Andy Yang CV
Education
2005-09 BFA, Media Arts + Digital Technologies
Alberta College of Art + Design, Canada
Awards
2008-10 Nominee of Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award
AFA Multimedia Project Grant 09
Honorable Mention of the International Photography Awards '09
Presented by the Lucie Foundation USA
BMO 1st! Art Award '09
Alberta Province Winner
Paul Brace Memorial Scholarship '08
Jason Lang Scholarship '08
MADT Fourth Year Research And Production Award '08
Publications
2009-2010 Exposure, Calgary Banff Canmore Photogrphy Festival 2010
Alberta View, November issue
Canadian Art Magazine, Fall Issue
Blend: Alberta College of Art + Design Undergraduate Journal
Solo Exhibitions
2010 "Within Reach!" Feb 11th - Mar 13th, Photography Group Show
at the Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary AB, Canada.
2008 My Perfect Storm Prototype #1 of the Video Installation,
Closet Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
The Night Angel Prototype #1 of the Video Projection,
Main Mall, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
Beyond the Wall Prototype #1 of the Video Installation,
Gallery Room 594, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
Inspiration of Flying Prototype #2 of the Video Installation
Marion Nicoll Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
Inspiration of Flying Prototype #1 of the Video Installation
Gallery Room 595, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
2007 A Tale of the Human Love Prototype #2 of the Video Installation,
Gallery Room 371, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
A Tale of the Human Love Prototype #1 of the Video Installation,
VR LAB, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2009 BMO 1st Art! 2009 Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Canadian
Art Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alberta College of Art and Design 2009 Graduation Exhibition,
Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
Media Arts Festival 09, MADT department show space, Alberta
College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
Photography showcase 09, Epcor Center down town
display window, Calgary, AB, Canada
2008 ACAD Open House Show 08, My Perfect Storm Prototype #2
Video Installation, Gallery Room 394, Alberta College of Art + Design
Calgary, AB, Canada
Calgary Asian Heritage Art Showcase, Main Entrance of Calgary
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, Canada
Photography open house show, Video Projection, Main Mall
2007 Media Arts Festival, MADT department show space, Alberta
MADT Photography group show, Main Mall space of Alberta
2006 Media Arts Festival, MADT department show space, Alberta
College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
Resume
Recent Employment History:
2009-2010
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Contract Designer for UofC Continuing Education - Senior College
Design responsibility ranging from graphic design to publishing and co-coordinating the recent graduation event.
Contract Designer for Chinese Community Association
Creative direction for Chinese community domestic violence Ad campaign.
Design responsibility ranging from photography, graphic design and publishing.
Contract Designer for Wingkei Care Center
Creative direction for marketing pamphlets.
Design responsibility ranging from graphic design to publishing
Contract Designer for a+Bandon Studio
Design responsibility ranging from graphic design to user interface for web contents
Contract Designer for Art Book
Design responsibility ranging from Graphics, art works and publishing
Education:
2005-2009Alberta College of Art & Design
Majoring in the New Media Technology department. Worked closely with video production, photography, and design.
Contact:
p: 1-403-472-7688
e: aoay.ca_gmail.com
No Boundaries
My current body of work mainly deals with my experience & exploration of human life. Our love, dreams, self-awareness, unfulfilled wishes, and desires.
Mistakes must be made before signs of success can emerge. This is why I plan and generate prototypes before hand, to allow for mistakes to happen in my initial concepts and in the early physical stages of the work I am creating. For this reason I choose to work with digital video installations and photography as these media are flexible and efficient for editing and are suitable for my work flow.
Installation work is key to my focus on viewer experience, because it extends the dimensionality of the visuals I create and enhances the allure of my vision to audiences. My current documented installations are at an unfinished stage, I consider them prototypes that I plan to resolve in the future when funding and resources become available to me.
On the other hand, my photographic work is complete. The efficient nature of digital photography works to my advantage because I can easily construct and produce several of my ideas without economical drawbacks. Photographic art and cinematography is certainly a main source of inspiration for me. I love to watch a film with thoughtful settings; particularly those that use color to create mood and atmosphere, with a captivating soundtrack to accompany the story. I am not a cinematographer by any means, but I recognize and appreciate elements that visually express an idea to its full potential.
Although I prefer to use specific media I do not claim any one medium over another. I am very open to exploring new media and even taking new directions in my work flow. This is because I believe that artists should choose the most effective and appropriate medium depending on their key concept. It is very important that I do not place limitations when I create art. After all, our human imagination has no boundaries.
Andy Yang
The Birth of New Questions
Most artists set themselves up on a quest to answer the question "What is Art?" But I believe the answer is simple. Art are "Things" in Galleries and Museums. "Things" handpicked by Art Dealers & Curators. The Artist no longer has the right to label their product once it is out into the WORLD. There is little mystery behind it.
The real mystery is how the public questions the value of those "Things", making the question of "What is Art" impossible for most to answer because humanity manages to keep reconfiguring the meaning of value itself. At the core of this conflict we have with this ongoing question is a lack of understanding as to why for some strange reason we place value on these "Things" in the first place.
Andy Warhol attempted to resolve the conflict by dismissing the value of his works using the economic strategy of mass production, which allows each Warhol product to devalue. However, this also means that his line of products ended up maintaining and increasing in value by their quantity to balance the overall value. His way of treating Art value was so radical, it later changed how the ART WORLD itself valued these "Things", thus making Warhol's sense of value part of humanity's understanding of VALUE.
This inspired me to think differently. Perhaps the key is in VALUE and not in the subjective question of "What is Art?"
I believe the real questions an Artist should ask are:
"What do I do to the WORLD?" & "How is my work relevant to the WORLD?"
These questions allow artists to value their own work and to consider their values alongside the values of others. This allows for a new question to be asked, in our contemporary world:
"How do we connect our value to the VALUE of humanity and how it would change the definition of VALUE itself?"
At the end one should understand that no matter what it is you do, or how others label what you do, none of it matters if you cannot find a way to connect your value with the VALUE of humanity.
BiographyAndy Yang was born in Guangzhou, China, and immigrated to Calgary, Canada in 1997. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Alberta College of Art + Design in May of 2009. Andy's exploration of new media, such as video installation and photography, has allowed him to produce outstanding work that has already captured the attention of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, where he showcased his work in October 2009. Andy Yang is the Province of Alberta winner of the BMO 1st! Art Award 2009. In the video installation A Tale of the Human Love, the unconventional delivery of a story, in this case a video about an egg being projected onto an egg, is characteristic of Andy attending the importance he places on a unique and often surprising viewer experience. Andy Yang is now an emerging artist equipped with the vast imagination of a child andthe ambition to bring it out to the world in remarkable ways.
Biography
Andy Yang was born in Guangzhou, China, and immigrated to Calgary, Canada in 1997. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Alberta College of Art + Design in May of 2009. Andy's exploration of new media, such as video installation and photography, has allowed him to produce outstanding work that has already captured the attention of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, where he showcased his work in October 2009. Andy Yang is the Province of Alberta winner of the BMO 1st! Art Award 2009.
In the video installation A Tale of the Human Love, the unconventional delivery of a story, in this case a video about an egg being projected onto an egg, is characteristic of Andy attending the importance he places on a unique and often surprising viewer experience. Andy Yang is now an emerging artist equipped with the vast imagination of a child and
the ambition to bring it out to the world in remarkable ways.
