9.22-9.102022 Exihibition Brochure Taipei National University of the Arts, Underground experimental field Dept. of New Media Art The 9th Department Exhibition A look through the interfaces between virtual and reality.
A look through the interfaces between virtual and reality. The Exhibition is one of the important showcases of the New Media art Department. The exhibitors are composed of students from the university department and the master's class. After the application, review, and selection of the finalists and exhibitors, the awards will be selected according to the physical exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the development and experimentation of new media art and hopes to provide a platform for creation and performance across grades. This exhibition attempts to bring together the concepts and themes of the exhibited works, and try to plan the subject of the exhibition. 望向虛實與界面之間 01
Diverse forms, texts, and consciousness are intertwined, and are transmitted, moved, and dispatched between different mediums and interfaces. In the era of a high-speed rush to the virtual, when facing the issues of the times and the anxiety of a generation, "Across(Crossing)" is a subtle resistance and counter-attack, a mutual dialectic that extends over time and space.; a process, an interface and an action across the real and the vir tual. 02
The exhibited works reflect the theme of "transmission, transition, and roaming between the virtual and the real". Meanwhile, media art/technological artʼs long-term attention and tackle on the subject of imagery isnʼt neglected, emphasis on "imagery and itsʼ reimagination, the transparency of society and subsequently the dilemma of viewing" are some of the core values of the works. At the same time, some works ride the wave of technology to expand the boundaries of art and technology; some stand on the shoulders of the medium that is digital, imitating, transforming, and reconstructing, including "perceptual manipulation, digital organisms, reproduction of daily life and historical exploration" and more. Across the various layers of time and space, the artists are trying to sort out and construct the connections between their subject of discussion and their perception.
The pursuit of what reality is to us has been a core subject within technology and art. In an era where technological advances are growing and expanding at a tremendous rate, we will eventually usher in the age of whereas virtuality surpasses reality, while reality assumes the role of becoming the foundation and the inspiration of our imagination.
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1 Human Upgrade 2 W_k_p_d_a 3 Data-verse taipei 4 Do you know what time the cows in our school sleep? 5 A story of the future 6 In front of a scenery 7 Between Shadows p.17p.15p.13p.11p.9p.7p.5 8 Digital Ecology‒The Twelve Sages in Bamboo Grove p.19 9 Ghost of Google p.25p.23p.21Go Back Go Back p.27 The OpeningUnrecognizedCeremony& Performance 04
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The outbreak of the epidemic has reminded us about the fragility of human life, both physically and mentally. Living in the same environments with humans, cockroaches have survived for 300 million years and still show no sign of weakness, on the contrary they thrive as a species. We can't help but start to think about the relationship between humans and cockroaches. Taking this concept as a starting point, we designed a cockroach suit that imitates the cockroachʼs neurological system. The low-frequency electric shock patch stimulates the muscles, allowing us to have a cockroach-like neural response system. Through this work, we rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. relationship, and imagine the possibility of our existence in t he future.
