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of Electric Sheep ?
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藝術家簡介 Artist's Biography
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災難的見證與想像 To Witness and to Imagine a Disaster
蕭淑文 Jo Hsiao
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自述 Exhibition Statement
陳依純 Chen I-Chun
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第壹章 Chapter One
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第柒章 Chapter Seven
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第貳章 Chapter Two
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第捌章 Chapter Eight
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第參章 Chapter Three
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第玖章 Chapter Nine
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第肆章 Chapter Four
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第拾章 Chapter Ten
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第伍章 Chapter Five
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第拾壹章 Chapter Eleven
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第陸章 Chapter Six
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Artist's Biography
Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again
藝術 家簡介
藝術家簡介 Artist's Biography
陳依純 1980 年出生於台灣南投， 2010 和 2005 年分別畢業於國立台北
Chen I-Chun was born in Nantou, Taiwan, in 1980. She received her MFA degree
藝術大學科技藝術研究所碩士和美術系油畫組， 2013 年國立台南藝術大
in Digital Art and Technology and BFA in Oil Painting from the Taipei National
學藝術創作理論研究所博士班肄業，目前就讀於國立台北藝術大學美術 系博士班。
University of the Arts in 2010 and 2005, respectively. She was also enrolled in a doctoral program in Art Creation and Theory at the Tainan National University of the Arts in 2013. Currently, she is studying for a PhD at the Department of Fine Arts of the Taipei National University of the Arts.
她主要以錄像藝術、實驗動畫影像、互動藝術、複合媒材、繪畫為主要創 作，長期關注於工業區、邊陲及中下階層等社會議題及民間故事。而這些
The artist is best known for her artistic practice in video art, experimental
創作主要目的為編織一個巨大的工業和農村歷史地圖，去承載其個人的真
animation/video, interactive art, multi-media art, and paintings. She focuses
實與虛幻間的經驗，並嘗試與真實 / 現實社會的對話，以詩意的影像方式，
on folk stories and social issues in the industrious areas, marginalized areas, or
浪漫輕快的音樂盒去敘說的痴人之夢與期望。 曾於台灣、印度、巴西、日本、中國、以色列、韓國、新加坡、澳門、美國、 奧地利、德國、俄羅斯等雙年展、藝術節、博覽會展出， 2016 年 , 參展
the lower middle class. The idea of her artworks is to weave a giant map of the history of rural villages and industries, which carries her personal experiences among reality and illusion. She also attempts to create a conversation with the realistic/real society. The poetic image and the romantically lighthearted music express the impossible dream.
港巴塞爾藝術展 (Art Basel Hong Kong) 「光映現場 (Film) 」 , 並於 2015 年邁阿密巴塞爾藝術展 (Art Basel Miami) 「 Film Library 」展出。作品 多次獲國立台灣美術館典藏及私人收藏。
Chen's works have been selected for numerous international art exhibitions, biennials and festivals in Taiwan, India, Brazil, Japan, China, Israel, South Korea, Singapore, Macao, the United States, Austria, Germany, Russia, and other countries. Her video works have been selected for inclusion in the the Film Sector at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2016 and the Film Library at Art Basel Miami 2015. Not only private art collectors, but also museums, including the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, have collected her works.
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Artist's Biography
Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again
藝術 家簡介
「分裂台灣 2.0」，網路藝術節，聖彼得堡，俄羅斯
學歷
「ACM Multimedia」，巴塞隆納，西班牙 「分裂台灣 2.0」，奧地利電子藝術節，林茲，奧地利
2014
「90sec」，Video Art Stonebridge Center，維吉尼亞，美國
國立台北藝術大學美術系博士班就讀，台北，台灣
2010-13 國立台南藝術大學藝術創作理論研究所博士班肄業，台南，台灣 2010
國立台北藝術大學科技藝術數位藝術組碩士，台北，台灣
2005
國立台北藝術大學美術學系油畫組學士，台北，台灣
2000
復興商工美術實驗班，台北，台灣
「Trans-ideology: Nostalgia, Supermarket Creative Resource Center」，柏林，德國
2012
「台灣美術雙年展」，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣 「曖昧的存在」，tamtamART，柏林，德國；Kav-16 Gallery，台拉維夫，以色列； 鳳甲美術館，台北，台灣 「與時空的一場對話」，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣 「台灣國際錄影藝術展總集」，高雄市立美術館，高雄，台灣 「The 7th Annual Carnival of E-Creativity」，Sattal Estate，比姆塔爾，印度
個展
「巴西 File Rio 國際電子藝術節邀請展」，Oi Futuro，里約，巴西
2011
「Pixilerations [v.8]」，Sol Koffler Gallery，羅德島，美國
2016
「你夢見電子羊了嗎？第 N 次毀滅，重新來過」，尊彩藝術中心，台北，台灣
「科隆國際錄影藝術節」，貝魯特，黎巴嫩；布達佩斯，匈牙利；里加，拉脫維亞；科隆，德國
2015
「小黑在工廠工作中的一輩子 II」，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣
「巴西 File 國際電子藝術節」，Sesi 藝廊，聖保羅，巴西
2014
「林水源傳奇」，環鐵里五號，北京，中國
「存在．不存在的城市 I-City」， 台北數位藝術中心，台北，台灣
2013
「天書解密」，鳳甲美術館，台北，台灣
「Tokyo Frontline」，3331 Arts Chiyoda，東京，日本
2012
「泡沫遊戲－官成瓦斯爆炸案」，Chi-Wen Gallery，台北，台灣
2011
「重工業雕塑」，寶藏巖國際藝術村，台北，台灣
2010
「超時空要塞」，關渡美術館，台北，台灣
2010
「巴西 File Rio 國際電子藝術節邀請展」，Oi Futuro，里約，巴西
「再見小工廠系列－工廠肖像」，Chi-Wen Gallery，台北，台灣
「城市飄移」，台北當代藝術館，台北，台灣
「再見小工廠系列－表皮工廠」，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣
「複語．腹語」，光州美術館，光州，韓國
「無機城市」，鳳甲美術館，台北，台灣
「台北國際藝術博覽會－新人推薦特區」，台北世界貿易中心，台北，台灣
「測量個人與他方間的距離」，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣
「巴西 File 國際電子藝術節」，Sesi 藝廊，聖保羅，巴西
「光之行氣」，誠品畫廊，台北，台灣
「ACM SIGGRAPH S.T.」，Siggraph 藝廊，洛杉磯，美國
2009
「激情心靈：7 位元台、日新世代藝術家錄影展」，台北市立美術館，台北，台灣 「觀點與「觀」點－ 2009 亞洲藝術雙年展」，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣
聯展 獲獎
2016
「香港巴塞爾藝術展－光映現場」，香港藝術中心 agnès b. 電影院，香港，中國
2015
「邁阿密巴塞爾藝術展－ Film Library」，邁阿密海灘會議中心，邁阿密，佛羅里達州，美國 「上海 N 分鐘錄像藝術節」，民生 21 世紀美術館，上海，中國
2014
2014
台北數位藝術節，入選，台灣
「上海 N 分鐘錄像藝術節」，上海 CAC 新時線媒體藝術中心，上海，中國
亞洲數位藝術獎，動態影像類入圍，日本
「末日感性：台灣新媒體藝術展」，台北市立美術館，台北，台灣
台北數位藝術獎，影像作品獲選，台灣
「Hors Pistes Tokyo Film Festival」，東京，日本
FILE 國際電子語言藝術節，獲選，巴西
「潘朵拉的盒子」，金澤 21 世紀美術館，金澤，日本
第二屆深圳獨立動畫影展，入圍，中國
「形 • 動－國際文字影像藝術展」，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣
2013
「未來媒體－科技藝術論壇」，國北師美術館，台北，台灣
2012
ACM Multimedia Art Exhibition，不分獎獲選，西班牙
「平坑時代」，台北數位藝術節，台北，台灣
2011
美國 Pixilerations 新媒體藝術展，獲選，美國
「鬼魂的迴返」，鳳甲美術館，台北，台灣
德國科隆第七屆國際錄影藝術節，獲選，德國 巴西 File 國際電子藝術節錄像藝術，獲選，巴西
「佛在海灘上」，奧地利電子藝術節，林茲，奧地利 「蟲洞」，高雄市立美術館，高雄，台灣
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA，中國
2010
巴西 File 國際電子藝術節互動藝術，獲選，巴西
「尚．布希亞－攝影．密碼」，鳳甲美術館，台北，台灣 「分裂台灣 2.0」，跨媒體藝術節，柏林匈牙利文化中心，柏林，德國
2013
「分裂台灣 2.0」，錄像瞬間藝術節，馬賽，法國
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Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again
藝術 家簡介
"The Apocalyptic Sensibility: The New Media Art from Taiwan", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan "Pandora", 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
典藏
"Type Motion – Type as Image in Motion", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
