Is Web 3.0 The Great Equalizer for Asian Digital Artists?
ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS presentation by C.J. Yeh
The next phase in the evolution of the internet has promised a disruptive paradigm shift that built upon the core concepts of decentralization (trust-less), openness (permission-less), and greater user utility. While recent media headlines are filled with technology-centric buzzwords such as Metaverse and NFT, does web3 represents an opportunity for Asian digital artists to finally overcome the issue of visibility?
C.J. Yeh is a Taiwanese conceptual artist who communicates through a wide range of media ranging from painting to coding. The juxtaposition of digital and analog, virtual and actual, natural and cultural, articulates his point of view on the changing perception of identity and reality in the digital era. Yeh is a tenured professor at SUNY FIT. This presentation is a distillation of his thoughts on the potential for a new type of “art as experience” in the Metaverse, and Yeh will share a sneak peek of a virtual multi-sensory museum that he is developing.