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5TH FINALISTS – RIAR RIZALDI (KOR)

THE 5
TH
VH AWARD
FINALISTS

  • FINALIST
    RIAR RIZALDI 리아 리잘디 (1990년생, 반둥)

    리아 리잘디(Riar Rizaldi)는 반둥 출신의 아티스트이자 영화감독이다. 그의 작품 <Fossilis>는 지구상에서 버려지는 전자제품의 대부분이 쓰레기로 묻히는 21세기 아시아에서 전자 폐기물의 복잡성에 대해 말하는 몽상적이고 환상적인 공상과학 영화이자 에세이 영화이며, 기술 유산의 지옥에 대한 이야기이다. 이 작품은 폐기물로 제작된 실사 세트, 버려진 프로젝트에서 수집된 3D 에셋과 환경, 그리고 개인 데이터셋에서 사용하지 않은 이미지로부터 생성된 AI 이미지가 포함되어 있다. 작품은 전자 폐기물에 대한 내러티브이자 재현일 뿐만 아니라, 디지털 및 물리적 폐기물을 예술적 실천 수단으로 활용하는 영화 제작 과정 자체이기도 하다.

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제5회 VH 어워드 시상식

JURY

  • 아론 시토 (Aaron Seeto)

    Director, Museum MACAN
    인도네시아 현대 미술관 디렉터

    아론 시토는 인도네시아 현대 미술관의 디렉터로서 현대 미술 발전을 도모하는 다양한 작업에 참여했으며, 아태지역 아티스트들의 주요 전시를 기획했다.

    호주 GOMA 현대미술관 에서 아태평양 미술 큐레이터 매니저를 역임하고, 2015년 <제8회 아태평양 현대미술 트리엔날레>(APT8) 큐레이터 팀을 이끌었다. 이전 8년 동안, 시드니의 4A 아시아 현대미술센터의 디렉터직을 역임했다.

  • 마틴 혼직 (Martin Honzik)

    CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer), Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria
    아르스 일렉트로니카 린츠 CCO 및 아르스 일렉트로니카 페스티벌, 쁘리 공모전, 전시부문 매니징 디렉터

    마틴 혼직은 작가로 활동하면서 아르스 일렉트로니카 린츠의 수석 큐레이터와 아르스 일렉트로니카 페스티벌, 쁘리, 익스포트의 매니징 디렉터를 겸임 중이다. Linz Art University에서 시각실험예술학과를 전공했고 동대학원과 ICCM Salzburg에서 culture & media management 석사과정을 졸업했다. 2001년부터 2005년까지 Ars Electronica Future Lab에서 전시 기획, 미술 건축, 인터페이스 디자인, 행사 및 프로젝트 디자인 등의 업무를 맡았다. 2006년부터는 센터 내 페스티벌, 쁘리 공모전, 전시회 부서 및 익스포트와 그 외에 국제 프로젝트를 수행해 왔다. 2021년부터는 아르르 일렉트로니카 린츠의 CCO (Chief Curatorial Officer)를 역임 중이다.

  • 로더릭 슈락 (Roderick Schrock)

    Curator, Executive Director of Eyebeam
    큐레이터 겸 Eyebeam 디렉터

    로드릭 슈락은 아트 오거나이저이자 큐레이터이다. 비영리 리더로서, 그는 제도적 역량을 구축하는 것을 전문으로 하며, 사회에서 작가들의 작품을 높이는 프로그램을 구상하고 실행한다. 아이빔(Eyebeam)의 이그제큐티브 디렉터로서 그는 새로운 기술과 사회 관계를 재조정하는 것에 집중한다. 또한 그는 작가, 기술자, 그리고 사상가들과의 대화를 특징으로 하는 팟캐스트 <인포머>(Informer)의 진행자로도 활동 중이다.

    그는 일본에서 생활하고 일하며 네덜란드에서 공부를 계속하는 등 예술 분야에서 활발한 활동을 해왔다. 그는 선집, 정기간행불, 기타 출판물을 위해 광범위하게 집필했다. 디지털과 사운드 아티스트로서, 슈록은 Meet the Composer, American Music Center, Netherlands America Foundation, Ostrava New Music Days 등으로부터 의뢰를 받아 왔다. 그는 오클랜드에 있는 Mills College에서 MFA를 받았다.

    암스테르담 스타임(STEIM), 캘리포니아 예술대, 그리고 뉴욕대 ITP 교수직을 역임하였으며 현재는 스쿨 오브 비주얼 아트(SVA) Curatorial Practice 석사과정 교수로 재직하고 있다. 네덜란드 아메리카 재단 문화 위원회 회원이자, 아트+페미니즘 창립 멤버이다. 그는 정기적으로 국내 및 국제 아트 어워드의 심사위원으로 활동 중이다.

  • 이숙경 (Sook-Kyung Lee)

    Director, The Whitworth, University of Manchester
    맨체스터 대학교 휘트워스 아트 갤러리 디렉터

    이숙경 박사는 맨체스터 대학교 휘트워스 아트 갤러리의 디렉터이다. 2019년, 루돌프 프릴링과 테이트 모던의 <백남준 전>을 공동 기획했고 순회 전시회가 유럽, 미주, 아시아에서 2022년 초까지 진행했다. 테이트 모던에서 기획한 다수의 소장품 전시로는 <미술로 본 한 해: 호주 1992> (2021-22), <캠프: 걸프에서 걸프로 또 걸프로> (2019-20), <샤오 루와 니키 드 생팔> (2018-19) 등이 있다. 테이트 리버풀의 큐레이터로 활동하는 동안 <더크 에이트킨: 원천'과 ‘분기점> (리버풀 비엔날레 2012-13) 등 많은 전시를 기획했다.

