Australian Annie Ivanova is a cultural ambassador who sees it as her mission to create bridges between\u00a0cultural traditions. She views art and digital media as common, unifying languages that\u00a0transcend the borders of the world and connect\u00a0its\u00a0peoples. Over the last four years, she has resided between Melbourne and Taiwan, fulfilling\u00a0this ideal.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0less than two decades of being professionally active, Ivanova has more than eighty international exhibitions, conferences, and public diplomacy projects under her belt, earning her forty-five awards from national or international institutions.\u00a0She first became interested in digital media whilst studying in Europe, where she was strongly influenced by the new but rapidly expanding digital arts scenes like the annual Arts Electronica festival in Linz, Austria.<\/p>\n
Ivanova went on to co-found and direct\u00a0Australia\u2019s first media arts agency, Novamedia Ltd,\u00a0representing some of Australia\u2019s most renowned digital media artists. In her quest to promote Australian art internationally, she\u00a0travelled to various global centres of digital media, collaborating with some of the most prestigious arts institutions in the world and taking up\u00a0positions as curator-in-residence in Denmark.<\/p>\n
Her relationship with Taiwan began\u00a0in 2010\u00a0when she was invited to be a VIP international curator at\u00a0Art Taipei.\u00a0In the same year she organized\u00a0Encoded<\/i>, the first Australian media art exhibition in Taiwan, followed up with the enormously successful\u00a0Wonderland: New Contemporary Art from Australia<\/i>\u00a0at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)\u00a0in 2012. Besides\u00a0her efforts\u00a0importing\u00a0Australian art\u00a0and design\u00a0to\u00a0Taiwan, she was all the while\u00a0dedicated to exporting Taiwanese art and design. To this end she organized\u00a0Illuminations<\/i>, a Taiwanese media art\u00a0exhibition in Singapore in 2013, and\u00a0initiated for Taiwanese designers\u00a0to\u00a0be keynote presenters at the prestigious agIdeas Design\u00a0Week in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
In 2013, Ivanova travelled around\u00a0Taiwan and met with members from all of Taiwan\u2019s recognized aboriginal tribes. She hoped to call international attention to\u00a0the endangered\u00a0culture of the island\u2019s indigenous\u00a0inhabitants. Being the first foreign curator to participate in such an undertaking, her work was recognized by the Australian Arts in Asia Awards.<\/p>\n
Annie Ivanova’s most recent undertaking is the\u00a0Gifts from the Star<\/i>\u00a0exhibition at Taipei 101.\u00a0Taking place until\u00a0<\/span>January 4<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>on the\u00a0forth floor\u00a0of the chic\u00a0Taipei\u00a0101 Plaza,\u00a0<\/span> Ivanova selected the\u00a0designers based on research for\u00a0her upcoming book about Taiwanese product design and culture.\u00a0She also has some ideas brewing for Taipei\u2019s 2016\u00a0WDC designation. Always building up her network of creative contacts,\u00a0aspiring to coalesce\u00a0the corners of the globe into one diverse family through art and design, she sums up the simplicity\u00a0of her passion when she asserts, \u201cI don\u2019t see any of it\u00a0as work. I just do it because\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0good to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Annie Ivanova is a multi-award winning curator and entrepreneur, and one of Australia’s leading authorities on cultural diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atbc.asn.au\/atwen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/atwen_story\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atbc.asn.au\/atwen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/atwen_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atbc.asn.au\/atwen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/atwen_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atbc.asn.au\/atwen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atbc.asn.au\/atwen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/atbc.asn.au\/atwen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/atwen_story\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/atbc.asn.au\/atwen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/atwen_story\/407\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atbc.asn.au\/atwen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}t<\/s>he exhibition features\u00a0101 products by\u00a0up-and-coming Taiwanese designers. Each item\u00a0is displayed in a gift-shaped box within a\u00a0gift-shaped exhibition room, with an elegant, 12-meter decorated Christmas\u00a0tree presiding over the exhibition area.\u00a0Through this event\u00a0she\u00a0hopes to encourage\u00a0shoppers to\u00a0appreciate Taiwanese design power, and consider local products as\u00a0holiday gifts this year.<\/p>\n