Past Residents

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Past Resident
2022: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Artist

Yi Kuo

Yi Kuo is an interdisciplinary developer and media artist. His works are often a combination of different media, including virtual reality, multiplayer gaming, audio-visual performances, installations, and theater space. He builds system structures to connect layers of spaces and forms of bodies, and seeks dialectic perspective between mythological and technological narratives. Kuo is the co-Founder/Director of the new media art group NAXS Corp.

Yi Kuo has exhibited work at Ars Electronica Center, Linz; transmediale, Berlin; and Unsound Festival, Warsaw, among others.

Yi Kuo, AFTERLIFE網路來生：EV20F1, 2020, online performance presented at Unsound Festival, Kraków, dimensions variable.

Our body is inevitably dissolving into a new reality, mediated by screens, networks and algorithms. Memories, consciousness, and the "Truth" transforming in light-speed, as our ancient beliefs collapsed and drifting into the digital-vacuum. While the calling of Posthuman approached, Taipei-based newmedia art group NAXS turned to Kora - a pilgrimage in the Tibetan Buddhist - for guidance, seeking for an alternative narrative of digital-theatre-interfaces, and the possibilities of contemporary ritual, in between the informatic universe, the technical society, and the naked flesh of ours. 《Render Ghost》is a continuous evolving ritual-service-framework initiated since 2015, as well as an immersive-VR-theatre with no predetermined performers. Wearing dust-proof clothing and VR headsets, viewers immerse themselves into the virtual spectacles, gigantic soundscape and spatial installation with dense fog and laser. In the theatre, viewers wander around the edge between reality and virtuality experiencing the sensation of great falling, deformation, and transcendence. When the boundary becomes more and more blurred, a journey toward virtuality begins.

Yi Kuo, Render Ghost, 2015-2018, VR installation, dimensions variable.

Yi Kuo, Ghost Island, 2018-2020, VR Installation and live visual with Meuko! Meuko!.

A cyber geohistory study. Submerged into the abyss of the Internet, stratums of data-sendiments, analyze the layers of internet space in Geohistory methods, attempting to find the evidence of an emerging consciousness, deep under the ocean of collective desire.

Yi Kuo, XATA躰, 2019, VR and live audio-visual installation.

is a cross-media project initiated in 2018. With neural-network generated images of eyes as its symbolic core, claims itself to be a mythological computing device, navigating through the endless matrix of imaginations, emotions and history, in searching for a point-of-view of non-existence, in our life experiences between information and body, geopolitics and religions, technology and nature. Inheriting from the concepts and tech-stacks developed in the virtual-immersive-theater work , and online/offline audiovisual performance , The aims to continue this pursue, develop it's theoretical basis, by implanting a set of fictional/non-fictional researching methods, and expand its format a site-specific ritual experience/theater between physical and virtual space. Roots in personal experiences of the complex religions/politics scenario in East Asia, suggests a floating perspective, to reinvestigate the mythological nature of our technoscience society, optionally the evolutionary affinity between traditional religions and our posthuman future.

Yi Kuo, NONEYE, 2019-ongoing, online experience.

Residents from Taiwan

Feng-Yi Chu

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2024

Huang I-Hsiang

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2024

Hung-Yen Chang

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2023

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Austria

Past Resident
2022: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Artist

Lisa Rastl-Dorner

Lisa Rastl-Dorner’s artistic practice and photography work address questions of authorship and copyright, the role of photography as a medium of reproduction, and the relationship between original and copy.

Lisa Rastl-Dorner has exhibited work at Taikoo Place, Hong Kong; WIELS Center for Contemporary Art, Forest; and MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, among others.

Lisa Rastl-Dorner, Hommage to a (yellow) square, after Josef Albers, 2021, fine art print on Baryta, 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm) each.

Lisa Rastl-Dorner, Hommage to a (yellow) square, after Josef Albers, 2021, C-print, 19 × 27 in. (48.26 × 68.58 cm) each.

Lisa Rastl-Dorner, Failing the Original, 2018, fine art print on Bartya, 19 × 27 in. (48.26 × 68.58 cm).

Lisa Rastl-Dorner, Failing the Original, 2014, objects, photographs, dimensions variable.

Lisa Rastl-Dorner, Failing the Original, 2019, 7 × 9 in. (17.78 × 22.86 cm).

Residents from Austria

Marianne Vlaschits

Austria

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Studio #218

Ulrike Königshofer

Austria

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

2024

Irina Lotarevich

Austria

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

2024

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Hungary

Past Resident
2021: International Visegrad Fund

Artist

Tamás Páll

In his practice, Tamás Páll’s explores emergent world-systems, non-human technologies, performative spaces and experimental role-playing. Páll is interested in new forms of collective world-building and computational simulation as a prefigurative practice via the concept of “Xenorealit,” the emergent and temporary realities between fiction and primary reality.

Tamás Páll has exhibited work at panke.gallery, Berlin; MeetFactory, Prague; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others.