2015
《林水源傳奇第四集》，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣
2012
《表皮工廠》，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣 《再見小工廠》，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣
2011
"Future Media – Art and Technology Forum", Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan 2014
"Ecosysytem – Digital Art Festival", Taipei, Taiwan "The Return of Ghosts", Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
《測量個人與他方間的距離》，國立台灣美術館，台中，台灣
"Buddha on the Beach – Ars Electronica Festival", Linz, Austria "The Wornhole Theater", Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan "Jean Baudrillard – Photography and Password", Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan "Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0", Transmediale, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2013
"ACM Multimedia", Barcelona, Spain
EDUCATION 2014
"Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0", Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria "90sec", Video Art Stonebridge Center, Woodbridge, VA, USA
Studying for a PhD, Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2010-13 Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan 2010
MFA in Digital Art and Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2005
BFA in Oil Painting, Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2000
Graduated from the Department of Arts and Crafts, Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School, Taipei, Taiwan
"Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0", Cyberfest, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
"Trans-ideology: Nostalgia, Supermarket Creative Resource Center", Berlin, Germany 2012
"Taiwan Biennial", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan "Ambiguous Being", tamtamART, Berlin, Germany; Kav-16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan "A Dialogue with the Space and Time", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan "Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition", Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan "The 7th Annual Carnival of E-creativity", Sattal Estate, Bhimtal, India
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
"FILE Rio – Electronic Language International Festival", Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2011
2016
"Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again", Liang Gallery, Taipei,
"Pixilerations [v.8]", Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island, USA "Cologne International Video Art Festival", Beirut, Lebanon; Budapest, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Cologne,
Taiwan
Germany
2015
"Little Black: Life in the Factory II", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
"FILE – Electronic Language International Festival", Sesi Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
"Shui Yuan Lin Legend", Huan Tie Li No. 5, Beijing, China
"I-City", Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
"Decoding the Heavenly Book", Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
"Tokyo Frontline", 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2012
"Bubble Society", Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2011
"Sculpture the Heavy Industry", Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
"Macross", Kuandu Museum of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2010
"Goodbye Little Factory Series – Portrait of a Factory", Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2010
"FILE Rio – Electronic Language International Festival", Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "The Video Art Exhibition Series on Moca Plaza No.1 Floating Cities", Museum of Contemporary Art,
"Epidermis Factory", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan
"Inorganic City", Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
"Ventriloquized Video – Contemporary Art from Taiwan", Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
"Measuring Distances Between the Self and Others", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung,
"Art Taipei 2010 – Made in Taiwan: Young Artist Discovery", Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan
"FILE – Electronic Language International Festival", Sesi Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
"Light Calligraphy", Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"ACM SIGGRAPH S.T.", Siggraph Gallery, LA, USA 2009
"Mind as Passion", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan "Viewpoints and Viewing Points, 2009 Asian Art Biennial", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016
"Art Basel Hong Kong – Film Sector", agnès b. Cinema – Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
2015
"Art Basel Miami – Film Library", Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL, USA
Taichung, Taiwan
"N-Minutes Video Art Festival", M21, Shanghai, China "N-Minutes Video Art Festival", Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
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Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again
AWARDS AND FUNDING 2014
Digital Art Festival Taipei, Selected, Taiwan
Shui Yuan Lin Legend – First Episode , Asia Digital Art Award, Motion Graphics Category Finalist, Japan Digital Art Award Taipei, Video Work Selected, Taiwan FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Selected, Brazil The 2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Finalist, China 2013 2012
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, China ACM Multimedia Art Exhibition, Selected, Spain Fine Arts Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan National Art Exhibition, ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Selected, Taiwan
2011
Pixilerations [v.8] New Media Fringe Festival, Selected, USA Cologne Off VII – Video in a Global Context, Selected, Germany FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Selected, Brazil
2010
FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Selected, Brazil
COLLECTIONS 2015
Shui Yuan Lin Legend – Fourth Episode , National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2012
Epidermis Factory , National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Goodbye Little Factory , National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2011
Measuring Distance Between the Self and Others , National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
