國立臺北藝術大學 - 新媒體藝術學系 第四屆畢業展 <荒野獵奇>

隨著人類發展進入數位時代，媒體不斷更新身體和世界之間的相對座標。越漸貼身的科技滲透著日常生活，將自身與所及的人事物相連結，卻同時模糊兩者之間的界線。而在快速飛逝的資訊流中，意識和時間感也被切割吞滅。還沒能將當下的技術駕馭成純然的工具，主體意識又被更加陌生的科技淹沒，如風沙般細碎、全面而無法把握。

 

我們該如何在五感失常的時代荒野中尋得生存之道？是追上科技更新的速度，在風沙裡設法維持清醒，並進一步找回原始的身體感知；又或者該以全新的姿態融入險惡的環境，摸索並適應異域之法則、地形之優劣勢，並且在荒蕪中重建新的人機關係？《荒野獵奇》呈現新媒體藝術於數位時代下所擁有的特殊創作姿態，以及在科技更迭之中，捕捉持續流動的身體狀態、調變感知系統的種種試探。

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Stepping into the digital era along with human’s evolution, media has been renewing the coordinate between body and physical world. Technology creeps under our skin through daily lives, connecting us with the surroundings, and yet blurring the borderlines in-between. Consciousness and sense of time are being dissected and devoured among the fleeting information flow. Before mastering our techniques as our means, subject consciousness, likewise, is being flooded by strange technology, as if crumbled by a sandstorm, comprehensive yet intractable.

 

How do we survive with lost senses in this era’s wilderness? We shall keep pace with the rapidly changing technology’s modification and awake in this sandstorm, while tracing back a primitive perception; or, we shall blend into this precarious environment with a new attitude, searching for its natural law, pros and cons in order to redefine the meaning of cyborg. “Gazing Into The Wilderness” manifests new media art’s attitude in the digital era, its probe in catching the liquid state of body and altering cognitive system under the fast changing technology.