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Home   About DigiArts   Media arts   Music using technology   Regional networking   Training   UNESCO Digital Arts Award   Young Digital Creators		Nyen    Mr Ho Tzu Nyen Singapore. Video installation. Bio     Ho Tzu Nyen graduated from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University in 2001, where he obtained a Bachelor of Creative Arts. His first exhibited artwork was a “fake” pack of cigarettes made from the paraphernalia (notices, posters, etc.) generated to publicise French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s tour of Australia. Since then, Ho Tzu Nyen’s art practice has been marked by a diversity in his choice of media. Upon returning to Singapore, Tzu Nyen has been painting regularly, and his works have won him awards, including the Nokia Arts Awards 2001, and the prize for the Abstract Category of the UOB Painting of the Year 2001. Tzu Nyen also has an interest in uncovering the possibilities of imaging devices: in The Cave (Nokia Singapore Art 2001), he constructed a room-sized space saturated with surveillance cameras and monitors, while his more recent A Possible Line of Flight (Cinepolitans, 2003) consisted of images captured from cameras flung off from a 25-storey-high building. Another medium that has fascinated Tzu Nyen is photography. In Anyone (2002), he requested that his subjects “become someone else” by play-acting, or adopt a narrative pose “far from the truth”. In an upcoming work, the Self-Portrait Project (Sculpture Square Annual Show 2003), Tzu Nyen will approach 36 passers-by a day, seven days a week, in several different locations to do portraits of himself. But Tzu Nyen’s oldest and greatest passion is film. As an Associate Artist with The Substation he is working on Utama – Every Name in History is I, a film based on the mythical founder of Singapore. Utama is conceived as an endless series of moving painterly tableaus, involving a breathless parade of costume and prop changes, interwoven into a narrative. Utama will be part of his first solo exhibition, presented in The Substation Gallery in August 2003. The exhibition will consist of Utama, together with a series of paintings drawn from the film.   E-Mail tzulogy@msn.com Homepage	Culture All Unesco Advanced Search Resources
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