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藝術 家簡介
Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again
To Witness and to Imagine a Disaster
災難的見證與想像
災難的見證與想像 陳依純個展短評 —《你夢見電子羊了嗎？第 N 次毀滅，重新來過》
作者暗示人類冒險最根深蒂固的不在於用科學建 臺北市立美術館助理研究員
蕭淑文
構世界，而是同時混雜暴力觀點和毀滅觀點具體 表達一種超出倫理價值及道德思考範疇，人類彼 此間爭鬥的決戰就是末日，更令人畏懼的是「末 日」指涉的是宇宙的，在變成受汙染的世界裡， 滿目瘡痍被消耗殆盡，人類的倖存者只有變異成 為機器人才可以生存。陳依純章回體式的影像， 影像藝術創作者陳依純的作品經常牽涉關於災難的毀滅美學，它們經由影 像和聲音，讓我們可以透過歷史事件及各種預言式的訊息，用人類本身的 毀滅來幻想一個新世界的體制。從她這次個展的標題解讀，它就像是一個 典型的科幻小說劇本，和作者過去的創作脈絡一樣從對關於現代都市生活 中所喚起的災難，引發人的死亡到更多城市的崩解，傳達一種類似科幻電 影可預測形式。但在這場災難中，獨獨缺的是科幻電影中一定會出現來拯 救人類的「超級英雄」，反而是人類同時扮演著「創造者」與「毀滅者」 雙重角色來參與毀滅世界的幻想。 作者表示展覽是用「章回小說」的敘事文本將自己的問題表達出來。第壹 章〈那一年的歷史事件〉從檔案文件、新聞、田野調查以及作為目擊者這 四條線索啟動在 25 年前某個夜晚發生在自家社區的瓦斯罐裝車爆炸事件 描述恐慌的大眾開始逃跑；大部分的屋舍被焚燒的場景；以及經由災難見 證者的記憶娓娓說出在那個時刻他們所經歷的。影片中並沒有預期的血腥 畫面，而是刻意用動畫隱藏某種令人毛骨悚然的東西，更凸顯災難地點難 以置信地被孤立於這個城市的其他部分，一般人則感受到無法抵抗失序世 界的無助。 更進一步地，從第貳章〈動物大量的不知名死亡〉到最終章〈考古學家地
沒有呈現被燒毀的地球或者人類死亡的殘酷畫面， 在她的論點裡所提出的新世界，是幻想一個重新 開始的世界，一個不需要有愛，更再也沒有災難 沒有痛苦的世界，因為人類和他的世界一起變成 了遺跡！ 「當然你不用畏懼 因為你的仿生人我們已經有程
的威脅，她只能用影像宣稱末日世界逼近眼前，
式編碼在再造另一個你其實已沒你想像中的困難
人們無力反擊只能面對毀滅。這是人類處境的矛
反正人類早已滅亡只是你沒意識到 重來幾遍都會
盾，人類直到最後一分鐘都無法想像的結局。
滅亡 這真是令人覺得不可思議啊 難怪會有句話總 歸的說 萬惡的人類」陳依純用這一段話語作為結
陳依純的個展反映出人類普遍性的生存焦慮，但
尾，具有一種激烈但絕望的內在情感對人類社會
她不僅拒絕提供關於未來美好世界的憧憬，在她
進行批判。人類連結了自身的利益去使用科技，
的影片中不斷地反覆灌輸一種對末日事不關己的
是一種錯誤的個人意志，導向絕對的冒險。作者
冷漠，讓內容本身變成可以被質疑的現實—一種
對去人性化的現代都市生活及她從過去經驗中所
逼近我們的現實。最後這一段結語，更是集合作
衍生出的歷史宿命表達出某種焦慮，而這種沒有
者自身的夢魘來反芻當下極端的世界，揭露隱藏
被大部分人有意識的經驗，是作者親身經歷過，
在人類本質背後的暗黑其實就是具爭鬥的獸性，
甚至是她認為任何人隨時都可能遇到的境況是一
最後也是這種獸性讓人類及他的世界走向毀滅。
種難以負荷的感知，一種無法被大部分人意識到
這個展覽的主題或許是最惑人的，它去掉了人性： 電子羊入侵了人類世界，世界經過無數次的毀滅，
隱藏告白〉，作者叩問人類世界因為核武戰爭或遭受其他先進武器的攻擊
被視為整個展覽重要的象徵，充斥道德批判的態
而近乎滅絕。一開始是動物的死亡、更多城市的死亡，以及人類自己的死
度。或許這也是陳依純作為災難目擊者最寂寞的
亡：身體變異成為半人半機器的「它們」是不需具備思想、情感、才智，
吶喊！
而是以「非人類形貌」（動物的頭顱、機器的身體），用一種絕對規律的 群體行動來進行生產。在這裡，世界所有的生產力與勞動力都被機器掌控： 一個重新開始的世界，一個沒有展示出情感或任何個人特質無須具有道德 感的機器人世界。
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To Witness and to Imagine a Disaster
災難的見證與想像
To Witness and to Imagine a Disaster A Short Review on Chen I-Chun's Solo Exhibition – Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again
is being rebooted, and the new one is bristling with
Jo Hsiao
Assistant Researcher at Taipei Fine Arts Museum
robots without any sense of emotions, personality, and morality. The artist implies that the root of humans' adventure is not to build a world on scientific concepts but to blend violence and destruction together to materialize Video artist Chen I-Chun is known for her disaster-themed art to explore the
a way of thinking which is beyond morality and ethics.
aesthetics of destruction. Through sound and image, we are reminded of
The end of the world comes on the day when humans
historical incidents and given prophetic messages which allow us to imagine a
fight each other. More horrifying, the "end" should
new world's order with our own destruction. As suggested by the title Do You
terminate the whole universe. In a highly polluted
Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again , Chen's solo
world, everything is ruined and nothing is spared. The
exhibition is like a typical science-fiction script which, by following the artist's
only survivors are the humans mutating into robots.
consistent preoccupation, touches upon the disaster taking place in a modern
However, the video rendered in chapters does not
city and how it ultimately causes death and the collapse of the city. The form is
show us the charred Earth or the cold-blood images of
predictable like all science-fiction movies, but the disaster itself is not stopped by
human deaths. Quite on the contrary, the new world
a superhero, the Savior. Instead, humans here become both the Creator and the
in Chen's theory is a world rebooted in one's fantasy –
Destroyer as they take part in the end-of-the-world fantasy.
a world without love, disaster, and pain, because both
experiences. Indeed, most of the people are not aware of the things she has experienced. For them, it is an overwhelming thought that, as believed by the artist, a similar disaster can happen to anyone of us. When the threat cannot be identified by the public, she is left with nothing but her video to voice that the end is near. The human resistance is proved futile, so we can only let it come to us, face to face. It is an awkwardly
humans and the world they once lived in have already According to the artist, the exhibition borrows the narrative structure of "novel in
self-contradictory situation, a finale beyond anyone's
become ruins.
imagination even in the last minute.
chapters (a traditional Chinese literature form)" to speak out her own concerns. The first chapter "Historical Events of That Year" revisits the night of the gas tank
"You surely feel no fear, because of your android.
explosion around her childhood neighborhood twenty-five years ago through
We have the codes and program to create another
documents, reportages, field research, and witness accounts. The four approaches
you, and it is not as difficult as expected. Humans
help visualize the panicked crowd running away, the buildings burned down, and
are doomed, it is just a matter of time. Too bad you
the horror experienced and memorized by survivors. Not a single shot of blood
didn't realize it. No matter how many lives it has, it
will be expected in the video, while it intentionally keeps the creeps out of sight
never stops destroying itself in the end. Imagine that.
by adopting animation in the work, emphasizing the fact – believe it or not – that
No wonder we always hear people saying it, 'the evil
the disaster area has been completely isolated from the rest of the city. It thus
humans.'" This quote is how Chen I-Chun concludes her
captures the helplessness that none of us can stand against the disordered world.
works. Motivated by a passionate and yet desperate
Chen I-Chun's solo exhibition reflects the universal existential anxiety shared by all human beings. However, she not only refuses to provide a beautiful future for viewers to hope for, but also repeats a sense of indifference toward the coming end as a means to transform the content into a reality to be challenged – a reality which approaches. What the video says in the very end incorporates the artist's nightmare to digest the radical world we are living in, through which
emotions, she criticizes the human society, where What follows, from Chapter Two "The Unknown Death of a Vast Number of
humans exploit technology for their self-interest.
