Macross
2011.01.14～2011.02.27
09:00 - 17:00
Macross Date：2011 / 01 / 14 ~02 / 27 Opening：2011 / 01 / 15 5 :00 pm Artist： Wang Ting-Yu, Lin Chiao-Fang, Llunc Lin, Lin Hou-Cheng, Chiu Chien-Jen, Chang Po-Chih, Chang Chia-Ying, Chen Chih-Chien,Chen I-Chun, Chen Wan-Jen, Invalidation Center for Arts and Media(Chiou Chi-Hua, Tien Chi-Chuan, Li ming-yu, Lin Cheng-Wei), Huang Po-Chih, Luo He-Lin This exhibition is named after a classic Japanese animation series of the same name,
Macross.” The story is set in a future where mankind has left Earth, living in a fortress city within a spacecraft. Like immigrants of the universe, Macross is a colonial city capable of supporting life, and also has a navigation system that enables it to travel throughout the galaxy. If necessary, it can also instantly teleport across space. The versatile Macross is a city with weapons that can fly and teleport. With the information overload of the Internet era, we have become accustomed to the rapid flow of data through the body. And, young Internet migrant artists who have undergone the baptism of the information revolution often attempt to resist invisible forces in their works. At the wrong point in space, people want to rid their body to keep up with the speed of information. Gradually, the body becomes less important and, at the same time, stalls, left to roam in the virtual world. This exhibition attempts to assemble these young artists, using personally familiar media to record this new era’s changes, time and space, future, fantasy, imagination, and beyond. In the era of the Internet,
hyperspace” is a familiar term. People are accustomed to using their mobile phones to roam cyberspace anytime and anywhere. Hyperspace is not science fiction anymore. This era we live in is an ambiguous one, awkward and uncertain. It is an era when the Internet came into existence, making us the first
Internet immigrants.” Immigrating from reality into cyberspace, we are youngsters who embrace this transformation, but also resist it. This is the greatest revolution of the twenty first century. Like space migrants residing in space fortresses, we live in confusing times, where cyberspace and reality cannot be told apart. And, the notion of a space fortress is no longer science fiction. Living though this revolution like inhabitants of a space fortress, we experience and resist the impacts it has on our lives, while we search for an exit from hyperspace.
Macross.” The story is set in a future where mankind has left Earth, living in a fortress city within a spacecraft. Like immigrants of the universe, Macross is a colonial city capable of supporting life, and also has a navigation system that enables it to travel throughout the galaxy. If necessary, it can also instantly teleport across space. The versatile Macross is a city with weapons that can fly and teleport. With the information overload of the Internet era, we have become accustomed to the rapid flow of data through the body. And, young Internet migrant artists who have undergone the baptism of the information revolution often attempt to resist invisible forces in their works. At the wrong point in space, people want to rid their body to keep up with the speed of information. Gradually, the body becomes less important and, at the same time, stalls, left to roam in the virtual world. This exhibition attempts to assemble these young artists, using personally familiar media to record this new era’s changes, time and space, future, fantasy, imagination, and beyond. In the era of the Internet,
hyperspace” is a familiar term. People are accustomed to using their mobile phones to roam cyberspace anytime and anywhere. Hyperspace is not science fiction anymore. This era we live in is an ambiguous one, awkward and uncertain. It is an era when the Internet came into existence, making us the first
Internet immigrants.” Immigrating from reality into cyberspace, we are youngsters who embrace this transformation, but also resist it. This is the greatest revolution of the twenty first century. Like space migrants residing in space fortresses, we live in confusing times, where cyberspace and reality cannot be told apart. And, the notion of a space fortress is no longer science fiction. Living though this revolution like inhabitants of a space fortress, we experience and resist the impacts it has on our lives, while we search for an exit from hyperspace.
Macross Date：2011 / 01 / 14 ~02 / 27 Opening：2011 / 01 / 15 5 :00 pm Artist： Wang Ting-Yu, Lin Chiao-Fang, Llunc Lin, Lin Hou-Cheng, Chiu Chien-Jen, Chang Po-Chih, Chang Chia-Ying, Chen Chih-Chien,Chen I-Chun, Chen Wan-Jen, Invalidation Center for Arts and Media(Chiou Chi-Hua, Tien Chi-Chuan, Li ming-yu, Lin Cheng-Wei), Huang Po-Chih, Luo He-Lin This exhibition is named after a classic Japanese animation series of the same name,
Macross.” The story is set in a future where mankind has left Earth, living in a fortress city within a spacecraft. Like immigrants of the universe, Macross is a colonial city capable of supporting life, and also has a navigation system that enables it to travel throughout the galaxy. If necessary, it can also instantly teleport across space. The versatile Macross is a city with weapons that can fly and teleport. With the information overload of the Internet era, we have become accustomed to the rapid flow of data through the body. And, young Internet migrant artists who have undergone the baptism of the information revolution often attempt to resist invisible forces in their works. At the wrong point in space, people want to rid their body to keep up with the speed of information. Gradually, the body becomes less important and, at the same time, stalls, left to roam in the virtual world. This exhibition attempts to assemble these young artists, using personally familiar media to record this new era’s changes, time and space, future, fantasy, imagination, and beyond. In the era of the Internet,
hyperspace” is a familiar term. People are accustomed to using their mobile phones to roam cyberspace anytime and anywhere. Hyperspace is not science fiction anymore. This era we live in is an ambiguous one, awkward and uncertain. It is an era when the Internet came into existence, making us the first
Internet immigrants.” Immigrating from reality into cyberspace, we are youngsters who embrace this transformation, but also resist it. This is the greatest revolution of the twenty first century. Like space migrants residing in space fortresses, we live in confusing times, where cyberspace and reality cannot be told apart. And, the notion of a space fortress is no longer science fiction. Living though this revolution like inhabitants of a space fortress, we experience and resist the impacts it has on our lives, while we search for an exit from hyperspace.
Macross.” The story is set in a future where mankind has left Earth, living in a fortress city within a spacecraft. Like immigrants of the universe, Macross is a colonial city capable of supporting life, and also has a navigation system that enables it to travel throughout the galaxy. If necessary, it can also instantly teleport across space. The versatile Macross is a city with weapons that can fly and teleport. With the information overload of the Internet era, we have become accustomed to the rapid flow of data through the body. And, young Internet migrant artists who have undergone the baptism of the information revolution often attempt to resist invisible forces in their works. At the wrong point in space, people want to rid their body to keep up with the speed of information. Gradually, the body becomes less important and, at the same time, stalls, left to roam in the virtual world. This exhibition attempts to assemble these young artists, using personally familiar media to record this new era’s changes, time and space, future, fantasy, imagination, and beyond. In the era of the Internet,
hyperspace” is a familiar term. People are accustomed to using their mobile phones to roam cyberspace anytime and anywhere. Hyperspace is not science fiction anymore. This era we live in is an ambiguous one, awkward and uncertain. It is an era when the Internet came into existence, making us the first
Internet immigrants.” Immigrating from reality into cyberspace, we are youngsters who embrace this transformation, but also resist it. This is the greatest revolution of the twenty first century. Like space migrants residing in space fortresses, we live in confusing times, where cyberspace and reality cannot be told apart. And, the notion of a space fortress is no longer science fiction. Living though this revolution like inhabitants of a space fortress, we experience and resist the impacts it has on our lives, while we search for an exit from hyperspace.
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