    이숙경 박사는 2019년부터 국제미술 수석큐레이터로 ‘현대 테이트 리서치 센터: 트랜스내셔널’을 이끌었으며, 2023년 제14회 광주 비엔날레의 디렉터로 역임했다. 2015년 제56회 베니스 비엔날레 한국관 커미셔너와 큐레이터를 역임했다. 그 밖에도 다수의 국제 학술행사를 기획했으며, 주관 행사로는 <알렉산드리아에서 도쿄까지: 미술, 식민주의, 엉킨 역사들> (모리미술관 공동 주관, 2020), <연대의 축: 랜드마크, 플랫폼, 미래들> (테이트 모던, 2019), <분열된 영토들: 1989년 이후의 아시아 미술> (한국 국립현대미술관, 2017) 등이 있다. 현대미술에 대한 저술과 강연 분야에서도 폭넓게 활동하여, <백남준> (루돌프 프릴링 공저, 전시 도록, 2019), <축지법과 비행술: 문경원 & 전준호> (베니스 비엔날레 한국관 전시 도록, 2015) 등의 글을 통해서도 현대미술과 대중의 소통에 중요한 역할을 하고 있다.

  • 유키코 시카타 (Yukiko Shikata)

    Curator and Critic based in Tokyo
    큐레이터 및 비평가

    일본 국제 미술 비평가 협회(AICA: International Association of Art Critics) 회장. Forest for Dialogue and Creativity의 디렉터. Tama Art University 및 Tokyo Zokei University의 객원교수이자 Musashino Art University, Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Kokugakuin University 대학원 강사로 재직 중이다.

    시카타의 활동은 정보의 흐름에 초점을 맞추어 분야를 넘나든다. 이와 병행하여 Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001)와 Mori Art Museum (2002-04)의 큐레이터, NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-10)의 수석 큐레이터를 역임했으며, 독립적인 큐레이터로서는 많은 실험적인 전시와 프로젝트를 실현했다.

    최근 활동으로는 어소시에이트 큐레이터로 참여한 <SIAF 2014>, 큐레이터로 참여한 <KENPOUK ART 2016> 등이 있다. 2020년에는 AICA Japan 심포지엄의 회장을 역임, MMFS 2020의 디렉터, C-Lab Taipei의 Forking PiraGene의 공동 큐레이터로 활동했으며, 2021년에는 자본으로서의 정보 포럼 참여, 현재 이탈리아 Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria에서 진행중인 <EIR (Energies in the Rural)>의 공동 큐레이터, Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human 등을 포함한 다양한 활동을 했다. 많은 국제 대회의 심사위원으로도 활동했으며, 많은 출판물의 공동 저자이다.






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5TH FINALISTS – ZIKE HE (KOR)

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TH
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FINALISTS

  • FINALIST
    ZIKE HE 지크 허 (1990년생, 구이양)

    지크 허(Zike He)는 중국 구이양 출신의 미디어 아티스트로, 최근 프로젝트를 통해 디지털 공간과 머신러닝, 인프라와 딥 타임에 대한 연구와 그들이 일상에서 발현되는 형태를 보여준다. <Random Access>는 어떠한 임의의 인터넷상 주소가 위치에 상관없이 동일한 시간에 접근할 수 있는 데이터(RAM)의 읽기와 쓰기 상태임을 뜻한다. 이는 디지털 기술이 깊게 자리잡은 시대에 우리가 기억을 어떻게 처리하는지에 대한 방식을 보여주기도 한다. 클라우드 세계(Cloud World)에서의 경험에 대한 추론적 가설을 다루는 이 작품은 아시아 최초의 아이클라우드(iCloud) 데이터 센터와 직경 500미터 구면 전파망원경 FAST 등 빅데이터 인프라가 위치한 산악지대의 도시인 구이양을 배경으로 한다. 도시의 중앙 데이터 센터에서 예기치 않게 충돌이 발생하고 재부팅 된지 이틀 후 벌어지는 픽션이다.

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제5회 VH 어워드 시상식

JURY

  • 아론 시토 (Aaron Seeto)

    Director, Museum MACAN
    인도네시아 현대 미술관 디렉터

    아론 시토는 인도네시아 현대 미술관의 디렉터로서 현대 미술 발전을 도모하는 다양한 작업에 참여했으며, 아태지역 아티스트들의 주요 전시를 기획했다.

    호주 GOMA 현대미술관 에서 아태평양 미술 큐레이터 매니저를 역임하고, 2015년 <제8회 아태평양 현대미술 트리엔날레>(APT8) 큐레이터 팀을 이끌었다. 이전 8년 동안, 시드니의 4A 아시아 현대미술센터의 디렉터직을 역임했다.

  • 마틴 혼직 (Martin Honzik)

    CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer), Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria
    아르스 일렉트로니카 린츠 CCO 및 아르스 일렉트로니카 페스티벌, 쁘리 공모전, 전시부문 매니징 디렉터

    마틴 혼직은 작가로 활동하면서 아르스 일렉트로니카 린츠의 수석 큐레이터와 아르스 일렉트로니카 페스티벌, 쁘리, 익스포트의 매니징 디렉터를 겸임 중이다. Linz Art University에서 시각실험예술학과를 전공했고 동대학원과 ICCM Salzburg에서 culture & media management 석사과정을 졸업했다. 2001년부터 2005년까지 Ars Electronica Future Lab에서 전시 기획, 미술 건축, 인터페이스 디자인, 행사 및 프로젝트 디자인 등의 업무를 맡았다. 2006년부터는 센터 내 페스티벌, 쁘리 공모전, 전시회 부서 및 익스포트와 그 외에 국제 프로젝트를 수행해 왔다. 2021년부터는 아르르 일렉트로니카 린츠의 CCO (Chief Curatorial Officer)를 역임 중이다.

  • 로더릭 슈락 (Roderick Schrock)

    Curator, Executive Director of Eyebeam
    큐레이터 겸 Eyebeam 디렉터

    로드릭 슈락은 아트 오거나이저이자 큐레이터이다. 비영리 리더로서, 그는 제도적 역량을 구축하는 것을 전문으로 하며, 사회에서 작가들의 작품을 높이는 프로그램을 구상하고 실행한다. 아이빔(Eyebeam)의 이그제큐티브 디렉터로서 그는 새로운 기술과 사회 관계를 재조정하는 것에 집중한다. 또한 그는 작가, 기술자, 그리고 사상가들과의 대화를 특징으로 하는 팟캐스트 <인포머>(Informer)의 진행자로도 활동 중이다.

