Opening Performance
Flowing Boundaries
2025
Audio-visual Performance, 10'00"
“Flowing Boundaries” employs algorithms as a generative grammar, introducing the acoustic parameters of the electronic piano into a data-driven imaging pipeline to test the plasticity and generativity of borders. Through the archival reconstruction of digital elevation models (DEM), survey and meteorological datasets, and historical maps and archaeological datasets from the Spanish and Dutch colonial periods, the work performs a cross-temporal layering of geographic narratives. Mediated by AI generation, 3D reconstruction, and dynamic audiovisual media, it translates data into a perceptible data landscape. In this light, the border is revealed as a process rather than a form—continually adjusted and rematerialized amid energetic perturbations, data indeterminacy, and configurations of power. Through the interplay of sound and image, viewers experience how algorithmically orchestrated landscapes operate in unstable, recursive, and generative modes, recasting the “border” from a static image into a temporally situated computational event.
Currently he lives and works in Tainan, Taiwan. He holds a MFA in Institute of Music from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, and he majored in multimedia composition. Most of his artworks start with the conception of space to create a new intermediary space through the mapping of light and information visualization, thereby revealing a dialectical relationship between real and sensory existence. He tries to blur the abstract boundaries of perceptions by switching between vision and hearing in space.He has been selected with the 2022 Giga-Hertz Production Award from the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the Nanying Award for Video and New Media, the NEXT Art Tainan Award, etc. In recent years, he has conducted resident creations and exhibitions in Taiwan and abroad, including in Japan, United State, United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand, Netherlands, South Korea, France, Mongoli, etc.
Yu-Jung CHEN