As announced today (March 5), Xu Li Zhang, an early pioneer in the field of digital art, has become the second recipient of the LG Guggenheim Prize. She was chosen by an international jury of arts, culture and technology experts and will receive an unrestricted honorarium of $100,000.
The award is awarded by the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, a five-year partnership established in 2022 between New York’s Guggenheim Museum and South Korea’s LG Corporation, which works at the intersection of art and technology. We encourage artists. “Hsu Li Chan was one of the first to recognize the liberating potential of the digital realm,” Naomi Beckwith, chief curator and deputy director of the Guggenheim Museum, said in a statement. “We celebrate her bold exploration of the body and its desires in digital and analog worlds, and are excited to work with LG to recognize her necessary work.”
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Chan, 69, is a Taiwanese-American-French multihyphenate artist who has incorporated countless new technologies into his work since the 1990s. She has produced and directed her four feature films (1994 production). fresh kill, 2000s go, 2017 fluid and 2023 UK—Her art is in collections at institutions such as the Whitney, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Center Pompidou.
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For many years, Mr. Chan has been at the forefront of studying the impact of technological change on society.her her 1998 work brandonFor example, it made history as the first web art commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum. The work explores the legacy of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was murdered in 1993, and was restored in 2017 by a team of computer-based conservators at the Guggenheim Museum.
Decades later, Chen’s contributions to digital culture are still relevant. In 2019, she represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale. 3x3x6, a mixed media installation whose title alludes to industrial imprisonment (the title refers to a 3×3 square meter cell monitored by six cameras). It focused on surveillance in the digital age and referred to 10 different cases of incarceration caused by gender, sexual, and racial nonconformity.
The artist’s work also includes experimentation with technological themes ranging from alternative currencies to mobile sensors. Recent works like 2017 Mycelium Network Association Her 2023 installation examined the nature of biotechnology. Jeez Focuses on the social impact of machine learning.
In a jury statement, the LG Guggenheim Prize jurors praised Chan’s “compelling overview of advanced technology.” The jury included Eunjie Joo, head of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Mitsuhiro Kooh, executive director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art. Norm Segal, LG Electronics Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum; Carolyn Kristoff-Bakargiev, director of the Museum of Modern Art at the Chateau de Rivoli. and Stephanie Dinkins, winner of the first LG Guggenheim Prize.
Chan will talk about his practice and future work during a public program at the Guggenheim Theater on May 2nd. “The LG Guggenheim Prize revives the electronic industry’s honorable tradition of support for art and technology,” she said in her statement. “Being recognized by such a diverse group of judges gives me great confidence to continue and expand my artistic practice.”