    그는 일본에서 생활하고 일하며 네덜란드에서 공부를 계속하는 등 예술 분야에서 활발한 활동을 해왔다. 그는 선집, 정기간행불, 기타 출판물을 위해 광범위하게 집필했다. 디지털과 사운드 아티스트로서, 슈록은 Meet the Composer, American Music Center, Netherlands America Foundation, Ostrava New Music Days 등으로부터 의뢰를 받아 왔다. 그는 오클랜드에 있는 Mills College에서 MFA를 받았다.

    암스테르담 스타임(STEIM), 캘리포니아 예술대, 그리고 뉴욕대 ITP 교수직을 역임하였으며 현재는 스쿨 오브 비주얼 아트(SVA) Curatorial Practice 석사과정 교수로 재직하고 있다. 네덜란드 아메리카 재단 문화 위원회 회원이자, 아트+페미니즘 창립 멤버이다. 그는 정기적으로 국내 및 국제 아트 어워드의 심사위원으로 활동 중이다.

  • 이숙경 (Sook-Kyung Lee)

    Director, The Whitworth, University of Manchester
    맨체스터 대학교 휘트워스 아트 갤러리 디렉터

    이숙경 박사는 맨체스터 대학교 휘트워스 아트 갤러리의 디렉터이다. 2019년, 루돌프 프릴링과 테이트 모던의 <백남준 전>을 공동 기획했고 순회 전시회가 유럽, 미주, 아시아에서 2022년 초까지 진행했다. 테이트 모던에서 기획한 다수의 소장품 전시로는 <미술로 본 한 해: 호주 1992> (2021-22), <캠프: 걸프에서 걸프로 또 걸프로> (2019-20), <샤오 루와 니키 드 생팔> (2018-19) 등이 있다. 테이트 리버풀의 큐레이터로 활동하는 동안 <더크 에이트킨: 원천'과 ‘분기점> (리버풀 비엔날레 2012-13) 등 많은 전시를 기획했다.

    이숙경 박사는 2019년부터 국제미술 수석큐레이터로 ‘현대 테이트 리서치 센터: 트랜스내셔널’을 이끌었으며, 2023년 제14회 광주 비엔날레의 디렉터로 역임했다. 2015년 제56회 베니스 비엔날레 한국관 커미셔너와 큐레이터를 역임했다. 그 밖에도 다수의 국제 학술행사를 기획했으며, 주관 행사로는 <알렉산드리아에서 도쿄까지: 미술, 식민주의, 엉킨 역사들> (모리미술관 공동 주관, 2020), <연대의 축: 랜드마크, 플랫폼, 미래들> (테이트 모던, 2019), <분열된 영토들: 1989년 이후의 아시아 미술> (한국 국립현대미술관, 2017) 등이 있다. 현대미술에 대한 저술과 강연 분야에서도 폭넓게 활동하여, <백남준> (루돌프 프릴링 공저, 전시 도록, 2019), <축지법과 비행술: 문경원 & 전준호> (베니스 비엔날레 한국관 전시 도록, 2015) 등의 글을 통해서도 현대미술과 대중의 소통에 중요한 역할을 하고 있다.

  • 유키코 시카타 (Yukiko Shikata)

    Curator and Critic based in Tokyo
    큐레이터 및 비평가

    일본 국제 미술 비평가 협회(AICA: International Association of Art Critics) 회장. Forest for Dialogue and Creativity의 디렉터. Tama Art University 및 Tokyo Zokei University의 객원교수이자 Musashino Art University, Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Kokugakuin University 대학원 강사로 재직 중이다.

    시카타의 활동은 정보의 흐름에 초점을 맞추어 분야를 넘나든다. 이와 병행하여 Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001)와 Mori Art Museum (2002-04)의 큐레이터, NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-10)의 수석 큐레이터를 역임했으며, 독립적인 큐레이터로서는 많은 실험적인 전시와 프로젝트를 실현했다.

    최근 활동으로는 어소시에이트 큐레이터로 참여한 <SIAF 2014>, 큐레이터로 참여한 <KENPOUK ART 2016> 등이 있다. 2020년에는 AICA Japan 심포지엄의 회장을 역임, MMFS 2020의 디렉터, C-Lab Taipei의 Forking PiraGene의 공동 큐레이터로 활동했으며, 2021년에는 자본으로서의 정보 포럼 참여, 현재 이탈리아 Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria에서 진행중인 <EIR (Energies in the Rural)>의 공동 큐레이터, Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human 등을 포함한 다양한 활동을 했다. 많은 국제 대회의 심사위원으로도 활동했으며, 많은 출판물의 공동 저자이다.






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5TH FINALISTS – SUBASH THEBE LIMBU (KOR)

THE 5
TH
VH AWARD
FINALISTS

  • GRAND PRIX
    SUBASH THEBE LIMBU 수바시 테베 림부 (1981년생, 다란

    수바시 테베 림부(Subash Thebe Limbu)는 네팔 동부에 위치한 약퉁 림부족 아티스트로 사운드, 영화, 음악, 퍼포먼스, 회화 및 팟캐스트를 활용해 작업한다. <Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous>는 원주민의 행동과 존재가 시공간의 연속성에 녹아들어가는 미래를 보여준다. 매우 다른 시간대를 살아가는 두 원주민-18세기 약퉁 전사와 먼 미래의 우주비행사 또는 시간여행자-사이의 대화를 통해, 시공간의 연속성에 존재하는 우리의 잠재적 역할을 탐구하게 하며, 향후 추구해야 할 가능성 있는 미래를 찾는 데 주목하고, 동시에 식민주의에 대항하며 갈등을 극복할 것을 상기시킨다. 이 작품은 시간이란 고정된 것이 아닌 가변적이고 직조 가능한 존재임을 보여주며, 우리가 어떻게 미래를 엮어 나갈지에 대한 질문을 던진다.