Animals" through the last chapter "Hidden Confessions of Archeologists," is
The misled free will steers us into a pure adventure.
the artist's statement to question how humans rush to their own extinction
We can almost feel the artist's anxiety about the
as a result of nuclear wars or the attacks made with advanced weapons. It all
dehumanized modern life, particularly the predestined
begins with animal deaths, cities destroyed, and eventually the death of human
course of history, a concept derived from her previous
she reveals that the true darkness hidden beneath the essence of humans is the beastly nature of killing each other. It ultimately drives us, both mankind and the world, toward destruction. We might say that the theme of the exhibition is the most intriguing due to the intentional absence of humanity: quintessential
race: human bodies mutate into non-human figures – the half-human-half-
symbols such as electric sheep invading the human
machine creature which has an animal's head but the body is purely machine.
world or the repeated world destruction present a
Deprived of emotions, intelligence, and thinking, they proceed the production
critical perspective on morality. Perhaps it is the artist's
process through an absolute and regulated mass behavior. Here, machines have
lonely shout as a witness who has once come face to
unquestionable dominance on worldwide productivity and labor force: the world
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陳依純個展—你夢見電子羊了嗎？第 N 次毀滅，重新來過
Chen I-Chun Solo Exhibition – Do You Dream of Electric Sheep?
Exhibition Statement
自述
The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again
Chen I-Chun
Artist
藝術家
陳依純 在人人都想當白領階級的世界，沒有人想當工廠中的藍領勞工，所以政府
In the world created by the artist, everyone wants to be a white-collar worker,
引進了世界最耐操的勞工機器人，讓每個人都能實踐當白領階級的夢想。
and no one wants to be a blue-collar worker working in a factory. In order
然而這些取代藍領階級的機器人，因為第三世界的油源壟斷，造成機油糧
for everyone to achieve the dream of being a white-collar, the world's most
食的匱乏，引起藍領機器人的躁動，導致勞動系統迴路全面當機，引發的 動盪和機器革命造成白領世界極大的恐慌。
durable labor robots have been introduced by the government. These robots have become a substitute for the blue-collar workers, but because of the severe shortage of machine oil caused by the oil monopolization in the third world, the blue-collar robots got restless. It resulted in a full crash of the labor system,
這些被奴役的藍領機器人，冀望擁有自己的國度，它們做著美夢，想要重
sparked off an unrest, and prompted the robots' revolution, thus causing a great
新分配白領人類和藍領機器人間的權力分配；而人類想著，如果能摧毀核
panic among the white-collars.
能電力系統，便能重新掌握藍領機器人的支配權。而這些勢力的政爭消 長，不斷地引發一場又一場瀕臨世界末日的危機符號，再三地提醒能看見 未來的預言者。 當白領人類和藍領機器人的戰爭達到一個崩裂點，白領階層中的精英人類 決定引爆核能，讓安裝著監控電路系統的藍領機器人都瞬間被摧毀。這場
These enslaved blue-collar robots have been hoping to have their own country. They have also been wanting to redistribute the power between the whitecollar people and the blue-collar robots. However, people thought, if they could destroy the nuclear power system, they would be able to regain control over the blue-collar robots. The growth and decline of political arguments continuously triggered off crisis that showed the warning signs of the Apocalypse.
核爆銷毀的不僅是藍領機器人，也使白領人類一併毀滅，因為白領人類他 們並無意識到自己也是世界機器中的一個系統，他們是吃著人造食物的高 端機械，與藍領機器人一同在這個迴路世界裡生存著。 這場階級戰爭，窺探了地球上人類早已滅亡的事實；此時此刻所見，只是 另一星系的研究考古，探討人類為何會自取滅亡的一門再現現實的學問。
When the war between the white-collar people and the blue-collar robots reached its peak, the elite class among the white-collars decided to detonate nuclear energy, thus instantly destroying the monitoring circuit system installed in the blue-collar robots. However, this nuclear explosion had destroyed not only the blue-collar robots, but also the white-collars. The white-collar people did not realize that in this world they are also a part of the system, that the food they eat is artificial food produced by the high-end machineries, and that they are just like the blue-collar robots, because all of them live in the same circuit. Archeological research done by the other galaxies has revealed that people have perished away from the Earth long time ago. The aim of this investigation is to name the reasons for their disappearance.
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第壹章
I discovered very interesting historical records telling a story, which happened in Taipei's Shulin district in 1990. Owing to the person who was filming at that time and by means of archeological methods, I was able to find an archived video reflecting a 25 years old story from the perspective
第一章
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of a video maker who was also a victim. The story was recorded by a cheap portable filmmaking device. The narration in this visual documentation is very clear, yet video maker has also added some textual descriptions. I think I should cite them below for a better explanation of the research. What makes me very surprised about human nature is that people can live around a ticking-bomb and to be invalid to confront it. I believe that being a robot sometimes is not necessarily a bad thing.
Chapter One
Only the fissured fragments of the events have remained, but the oral accounts and the memories of various people can help to fill in the cracks. Retrospectively looking back at the late-night escape, which took
25 年前的那夜 那一年的歷史事件 Historical Events of That Year – 25 Years Ago the Night
place twenty years ago, the question 'why did it happen' comes to the foreground. Until now, there have been many broken bits of evidence that benefit to unraveling a mystery of the incident. Even though the information I have is from official sources, but the field research and visits will aid us toward understanding.
我找到一份很有趣的文獻記載，在西元 1990 年發生在台灣台北樹林區的一個故事。由於當時拍攝製作影
Sometimes people have to go through some strange experiences when they are facing intense violent attack. The body goes out of control or it
像的人，也利用考古的手法，找到了更久以前被封存的影像紀錄，而這是拍攝者找回 25 年前，跟他歷經
even looses its form, we have to fully accept the present situation and
過同一個災難者的故事。他利用當時隨身一個畫質不甚高階的廉價掌上型拍攝器所錄製的。我想這個影
acquisitions that ought to become paradoxical under a social disorder.
像紀錄，文字已經述說的很清楚。當然拍攝者他有一些隱藏的文字說明，我想為了研究說明，我也把它 們列舉在下方。人類可以跟定時炸彈好好的同時存活在同一個空間而無效抵抗，握有實權的人不畏人言 和良知，這真是非常令我對人性感到驚訝的。我想我們好好當一個機器人有時也不見得是壞事，在此刻。
We try to create a seemingly safe world at the edge of the border situated at a landscape that seems to be secured. But what really happened was a deadly fire caused by a gas leak in a densely populated industrial area, which triggered a tumult in the middle of the night.
「事件的碎裂藉由僅存的文件補足，而其中尚且存有許多裂縫，藉由口述和各自記憶去補全所謂不可見 之部分。追溯二十年前深夜的奔跑和逃離，所竟為何？直至今日從許多細碎的線索，追尋出一個片面，
I try to piece back the history with my fragmented memories from that
漸漸拓展清晰那個曾經的謎團，即使手中握有的訊息多是官方的信息，但也藉由田野和拜訪去理解部分。
night to illustrate the disaster, to portray the people who have experienced it, and to comfort not only the victims of this incident, but also those who
人們身邊有時會歷經一些超脫的詭譎經驗，臨場的當下是激烈的猛烈侵襲。而主體失控和消失的身體性，
were able to escape.
