存在．不存在的城市 i-City
策展人： 謝慧青
參展藝術家：曹斐、陳依純、黃心健、賴俊羽、李文政、葉姿秀

 

 「i」是數學中的虛數，雖然不是存在於自然界中的自然數，而卻可以在算式中演算開展。本次展覽以「i-City」比喻在現實中不存在，而卻存在於數位空間中的虛擬城市。藝術家所架構而成的數位城市，在地球表面的物理空間不存在，地圖上也找不到，而卻存在於數位空間之中，可任人遨遊。

「存在．不存在的城市i-City」展覽是由謝慧青所策畫，參展藝術家包括: 曹斐、陳依純、黃心健、賴俊羽、李文政、葉姿秀，共六位來自台灣與大陸的優秀藝術家，作品以新媒體藝術為主，呈現方式豐富多元，包括：即時互動裝置、環狀投影裝置、錄像藝術、數位輸出、電視牆、網路藝術等等。

   藝術家擷取真實城市中所見的建築元素或街頭風景，解構之後在數位世界中重建，創造出另一個混雜而又異質化的虛擬城市，與真實城市平行、相似卻又截然不同。作品中的虛擬城市，一方面反映了真實世界中的城市文化，是如何在全球化的浪潮下被衝擊碰撞，產生出各種混雜並存的異質文化的狀態。另一方面，也反映出在現今社會中，網際網路已經滲透到每個人的日常生活，我們所存在的空間已經不僅僅是物理世界中所見所聞，而已經透過網路延伸到無限無盡的網路空間，而數位城市是可以由我們自由建構、自由想像。

 

Real/Virtual: i-City
Curator: Hui-Ching Hsieh
Artists: Fei Cao, I-Chun Chen, Hsin-Chien Huang, Chun-Yu Lai, Wen-Cheng Lee,
Tzu-Hsiu Yeh (In alphabetical order)

Although not a natural number which exists in the natural world, “i”, an imaginary number in mathematics, can be calculated in equation. This exhibition uses the term of “i-City” to make an analogy of a virtual city that doesn’t exist in reality but does in the digital space. Those digital cities configured by artists are neither existent within physical space on earth nor can be found on the map; however, they exist in the digital domain that can be traveled by human beings.

Real/Virtual: i-City, curated by Hui-Ching Hsieh, includes six artists from both Taiwan and Mainland China: Fei Cao, I-Chun Chen, Hsin-Chien Huang, Chun-Yu Lai, and Wen-Cheng Lee, Tzu-Hsiu Yeh. This exhibition features on diversified forms of new media arts, including interactive installation, circular projection, video art, digital output, TV wall, cyber art, and so on.
By first deconstructing images which are retrieved from urban architectural elements or street snapshots in the real city, artists then recreate another hybrid and heterogeneous virtual cities that are not only paralleled to and similar to real cities but also drastically different to real ones. Virtual cities in the works one hand reflect how urban culture in real world are challenged and contended under the wave of globalization and therefore produce urban cultural entity that is tangled with various cultural heterogeneity; on the other hand, they reflect how everyone’s daily life is infiltrated by the internet in the contemporary society. Our living space no longer exists in what we have experienced in the physical space, but, by means of internet, extends to the infinite cyber space in which we can freely construct and imagine a digital city.