SCREENING EVENT


Ars Electronica Festival


The ELEKTRA Virtual Museum (EVM)


현대자동차그룹 비전홀


제5회 VH 어워드 시상식

JURY

  • 아론 시토 (Aaron Seeto)

    Director, Museum MACAN
    인도네시아 현대 미술관 디렉터

    아론 시토는 인도네시아 현대 미술관의 디렉터로서 현대 미술 발전을 도모하는 다양한 작업에 참여했으며, 아태지역 아티스트들의 주요 전시를 기획했다.

    호주 GOMA 현대미술관 에서 아태평양 미술 큐레이터 매니저를 역임하고, 2015년 <제8회 아태평양 현대미술 트리엔날레>(APT8) 큐레이터 팀을 이끌었다. 이전 8년 동안, 시드니의 4A 아시아 현대미술센터의 디렉터직을 역임했다.

  • 마틴 혼직 (Martin Honzik)

    CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer), Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria
    아르스 일렉트로니카 린츠 CCO 및 아르스 일렉트로니카 페스티벌, 쁘리 공모전, 전시부문 매니징 디렉터

    마틴 혼직은 작가로 활동하면서 아르스 일렉트로니카 린츠의 수석 큐레이터와 아르스 일렉트로니카 페스티벌, 쁘리, 익스포트의 매니징 디렉터를 겸임 중이다. Linz Art University에서 시각실험예술학과를 전공했고 동대학원과 ICCM Salzburg에서 culture & media management 석사과정을 졸업했다. 2001년부터 2005년까지 Ars Electronica Future Lab에서 전시 기획, 미술 건축, 인터페이스 디자인, 행사 및 프로젝트 디자인 등의 업무를 맡았다. 2006년부터는 센터 내 페스티벌, 쁘리 공모전, 전시회 부서 및 익스포트와 그 외에 국제 프로젝트를 수행해 왔다. 2021년부터는 아르르 일렉트로니카 린츠의 CCO (Chief Curatorial Officer)를 역임 중이다.

  • 로더릭 슈락 (Roderick Schrock)

    Curator, Executive Director of Eyebeam
    큐레이터 겸 Eyebeam 디렉터

    로드릭 슈락은 아트 오거나이저이자 큐레이터이다. 비영리 리더로서, 그는 제도적 역량을 구축하는 것을 전문으로 하며, 사회에서 작가들의 작품을 높이는 프로그램을 구상하고 실행한다. 아이빔(Eyebeam)의 이그제큐티브 디렉터로서 그는 새로운 기술과 사회 관계를 재조정하는 것에 집중한다. 또한 그는 작가, 기술자, 그리고 사상가들과의 대화를 특징으로 하는 팟캐스트 <인포머>(Informer)의 진행자로도 활동 중이다.

    그는 일본에서 생활하고 일하며 네덜란드에서 공부를 계속하는 등 예술 분야에서 활발한 활동을 해왔다. 그는 선집, 정기간행불, 기타 출판물을 위해 광범위하게 집필했다. 디지털과 사운드 아티스트로서, 슈록은 Meet the Composer, American Music Center, Netherlands America Foundation, Ostrava New Music Days 등으로부터 의뢰를 받아 왔다. 그는 오클랜드에 있는 Mills College에서 MFA를 받았다.

    암스테르담 스타임(STEIM), 캘리포니아 예술대, 그리고 뉴욕대 ITP 교수직을 역임하였으며 현재는 스쿨 오브 비주얼 아트(SVA) Curatorial Practice 석사과정 교수로 재직하고 있다. 네덜란드 아메리카 재단 문화 위원회 회원이자, 아트+페미니즘 창립 멤버이다. 그는 정기적으로 국내 및 국제 아트 어워드의 심사위원으로 활동 중이다.

  • 이숙경 (Sook-Kyung Lee)

    Director, The Whitworth, University of Manchester
    맨체스터 대학교 휘트워스 아트 갤러리 디렉터

    이숙경 박사는 맨체스터 대학교 휘트워스 아트 갤러리의 디렉터이다. 2019년, 루돌프 프릴링과 테이트 모던의 <백남준 전>을 공동 기획했고 순회 전시회가 유럽, 미주, 아시아에서 2022년 초까지 진행했다. 테이트 모던에서 기획한 다수의 소장품 전시로는 <미술로 본 한 해: 호주 1992> (2021-22), <캠프: 걸프에서 걸프로 또 걸프로> (2019-20), <샤오 루와 니키 드 생팔> (2018-19) 등이 있다. 테이트 리버풀의 큐레이터로 활동하는 동안 <더크 에이트킨: 원천'과 ‘분기점> (리버풀 비엔날레 2012-13) 등 많은 전시를 기획했다.

    이숙경 박사는 2019년부터 국제미술 수석큐레이터로 ‘현대 테이트 리서치 센터: 트랜스내셔널’을 이끌었으며, 2023년 제14회 광주 비엔날레의 디렉터로 역임했다. 2015년 제56회 베니스 비엔날레 한국관 커미셔너와 큐레이터를 역임했다. 그 밖에도 다수의 국제 학술행사를 기획했으며, 주관 행사로는 <알렉산드리아에서 도쿄까지: 미술, 식민주의, 엉킨 역사들> (모리미술관 공동 주관, 2020), <연대의 축: 랜드마크, 플랫폼, 미래들> (테이트 모던, 2019), <분열된 영토들: 1989년 이후의 아시아 미술> (한국 국립현대미술관, 2017) 등이 있다. 현대미술에 대한 저술과 강연 분야에서도 폭넓게 활동하여, <백남준> (루돌프 프릴링 공저, 전시 도록, 2019), <축지법과 비행술: 문경원 & 전준호> (베니스 비엔날레 한국관 전시 도록, 2015) 등의 글을 통해서도 현대미술과 대중의 소통에 중요한 역할을 하고 있다.

  • 유키코 시카타 (Yukiko Shikata)

    Curator and Critic based in Tokyo
    큐레이터 및 비평가

    일본 국제 미술 비평가 협회(AICA: International Association of Art Critics) 회장. Forest for Dialogue and Creativity의 디렉터. Tama Art University 및 Tokyo Zokei University의 객원교수이자 Musashino Art University, Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Kokugakuin University 대학원 강사로 재직 중이다.

