will be part of the international video exhibition OFFLINE BROWSER @Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 10.20.18-01.13.19
策展人│Curator
許家維 HSU Chia-Wei
許峰瑞 HSU Fong-Ray
The information flow within a network society inherits the speed and
elasticity of capitalism. Be it smartphone, TV, or computer, all are
integrated onto the showcase medium that takes the Internet as the
operation platform, while innovative technological entities integrate
the information content and material interface of browsing. Under such
circumstances, the convergence of multiple technologies along the
processes from producing to watching images is being influenced by the
numerous mediators and participants and vice versa, which further gives
birth to the dynamic order as a whole. Yet, the spread of network
technology shares similarities of that of an artificial neural network,
substantially changing our manipulation of experience, power, history
and the process of cultural production as well as the outcomes. The
organizational concepts and forms based on fixed space, time, place, and
state are utterly shattered, whereas the orientation it displays takes
the “flowing” power as the first priority, which not only accelerates
the evolution of capitalism and changes the nature of capital market,
but also renews itself at a swift speed, producing a real-time global
action.
The open structure of a network society possesses an attribute of
extending beyond space and time. Hence, a “User”, disregard the
direction he/she approaches from, is an open terminal, whatsoever. As
long as the same communication codes are flowing and consumed on the
Internet, they could be integrated into the new nodes, exploring the
unknown network. In the meantime, the real identity of a User in the
Internet Protocol is an “address” defined by a series of digital codes.
Therefore, a User is not necessary a human being. It can be a machine as
well. Networking brings about the qualitative changes to the
production, utilization, and meaning construction of messages by the
Users on the Internet. The key not only lies in how a text narrative is
produced, but in the complicated relationship between the cloud database
and message texts. Such process of conversion is the very image
attribute the video art biennial this year aims to focus. It produces
encyclopedia-like image texts among the co-opetition in between cloud
database and narratives. What it manifests on the real-virtual image
border is Users’ re-coding and understanding of life experiences as well
as how to derive the dynamic relationships among the various networks
in the human society with experience and knowledge in the network
society consists of cloud, machines, and user groups. Under this
framework, the material payload within images no longer plays the
instrumental role in the conventional video art context. Instead, it is a
springboard that reflects upon the network society as well as one of
the segments of the artists’ creation and actions in “Offline Browser”.
“Offline Browser” stresses not the functional interpretation of
online and offline on the Internet, nor does it pose us a binary
question whether to leave or to stay. What It attempts to discuss,
however, is that when we are using the platform constructed by the
Internet, how we should contemplate the structural relationship between
individual production and network under the user identity as
producer/user/consumer, and convert the perspective of technical tool in
the network society into a perspective of medium, infiltrating data via
the reverse production of information and eventually affecting the
material basis of algorithm. The key underneath is that networking
technology is not unilaterally determined by the society, but more by
the network worldview fabricated by the participations of users within.
Thus, how to comprehend and not be held by the power of this technology
is the very strategy Offline Browser deliberates.
