黃祥昀 Hsiang-Yun Huang

EMBODIED INTERFACE 

Hsiang-Yun Huang (X.Y. Huang) initiated the project with the support of National Culture and Arts Foundation. 

 EMBODIED INTERFACE  (E.I.) is a three-part project that articulates research, creation and discussion around network art through Asia, Latin America and Europe. 

E.I. has the multiple aim to review an earlier stage of the history of art developed with and by the influence of the advent of network technologies, but as well to feature contemporary artists whose practices explore different relationships between the physical body, the production and the consumption of network technologies. ​

“Net art is not a movement. It is more a transition, an ongoing evolution of the practice and reception of art, culture as well as science and academia, which was stimulated by the advent of new network technologies.” Nettitudes: Let’s Talk Net Art Josephine Bosma, 2011

​RESEARCH OF THE HISTORY OF NETWORK ART in the regions of Argentina, Slovenia and Taiwan, is the first stage of E.I.

Through talks with key artists from each region (Brian Mackern-Uruguay and Vuk Cosik-Slovenia) the project encompasses varied stories and experiences in relation to net.art which intend to transcend a general view of the expansion of the relationship between technology and art through collective networks both physically and virtually (internet-based).

CREATION OF ARTWORKS The second stage includes commissioned and existing artworks for online presentation by Thiago Hersan, Yuki Kobayashi and Ronald Bal. Through multiple disciplines and areas of research, these artists encounter in E.I. with different gestures that make visible the complex relationship between body-interface-device. Searching to transcend the binary approach of the digital/physical as well as the url/irl through theoretical research, artistic creation but as well through the working methodology, this project has been developed by practitioners which have a previous working relationship but have not met along the whole stage of the production.

COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION The presentation of the research and artworks plus a collective discussion by all the participants is the third stage of E.I. which will be presented in a public online event in January 2021. This moment will allow us to elaborate new links among the history of the beginning of net.art and contemporary artistic explorations of interfaces and devices. Issues of access and communitarianism around technology through the different regions will also be discussed. Besides, we aim to reflect with the artists about their experience of creating artworks that will have an online presence mainly.

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