    시카타의 활동은 정보의 흐름에 초점을 맞추어 분야를 넘나든다. 이와 병행하여 Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001)와 Mori Art Museum (2002-04)의 큐레이터, NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-10)의 수석 큐레이터를 역임했으며, 독립적인 큐레이터로서는 많은 실험적인 전시와 프로젝트를 실현했다.

    최근 활동으로는 어소시에이트 큐레이터로 참여한 <SIAF 2014>, 큐레이터로 참여한 <KENPOUK ART 2016> 등이 있다. 2020년에는 AICA Japan 심포지엄의 회장을 역임, MMFS 2020의 디렉터, C-Lab Taipei의 Forking PiraGene의 공동 큐레이터로 활동했으며, 2021년에는 자본으로서의 정보 포럼 참여, 현재 이탈리아 Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria에서 진행중인 <EIR (Energies in the Rural)>의 공동 큐레이터, Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human 등을 포함한 다양한 활동을 했다. 많은 국제 대회의 심사위원으로도 활동했으며, 많은 출판물의 공동 저자이다.






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5TH FINALISTS – zzyw (ENG)

THE 5
TH
VH AWARD
FINALISTS

  • FINALIST
    zzyw

    zzyw is an art and research collective formed by Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi in New York in 2017. It produces software applications, simulations and text as instruments to examine the cultural, political and educational imprints of computation.
    Other Spring critically investigates the societal implications of computational mediation, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI). The project explores the potential of “heretic computing” (Alexander R. Galloway, 2020) to challenge the monolithic idea of efficiency and precision that characterizes our contemporary information society. Set in a speculative future where an all-seeing, algorithm-driven network UNO (Universal Network Observer) dominates, Other Spring reflects on the urgency of privacy, agency, and individuality in our increasingly interconnected world, encouraging dialogue for a more humane relationship with technology.

SCREENING EVENT


Ars Electronica Festival


The ELEKTRA Virtual Museum (EVM)


Hyundai Motor Group Vision Hall


The 5th VH AWARD Virtual Ceremony

JURY

  • Aaron Seeto

    Director, Museum MACAN

    Aaron Seeto is the Director of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN). He has experience with working to advance the goals of contemporary arts organizations and curating significant exhibitions for artists from Asia to Pacific regions.

    Seeto was formerly a Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art, at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia where he led the curatorial team at the eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) in 2015. For eight years prior, he was the Director of Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

  • Martin Honzik

    CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer) Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria

    Martin Honzik is an artist CCO of Ars Electronica Linz, and Managing Director of the Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Export. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). Besides being independent Artist in several art projects, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab as a researcher, in 2001, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center and Ars Electronica Export. He has been curating a considerable amount of international Exhibitions in the context of Art, Science and Technology. Since 2021 he became CCO (Chief-Curatorial-Officer) of Ars Electronica Linz.

  • Roderick Schrock

    Curator, Executive Director of Eyebeam

    Roderick Schrock is an arts organizer and curator. As a non-profit leader, he specializes in building institutional capacity and conceives and implements programs that elevate artists’ works in society. As the executive director of Eyebeam, he guides its focus to realign societal relationships with emergent technologies. Additionally, he is the host of Informer, a podcast featuring conversations with artists, technologists, and thinkers.

    He has been an active practitioner in the arts, living and working in Japan and continuing studies in the Netherlands. He has written extensively for anthologies, periodicals, and other publications. As a digital and sound artist, Schrock has been commissioned by Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, The Netherlands America Foundation, and Ostrava New Music Days, among others. He received an MFA from Mills College in Oakland.

    He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), California College of the Arts, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, and was a founding board member of Art+Feminism. He regularly juries and nominates for national and international art awards.

  • SOOK-KYUNG LEE

    Director, The Whitworth, University of Manchester

    Lee is a director of the Whitworth at The University of Manchester. She curated Nam June Paik at Tate Modern in 2019 with Rudolf Frieling, which was on tour to institutions in Europe, USA, and Asia until early 2022. She has also curated several collection exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, including A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-23), CAMP: From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (2019-20) and Xiao Lu and Niki de Saint Phalle (2018-19). Lee was previously Exhibitions & Displays Curator at Tate Liverpool and curated a number of exhibitions and collection displays including Doug Aitken: The Source and Thresholds (2012-13, as part of Liverpool Biennial).

    Lee was a Senior Curator of International Art. Since 2019 she has led the ‘Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’ and the Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale in 2023. She also served as the Commissioner and Curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Lee has convened and participated in several international symposiums and conferences at the Tate and internationally, including From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories (Digital conference with Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2020), Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures (Tate Modern, 2019), and Territories Disrupted: Asian Art after 1989 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, 2017). She has also written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and her publications include Nam June Paik (with Rudolf Frieling, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing, 2019) and MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho (exhibition catalogue, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015).

  • Yukiko Shikata

    Curator/critic based in Tokyo

    President of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan, Artistic Director of <Forest for Dialogue and Creativity>. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and the Postgraduate School of Kokugakuin University. Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on <Information flows>.

    In parallel, working as a curator of Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Recents works include SIAF 2014 (Associate Curator), KENPOKU ART 2016 (Curator). Works in 2020 including the Symposium of AICA Japan (Chairperson), MMFS 2020 (Director), <Forking PiraGene> (Co-curator, C-Lab Taipei). Works in 2021 including the Forum ‘Information as a form of ‘ (Kyoto Prefecture), ‘EIR’ (Energies in Rural) (Co-curator, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria, Italy, ongoing), ‘Forum Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human’ (General Incorporated Association Dialogue Place). Juror of many international competitions, many co-publications. Essay series ‘Ecosophic Future’ at HILLS LIFE. yukikoshikata.com






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5TH FINALISTS – SU HUI-YU (ENG)

THE 5
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VH AWARD
FINALISTS

  • FINALIST
    SU HUI-YU (b. 1976, Taipei)

    Su Hui-Yu, who was born in Taipei, explores the connection between mass media, pop culture, memories of martial law and the post-colonial history of Taiwan and East Asia. His work The Space Warriors and the Digigrave combines fantasies and folk tales that hint at nationalism, Confucianism and chauvinistic values, based on a unique experience of the collective memory of the island nation during the martial law era. Using nowadays open-source AI tools combining with traditional film skills, Su wants either metaphysically or technically providing a solution of reconciliation for those who’s still struggling with the nations, identities, genders, morals, and ideologies.