大衛・布蘭迪 David BLANDY（英國）
尤根・陶凡 Jurgen TRAUTWEIN （德國）
文森・布迪索 Vincent POUYDESSEAU（法國）
皮亞特・珂施摩斯基 Piotr KRZYMOWSKI（波蘭）
瓦倫蒂諾・魯索 Valentino RUSSO（義大利）
半導體 Semiconductor（英國）
吉列・立貝羅 Gilles RIBERO（法國）
伊旺・古德 Ewan GOLDER（英國）
伊塔馬・辛匈尼 Itamar SHIMSHONY（以色列）
何子彥 HO Tzu Nyen（新加坡）
吳思嶔 WU Sih-Chin（台灣）
李宰旭 LEE Jaewook（南韓）
李恩喜 LEE Eunhee（南韓）
希朵．史戴爾 Hito STEYERL（德國）
林子桓 LIN Tzu-Huan（台灣）
帕希斯・卡波涅斯 Vasils KARVOUNIS（希臘）
亞麗珊卓・菲里妮 Alessandra FERRINI（義大利）
哈倫・法洛基 Harun FAROCKI（德國）
約瑟夫・威克斯 Joseph WILCOX（美國）
保羅・威爾斯賓斯基 Paul WIERSBINSKI（德國）
陸明龍 Lawrence LEK（德國）
高倩彤 KO Sin Tung（香港）
陸浩明＋亞歷克斯・麥＋彼得・倪森 Andrew LUK / Alexis MAILLES / Peter NELSON（香港）
馬契斯・契里亞卡波洛斯 Makis KYRIAKOPOULOS（希臘）
納威・諾帕坤 Naween NOPPAKUN（泰國）
娜塔莉婭・斯科比娃 Natalia SKOBEEVA（俄羅斯／比利時）
張奕滿 CHONG Heman（新加坡）
梁超 LIANG Chao（中國）
涅斯托爾・席爾＋茱莉亞・韋斯特 Nestor SIRÉ＋Julia WEIST（古巴＋美國）
賈伯葉・德布朗格 Gabriel DESPLANQUE（法國）
詹姆士・威利 James WYLIE（紐西蘭）
楊秦華 YANG Qin-Hua（中國）
愛莉莎・史翠娜 Elisa STRINNA（義大利）
葛雷格里・海曼 Gregory HAYMAN（英國）
瑪麗亞・莫麗娜‧貝伊蘿María MOLINA PEIRÓ（西班牙）
陳以軒 CHEN I-Hsuen（台灣）
陳呈毓 CHEN Chen-Yu（台灣）
鄭源 ZHENG Yuan（中國）
鄭先喻 CHENG Hsien-Yu（台灣）
鄭亭亭 CHENG Ting-Ting（台灣）
鄭佳喜 JEONG Kahee（南韓）
羅晟文 LO Sheng-Wen（台灣）
蘇珊娜・芙拉克 Susanna FLOCK（奧地利）
蘭達・摩若菲 Randa MAROUFI（摩洛哥）
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http://twvideoart.org/tiva_18/
Artist List
David BLANDY (UK), CHEN Chen-Yu (Taiwan), CHEN I-Hsuen (Taiwan),
CHENG Hsien-Yu (Taiwan), CHENG Ting-Ting (Taiwan), CHONG Heman
(Singapore), Gabriel DESPLANQUE (France), Harun FAROCKI (Germany),
Alessandra FERRINI (Italy), Susanna FLOCK (Austria), Ewan GOLDER (UK),
Gregory HAYMAN (UK), HO Tzu Nyen (Singapore), JEONG Kahee (South Korea),
Vasils KARVOUNIS (Greece), KO Sin Tung (Hong Kong), Piotr KRZYMOWSKI
(Poland), Makis KYRIAKOPOULOS (Greece), LEE Eunhee (South Korea), LEE
Jaewook (South Korea), Lawrence LEK (Germany), LIANG Chao (China), LIN
Tzu-Huan (Taiwan), LO Sheng-Wen (Taiwan), Andrew LUK / Alexis MAILLES /
Peter NELSON (Hong Kong), Randa MAROUFI (Morocco), María MOLINA PEIRÓ
(Spain), Naween NOPPAKUN (Thailand), Vincent POUYDESSEAU (France),
Gilles RIBERO (France), Valentino RUSSO (Italy), Semiconductor (UK),
Itamar SHIMSHONY (Israeli), Nestor SIRÉ + Julia WEIST (Cuba + USA),
Natalia SKOBEEVA (Russia / Belgium), Hito STEYERL (Germany), Elisa
STRINNA (Italy), Jurgen TRAUTWEIN (Germany), WU Sih-Chin (Taiwan), James
WYLIE (New Zealand), Joseph WILCOX (USA), Paul WIERSBINSKI (Germany),
YANG Qin-Hua (China), ZHENG Yuan (China)
2018/10/19(Fri) 19:00 Opening !
