The Save Media Art, abbreviated as SMA, was established in 2018 by individuals such as Yuhsien Chen, Tzuchuan Lin, and members of the Digital Art Foundation, including Powei Wang and Wenhao Huang. Led by the two core members, Chen and Lin, it is a grassroots project that focuses on the acquisition, management, sustainable preservation, and conservation of technology-based art (new media/digital art/time-based media art) in Taiwan. To date, it has been supported annually by the Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation and is now in its fourth phase. The SMA project excels in its role as an independent entity not affiliated with any specific collecting institution. Each phase of the project collaborates with third-party organizations and utilizes various formats such as curation, lectures, workshops, and more. Through cooperation with different roles in the contemporary art ecosystem, the project aims to explore the significance of technology-based art preservation in the context of contemporary art and museum environments, while also considering the inherent characteristics of technology and digital media.
Yuhsien Chen｜Project Director
Yuhsien is a time-based media conservator and a born-digital cultural advocate. She had been working at M+ Museum, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, and Mediamatic; visiting scholar at Museum of Modern Art and Rhizome at NYC. Her conservation practices are a combination of emerging theoretical knowledge from the western and the cultural system in Taiwan. She holds a digital media design bachelor and museum study master.
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Tzuchuan Lin｜International affairs manager
Tzuchuan is currently working as an Assistant Conservator for Time-Based Media at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany. He holds an MA in Conservation of New Media and Digital Information from the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart. During his studies, he completed internships in media art and digital art conservation at the Kunstsammlung NRW, ZKM, LI-MA. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a project assistant in the Collection Management Department of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
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