Duration | 2024.07.13 (Sat.) - 2024.08.10(Sat.)

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“Tao begat one; One begat two; Two begat three; Three begat all things.”
– Tao Te Ching, Laozi,

This exhibition is based on three of the artist’s recent works, aiming to explore how human sensory experiences are reshaped by the technological era. The exhibition space is envisioned as a poetic realm co-created by man, machine, and nature, where the viewer’s physical sensations and imagination mediate their participation, creating a multitude of dynamic and abundant sceneries as they engage with the artworks. These landscapes, while they flow leisurely like a stream, are also constantly interspersed with delays and noise. Humans, at the interval between nature and technology, create all things from within.

Calligrapedia: A Universal Algorithm, archives the calligraphy manuscripts previously practiced by the artist by using artificial intelligence to analyze their shapes and brushstrokes, an operation resulting in the creation of abstract ideograms imbued with elements of nature. The artist regards machine learning as a method akin to the process of learning calligraphy, where each of the two involves the analysis and imitation of an immense set of models, after which, a state of “maturity in both the person’s character and calligraphy” is eventually achieved, along with the ability to generate artistic creation. Inspired by oriental gardens, the dual-channel animation Shadow to Substance takes after the concept of “borrowed sceneries” to build and loop virtual sceneries of nature. The artwork unfolds from a first-person perspective and explores, through the alternating pursuit, reoccurrences, and synchronicities between the images, the potential of the virtual space as a spiritual abode for people in the digital age. Using the element of sand, Sunyata attempts to dissolve the boundary between the virtual and the natural through mixed reality, thus creating a subtle sensory experience in the natural setting. As viewers wander among dunes, sometimes enveloped by them, at other times scattered among the rocks in the virtual environment, it suggests that their bodies, in this heterogeneous space, seem to temporarily transform into particles of dust, dissipating in the vastness of time.

INFO

Open | 2024.7.13 (Sat.) 15:00

Discussion | 2024.7.13 (Sat.) 15:00

Duration | 2024.7.13 (Sat.) - 2024.8.10 (Sat.)

Venue｜Der-Horng Art Gallery（No.1, Chung-Shan Rd., West Central Dist., 700007, Tainan, Taiwan）

ARTISTS

Mu TUAN

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