只得全盤接受現下和所獲得的，亦或吞忍，在這弔詭的社會失序中。 我們在疆界中劃出一個看似安全的界地，放置了一個被再三保證的安全景觀，而實質事件發生後，日晨 人口稠密的工業區，深夜寥寥幾人的夜班勞工，也因瓦斯罐裝車疏漏引起的遽然大火而連夜逃命。 我藉由所知的斷裂，去拼湊出所知的歷史，描畫的是當時的人們其當下及日後的身體感知和存有在心中 的災後畏懼，藉此慰藉當年罹難的以及逃離中的所有人們。」
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Chapter One
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25 年前的那夜 25 Years Ago the Night 有聲彩色錄像 Color video(loop) with sound ｜ 2015
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第貳章
Before humans became extinct, many countries had constantly been developing new weapons, whether it would be sonar guns causing a great number of whale deaths or sonic guns affecting a vast amount of birds. Trial nuclear explosions had affected the crust of the Earth, thus forcing
第二章
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numerous insects to come forth from the deep ground. Many pre-extinct people did not consider all of these happenings to be significant, therefore no one was really interested in making a thorough investigation. Preextinct people were sure that ordinary people did not know what was happening. In fact, we, white-collars, have a legend saying that humanity was destroyed due to the military rivalry. Earth is so small, if one drops a nuclear bomb or a hydrogen bomb, the whole human civilization will be swept away.
Chapter Two
Those people, who are allowed to launch the bombs, usually have entrance tickets for a protected fort where the "operating system of the post-
動物大量的不知名死亡 有晴天 The Unknown Death of a Vast Number of Animals – Sunny Day
calamity sustainable ecological cycle" can be found. After having a group discussion among each other to talk about the trial tests, they decide which areas they are going to use for the trials. All of this is a secret that only a very small amount of people knows. There are so many complex factors behind the extinction of the pre-extinct people. As a result, our generation must rely on machinery and electronics, we have immortal souls and grit,
人類滅絕前，因為許多國家不斷在研發新型的研究武器，不管是深海的聲納砲導致許多沙灘上出現大量的
and we can grow and multiply. We are not aware of pain and death because all we need is to get a new chassis and a new circuit. We remember many
死亡鯨魚，或是被尖端音爆波及的鳥從天上大量墜落，遠端核武試爆造成地殼翻動，讓許多蟲隻從深邃
moments from the past, we know the history of mankind, but we realize
的地底世界大量躍出，許多古人類以為是不知名的傳奇，大家當泡沫新聞看看就好，誰也沒去追根究柢，
that we are only monsters.
因為古人類說的死老百姓，絕對不會知道那是什麼。其實在我們白領部族中就曾有一個傳說，人類的毀 滅在於軍武的對抗競技，事實上地球那麼小，這邊丟一顆核彈，那邊回丟一顆氫彈，武力威嚇，其實一 下一堆自然生態和人類文明就輕輕鬆鬆清光光了。 這些可以按下核彈發射器的人，通常都有收到入場券。那是一種叫做「災難後生態自動循環作業系統」 的隱型保護碉堡。他們可以在內部，安全地彼此試射討論後覺得不重要的區塊，或是覺得有必要警告或 是重新振新某個領域財團的生產，就會被默許成為可被試射區。這些是秘密，在地球上只有微乎其微的 人知道，古人類的高端摧毀，帶有太多背後複雜的因素。也因為如此，我們這世代的人必須仰賴機械電子， 我們擁有不滅的靈魂和意志，可以生生不息，因為我們只要換新的機殼和電路，我們無法體會什麼叫做 疼痛和逐漸死亡，我們記得許多過去的片刻，閱讀許多人類的歷史，卻促使更加讓我們明白我們只是一 個怪物。
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Chapter Two
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有晴天 Sunny Day 複合媒材 Mixed media ｜ 2013
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第參章
Old documents reveal that Earth's plates have moved even more over the years. The area of land has singnificantly reduced, and the proportion of sea and land has become 95:5. The alerts about the greenhouse effect and the rising sea levels have been mentioned in the ancient texts, but,
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most likely, not many pre-extinct humans earnestly practiced how to avoid disasters. Nowadays, undersea exploring has become prominent. The sea is like a treasure-trove, which reflects on the ancient wisdom. We learn from the archeological studies of human thinking of how to disguise as a human being and how not to be exposed. How did they survive in the cities, what was their lifestyle? It has become an important exploration. Only 0.002% of us, white-collar robots who have the whole body, have the skills to do archeological research. Looking at a statue made of bronze, we
Chapter Three
can estimate that it is a relic of a certain diety from pre-extinct Denmark. It appeared in the waters of pre-extinct Bangkok, hence, I think the strength of ocean currents really should not be underestimated. Distinguishing to
海水淹沒了各國首都 明日孤城 Capital Cities Submerged by the Sea Water – Tomorrow's Lonely City
which of the systems this object belongs to is very difficult.
翻閱古老的文獻記載，地球上的板塊移動分合歷年有所更易，而如今陸地的面積已大量縮減，海陸的比 例是 95:5 。溫室效應，海水上升這種古老的警惕文，可能也沒多少古人類認真實踐避免災難的發生吧。 如今海底探險倒是一門顯學，海中如同一個寶庫，那是古老的人類智慧，以考古研究肉身人類的思維， 如何變身偽裝成一個若如肉身的人類，而不被拆穿。如何生存在以往的城市中，生活型態是什麼？是現 今一門更熱的學問探究，我們全體的白領機器人只有 0.002% 的人具有考古研究的分析能力。看著雕像 的臉孔以青銅翻製，被推估是來自古丹麥的某個神祉的遺跡？出現在亞洲古曼谷的海域，我想洋流的力 量果真是不容小覷。要區分那個物件的隸屬系統，在洋流的搗亂下真是難上加難。
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Chapter Three
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明日孤城 Tomorrow's Lonely City 有聲彩色錄像 Color video(loop) with sound ｜ 2015 -2016
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第肆章
Fifty years before the extinction of human species, the world had already been gradually collapsing, the climate had been changing severely, and new forms of viruses had been appearing. All of this had been accelerating dramatically, and no one was able to either predict it or control it. In fact,
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many areas were abandoned and isolated. When scientists were not able to propose concrete and effective regulations or improvements, they left the land uninhabited. They said that this is a humane way of execution. The bourgeoisie class was definitely the first to receive an evacuation invitation. They were protected, yet a great number of ordinary people was abandoned. This seems to be a secret though. Because these sophisticated minds had continuous value and significance, scientists and electrical engineers became of first importance in the future world. Were other
Chapter Four 放棄現實世界戴上虛擬頭盔吧 進入電子擬像中去避難 Put on a Virtual Helmet to Abandon the Real World – Seeking for Asylum in the Electronic Simulacra
professional features necessary? No, in the world we live now, art enriches our souls and allows us to be more similar to human beings. Before the end of the world, a group of scientists built a laboratory for the top 100 people of each profession. These people received refugee invitation cards, hence their intellect and consciousness was protected. Even though their physical bodies do not exist any more, but their mechanical organs and intelligent electronic brains can continuously accumulate in this universe. This is an important evolution. Before the end of the world, some
在古人類滅絕前的五十年，世界早已逐漸崩壞，氣候劇烈變遷，新型病毒的產生，這一切的速度是以劇
human beings had already been implanted with microchips. As a result, they can walk in the gap of time and space. We usually refer to this as a
烈加速度在運行，這讓他們完全無法預估，也無法掌握。事實上許多地區是被拋棄了，被隔絕了。當科
'dream.' The fact is that these people are ranked among one hundred most
學家無法提出具體有效的控制和改善，就讓一個地區徹底的遺忘，他們說這是一種人道式的處決方式。
important human beings. There are still ongoing experiments aiming to create body and soul. Before the closing of the time slit we searched for art
當然資產階級絕對會先收到邀請通知書，來被保護撤離，但絕大多數就被放棄了，不過這似乎是不能說 的秘密。也因為這些尖端的腦有價值意義的延續，未來的世界首要的是科學家和電子工程師，其他的職 業屬性都是不必要的？不，在我們現在的世界，藝術豐富了我們的心靈，讓我們能更靠近成為一個人，
people in various places of the world. The thoughts of these people are the spiritual food to please electronic bodies, these people also belong to the species of blue-collars. Whether you want to give the artist a human-like head or not, it is still a controversial question.
