與時空的一場對話／A Dialogue with the Space and Time

展覽名稱：與時空的一場對話
A Dialogue with the Space and Time

展期：2012.08.25－2012.11.11

地點：國立台灣美術館數位藝術方舟
Venue: Digiark, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

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策展人：羅禾淋 林旺廷 吳尚霖 陳依純
Curators: LUO He-Lin LIN Wang-Tin WU Shang-Lin CHEN I-Chun

藝術家： Artists
增山士郎 Shiro MASUYAMA
金希宣 KIM Hee-seon
牛淼 NIU Miao
尼可拉斯‧漢納 Nicholas HANNA
約書亞‧包格斯 Joshua BALGOS
曾鈺娟 TSENG Yu-Chuan
沈聖博 SHEN Sheng-Po
黃怡靜 HUANG Yi-Ching
陳威廷 CHEN Wei-Ting
羅禾淋 LUO He-Lin
陳依純 CHEN I-Chun
吳尚霖 WU Shang-Lin
林旺廷 LIN Wang-Tin

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我們對周遭世界的詮釋，仰賴著時間與空間的向度。空間定位了方位，而時間看似無所不在，卻有一個恆定的方向－從過去到未來。生命追隨著光的腳步而生生不息，生命也是光「用空氣編織而成的」，十九世紀的生理學家莫勒席特（Jacob Molechit）如此闡述了光合作用。作為建構世界的要素之一，光的時間軸令事物產生了秩序，也令空間可供辨識，不致混沌黑暗。在愛因斯坦（Albert Einstein）的《廣義相對論》問世一百年後，我們尚無法達到時間旅行的境界，然而藉由光學與儲存的原理，利用捕捉影格的攝影機，卻能讓某時某地的事物可以被紀錄並再現為照片。照片證明了某個東西「曾在那裡」，羅蘭巴特（Roland Barthes）便以「此曾在」這個詞來描述攝影的對象物曾經在場，但卻已然消逝的性質。

回顧繪畫的歷史，人類試著描繪當下（已逝去的）景象的舉動，是為了將風景轉變為一個得以保存的實體，以彌補記憶的有限。紀錄的欲望從另一種角度觀之，即是與時間對抗。而在數位時代，景像的載體從畫布上顏料的堆疊，或是相紙上化學元素的變化，被轉譯（transcode）為數位的訊號並儲存，並再以光的形式被投射出來，成為我們日常中可見的螢幕（Screen）。螢幕以其自身發出的光作為影像的載體，替代了印刷紙本，產生了可傳播的內容。隨著數位相機輕便化以及智慧型手機的普及，越來越多人開始拍攝影像並上傳網路分享。因而，日常生活的風景被複製或是再製之後，經過編碼（Encoding）或是解碼（Transcoding），成為了可供重複使用、觀看的影像片段。

影像一方面呈現了一種綿延不斷的時間景觀，另方面也反轉時空的線性敘事，將過去的事物又召喚回來。經由創作者擷取、轉譯並再現日常所產生的光景，讓儲存性的過去可以與當下不斷的對話，也讓各個不同的時空敘事可以交會並再製出新的意義。

本展「與時空的一場對話」，探討的除了是影像的儲存及再現的問題之外，我們也邀請藝術家針對數位藝術方舟這個空間進行作品意義的再建構。集結國內外關注與時空對話等議題的創作者，與數位方舟產生異時異地的再連結。


How we perceive the surrounding world depends upon the domain of "time" and "space." Space decides the location, while time – which seems to be a ubiquitous concept – points to an unchangeable direction from the past toward the future. Life followed the circle of “light.” In fact, life can be considered as something “woven by light with air,” as how the 19th Century physiologist Jacob Molechit describes photosynthesis. As one of the main elements which construct the world, the “time axis” of light puts everything in order and makes “space” recognizable out of the chaotic darkness.

Nowadays, one hundred years after Albert Einstein published The General Theory of Relativity, we still have not reached the world where time travel is made real. The fantasy described in science fiction movies is still no more than an impossible dream. However, owing to the invention of camera which captures the “frames” based upon the optical theories and the storage technique, the “moment” taking place in a certain space and time can finally be recorded and reproduced as photos. Photos help to prove that something “has been there.” The idea of “that-has-been” is adopted by Roland Barthes to describe the nature of the photographed – it has been there but it is now disappeared.

Through painting, we attempt to recreate the present moment (or the moment which has just past) by transforming the scenery into a substantial object which will last longer than our memory does. In the digital age, the media carrying the images are no longer limited to the layers of paints on canvas or the chemical changes taking place on photographic papers. Nowadays, these images are transcoded and stored as digital signals. Then, they are projected in the form of light onto the screen, an object we are so familiar with in our daily life. As a light-emitting device, screen replaces paper/print to carry images and to transmit information. Therefore, the daily scenes, either to be reproduced or recreated, is now encoded and then transcoded to become a video clip which can be repetitively used.

On the one hand, images help demonstrate the endless continuity of time; on the other hand, it reverses the linear narrative of space and time, bringing the “text” which has been previously stored back to life. The images are retrieved, transcoded, and re-presented as daily scenes. The past being stored is thus given a chance to have a non-stop conversation with the present, as the narratives which take place in different space-time backgrounds encounter each other to reproduce the dialogue.

In the exhibition A Dialogue with the Space and Time, we attempt to provide a discussion about the storage and the re-presentation of images. Meanwhile, we invite artists to reconstruct the concepts of the artworks as a response to the exhibition space of Digiark. Artists, from both Taiwan and overseas, who are interested in the subjects all gather here to re-create their own conversation with Digiark – a dialogue which is beyond space and time.