SCREENING EVENT


Ars Electronica Festival


The ELEKTRA Virtual Museum (EVM)


Hyundai Motor Group Vision Hall


The 5th VH AWARD Virtual Ceremony

JURY

  • Aaron Seeto

    Director, Museum MACAN

    Aaron Seeto is the Director of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN). He has experience with working to advance the goals of contemporary arts organizations and curating significant exhibitions for artists from Asia to Pacific regions.

    Seeto was formerly a Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art, at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia where he led the curatorial team at the eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) in 2015. For eight years prior, he was the Director of Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

  • Martin Honzik

    CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer) Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria

    Martin Honzik is an artist CCO of Ars Electronica Linz, and Managing Director of the Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Export. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). Besides being independent Artist in several art projects, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab as a researcher, in 2001, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center and Ars Electronica Export. He has been curating a considerable amount of international Exhibitions in the context of Art, Science and Technology. Since 2021 he became CCO (Chief-Curatorial-Officer) of Ars Electronica Linz.

  • Roderick Schrock

    Curator, Executive Director of Eyebeam

    Roderick Schrock is an arts organizer and curator. As a non-profit leader, he specializes in building institutional capacity and conceives and implements programs that elevate artists’ works in society. As the executive director of Eyebeam, he guides its focus to realign societal relationships with emergent technologies. Additionally, he is the host of Informer, a podcast featuring conversations with artists, technologists, and thinkers.

    He has been an active practitioner in the arts, living and working in Japan and continuing studies in the Netherlands. He has written extensively for anthologies, periodicals, and other publications. As a digital and sound artist, Schrock has been commissioned by Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, The Netherlands America Foundation, and Ostrava New Music Days, among others. He received an MFA from Mills College in Oakland.

    He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), California College of the Arts, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, and was a founding board member of Art+Feminism. He regularly juries and nominates for national and international art awards.

  • SOOK-KYUNG LEE

    Director, The Whitworth, University of Manchester

    Lee is a director of the Whitworth at The University of Manchester. She curated Nam June Paik at Tate Modern in 2019 with Rudolf Frieling, which was on tour to institutions in Europe, USA, and Asia until early 2022. She has also curated several collection exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, including A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-23), CAMP: From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (2019-20) and Xiao Lu and Niki de Saint Phalle (2018-19). Lee was previously Exhibitions & Displays Curator at Tate Liverpool and curated a number of exhibitions and collection displays including Doug Aitken: The Source and Thresholds (2012-13, as part of Liverpool Biennial).

    Lee was a Senior Curator of International Art. Since 2019 she has led the ‘Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’ and the Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale in 2023. She also served as the Commissioner and Curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Lee has convened and participated in several international symposiums and conferences at the Tate and internationally, including From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories (Digital conference with Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2020), Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures (Tate Modern, 2019), and Territories Disrupted: Asian Art after 1989 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, 2017). She has also written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and her publications include Nam June Paik (with Rudolf Frieling, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing, 2019) and MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho (exhibition catalogue, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015).

  • Yukiko Shikata

    Curator/critic based in Tokyo

    President of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan, Artistic Director of <Forest for Dialogue and Creativity>. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and the Postgraduate School of Kokugakuin University. Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on <Information flows>.

    In parallel, working as a curator of Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Recents works include SIAF 2014 (Associate Curator), KENPOKU ART 2016 (Curator). Works in 2020 including the Symposium of AICA Japan (Chairperson), MMFS 2020 (Director), <Forking PiraGene> (Co-curator, C-Lab Taipei). Works in 2021 including the Forum ‘Information as a form of ‘ (Kyoto Prefecture), ‘EIR’ (Energies in Rural) (Co-curator, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria, Italy, ongoing), ‘Forum Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human’ (General Incorporated Association Dialogue Place). Juror of many international competitions, many co-publications. Essay series ‘Ecosophic Future’ at HILLS LIFE. yukikoshikata.com






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5TH FINALISTS – RIAR RIZALDI (ENG)

THE 5
TH
VH AWARD
FINALISTS

  • FINALIST
    RIAR RIZALDI (b. 1990, Bandung)

    Riar Rizaldi, who was born in Bandung, works as an artist and filmmaker whose Fossilis is an oneiric cinema, a phantasmal science-fiction prognosis, an essay film and a tale of the verdant inferno of technological legacy, resonating the complexity of electronic waste in the 21st century of Asia where most of the discarded electronics in the planet is dumped and buried. With live-action sets built from waste materials, scenes from flea market of cannibalization parts, 3D assets and environment from abandoned projects, and AI images generated from unused images from a personal dataset, Fossilis is not just a narrative and representation on ewaste but also engages in the process of film production that involves both digital and physical waste objects as means of artistic practice.

SCREENING EVENT


Ars Electronica Festival


The ELEKTRA Virtual Museum (EVM)


Hyundai Motor Group Vision Hall


The 5th VH AWARD Virtual Ceremony

JURY

  • Aaron Seeto

    Director, Museum MACAN

    Aaron Seeto is the Director of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN). He has experience with working to advance the goals of contemporary arts organizations and curating significant exhibitions for artists from Asia to Pacific regions.

    Seeto was formerly a Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art, at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia where he led the curatorial team at the eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) in 2015. For eight years prior, he was the Director of Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

  • Martin Honzik

    CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer) Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria

    Martin Honzik is an artist CCO of Ars Electronica Linz, and Managing Director of the Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Export. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). Besides being independent Artist in several art projects, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab as a researcher, in 2001, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center and Ars Electronica Export. He has been curating a considerable amount of international Exhibitions in the context of Art, Science and Technology. Since 2021 he became CCO (Chief-Curatorial-Officer) of Ars Electronica Linz.

