Taiwan, the ultimate hub of paradoxes; everything is juxtaposed at proximation: leading-edge technology and traditional cultures, the Chinese majority and the 17 Austronesian tribes, its well-defined national identity and still unsettled legal status with mainland China. Such tension is omnipresent that can be best described as schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0 is an allusion to Muller’s Hamlet Machine – the omnipresence and omnipotence of machines as the cause of an incessant revolution. Born between the era of color TV and the smartphone epoch, and born in a country with an 80% share of the world’s electronic productions, Taiwanese digital artists are fully aware of the potential and the risk of globalization and cybernetics. Their works reflect the crisis that is now facing Taiwan and the entire world.

Curators:
I-Wei Li (De/Tw/Ca) (attending), Pierre Bongiovanni (Fr) (attending), Ching-Wen Chang (Tw) (tbc), Chien-Hung Huang (Tw) (tbc)

Artists:
Chi-Yu Wu (Tw) (attending), Pei-Shih Tu (Tw) (attending), Jun-Jieh Wang (Tw) (attending), I-Chun Chen (Tw) (attending), Wan-Jen Chen (Tw) (attending), Chao-Tsai Chiu (Tw) (attending), Li-Ren Chang (Tw) (tbc), Yen-Ying Huang (Tw) (tbc), Yen-Ju Lin (Tw) (tbc), Yu-Chin Tseng (Tw) (tbc), Goang-Ming Yuan (Tw), Yu-Hsien Su (Tw), Liang-Hsuan Chen (Tw)

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