Etat Lab Founded

Source: Taiwan’s Sound Liberation Movement
From: 2011 Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion — Visitor’s Guide
Date: April 2011. Author: Lo Yueh-ch’üan

etat (在地實驗, “In-Site Experiment”) was founded by avant-garde artist Huang Wen-hao in 1995, and is Taiwan’s most important non-governmental institution for media art and digital art. Before broadband internet became widespread in Taiwan, etat was already hiring journalists to interview artists and organise art lectures, filming and producing them as online audiovisual programmes. In 2000, etat further established a media lab, whose principal members — Huang Wen-hao, Chang Tzu-fu, and Wang Fu-jui — produced media art works through team collaboration. In 2003, etat produced two editions of “Bias” (Yi-hsiang), Taiwan’s first large-scale sound art exhibition. From 2006, this expanded into the “Taipei Digital Arts Festival,” featuring awards in interactive installation, sound art, and digital audiovisual, and inviting international artists to perform, exhibit, conduct workshops, and participate in forums — five editions by 2010. From 2006, etat was entrusted by the Taipei Department of Cultural Affairs with operating the “Taipei Digital Arts Centre.”

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External Links

• Too Correct to Be Called Contemporary, Too Conservative to Be Called Avant-Garde (Yeh Hsing-jou)
• When Resources Are Limited, All the More Reason to Fight — Huang Wen-hao on etat’s Art-Business Collaboration Strategy (Art Business Network)
• etat official website
• Interview with Taipei Digital Arts Centre Director Huang Wen-hao (Global Chinese Art Network)