  • Roderick Schrock

    Curator, Executive Director of Eyebeam

    Roderick Schrock is an arts organizer and curator. As a non-profit leader, he specializes in building institutional capacity and conceives and implements programs that elevate artists’ works in society. As the executive director of Eyebeam, he guides its focus to realign societal relationships with emergent technologies. Additionally, he is the host of Informer, a podcast featuring conversations with artists, technologists, and thinkers.

    He has been an active practitioner in the arts, living and working in Japan and continuing studies in the Netherlands. He has written extensively for anthologies, periodicals, and other publications. As a digital and sound artist, Schrock has been commissioned by Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, The Netherlands America Foundation, and Ostrava New Music Days, among others. He received an MFA from Mills College in Oakland.

    He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), California College of the Arts, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, and was a founding board member of Art+Feminism. He regularly juries and nominates for national and international art awards.

  • SOOK-KYUNG LEE

    Director, The Whitworth, University of Manchester

    Lee is a director of the Whitworth at The University of Manchester. She curated Nam June Paik at Tate Modern in 2019 with Rudolf Frieling, which was on tour to institutions in Europe, USA, and Asia until early 2022. She has also curated several collection exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, including A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-23), CAMP: From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (2019-20) and Xiao Lu and Niki de Saint Phalle (2018-19). Lee was previously Exhibitions & Displays Curator at Tate Liverpool and curated a number of exhibitions and collection displays including Doug Aitken: The Source and Thresholds (2012-13, as part of Liverpool Biennial).

    Lee was a Senior Curator of International Art. Since 2019 she has led the ‘Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’ and the Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale in 2023. She also served as the Commissioner and Curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Lee has convened and participated in several international symposiums and conferences at the Tate and internationally, including From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories (Digital conference with Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2020), Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures (Tate Modern, 2019), and Territories Disrupted: Asian Art after 1989 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, 2017). She has also written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and her publications include Nam June Paik (with Rudolf Frieling, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing, 2019) and MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho (exhibition catalogue, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015).

  • Yukiko Shikata

    Curator/critic based in Tokyo

    President of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan, Artistic Director of <Forest for Dialogue and Creativity>. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and the Postgraduate School of Kokugakuin University. Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on <Information flows>.

    In parallel, working as a curator of Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Recents works include SIAF 2014 (Associate Curator), KENPOKU ART 2016 (Curator). Works in 2020 including the Symposium of AICA Japan (Chairperson), MMFS 2020 (Director), <Forking PiraGene> (Co-curator, C-Lab Taipei). Works in 2021 including the Forum ‘Information as a form of ‘ (Kyoto Prefecture), ‘EIR’ (Energies in Rural) (Co-curator, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria, Italy, ongoing), ‘Forum Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human’ (General Incorporated Association Dialogue Place). Juror of many international competitions, many co-publications. Essay series ‘Ecosophic Future’ at HILLS LIFE. yukikoshikata.com






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5TH FINALISTS – ZIKE HE (ENG)

THE 5
TH
VH AWARD
FINALISTS

  • FINALIST
    ZIKE HE (b. 1990, Guiyang)

    Zike He is a media artist whose recent projects are developed with research ranging from digital space and machine learning to infrastructure and deep time, and with the exploration of their shapes in daily life. Random Access is a mode of reading and writing datum (as in random access memory, RAM) where any arbitrary address can be accessed in equal time no matter where it is located. It also refers to how we process memory, especially in the time interwoven deeply with digital technology. As a speculative hypothesis of the experience in the Cloud World, the film is set in Guiyang, a mountainous and cloudy city, where many big data infrastructures locate, including the first iCloud data center in Asia and the host of FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope). The story follows a fictional narrative that happens on the second day after the city’s central data center unexpectedly crashes and reboots.

SCREENING EVENT


Ars Electronica Festival


The ELEKTRA Virtual Museum (EVM)


Hyundai Motor Group Vision Hall


The 5th VH AWARD Virtual Ceremony

JURY

  • Aaron Seeto

    Director, Museum MACAN

    Aaron Seeto is the Director of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN). He has experience with working to advance the goals of contemporary arts organizations and curating significant exhibitions for artists from Asia to Pacific regions.

    Seeto was formerly a Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art, at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia where he led the curatorial team at the eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) in 2015. For eight years prior, he was the Director of Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

  • Martin Honzik

    CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer) Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria

    Martin Honzik is an artist CCO of Ars Electronica Linz, and Managing Director of the Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Export. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). Besides being independent Artist in several art projects, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab as a researcher, in 2001, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center and Ars Electronica Export. He has been curating a considerable amount of international Exhibitions in the context of Art, Science and Technology. Since 2021 he became CCO (Chief-Curatorial-Officer) of Ars Electronica Linz.

  • Roderick Schrock

    Curator, Executive Director of Eyebeam

    Roderick Schrock is an arts organizer and curator. As a non-profit leader, he specializes in building institutional capacity and conceives and implements programs that elevate artists’ works in society. As the executive director of Eyebeam, he guides its focus to realign societal relationships with emergent technologies. Additionally, he is the host of Informer, a podcast featuring conversations with artists, technologists, and thinkers.

    He has been an active practitioner in the arts, living and working in Japan and continuing studies in the Netherlands. He has written extensively for anthologies, periodicals, and other publications. As a digital and sound artist, Schrock has been commissioned by Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, The Netherlands America Foundation, and Ostrava New Music Days, among others. He received an MFA from Mills College in Oakland.

    He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), California College of the Arts, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, and was a founding board member of Art+Feminism. He regularly juries and nominates for national and international art awards.

  • SOOK-KYUNG LEE

    Director, The Whitworth, University of Manchester

    Lee is a director of the Whitworth at The University of Manchester. She curated Nam June Paik at Tate Modern in 2019 with Rudolf Frieling, which was on tour to institutions in Europe, USA, and Asia until early 2022. She has also curated several collection exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, including A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-23), CAMP: From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (2019-20) and Xiao Lu and Niki de Saint Phalle (2018-19). Lee was previously Exhibitions & Displays Curator at Tate Liverpool and curated a number of exhibitions and collection displays including Doug Aitken: The Source and Thresholds (2012-13, as part of Liverpool Biennial).

