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Chang, Yuan-Ban - The Self, Humans and Machines with Their Residues

Taipai, Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2019. Softcover. glossy white wraps w/ black & green printing. 180 pgs w/ color illustrations. text in Chinese and English. This exhibition brings together 15 installation and sculpture pieces to explore the coexistence between the self, humans, and machines, and it also serves as a response to the linkage and the re-imagination of people to their own culture and traditions (customs, identity, folk beliefs, rituals) and machines' nomadic accessibility (as seen with cyberspace and with data storage, retrieval, and access, as well as the right to command). Chang proposes different perspectives on issues that include the replacement of human labor by increasingly more sophisticated technology and the gradual disappearance of folklore and related objects due to the algorithms applied. Through his art practice and a discourse on cultural assets, two points are examined in the exhibition. The first reflects on historical remnants, and with pseudo-artifacts, images of deities presented as art, emphasis is placed on seeing disappearing traditional culture through a positive way of evaluating material functionality. The second focus tells of the non-opposing relationship between humans and machines, with artworks such as the sound-activated installation, The Anatomy of Asclepius, that shows sound could be a type of symbol or intangible language that connects its surrounding environment. The artwork collects sounds from the exhibition space, with the mechanical installation activated by hi-tech media. When an audience steps foot into the exhibition space, technological interactions with artificial intelligence are prompted by him or her, which shows that the development of technology and the human race are co-dependent on one another. Chang seeks to propose through the exhibition a different way of looking at the conundrums we are facing in the world today.--Taipei Fine Arts Museum Website. VG+ (rubbing to spine top; light rubbing to corners. tightly bound; appears unread) .
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.5 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7855] Booknumber: 186836

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