Human Upgrade / En-Chi Chuang，Cheng-Wei Chen，Gi-Rong Lion Media：mixed2021 media, Three-channel video 06
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With Wikipedia, things are magically connected. Like, going from "壽司(Sushi)" to "西 方美術史(History of Western Art)" is only two mouse clicks away; the same goes from "秋刀魚(Saury)" to "墨西哥總統(President of Mexico)". This work attempts to allow a machine to automatically read linked Wikipedia articles over and over, explore the process of human pursuit of knowledge and the logic behind it; subsequently using all the machine-known data to reconstruct a Wikipedia page, reflecting that humans have followed this same sort of logic to construct a huge universe called knowledge for themself. Before the page is fully reconstructed, the unfilled "unknown" makes it look like an ancient stele that has broken in many places. Instead, it accumulates data bit by bit over time, gradually restoring its original appearance. / Chieh-Yi Chiu Projector, TV
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Data-verse Taipei / En-Chi Chuang，Cheng-Wei Chen，Chieh-Yi Chiu，Gi-Rong Lion Media：Double2021 channel real-time video Living at the intersection and the blending of the eras betwee n analog and digital, the internet has never been clearer to be our new frontier. The main purpose of this artwork is through manifesting the internet world of our imagination, a "Data-Verse" , to convey the idea of the internet as a different Ecosphere of humanity. By using 3D graphics to visualize the process and using various forms of internet data to control aspects of the objects in this "Data-Verse" , we're trying to stay true to the inner workings of the Ecosystem of the internet and at the meantime try to make connections between these two realities, the analog and the digital. 10
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Do you know what time the cows in our school sleep? Shang-Ching Tsai Media：Single-channel2021 video（Performance art）, black and white silent Do you know what time the cows in our school sleep? Do they stand up while sleeping? Maybe sleeping on their stomachs, with their eyes open? Or do they not sleep at all? You probably donʼt know the cows in our school have a dedicated 24 hour stream, and maybe you can catch it at midnight and get an insight on ho w they sleep. YouTube: New Ben TV 12
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とに今のNFTとよく似てて、使えない商品となるのです。とって文化の価値は何か、その必要性とは？こういう矛盾が、私を文化という複雑は概念に想像を膨この作品はSFの台本を基にビデオアートで再現したもです。今を視点に未来の生活を定義しながらculture.紹介したものです。日本語をナレーションにし、観客との距離を開け、私の母国語でこのストーリーを伝えたいと思いました。この台本が誕生する前に「文化」の意味を考えていました。Z世代の私たちにらませ、台本では「文化売買」という形式で文化は継承されていくようにたどり着きました。面白いこ A story of the future / Hojo Shino Media：single-channel2022 video (color, sound) 14
This artwork is presented by science fiction and image narrative, it introduces and defines ways of living in the future from nowadaysʼ point of view, not telling any stories but setting up its conception of the world. Japanese voice dubbing, is to create a distance between artwork and the audience, also convey a story using my native language. Before this script was born, I was thinking about the meaning of culture. As a member of generation Z, the awareness of culture is decreasing, when the concept of global village is coming, what are the necessities of culture? But I still met lots of friends fighting for their own culture as I was thinking about this question. I started to imagine culture in the future when I was in a pickle. The future world mentioned in the script, they convey their culture by “trading culture”. What interesting is, itʼs similar to the NFT that is popular now, there isʼt a entity or a “stuff” that can be used during the trade, just like
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Using special glasses made of polarizers as the source of visual stimulation, and with the harmonious coordination of multi-channel reverberation and ambient lighting, the five senses except vision are infinitely enlarged due to the weakening of vision, by doing all this, it evokes the audience's mind to a previous perceptual experience, awakens the imaginary picture of the image of the space, subsequently creates an image beyond the visual image. The sequential relationship between light, shadow, and sound is related to each other in the form of multiple probabilities, and adding the division of virtual day and night, forms a virtual world by itself, and because it extends infinitely in the form of probabilities, the exhibition reaches a state of no repetition and end point. front of a scenery / Chih-Yang Chen Media：mixed2021 media
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The work traces back to the White Terror period, trying to find the way of remembering in this day and age. The inspiration of the work comes from the terror of being half awake and half asleep. You won't be able to determine whether the sights seen during that period were dream or reality. No matter it being fear or wonders, it all becomes a blur after your mind clears. The horrors of the memories of the white terror wonʼt be able to recreate by me, as all I can do is from the struggles I find in the state of half asleep, half awake, trying to give the dead and the persecuted, some kind of quiet condolences in this state of immeasurable time perception. Between Shadows / Lily Chen Media：Single-channel2021-2022 video(10min,color,sound,1080P), Coarse salt, Glasses, Old wall, Suede curtain 18
