am i just some blank face in
your head?
surely the neurons you hide in that
calcium encagement of yours
do not trouble you
in such a way
little mind-men working away with
their figurative scissors
snip snip snip
around the faces of those mentioned
in passing, those mentioned in tales
and fantasies, and those described like
vague clouds of smoke
snip snip snip
thousands more left like
me
some blank face in
your head

A poem written by,
O. Mukhtar O. Mukhlis
#theomarmukhtar
#blankface

2021 ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL Garden Taipei/ Formosa
2021 奧地利林茲電子藝術節台灣展區「台北/福爾摩沙花園：島嶼壯遊」
展區 ✨ 【動畫之旅 】(Animated Tour )

預告片來囉 ✨ https://youtu.be/6SSXdiKl2oM

Imagination is a superpower. When imaging ourselves in the world of animation, every one of us has become a superhero. In the Animated Tour, viewers can devote themselves to the characters via different programs, abstract or figurative in terms of visual style, to experience anxiety and frustration all the way to happiness and growth. Getting rid of this disappointing reality, viewers shall continue the “Taiwan Grand Tour” through their imagination. This program consists of four animations: "Go Go Giwas: Sowing Dream Seeds"(Directed by Vick Wang, Yi-Feng Kao), "My grandmother is an Egg"(Directed by Wu-Ching Chang),"Inside"(Directed by Yu-Ting Hsueh), and "The Wayward Kite"(Directed by Yu-Ting Hsueh). A time-limited experience and viewing of this program will be available, while giving viewers a chance to interact with the characters in the exhibitions via the AR interface.

想像力就是一種超能力，當我們能夠在想像自己置身於動畫世界之中，我們每個人就都成為了超人。而在「動畫之旅」 (Animated Tour)的展區中，觀眾在不同的類型作品中，無論是抽象或者具象的視覺風格，都能投入到角色中所感受到其中的不安與受挫，進而幸福與成長，擺脫現實世界的困頓，以想像力來持續「島嶼壯遊」 的旅程。這個展區將有四件台灣製作的動畫作品《吉娃斯愛科學特別篇：夢想的種子》：王世偉/高逸峰、《我的阿婆是一顆蛋》：張吾青、《蘊・孕》：連俊傑/李柏翰、《風箏》：薛佑廷。 本展區將提供限時體驗與觀看，並有機會在AR的介面中與各個劇中的角色互動。

💬線上展覽時間為2021年9月8日至12日！更多精彩內容直接進入官方網站🤩

👉🏻台北/福爾摩沙花園:島嶼壯遊 專區 http://garden2021.metarealitylab.com/

:::::::各展區預告片解鎖中:::::::

✔️【食壤計畫】 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl80hcdI_jY

✔️【沉浸之旅】https://youtu.be/6TvpTQIYWaw

✔️台北/福爾摩沙花園:島嶼壯遊預告片
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZLSEh_L14

#奧地利林茲電子藝術節
​#arselectronica21 #gardentaipeiformosa
#newdigitaldeal

🚩 New Media Artist Hsin-Chien Huang Leads "Garden Taipei/Formosa: Taiwan Grand Tour" with 22 Taiwan's VR and New Media Artworks to 2021 Ars Electronica Linz in Austria🇦🇹

2021 ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL Ars Electronica has chosen “A New Digital Deal” as its annual theme, centering around the social and cultural transformations under the influence of technology from different countries. Also, it pays attention to changes of “the New Normal” due to the pandemic.

Hsin-Chien Huang, this year’s curator of the “Garden Taipei/Formosa”, resonates the theme with the “Taiwan Grand Tour”, hoping to waken our desire and ability to move freely during the journey via different kinds of media, also make more people see the marvelous results and how hard Taiwan has devoted to technology, culture, tradition, and tradition via international digital platforms. The tour will have become a window between the world and Taiwan.

The scale of this year’s exhibitions has been brought up a notch. Not only did it carry on displaying the VR and AR productions from last year, but the curator Hsin-Chien Huang has collaborated with three other, Hsiao-Yue Tsao, Billy Chang, and Chung-Hsien Chen, to call out many VR directors, new media artists, start-up companies and government institutions to join the project. There are 22 magnificent programs in total, which will be shown in categories such as “Immersive Tour”, “Animated Tour”, “New Media Tour”, “Earth Tour” and “Action Tour” respectively.