那是絕對讓人瘋狂的追尋啊。 人類在末日前，世界科學團隊研擬出末日避難實驗室，發放給全球各業前百大的人類「避難邀請卡」， 因此他們的腦和意識延續了，即使肉身不在，機械的內臟，電子聰慧的腦，是宇宙生命中不能抹滅的積累， 一個重要演化。有些人類在末日前已先被植入晶片，因此可以遊走在時空的切片縫隙中，通常我們會簡 稱那是「夢」，事實上這些人類是排名百大之下，仍被認知具有實驗開創價值的肉身靈魂，我們趁著時 光切縫還沒關閉前，尋找了世界各地有效度的各界藝文人士，因為那是唯一能取樂豐碩電子肉身的我們 唯一的精神糧食，當然他們也是屬於藍領物種，要不要給藝術家一個人道式的頭顱，目前我們仍舊爭議 不斷。
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incident of saving candy-candy cyborgs from the sea." On that day, an artificial land unexpectedly collapsed, and a mall momentarily sank into the sea. Everyone panicked once they saw candycandy cyborgs in the sea. While senior commander was not able to distinguish who is who because all the cyborgs looked the same, he received the first emergency call ordering to save the youngest daughter of the interplanetary diplomat. Due to this reason and owing to the error that occurred during the rescue, the entire commander's team was destroyed.
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The destroyed ones were the mouse-headed robots, hence, I believe, no one actually cared how many died. The most important is that the youngest
在末日和天堂間拯救相似但不同的個體 窗外的忙碌景致 今日明月／ 有本事的先跑 請保持優雅的逃亡 Rescuing Similar but not Alike Individuals in a Place Between Hell and Paradise – Outside Is the Busy Scene – Today Has the Beautiful Moon / Have the Ability to Flee – Keep an Elegant Escape
daughter was rescued, yet she was not the first to be saved, therefore every one understood why all of this happened. Later on, in order to avoid similar incidents from happening again, the candy-candy cyborgs had to suffer hardships. Two hours after the incident, an international celestial law had been passed saying that, at the moment of crisis, all white-collars must first remove their artificial leather face masks and show their hidden P codes. After scanning the code, the rescue team has to make a decision about who can be given the priority to be saved.
機器人的世界也不是不會沒有意外的，只是有一天新聞快訊的浮空視頻，出現了令大家不知所措的歷史 事件，我們稱之「落海甜甜次序拯救事件」。 那天人工陸地出現坍塌意外，地面上的百貨商城瞬間沉沒海底，而當海面上出現落海的甜甜們時，大家 驚慌了。因為每個一樣臉孔華美的外表，使得高層指揮官無法區分誰是誰時，他接到的第一通緊急電話， 命令他必須先把星際外交官的么女先救上來時，他的整個團隊因為無法區別而使救援進度次序錯誤，最 後導致整個指揮團被殲滅。 當然被殲滅的是鼠頭人族裔，因此死了多少人我想也不會有人在乎。重點是么女救上來了，但她不是第 一個被救上來，所以才會發生這樣的事件，大家也都很自然的能理解。 Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? The N-time Destruction Starts Over Again
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There is a residence inhabited by the animal-headed blue-collar robots on the other side of this iron sheet. Ordinary white-collar robots are not able to enter or to see this place. This is the most important habitat of the bluecollar robots. I think, if human beings were still here, they would invite
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Discovery channel to make a documentary about the living environment in this dwelling. Later, they would give it to the white-collar workers to show of how bad some environments in this world can be, and how great is the world in which they live. Such disparity should be reassuring, and give a feeling of superiority and control. Although I very much abhore those who take advantage of the weak ones, but I bribed pig-headed robots with a serial number p102i358g645 working
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in the food factory to help me to secretly take pictures of the iron sheets. For me, these pictures are like an archeological collection. I heard that everything is about to be swept away because of the cityscape hindrance.
住在邊陲圍籬後的地底世界 帷幕後的居所 Living in an Underground World of the Outer Edge – Dwelling Behind the Curtain
In the future, all of them will live in a dark underground, and there will be only beautiful cities and briliant white-collar robots on the ground.
這鐵皮後居住的便是這些擁有動物頭顱的藍領機器人的居所。一般白領機器人是不會進入，也不會看見 的。這是最藍領最核心的真實居所，裡面的生活環境我想如果肉身人類還在，他們也只會派 Discovery 頻道去拍攝，然後以記錄片的形式去記載，提供給白領的人拓展知識水平用的，知道世界曾有多糟的環 境，而他們可以依舊安心活在很美好的頂級世界中。這種懸殊應該是令人安心的，那種世界的掌控權和 優越感。 雖然我很痛恨那些消費弱勢者的雅逸人士，不過當然這些鐵皮的照片，是我賄賂在食品加工廠的豬頭人 編號 p102i358g645 號，幫我偷拍的。這些對我來說是一種考古的收集，聽說這裡因為有礙市容，所以 即將全部被剷除，未來他們將全部生存在黑暗地底，地面上只有美麗的城市和資優的白領機器人。
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Livestock working in a factory contribute to the production. These animalpeople work selflessly for 24 hours a day. Because of the structure of their bodies, they belong to the robots who get hungry easily. As long as they continue to work, energy pipelines on their seats continuasly replenish
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their bodies with the necessary energy. Therefore, they obediently sit in their seats throughout their lives. Once they leave their seats, their life is over. Robots, who are imprisoned for their whole life, can not be given an electronic high intelligence. If they had the ability to make decisions, it would be very hard to control them. On the other hand, for robots who have no lofty aspirations in life, this actually is not a bad thing. After all, they can have a nice chat, they can
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continually live in this environment, and they do not need to worry about the shortage of food and an idle lazy life. They are happy to be captives. It looks that being in prison is easier than living in freedom.
