Conversation with Tao Ya-Lun and Mia Yingxing Liu
Our featured artist from Taiwan, Tao Ya-Lun, will be joined by the curator, Mia Yinxing Liu, who will talk about the different components of the exhibition Ubiquitous Ghosts, involving the use of VR headsets and how the exhibition fits within his larger body of work.
Free to the public (registration is not required)
About the Artist
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Tao Ya-Lun (b. 1966, Taipei, Taiwan) is a pioneering figure in the Taiwanese new media art scene whose practice investigates the intersections of technology, power, and human consciousness through virtual reality, mechanical installations, and live video systems. Drawing from critical theorists such as Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Jean Baudrillard, Tao’s immersive installations examine how power operates through both visible and invisible means, transforming passive observation into visceral, embodied experience. His contributions have been recognized with numerous prestigious honours, including the International Digital Festival of Contemporary New Media Art (MADATAC) in Madrid, the Taipei Arts Award, and the Contemporary Painting Creation Prize—of which he is the youngest recipient. A grantee of the
Taiwan Fellowship Program by the Asian Cultural Council (Rockefeller Brothers Fund), Tao has undertaken residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, and 1a Space in Hong Kong. His work has been presented in major solo exhibitions at distinguished institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; OK Zentrum in Linz, Austria; Media Lab Prado in Madrid; and the Hong Kong Arts Center.
About the Curator
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Mia Yinxing Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. She writes about history and criticism of photography, cinema, and media and their intersections in modern art.