“Immersive Tour”, as the first part of the “Taiwan Grand Tour”, viewers can wander among the mountains, oceans, and rivers in the digital world, even outer space! Six scenes inspired by unique Taiwanese landscapes with cultural and biological features will be shared with the audiences, such as “The Starry Sand Beach” (Directed by Hsin-Chien Huang and Nina Barbier), “Moondream Reality-Rebirth”(Directed by Chi-Yen Chiang, Ami Wu), the shuttle VR 360 stereo video of “TAIPOWER D/S ONE.” (Directed by Ghung-I Hung and Shih-Chou Wen), “Floating Childhoods” (Directed by Hakka Public Communication Foundation and Wen-Chieh Chang), “Blue Tears EP1” (Directed by Hsiao-Yue Tsao), and “Samsara” (Directed by Hsin-Chien Huang).

In the “Animated Tour”, viewers can devote themselves to the characters via different programs. Whether it is the abstract or figurative visual style, audiences can experience anxiety and frustration all the way to happiness and growth. Getting rid of this disappointing reality, viewers shall continue the “Taiwan Grand Tour” through their imagination. This program consists of four animations: "Go Go Giwas: Sowing Dream Seeds"(Directed by Vick Wang, Yi-Feng Kao), "My grandmother is an Egg"(Directed by Wu-Ching Chang),"Inside"(Directed by Yu-Ting Hsueh), and "The Wayward Kite"(Directed by Yu-Ting Hsueh).

In the “New Media Tour” program, nine brilliant pieces created by Taiwanese artists will be shared as the relay points for the “Taiwan Grand Tour.” They use video, sound, electronic music, installation, and various new media to explore different topics, such as family, memory, city, society, landscape, and environment. We firmly believe that digital tools can also capture the warmth and emotions in reality. This program consists of nine artworks: "Surrounding Spectrum"(Directed by Hsiu-Ming Wu), "Nanyang Express II : Eternal Wandering and Tropical Pursuing"(Directed by Yi-Chi Lin), "Wave Waves"(Directed by Sio-Pang Hong), "That ・ This"(Directed by Ching-Chuan Hu), "Signal"(Directed by Chin-Hsiang Hu), "Tower of Babel by the sea"(Directed by Wei-Chung Feng), "How to explain love to an iPhone"(Directed by Jie-Huai Yang), "U+617E_v2.∞"(Directed by Jia-Hua Zhan), and "Absence in Presence"(Directed by Ning Tsai).

In the program “Earth Tour”, viewers will participate in a performance art called “Taste Soil”, which intends to rethink the relationship between humans and land by means of “eating.” The program brings together international eminent chefs Andre Chiang, dancer Billy Chang, new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang and Wen-Chieh Chang, fusing Taiwan’s unique traditions and customs with cuisines and dance performances via VR experience. A feast to the eyes and tastebuds awaits.

Looking back at the present time, humans need to take more efficient scientific actions in the digital world to reduce the consumption and pressure of resources and the environment and cope with the impact in the post-pandemic times. Two important technology units in Taiwan make their debut in the “Action Tour”: Miniwiz Co., Ltd. and the Taipei Urban Intelligence Center. The former is devoted to the sustainable development of materials science with digital technology and design, while the latter is the integration of big data and streaming technology to create a new technical model of urban governance. Combing these two, an answer to developing a sustainable society with digital energy is born. During the tour, a new performance art project is inspired by the digital cross-field cooperation for the first time. The Taipei Urban Intelligence Center will join hands with new media artist Chin-Hsiang Hu and the founder of Inwheel Ghung-I Hung, to create a new media artwork “The Weight of Data” by integrating both virtual and physical materials from different domains and sharing data resources.

The brilliant curatorial concept and lineup of the Taiwan Grand Tour have attracted the interest of the officials of the festival and been in the limelight. Therefore, the festival has invited three creators behind the “Earth Tour”: Andre Chiang, Billy Chang, and Hsin-Chien Huang, to an online interview called “Highlight Channel” at 18:00 on September 1 (Taiwan Time). The link will be provided by the official later on. Moreover, Miniwiz Co., Ltd. and the Taipei Urban Intelligence Center are also invited to share their ideas and experiences in an online show called “Home Delivery.”

The theme of the Garden Taipei/ Formosa is presented in a diverse form of performances by combining different fields multiply. The audience can easily follow the step of the “Taiwan Grand Tour” to explore Taiwan’s magnificent local digital creativity and illustrate a new digital landscape unitedly that only belongs to Taiwan. The 2021 Ars Electronica online exhibition will be held from September 8 to 12, 2021. Click the link below to take a sneak peek of this year’s shows.

📍ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 🔗 https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/de/formosa-grand-tour/
📍ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL “Home Delivery” 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/c/arselectronica/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=5
📍 Garden Taipei/Formosa: Taiwan Grand Tour 🔗 http://garden2021.metarealitylab.com/

#奧地利林茲電子藝術節
​#arselectronica21 #gardentaipeiformosa

Filmed in 2017 - The fist music video in Kelabit language.

