{"id":14926,"date":"2023-03-17T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.laval-virtual.com\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2023-03-17T13:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:58:32","slug":"chia-chi-chiang-gender-body-digital-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.laval-virtual.com\/en\/chia-chi-chiang-gender-body-digital-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender and body at the heart of Chia-Chi Chiang’s artistic work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist-researcher Chia-Chi Chiang is interested in the representation of the human body. For several years, she has been conducting artistic experiments around our perception of eroticism and sexuality using new technologies. She exhibits her work Everything that has a form is unreal during the 2023 edition of the digital art festival Recto VRso<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you introduce yourself?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have a PhD in Digital Images from the INRév Laboratory, under the direction of Professor Chu-Yin Chen. I’m particularly interested in the representation of the human body through new technologies. Combining practice and theory of Chinese medicine, my research is about the artistic potential offered in the representations of blood vessels and networks. I am a former student of ENSBA (Atelier Guillaume Paris\/Jean-Luc Vilmouth) and I created a series of performances by staging my own body. My approach arouses questions of social structure and cultural phenomena<\/strong>. I passed the DNSAP (National Superior Diploma of Plastic Art) with the jury’s congratulations and the Multimedia Prize of the ENSBA foundation. To promote intercultural exchanges, I organized conferences and meet-ups to gather artists and researchers from Taiwan, China and Europe. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you choose to use technologies in your art?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What implications for human relations can result from a direct and free mode of communication between communities? What behaviours can we qualify as “sexual” or as an assault and a rape on social media? Can sexual activities be practice without any interaction than voice communication by phone? I asked myself those questions for the first time when my parents showed me an American erotic advertisement in 2005. It was a time when online discussion groups like Yahoo, MSN and Skype were very popular. The Buzz me!<\/em> project was the starting point of a seduction and provocation game.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2007, I conducted this artistic experience by dressing up as an erotic online service provider to check if someone would actually call me. On the erotic posters putting me in the scene and published in the public space, the phone number was the one of a real professional. However, I used a real Skype account to communicate with some of the clients and I even received erotic calls from the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You already exhibited at Recto VRso. What does the festival mean to you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Art is a lifestyle. It’s a pleasure to leave the artworks exhibited as an art, and sharing and participation are a true delight. It’s there that I hope to touch the life of those who enjoy art<\/strong> or those who are curious to know more.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you describe the artwork you will exhibit at Recto VRso 2023?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are two sculptures: The sound of the two microphones shows a projection of text (the action of the projection is like rain, it will disappear on the bowl, then the projected text will disappear; the calligraphy written on the board will disappear when the water evaporates). <\/span>The meaning of <\/span>Everything that has a form is unreal <\/span><\/i>does not mean something abstract and ambiguous, rather it is all material objects or concrete and simple facts When we experience something through our senses, all phenomena such as sound, smell, color and temperature can only be said to exist because that we have seen and heard them; more importantly, their existence depends on our perception and awareness. There is no absolute truth for nature itself. Nature changes every moment; “this” is changing constantly in “that”.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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