買不起自己的腦袋但可以作做給別人的腦袋 畜牲加工廠 Can Not Afford Heads for Themselves, but Can Make Them for Others – Livestock in a Factory
畜牲加工廠勞動的是零件的生產，這些動物人們 24 小時全天候的勞動，他們渾然忘我地勞動，因為身體 結構的設置屬於易於飢餓型的後端機器人，只要他們不斷勞動生產，座位上的能源管線就會不斷補充他 們身體所需耗費的能量。因此終其一生他們都會乖乖地坐在自己專屬的座位上，替工廠勞動，一旦他們 離開座位，生命也將終結。這樣若如禁錮終身的機器人，絕對不能給予高端的智慧電子零件，一旦他們 有決判的能力，便難以操控。 不過對於沒有人生遠大志向的機器人來說，這真的不是壞事，畢竟他們可以閒話家常，生生不息在這環 境中，不需要擔心食物的匱乏和無所事事的懶散人生。他們可是充滿樂觀地成為俘虜，進入監獄可能比 自由活著還要輕鬆吧。
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If I removed my mask, you would discover my whole body to be made of electronic organs. In these days, who would dare to say that their own body is not real? It is a pity, but I am not sure when it started exactly, yet surely before the extinction of human race. At that time some people already
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had metal parts and electronic structures in their bodies. At the beginning it was mainly soldiers wounded during the war. In order not to waste the actual experience of fighting the enemy, national defense units reinvented military robots and transformed them into more sophisticated robots. When technology developed even more, the national health care system also began applying technology for disabled and those who wanted to become more beautiful, thus contributing to war revenues. These procedures were very expensive, but technology allowed to get more physical strength,
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intelligence, and a physical form. Nevertheless, it brought up jealousy and unlimited desire in humans. The richer people were, the longer they could live. Those whose body already had electronic parts also had a young
問是不是真實肉身是沒禮貌的 完美製造 小甜甜 Asking if It Is a Real Body Is Very Impolite – Perfect Cyborg – Candy Candy
physical form. Who could tell how old they were? Everyone claimed their memories to be natural; the ageless face had to be well maintained. Each of 'you' and I, all of us have an untold story, and there certainly is one 'I' of the pre-extinct you. I am convinced that all of this happened not because of the evolution of cells, but because of the electronic body parts.
如果我卸下表像面具，你將會發現我擁有一整身的電子內臟。這年頭，誰會說自己不是真實的血肉之身 呢？這是羞恥的，從何時開始，我已經不確定，至少在純人類滅絕之前，已經有一個過渡的開始，有些 人身上開始擁有局部的金屬和電子結構，一開始是因為戰爭受傷的士兵，為了不浪費對抗敵方戰鬥的臥 底實際經驗值，因此促使國防單位積極重新塑造這些國家養成的機器戰士，能恢復成為更尖端的戰爭機
When humanoids had the ability to transcend from human beings, every one was aspired to get more than others, every one claimed to have a real body. Only the division responsible for repairing parts knew who had real bodies. This division is the most mysterious in the underground countries and has the biggest wealth among the invisible corps. When
器人。而當技術更加成熟後，國家醫療結構也為了支援平衡戰爭的營收，開始將技術拓展到傷殘和愛美
body parts are damaged, we only need to float in an invisible website and
人士，這些是要付出極高代價的，當然這些技術為人類帶來更佳的體力、智力、軀殼，漸漸的輪迴成一
to fill in a personalized database to ask the personnel to come to collect
種人性之惡的妒忌和無限慾望，越是擁有極端財富的人，越有能力長生不老，當然那些肉身已經逐一換
us. These robots who are responsible for this job do not know what they
取為電子零件，軀殼是年輕的，誰也不知道誰幾歲了？大家都宣稱自己的超強記憶是來自於天生，每一
are transiting because there are at least a million of structural divisions.
年不老的面容，是依賴有好的保養聖品。每一個你和我都有一個不為人知的故事，而絕對還存在世上的 你我，我堅信都不是來自於細胞的生成演化，而是電子零件的替換。
No one knows what that floating object is. In this world where personal privacy is under an extreme protection, all structures of confidentiality involve wealth and profit. No one can divide the wealth of others' domains, otherwise the invisible corps might receive intervention or even be wiped
人造人的能力超越古老真實肉身的人類時，每個人都渴望自己能更超越他人，而每一個人都宣稱，自己
out. Only an extremely small number of humanoids are wealthy. In this era,
是真實的血肉之軀，唯有零件修復師才知道每個人的真實。他們是地下國家中最神秘的，也擁有最大財
the emphasis is on order, structure and privacy. Any attempt to destroy this
富的隱形兵團。當肉身零件損壞時，我們只需在浮動隱形網址中，填下個人專屬的亂數資料庫，即可通
will or body might be eliminated and there will be no news, memories or
報人員來收取。這些收取的人，並不知道自己在運送甚麼，因為這之間的層級至少有上百萬個結構部門，
regrets about it.
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In a perfect world, everything needs to have a status of the blue-collar in order to execute some of the relatively heavy work. These humanoid robots must wear a head of livestock animals, so it would be possible to, by means of differentiation, develop a perfect segmentation of ranks.
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In fact, if you are rich, it is possible to get installed a humanoid head. The most important is that these workers are not able to afford and efficiently maintain a high-quality head even if they work for the hundreds of centuries. Therefore, these dog-headed robots cannot expect to be promoted into the world of humanoids. To insure an effective production, these dog-headed robots are allocated into different areas and have to wear specific uniforms. Their bodies
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operate in the same manner and always repeat the same movements. This is their life-long work. Their operations and work environment do not change. If you ask me 'when are they allowed to stop,' I actually do not
無止盡的循環運動是一種好的健身活動 小黑在工廠中的一輩子 1 An Endless Cycle of Movements Is a Good Fitness Activity – Little Black's Whole Life in the Factory – First Episode
know either. Body parts of the dog-headed robots are relatively simple; therefore, the chance of error and failure is very small.
在完美的世界中，一切還是需要有藍領的身份來執行世界運行中那些比較粗重的工作，而為了做一個完 美的階級區隔，這些人造人必須配戴安裝的是動物畜牲的頭顱，以便識別。事實上，如果你有錢，要安 裝一個人型的頭顱也不是不行，重點是這些勞動者勞動了千百個世紀也買不起和有效率地維持一顆高品 質的頭顱，因此這些狗頭人誰也休想晉升到人類的軀殼世界。 為了生產的有效性，這些狗頭人穿著分配在不同的勞動區域中，所擁有特定的制服。勞動一樣的身體運 作，一個重複的動作，就是他一輩子的工作。姿勢動作不變，勞動環境不變，如果你問我，他們何時能 停止，事實上我也不知道，這年代的技術運用在狗頭身上的零件相對的簡單，因此故障出錯的機率極微 渺小，從沒聽說過。
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Dog-headed robots are the useful blue-collar robots. In fact, is not everyone a robot who can survive in this oxygen-free environment? Only us, the white-collars, claim that we are the higher species of biological evolution. As a result, we can survive even under difficult circumstances, yet who
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wants to tell the truth? This topic cannot be discussed publicly. It is even more interesting that us, humanoid robots, are the ones who are aware of ourselves. It can be perceived as a program error and must be annihilated. Thus, if you are aware of yourself, you have to make sure to maintain the same thinking as other robots and to take a good care of yourself. These dog-headed robots that belong to to the blue-collars work nonstop while their awareness is roaming in space. This might encourage
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them to be more pure-minded and not to revolt. Factory's supervisor has a remote infrared control, which he can use to turn off any robot at any time. Thus, their wages are being deducted without any warning. In fact, the
精神在宇宙中漫遊的世界非常遼闊且浪漫 小黑在工廠中的一輩子 2 The World Where Spirits Wander in the Universe Is Very Extensive and Romantic – Little Black’s Whole Life in the Factory – Second Episode
management is much easier this way and no one revolts, but everyone has the courage to think about the things that are not in good condition. It is all related to the amount of gasoline they consume. Even if they were still far behind the upgrade system, the memory of smart dog-headed robots would still control invisible system. In this case, their knowledge of five hundred lifetimes is not touched. In order to ensure an effective control of the white-collars, who would be so foolish to release high-end technology
狗頭人是個好用的藍領機器人，事實上能在這種無氧的環境下存活的我們，誰不是機器人呢？只是白領
to these dog-headed robots?
