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I M P R I N TCollaborated withPei-ying Lin, Fred Ku, Tsai-jung HanJeff Zoneruie Wong, Zijay TangBiological Media, Photography2011-2013

Imprinting is a experimental project which investigates the appearance of symbiotic characteristics in everyday objects. The work is attempt to raise a critical voice to the current concept of identification and recognition.

Agar used in the biolab for tissue culturing medium are applied in non-laboratorial contexts, together with the petri dish relocated in the room to detecting airborne microorganisms, or survey the invisible colonies on the leaves. Casting a face model for a scan of the facial microecology were also experimented in representing the com-plexity of the biopolitics of the body.

Hills of Abundance2012

DocumentationsSymbiotic characteristics of the air indoor

DocumentationsSymbiotic characteristics of biological objects

the leaves were collected in the outdoors, sealed in ziploc for isolation, then soaked into warm broth inside the lamina flow chamber.

DocumentationsSymbiotic characteristics of the environment

The agar were prepared inside the lamina flow, castied in the ice trays into cubic form.Agar cubes were then sticked on to the wall outside the lab, re-melting with gas torches.

DocumentationsSymbiotic characteristics of human body

The experiments in this stage casted human body parts with alginate, then fill the cast with agar to form the model, representing the topology of the testant.

YOUR DIRTY YOUR SAFETY

Information VisualizationPrint on Paper2012

Every piece of the body: scurf, hair, or nails,

are of the same identity to the complete individual.

Today our characteristics are molecular,

equalizing to any other organisms.

We are thus symbiotic with our superficial layer,

with the fungus and bacterium covering up the trail,

assimilating a new identity, insurancing the safety

trading off with dirty.

Preparation (per testant)Item QuantityBiological samples(hair, nail, oral epithelium) sufficientPetri dish 6mm 2 10mm 1Centrifuge tube (15mL) 2Alcohol lamp 1Probe (stainless steel) 1Nail scissor 1Toothpick few (of 1 pack)

Cotton swab few (of 1 pack)

Medical ethanol few (of 1L )

Parafilm few (of 1 roll)

Water (double distilled) few (of 0.5L)

Thermal Incubator ( 37℃ ) 1

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全At the times of a microcosmos, we ally with the intimate andDispotif of biopolitics in the post-biological age*1 is establisand genetic technologies, constructing novel viewpoints anda different connection of dirtiness to safety, which was not cattributes.

*1: Art & Science in The Post-Biological Age, NCCA, Kaliningrad, Russia

Metabolism of life produces a variety of dead epithelium tissues, with some of them hardened or keratinized.

Documentations& Lab Protocol

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D O U B L E H E L I X

While the living cell and the symbioticorganisms may not be mutaully beneficial, they share a degree of similar architecture, and decomposed human cell debris are mixed together with the symbiotic organisms.

97%Common understanding of “gene”(exon) has minimum proportion in the genetic compositions, asit is largely made up of introns

Intron

DNA fossils

repeated seq.

transposon

pseudogene

structural DNA

UTR(untranslated region)

1.5%Exon

Genetic diversity is generally caused by DNA fossils and repetitive sequences, which derivations of a single code in the sequences called single nuclear polymorphism (SNP) are different between orga- -nisms of the same specie, a molecular foundation for biopolitics interventing the physical body.

AnthropometryInteractive / Digital Media2012

Anthropometry investigates the connection between the couscious and the unconscious, volun-tary and involuntary behaviors during the commut-ing through a conceptual approach, examining new reflexes we are now creating in today’s life. Moving at different speeds through an individual’s traverse is a process that the body seldom recalls, a behavior growing out of a global scale massive traffic that left behind our consciousness. Documenting the move-ment with contact microphones patched beside the ankle, as well as recording the movements by attempting to draw straight lines synchornically, an uncommon behavior for the set of process in a normal commuting that awares the practitioner of its moving body and conscious.

jogrunning

synchronization

Types of movement

walking (forward)jogging (slow)gging (fast) walking (backward)

Conscious recording (line drawing)

Unconscious recording (sound)

Leg movement(reflex bahavior)

Hand movement(aware behavior)

earactivation

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Documentations

今天的我們是如何面對通勤？

騎著機車於地點之間的往返，大度路長如斷腸，卻總在眨眼間走過，習慣性地避開人孔蓋，與數不盡的柏油落差。走過同一條迴廊，同樣的步伐，平均的速度，在道路的過程與身體的關係上，形成了一種異質的永恆。

一切維持恆常的假象，是為了減少改變的必須性，習慣的維持與穩定是現代日常生活的重要條件，habituation是為了讓頭腦與雙手可以空出來，同步處理其他必須面對且無法成為慣習的變化。這使得身體在同一時間被分割為慣習/非慣習兩部分，而在面對不同情境時，交互切換慣習的對象器官。

