Beyond Mediascape: Surveillance, Remote Sensing, Digital Control, and the Films of Harun Farocki

Lecturer : Guo Jao-Lan︱Curator, Adjunct Associate Professor for MFA Program in New Media Art, Department of New Media Art, and Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts, Taipei National University of Arts

Jau-lan Guo is an independent curator and art critic based in Taipei. She received her doctorate in Western art history in 2006, with a primary research interest in the way the American critiques constructed its anti-modernism postmodern art theory based on an interpretation of Robert Rauschenberg and the American Neo-Dada art movement. Guo taught Modern Art and Contemporary Art from 1996 to 2011 at the Department of Fine Art in Hua-Fan University, as well as at Graduate School and Department of Fine Art at the National Taiwan University of Arts. Now she as an Adjunct Associate Professor for MFA Program in New Media Art，Department of New Media Art, and Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts, Taipei National University of Arts，teaches Visual Art since 1960 and Seminar in Contemporary Art. 
Her curatorial involvement began in 2006, with a focus on the cultural praxis of image and visual culture. Her articles have been published in periodicals including The Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Artist Magazine. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Polyphonic Mosaic: CO6 Avant-Garde Documenta (National Taiwan Museum of Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2006), Nostalgia for Future (2009, Taichung), Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue (Taipei, 2010), Paradise: Under RE-Construction (ISCP, New York, 2011), and Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project) (ISCP, New York, 2011), How Can I Tell You Who I Am?(Spain, 2012), Melancholy in Progress, The 3rd Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition at Hong-Gah Museum of Taipei (Co-curate with Amy Cheng , Taipei, 2012).









 Jau-Lan Guo is the translator of the traditional Chinese version “Art Power” by Boris Groys.

Time : December 06, 2014, Saturday, 14: 30-17: 00

Venue : TFAM Auditorium (BF)

The lecture is conducted in Chinese.

About Lecture Series 2014 “(Art) After Conceptual Art”

Do you want to know the story of how a urinal became art? Did you know your home can become a museum? Everyone can be an artist – would you like to be one? These secrets are revealed in the lecture series “(Art) After Conceptual Art”...“(Art) After Conceptual Art” explores the major trends and forms of expression in avant-garde art since the 1960s. By examining the processes of specific contemporary art phenomena, the lecture series provides an organized introduction to the conceptual idioms arising from the recent rapid developments in contemporary art, serving as a reference for viewers to appreciate contemporary art.