CHRONIQUES, the Biennale of Digital Information Invites Taiwan to France

By Sherry Paik Marseille

Between 12 November 2020 and 17 January 2021, CHRONIQUES, the Biennale of Digital Information brings contemporary art and digital technologies together in a virtual exhibition and in venues across Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, and Avignon in France.

For its second edition, CHRONIQUES has invited Taiwan as a guest of honour, following Quebec's invitation in 2018.

Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) is serving as curator, showing works by 11 new media artists and collectives from Taiwan that explore the connections between technology, science, art, humanity, and the environment under the theme of 'Eternity'.

Singing Chen, Afterimage for Tomorrow (2018). Choreography by Shu-Yi Chou. Courtesy by Kaohsiung Film Archive.

As C-LAB curator Wu Dar-Kuen told Ocula Magazine, Taiwan is renowned for both its culture and technological innovation.

At CHRONIQUES, this is reflected through works that engage not only with technology, but also with contemporary societal and cultural concerns...READ MORE

Cover Image: Chuang Chih-Wei, Infection Series: Commensalism (2020). Exhibition view: CHRONIQUES, the Biennale of Digital Information, Friche la Belle de Mai, Plateau 4, Marseille (7–17 January 2021). Courtesy the artist.