在討論這種身體系統內部差異性的現象時，我試圖找出一種可以統整慣習器官與非慣習器官的形式，而書寫正好就具有這樣的特質。運筆是一個非常精密的動作，在沒有特殊訓練的狀況下，很容易受到身體與環境的影響而改變線條的形貌(pattern)。人正常走動的時候，視野水平線會有平均五公分的上下晃動間距，這微幅但高頻的震盪應當能反映在書寫上，此時手指如同地震儀的指針一樣，忠實地記錄步行的狀態。

透過意識地以筆畫直線紀錄非意識的腳步動作，而形成一道形式上的慣習/非慣習的聯結。再利用contact mic的作用原理，紀錄腳部運動的節奏與幅度，透過數位處理為聲波圖形。在書寫與影像兩者都可作為圖形的基礎上，將意識書寫與聲音裝置無意識動作產生的腳部運動形態相互對照，形成另一道結果/目的上的慣習/非慣習聯結。這使系統封閉自恰，而只要運動便可持續生產充滿變化的聲音與影像。

透過身體測量的形式，可以消除自身慣習造成的差異性，縱使這樣行走時不能用智慧手機，不能開app或是上臉書，浪費許多所謂的寶貴時間，但餘下的，是能夠恢復我們對自己身體的感知，讓意識重新回到身體，並使身體重新與環境聯結。

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Anthropo is an artwork that concerns of the relation between sound, body and our consciousness. Life is composed of motions: Gestures are used for communication, vehicles for transportation. We commute from point to point in a format similar to reflex, without realizing that we're actually moving ourselves, our body in the series of time and space. And if we do realize on the spot that it requires so much energy and physical coordination for this slightest purpose, such transformation of the consciousness state could overwhelm the mind and halt us at once.

Habituation as an adaptive behavior is an evolution process that is still going on. Spinal cord and cerebellum controls our sense of balance, and a variety of reflexive behaviors, it is the key component for us to get rid of unnecessary awareness in order to have more capacity on the ones that we're facing, either fighting of beasts in the tropical forest of our ancestral times or sitting in the cockpit in a dogfight high above the sea in the modern world. This biological process has made the body becoming an heterogeneous entity. Examining the motions of everyday life, we could verify that our body could be dissect into the unconscious and the conscious part, divided by habituation in different contexts. We give up the awareness to our legs while commuting and focus on our smart phone or kindle, while at work we keep changing our posture with our fingers dancing autonomously one the keyboard. Body in the world today is deconstructed into a collection of parts, and we compose a series of action according to the purpose and the environment, divide our conscious into several sectors and remain other's in the reflex state. Body thus can not be recognized as a holistic piece, but a collection of functional parts. separated by the unconscious and conscious part, and method has been exploited to the extreme in the contemporary society, a epoch which time is fragmented by both the digital environment and the corporate society articulated by quantification and efficiency, descendant of the early scientific industrialization that turn humans into machines.

The work developed a form that is proposed to reconnect our body by methods of writing and field recording. Writing is essentially the art of the pen and our body. It is a maneuver that requires precise control of our fingers, which inevitably draws our conscious. Moving with a pen in the hand writing on the paper would effect the pattern of the line, the speed of drawing is related to the pace, as well as the amplitude and the frequency of the waves and peaks in the line. It is an adequate way of consciously recording our unconscious movement without creating a bias, a faithful way for connecting the output of the unconscious part and the conscious of our body. And with contact microphone as the other method, which is sticked around the ankle to record the sound of our steps autonomously but unintentionally. This second approach can then be compared with the intentional ones after both kinds of recording of the sound are visualized into images, the outcome is the reference of the difference between the conscious body and the unconscious part. The fragmented body, can then be reconciled on the single surface, in the field of art. It is how art could tackle some of the most phenomenal issue that we're having now, and the simple operations creates an contrast of irony to the complex technological that free liberalism is constructing now.

Presentation with a conventional presenting program is an experiment of what we can do with the typical, ordinary medium that we use all the time. Powerpoint is a program that has been very familiar to me since the life in the academy. There were the slides that have been digitalized and given in the lecture in the undergraduate study, slides for quizzes, exams, and for the graduate parties. It has become some kind of life companions, one of the most significant symbols in the memory that represents my technological relationships with the knowledge, the scientific life that i once had. New apps and softwares, cloud services on the internet have always been innovated in the consumer society, but despite of the fancy effects and stylish layouts, nothing else is more classsical than Powerpoint. However, there wasn't much chance of really discovering the potential and maximizing the splendor that lies inside the program. By reconsidering the layouts and purposes of the slide with a stronger concept of design, Powerpoint can not only be filled with flattened datas and images or merely a visual presentation tool to the project, but can be the end production of the project, a trans-media that combines all kinds of elements in the artwork, like a movie composed of still images, sounds, interactive panels, and non -linear presenting formats. By placing every piece of visualized sound out, and the icons of the hypertext link, the viewers would not view the work as it has to be appreciated in an order, but a work that requires the viewer to compare and implicate by themselves.

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Movement at different speed and directions were recorded with both contact microphones and hand drawn straight lines. Both data were visualized in digital format and juxtaposed for comparisons, with the raw sound connecting them. The work is presented as digital documents, using slides for organizing the narratives and hyperlinks for the inter-actions.

