The Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize is for Asian digital artists aged 21-40 years old. During this virtual session, participants heard from selected members of our Expert Panel and were able to ask them about their professional journeys in the world of digital art, as well as learn more about the Prize and its Art x Tech accelerator programme.
Our Expert Panel:
Ina Conradi
Ina Conradi, an Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, is also an award-winning new media artist. Her research interests extend throughout the digital realm, including computer generated animation and 360° immersive displays. Ina is currently part of the steering committee for NTU Singapore’s Global Digital Art Prize.
She served on the jury for the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica Animation Category and has won awards as an artist and a teacher, including the Hollywood Advanced Imaging Society’s 2018 Lumiere Award for experimental animation. Ina’s new media works have been presented at various exhibitions and conferences, such as Ars Electronica Festival, Beyond Festival ZKM and SIGGRAPH Asia. She has also been curating a large media platform, namely Media Art Nexus, and has enabled students to produce site-specific audio-visual media content that thematically and spatially interacts with its surroundings and augments the space.
Chao Jiaxing
Chao Jiaxing is an Independent Curator based in Shanghai. Her research and interests include cross-disciplinary art practices and rituals as methods in East Asia contemporary art creations. Her recent project “Rituals in Rituals of the Future”, are collective creations under the issue.
From 2010 to 2015, Jiaxing served as Curator and Managing Director at V ART CENTER, a non-profit space founded by the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. As the Senior Curator of Start Museum, West Bund in Shanghai, she launched and curated the ongoing research project “Being Information”. Jiaxing has won the ACC Residency Fellowship 2019 in Gwangju, South Korea, CIMAM 2019 Annual Conference Travel Grant, Tokyo Arts and Space Creator Residency etc. In 2021, Jiaxing edited the bilingual publication Under Construction: A History of Shanghai Art Institutions, 2008-2016.
Unnikrishna M Damodaran
Unnikrishna M Damodaran is an Indian visual artist and digital specialist who primarily works on the digital format with images, alphabets, text, and typography, allowing it to expand with pixel space to push the boundaries of traditional calligraphy and typography.
Unnikrishna has recently curated an NFT IRL exhibition in Kochi, Kerala, organised by Utopian Dystopia, a festival focused on community, art, technology, design, perspectives, and the future. His art has been selected for several curated NFT exhibitions, including DOMANCE, Dome Art Exhibition by Searchlight Art, USA, ArsElectronica 2021, Mask Ephemera-NFT.NYC 2021, Miami Art Week at Art Basel 2021, Tributary: Popartwalk SXSW 2022, Austin, Texas, and FigureGlyphs by SearchLight Atelier & Gallery, an experimental Web 3.0 lab and gallery to explore and innovate in the metaverse and Lokame Tharavadu (The World Is One Family) by Kochi Biennale Foundation, India 2021.
This virtual session was organised by The MeshMinds Foundation on behalf of Julius Baer for the Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize.