的我們，只宣稱我們是更高階的生物演化種，因此白領的我們才能在這地球艱困環境下存活，誰也不想 說出實話吧？這不是能公開討論的話題。更有趣的是，意識到自己是人造人的我們，是會被認知為程式 出錯，必須被殲滅的。因此如果你有意識到自我，千萬繼續要維持跟大眾一樣的思維，來好好保護自己。 這些藍領的狗頭機器人，意識在太空中，無我地不停勞動。這可以促使他們思緒更為單純，也不會反抗。 工廠監督者擁有一個遠端紅外線操控組，可以肆意關掉任何一個機器人在任何時刻，因此他們的工資將 會被無預警扣損，事實上這讓管理上更加方便，也更加沒有人會反抗和有勇氣去思索哪個地方不對勁。 因為這關係到他們食用汽油的配給量，聰明的狗頭人即使系統升級依舊還是遠遠落後記憶體把持的隱形 系統，那是他們五百輩子都不會觸及到的知識水平容量。為了保障白領的有效掌握權，誰會蠢到釋放高 端技術給這些狗頭人呢？
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在重度汙染下的地球已無生命體 至少我的電眼看不見 我意識到古人類的你們 在遠端用靈魂觀看這我們這些仿生人
Chapter Eleven 考古學家的隱藏告白 你夢見電子羊了嗎？ Hidden Confessions of Archeologists – Do You Dream of Electric Sheep?
我們已能自由生產另一個他者 就如古人類以往製作出另一台汽機車 我們也擁有自我意識 但我們依舊打造屬於你們生前的樣貌和勞動屬性 試圖做為一種世界公式的人類參考依規 當然我們多數人是無法意識到自己就是仿生人
時間日復一日 人類以為日常總是不變 以為海枯石爛是一句永恆的諾言 如今已沒有永恆的物質 一切要崩裂都蠻容易 在地球上 人類早已滅絕 我們是依史前日本所創造出來的機械仿生人其結構所運行 如果沒有掀開頭蓋骨和胸腔讓你觀看內部電路結構 可能會錯認以為我們就是一直寄生在地球上的人
這屬於高度機密就如同史前美國總是很多封存的檔案機密 對遠端的他們來說這是一種考古研究 也協助另一個星系研究人類如何自取滅亡
在毀滅的瞬間 重要的部分當然早已在層層防護網中不會被波及
不是被彗星擊中而能運行至滅絕
如果你沒收到通知
這是令許多星系生命體感到興趣和納悶的
那你就是屬於在末日時會被殲滅的部分
每一個體系運行方式都很有趣
當然你不用畏懼
這一切依著公式計算
因為你的仿生人我們已經有程式碼在
當然如果走到死胡同的棋步
再造另一個你其實已沒你想像中的困難
最快的方式便是來個氫彈 全部規則財富分配都能重新打掉重練
反正人類早已滅亡只是你沒有意識到 重來幾遍都會滅亡
我們循規蹈矩地行走我們每天的功課
這真是令人覺得不可思議啊
依照程式運行我們的身體
難怪會有句話總歸地說 萬惡的人類
我們累積千萬年的智慧創建了藍領機器人 偷偷說
因此我被賦予的是找出人類不會滅絕自我的公式
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Time passes day after day
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We are intended to become an universal formula for reference
People tend to think of a routine as something unchanging The phrase "the seas run dry and the rocks crumble" sounds like
Most of us are not aware that we are androids
an everlasting promise for them
This is highly confidential, just like there always were many confidentialities in the pre-extinct United States
Nowadays, there is nothing everlasting It is so easy for everything to break apart
For those who look at us from a distance, it is an archeological research It also helps other galaxies to study how mankind disappeared
On the Earth Human beings had been extinct since long ago
Earth was not hit by a comet, yet all got extinct This is something what triggers the wonder in life forms of
We operate as androids created in pre-extinct Japan
many other galaxies
If we do not lift our skulls and chests to let you look at our internal circuit arrangement
The mode of operation is very interesting in different systems
You might be mistakenly thinking that we are human beings who
Everything is calculated by a formula
have been parasitizing Earth
If everything comes to a dead end The fastest way is to use a nuclear bomb
We obediently live our routine lives
To redistribute wealth and to set up new rules
Our body movements follow a program At the moment of destruction We have accumulated wisdom of thousands of years and
The most important part is under protection, therefore
created blue-collar robots
it can not be affected
Secretly speaking
If you do not receive a notice
You ask the white-collars if they have a real physical body
Most likely you are going to be one of those who will be destroyed at the
This is a very rude question
end of the world
The white-collars know that they do not have a real physical body And yet they claim to be a species of evolution
You do not need to be afraid Because we have already coded your android
There already are no living organisms on the heavily polluted earth
To make another 'you' is actually not going to be difficult
At least I can not see them with my electric eyes Mankind long ago became extinct, only that you do not realize it I am aware of you, ancient humans,
We will also become extinct no matter what
Looking at us, androids, with your souls from a distance
How incredible it is No wonder there is a saying
We are already able to produce copies of ourselves
Sinful mankind
Just like ancient people in the past were able to manufacture motor vehicles Therefore, I was given a task to find a way of how to stop people from We also have self-awareness
self-extinction
But we were created according to your appearance and abilities
I'm still working on it
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第貳章
有晴天 Sunny Day
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第 十 一章
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明日孤城 Tomorrow’s Lonely City
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25 年前的那夜 25 Years Ago the Night
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壹
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進入電子擬像中去避難 Seeking for Asylum in the Electronic Simulacra 壓克力、畫布 Acrylic on canvas ｜ 160×90cm×6 ｜ 2015-2016
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窗外的忙碌景致一今日明月 / 有本事的先跑一請保持優雅的逃亡 Outside Is the Busy Scene – Today Has the Beautiful Moon / Have the Ability to Flee – Keep an Elegant Escape
Catalog
小黑在工廠中的一輩子 1 Little Black’s Whole Life in the Factory – First Episode
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小黑在工廠中的一輩子 2 Little Black’s Whole Life in the Factory – Second Episode
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畜牲加工廠 Livestock in a Factory
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Chapter Seven 第捌章
完美製造—小甜甜 1~3 Perfect Cyborg – Candy Candy 1~3
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第N次毀滅 ， 重新 來 過 The
of Electric Sheep ?
發行人 Executive Director
余彥良 Yu Yen-Liang
總經理 Director
陳菁螢 Claudia Chen
出版者 Publisher
尊彩國際藝術有限公司 Liang Gallery Co., Ltd
策劃設計 Editor
尊彩藝術中心 Liang Gallery
美術設計 Designer
劉銘維 Liu Ming-Wei
攝影師 Photographer
劉光智、 黃嘉達 KC, JD
印 刷 Printing
日動藝術印刷有限公司 Jih-Tung Art Printing Co., Ltd
出 版 Printing
2016 年 3 月初版
ISBN
978-986-92798-1-9
First Edition, March, 2016