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We commute from point to point in a format similar to reflex, with-out realizing that we're actually moving ourselves, our body in the

requires so much energy and physical coordination for this slightest purpose, such transformation of the consciousness state could over-whelm the mind and halt us at once.

Habituation as an adaptive behavior is an evolution process that is

balance, and a variety of reflexive behaviors, it is the key component for us to get rid of unnecessary awareness in order to have more capacity on the ones that we're facing, either fighting of beasts in the tropical forest of our ancestral times or sitting in the cockpit in a

Examining the motions of everyday life, we could verify that our body could be dissect into the unconscious and the conscious part,

-ness to our legs while commuting and focus on our smart phone or kindle, while at work we keep changing our posture with our fingers

deconstructed into a collection of parts, and we compose a series of

conscious into several sectors and remain other's in the reflex state.

and method has been exploited to the extreme in the contemporary society, a epoch which time is fragmented by both the digital environ-ment and the corporate society articulated by quantification and

turn humans into machines.

with a pen in the hand writing on of the line, the speed of drawing i

an adequate way of consciously recwithout creating a bias, a faithful

contact microphone as the other mankle to record the sound of our

tional ones after both kinds of recinto images, the outcome is the re

how art could tackle some of the having now, and the simple operatthe complex technological that fre

Presentation with a conventionalment of what we can do with the

been digitalized and given in the l

some kind of life companions, onethe memory that represents my te

Artist Statement

the paper would effect the pattern is related to the pace, as well as the

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method, which is sticked around the steps autonomously but uninten-

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lecture in the undergraduate study,

e of the most significant symbols in echnological relationships with the

-wares, cloud services on the internet have always been innovated in the consumer society, but despite of the fancy effects and stylish

there wasn't much chance of really discovering the potential and -

ering the layouts and purposes of the slide with a stronger concept of design, Powerpoint can not only be filled with flattened datas and images or merely a visual presentation tool to the project, but can be the end production of the project, a trans-media that com-bines all kinds of elements in the artwork, like a movie composed of still images, sounds, interactive panels, and non-linear present-

the icons of the hypertext link, the viewers would not view the work as it has to be appreciated in an order, but a work that requires the viewer to compare and implicate by themselves.

Taipei Imperial UniversityAssisted by Hans Liu, Eve Wang

PhotographyCultural Jamming2012

Taihoku (Taipthe Empire ofTaiwan's retroized and rena

The ROC govDeclaration, amore than an Taiwan was r

pei) Imperial University (TIU)was founded by the Japanese in 1928 included in the Nine Imperial Universities (帝國大學) founded by f Japan between 1877 and 1939,.... They were run by the imperial government until the end of World War II. After World War II and ocession to Chinese Sovereignty, the R.O.C. government completed the taking-over work officially on November 15, 1945,.... reorgan-amed the school “National Taiwan University”.

-Brief History of National Taiwan University

vernment retreated to Taipei,.... claim sovereignty on the basis of the Qing dynasty's administration, Cairo Declaration, Potsdam and Japanese Instrument of Surrender....supporters of Taiwan independence point out that the Instrument of Surrender of Japan was no armistice, a "modus vivendi" in nature.... These treaties did not transfer the title of Taiwan from Japan to China.... the sovereignty of

returned to the people of Taiwan when Japan renounced sovereignty of Taiwan in the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951. -Wikipedia

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Natl. Taiwan Univ.

Japan

TaiwanRepublic of China (R.O.C.)

The work explores concerns about the effects of the resurrection of capitalistic mperialism under globalization on

higher education systems in Taiwan. Such ense of neo-liberalism is fabricated in the

process of corporatization in the universi-ies currently, a critical issue indirectly elated to the ranking and performance of

our economic competetence in the world of globalization. The impact on the domestic scale however is the imperializa-ion of the university, becoming a rigid

power structure that explicits the society, reincarnation of the previous colonizing tate with the fundemental infrastructure

of the school built by Japan under imperi-lism before WWII. By reprinting the chool name with the original one of the olonization period on the anniversary

day, the work penetrates through the complex layers of the status.

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Nation

Transforming the old empire

Fabricating the new empire

Dawn of the Empire

Nov. 13, 2012

Nov. 14, 20126 PM

Nov. 15, 20121 AM

Nov. 15, 20127 AM

Ritual of reincarnation

The Collapse of the New Empire by the force of the Old Empire

Nov. 15, 201211 AM

Taipei Imperial University:

A history of a day

City of Humor

Everytime I wake up I look right at the windows for a glimpse of the sky and the atmosphere.

Everything is as crystal as it seems.

I look out again before the dusk sets,another glimpse of the city,dissolving in the darkness.

And as I flee from civilization, wandering at the border,Silhouettes lure with ambiguity of form,with no characters one’s filled softly into.

I then look out and find out that nopassage to the exit of the city exists.It is the illusion that presents,

erroneous,beautiful.

Photography2007

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