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Starting from everyday online images and the flowing identity of “ugly zoological specimen”, this work attempts to create a sound field that seems real but paradoxical. it fits the identity that has lost the functionality of the zoological specimen, but not like the animal as usual. Via the spread chains of contemporary images, I manually reorganize the images and then place them in the microscopic observation box, trying to create a spectacle-like visual experience and the audience watches a specific scene through a single peephole. Digital nature exists in certain visible and invisible dimensions, and only by involving in the spectacle can the audience grasp information through the small hole. Digital Ecology‒The Twelve Sages in Bamboo Grove / Yi-Chia Huang Media：video2022 installation，Color，Sound，light tube 20
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projection The images in the work are all screenshots from Google Earth, collected from all areas covered by Google in the world. The images are all focused and condensed into a subjective way of viewing. In the live view of Google Earth, the camera does not intend to stare at anyone, but just passes and records everything - and this unconscious point of view is often displayed in broken, mutilated, and dislocated images. The blurred faces blurred by google is a function of automatically detecting and erasing faces in response to privacy regulations; these anonymous people who have lost their identities have been pinpointed by satellite systems and the Internet to jointly calibrate In the latitude and longitude of the world - can they be regarded as a "portrait" reflecting the living conditions of contemporary people? 22
Ghost of Google / Pei-Ting Hsieh Media：holographic2021
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Go Back Go Back / Fuchia Yang，Abner Cheng Media：video2021 installation，Color，Sound "Go Back Go Back(怎麼回宿)" is a gamified single-channel virtual video viewing space, which is named after the homonym of “How to Backtrack（回溯）”, The making of the game is based on the environment of the school thatʼs close to our lives, by using the department hall and school dormitory as the metaphor ingredient of stress and comfort respectively . During gameplay, players will go back and forth in the repetitive point-symmetric structure, looking for a way to escape from the pressure. Thereʼs no so-called “ending” in the game, but this unusual circumstance has made another kind of “ending” form . Ultimately the entire process is to express an inescapable and inconclusive fate. From virtual space to real life,trying to turn objects and natural phenomena into the sustenance of psychological phenomena , and deduce the relation layer-by-layer . In order to let players think about their role, purpose and situation in the reincarnation space. The content shows the situation we encountered in our life experience,blindly pursuing something , powerless to prevent the situation from falling into a dead end on the road of life. 24
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In anthropology, the academic term "non-place" refers to spaces that are not historical and do not contain a sense of belonging nor human relationships. Prominent examples are places that were created in response to urbanization, such as airports, highways, and supermarkets. City dwellers spend a lot of time moving around and living in "non-places", in which they rely their spiritual needs on highly replicated, artificial landscapes. A "place” becomes a “place” because memories are created and connected to it. In “non-places” where no memories adhere, the sense of belonging could never be found, turning us, the residents, into permanent Thevisitors.Unrecognized utilizes the architecture of Taipeiʼs MRT stations to recreate a familiar yet alien artificial landscape, allowing the viewers to roam through a deserted dreamland. The Unrecognized / Chia-Yun Song Media：projection2022 26
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Combining the four different mindsets of ourselves, making texts as the foundation, and by translating them into sounds and images, we try to create an image that leads the audience into our private subconscious together. By blending the absurdities of our respective dreams, rendering the textual content in each dream to each other, We take you on a semi-narrative structured adventure. null 懦 / Chia-Yu Wang, Kuo-Kai Weng, Yu-Xiang Tang, Yen-Shan Chen 2022 Lucid Dream 清醒/夢 / Chih-Yang Chen, Kai-Hsi Chiang, Chia-Husan Chang, Yen-Shan Chen 2021 28
Solar panels convert light into electronic sound, which is used as audio input with real-time mixing.Trying to find the unusual correlations between the inputs from light and audio conversions. In today's video-based social media era, the human body has become the receiver and carrier in the digital media world. Dances are constantly being copied and imitated and then re-memorized, gradually constructing an image of the human body in the era of digital reproduction. Solar Eclipse 日環蝕 / Shu-Hsien He, Hsin-Yuan He 2022 Electronical eraʼs DJ dance studio E世代迪杰練舞室 / Miao-Chi Liu-Chang, Kun-Fang Shih 2021 29
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開幕表演 // 9.12 18:00 臺北藝術大學新媒體藝術學系地下美術館第九屆系展