    Lee was a Senior Curator of International Art. Since 2019 she has led the ‘Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’ and the Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale in 2023. She also served as the Commissioner and Curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Lee has convened and participated in several international symposiums and conferences at the Tate and internationally, including From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories (Digital conference with Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2020), Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures (Tate Modern, 2019), and Territories Disrupted: Asian Art after 1989 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, 2017). She has also written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and her publications include Nam June Paik (with Rudolf Frieling, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing, 2019) and MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho (exhibition catalogue, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015).

  • Yukiko Shikata

    Curator/critic based in Tokyo

    President of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan, Artistic Director of <Forest for Dialogue and Creativity>. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and the Postgraduate School of Kokugakuin University. Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on <Information flows>.

    In parallel, working as a curator of Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Recents works include SIAF 2014 (Associate Curator), KENPOKU ART 2016 (Curator). Works in 2020 including the Symposium of AICA Japan (Chairperson), MMFS 2020 (Director), <Forking PiraGene> (Co-curator, C-Lab Taipei). Works in 2021 including the Forum ‘Information as a form of ‘ (Kyoto Prefecture), ‘EIR’ (Energies in Rural) (Co-curator, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria, Italy, ongoing), ‘Forum Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human’ (General Incorporated Association Dialogue Place). Juror of many international competitions, many co-publications. Essay series ‘Ecosophic Future’ at HILLS LIFE. yukikoshikata.com






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5TH FINALISTS – SUBASH THEBE LIMBU (ENG)

THE 5
TH
VH AWARD
FINALISTS

  • GRAND PRIX
    SUBASH THEBE LIMBU (b. 1981, Dharan)

    Subash Thebe Limbu is a Yakthung (Limbu) artist from Eastern Nepal. He works with sound, film, music, performance, painting and podcasts. Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous imagines futures where Indigenous people’s actions and existence is in the space-time continuum. Through the conversation between two indigenous people from very different timelines – a Yakthung warrior from the 18th century and an indigenous time traveler from the distant future – the film asks the viewer to investigate their own potential role in the space-time continuum in searching for the possible futures to strive for, while reminding of the fight against colonialism and struggles to overcome. The work plays with the idea of time as not something rigid but ductile or weavable, which in turn paves the way for questions like how we might want to weave the future.

SCREENING EVENT


Ars Electronica Festival


The ELEKTRA Virtual Museum (EVM)


Hyundai Motor Group Vision Hall


The 5th VH AWARD Virtual Ceremony

JURY

  • Aaron Seeto

    Director, Museum MACAN

    Aaron Seeto is the Director of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN). He has experience with working to advance the goals of contemporary arts organizations and curating significant exhibitions for artists from Asia to Pacific regions.

    Seeto was formerly a Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art, at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia where he led the curatorial team at the eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) in 2015. For eight years prior, he was the Director of Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

  • Martin Honzik

    CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer) Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria

    Martin Honzik is an artist CCO of Ars Electronica Linz, and Managing Director of the Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Export. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). Besides being independent Artist in several art projects, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab as a researcher, in 2001, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center and Ars Electronica Export. He has been curating a considerable amount of international Exhibitions in the context of Art, Science and Technology. Since 2021 he became CCO (Chief-Curatorial-Officer) of Ars Electronica Linz.

  • Roderick Schrock

    Curator, Executive Director of Eyebeam

    Roderick Schrock is an arts organizer and curator. As a non-profit leader, he specializes in building institutional capacity and conceives and implements programs that elevate artists’ works in society. As the executive director of Eyebeam, he guides its focus to realign societal relationships with emergent technologies. Additionally, he is the host of Informer, a podcast featuring conversations with artists, technologists, and thinkers.

    He has been an active practitioner in the arts, living and working in Japan and continuing studies in the Netherlands. He has written extensively for anthologies, periodicals, and other publications. As a digital and sound artist, Schrock has been commissioned by Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, The Netherlands America Foundation, and Ostrava New Music Days, among others. He received an MFA from Mills College in Oakland.

    He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), California College of the Arts, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, and was a founding board member of Art+Feminism. He regularly juries and nominates for national and international art awards.

  • SOOK-KYUNG LEE

    Director, The Whitworth, University of Manchester

    Lee is a director of the Whitworth at The University of Manchester. She curated Nam June Paik at Tate Modern in 2019 with Rudolf Frieling, which was on tour to institutions in Europe, USA, and Asia until early 2022. She has also curated several collection exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, including A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-23), CAMP: From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (2019-20) and Xiao Lu and Niki de Saint Phalle (2018-19). Lee was previously Exhibitions & Displays Curator at Tate Liverpool and curated a number of exhibitions and collection displays including Doug Aitken: The Source and Thresholds (2012-13, as part of Liverpool Biennial).

    Lee was a Senior Curator of International Art. Since 2019 she has led the ‘Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’ and the Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale in 2023. She also served as the Commissioner and Curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Lee has convened and participated in several international symposiums and conferences at the Tate and internationally, including From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories (Digital conference with Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2020), Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures (Tate Modern, 2019), and Territories Disrupted: Asian Art after 1989 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, 2017). She has also written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and her publications include Nam June Paik (with Rudolf Frieling, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing, 2019) and MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho (exhibition catalogue, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015).

  • Yukiko Shikata

    Curator/critic based in Tokyo

    President of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan, Artistic Director of <Forest for Dialogue and Creativity>. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and the Postgraduate School of Kokugakuin University. Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on <Information flows>.

    In parallel, working as a curator of Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Recents works include SIAF 2014 (Associate Curator), KENPOKU ART 2016 (Curator). Works in 2020 including the Symposium of AICA Japan (Chairperson), MMFS 2020 (Director), <Forking PiraGene> (Co-curator, C-Lab Taipei). Works in 2021 including the Forum ‘Information as a form of ‘ (Kyoto Prefecture), ‘EIR’ (Energies in Rural) (Co-curator, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria, Italy, ongoing), ‘Forum Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human’ (General Incorporated Association Dialogue Place). Juror of many international competitions, many co-publications. Essay series ‘Ecosophic Future’ at HILLS LIFE. yukikoshikata.com