ZONE_V2_ Unstable Media Act - Interact in MOCA Taipei

Curator: Alex Adriaansens

Date:8/11~10/7/2007

The exhibition is very interesting and meaningful.Many programs are thought-provoking,such as"The Catalogue" by Chris Dakley."how would you face a world in which you have become catalogued data that could be examined and read?".In this generation,everyone could be monitored,if you just watch "The Bourne Ultimatum"or "Enemy of the State"that would let you feel deep after you see this program.Another"Feed" by shane cooper which symbolize couch potato that eat TV dinners.

about exhibition

Electronic media as video, television, radio, film and the internet are closely intertwined with our understanding of history. These time based media function as our collective memory. Our understanding of history is also closely related to the way we collect and organize information, and retrieve meaning and knowledge from information stored in archives and databases. But in our digital and networked age information isn't solely a means to retrospectively look back into the past, it has become an essential element for acting and interacting in the present. Nowadays we are living IN databases and archives since all our actions are monitored, stored and interpreted and are used to predict future behavior of individuals and groups. Interaction in this perspective tends to become instrumental to economic, social or political agendas, while interaction in principle is a much more rich process leading to often unforeseen results producing social and cultural variation, and in creative practices to new forms and forms of expression.

so watt !

I was attracted by this poster first,very interesting poster.

So Watt! is the name of a design exhibition intended to raise awareness of energy consumption issues, which opens in Paris .You can search more infomation about the exhibition in http://www.dezeen.com/2007/05/25/energy-conscious-design-exhibition-in-paris-2/

About Second Skin
Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, skin is the line between a hidden interior and a surface that we can touch and see. Contemporary products, furniture, fashion, and architecture reflect the convergence of natural and artificial life. Designers today manipulate surfaces to create skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth and complexity.
As advances in science dissolve the boundaries between technology and nature, a new organicism has emerged, expressed in the conjunction of artificial materials and fluid forms. As our bodies become more like industrial products-subject to miraculous procedures of maintenance, repair, and redesign-we expect objects to be more like us: responsive, erotic, and soft to the touch.
Second Skin presents examples of products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of the outer surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, the exhibition will show how enhanced and simulated skins appear throughout the contemporary environment. Designers today continually manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth, complexity, and their own behaviors and identities.
Second Skin is a sequel to Skin: Surface, Substance + Design, organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City, 2002. Second Skin contains new objects and projects as well as selected works from the original installation.