This year’s LG Guggenheim Award goes to Taiwanese American artist Shu Lea Cheang

SEOUL, South Korea's LG Group said Tuesday that Taiwanese American artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang has been awarded this year's LG Guggenheim Award for her groundbreaking contributions to internet-based art. Launched last year through a partnership between LG Group and the Guggenheim Museum, the LG Guggenheim Award aims to provide financial support to innovative contemporary artists dedicated to digital artwork. The recipient of the award receives a prize of US$100,000. Shu Lea Cheang, well known as a new-media artist, has experimented with evolving technologies for over thirty years through her impactful and collaborative projects, according to LG Group. The South Korean company and the globally renowned museum in New York kicked off the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative last year as a cross-sector collaboration to support artists working at the intersection of art and technology for the ensuing five years. Last year, the inaugural LG Guggenheim Award went to Stephanie Dinkins, a Brooklyn-b ased artist, educator and Artificial Intelligence practitioner. Source: Yonhap News Agency