Watch the Official Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWGm-sUHxik

"Re Lekuah" is the first music video in the Kelabit language.
Director: Ashley Duong
Producers: Alena Murang and Ashley Duong
Featuring the track "Re Lekuah" by Alena Murang learnt from Tepu' Doo' Ayu and produced by Pepper Jam Productions.

Listen on iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, and Tidal.

Credits at the end of the video.

Kinuan pupuh tauh Kelabit — nuk ngilad, kinih, mey ngan anak tauh nuk riak neh

www.alenamurang.com
www.facebook.com/ashleyduongfilm




Every story is born of a place and of a people. To keep a story alive means to acknowledge the life of the place and people. The Kelabit people have a tradition of telling stories through song, the storyteller sitting for nights on the floor of the raised longhouse, singing an epic.

The last two generations have lived through rapid transitions: from practising headhunting, ceremonial tattooing and animal sacrifices, to embracing Christianity in the 1930s; from having zero electricity to 24-hour solar-powered energy. Parallel to this was the introduction of formal schooling, money and deforestation. Whilst the storytelling traditions could not carry speed with the vast changes, one thing remained constant for the Kelabit: hard work.

Re Lekuah is an old song rich with figurative meanings, many of which are lost and open to speculation. Literally though, the song gives insight to the hard work that young women had to do in the village, and perhaps a desire and longing for something more. Placed in an urban, contemporary setting, life isn’t much different.

Customarily, an elder would transmit the oral tradition to her children and grandchildren, but Alena’s grandmother didn’t live long enough to pass on her stories. Alena learnt this song from Tepu’ Do’o Ayu, asking her blessing to rearrange and to share the song outside the community - whatever it takes to make people listen, is the reply.

Re Lekuah, the music video, presents dualities: drawing parallels and contrasts across time (old versus young; past versus present) and space (rural versus urban).

Behind the scenes video of "As One - The series of figurative animal art: Orangutan -"

This was the first artwork of my new project Animal Series, which I painted an orangutan on the male model's chest.

Hope you guys enjoy the details of the painting and lifelike orangutan art!

Body paint : Amazing JIRO
Model : U Okazaki
Hair : Yui Amano
Photo : Youhei Kodama
Movie : art design eND [Shinsuke Kato]
Presented by Shanic Maiyel CO., LTD.

#bodypaint #painting #paint #orangutan #animals #animalportrait #animalkingdom #art #figurativeart #watercolor #illusionmakeup #creativemakeup #airbrush #dandelion #flowers #ボディペイント #ペイント #オランウータン #動物 #アート #たんぽぽ #綿毛 #ふわふわ #花 #kryolan #makeupforever #wolfefx #mehron #skinillustrator

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"Re Lekuah" is the first music video in the Kelabit language.
Director: Ashley Duong
Producers: Alena Murang and Ashley Duong
Featuring the track "Re Lekuah" by Alena Murang learnt from Tepu' Doo' Ayu and produced by Pepper Jam Productions.

Listen on iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, and Tidal.

Credits at the end of the video.

Kinuan pupuh tauh Kelabit — nuk ngilad, kinih, mey ngan anak tauh nuk riak neh

www.alenamurang.com
www.facebook.com/ashleyduongfilm

Every story is born of a place and of a people. To keep a story alive means to acknowledge the life of the place and people. The Kelabit people have a tradition of telling stories through song, the storyteller sitting for nights on the floor of the raised longhouse, singing an epic.

The last two generations have lived through rapid transitions: from practising headhunting, ceremonial tattooing and animal sacrifices, to embracing Christianity in the 1930s; from having zero electricity to 24-hour solar-powered energy. Parallel to this was the introduction of formal schooling, money and deforestation. Whilst the storytelling traditions could not carry speed with the vast changes, one thing remained constant for the Kelabit: hard work.

Re Lekuah is an old song rich with figurative meanings, many of which are lost and open to speculation. Literally though, the song gives insight to the hard work that young women had to do in the village, and perhaps a desire and longing for something more. Placed in an urban, contemporary setting, life isn’t much different.

Customarily, an elder would transmit the oral tradition to her children and grandchildren, but Alena’s grandmother didn’t live long enough to pass on her stories. Alena learnt this song from Tepu’ Do’o Ayu, asking her blessing to rearrange and to share the song outside the community - whatever it takes to make people listen, is the reply.

Re Lekuah, the music video, presents dualities: drawing parallels and contrasts across time (old versus young; past versus present) and space (rural versus urban).