Reason for Insomnia, Human Disqualified