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Consciousness in vacuum No.1
2003
BY
TAO Ya-Lun
2003
sensors , MAX/MSP program , IO Digital Signal Receiver , microscope , double sticky tape , slide rail , electric-motor , microorganism , dust
250x500x600cm
2003
sensors , MAX/MSP program , IO Digital Signal Receiver , microscope , double sticky tape , slide rail , electric-motor , microorganism , dust
250x500x600cm
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It seems that a pre-recorded image is projected on the ground. When viewers walk into the room, those double-sided tapes all over the ground slow down their paces. Hair, dust, or any organic matter fallen from viewers’ bodies will adhere to the tapes. A high-powered microscope is placed on the ground, slowly scanning through the ground and enlarging the image on the same ground.

In the exhibition, I create a video which looks like a pre-recorded one. It seems absent from the scene, from our experience, or even from our consciousness – an image which cannot be understood and categorized by our brains. Interesting, whatever it is in the image is actually present. It is the real things that our bodies can touch. I use a high-powered microscope to enlarge a tiny space on the ground to about a thousand times its original size to represent a real thing which is ignored by our physical bodies and consciousness. Viewers thus roam around a space between expansion and convergence. Double sided tapes are all over the ground. Hair or dust fallen from viewers’ shoes or bodies adhere to the tapes. The high-powered microscope slowly scans through every detail around the space, enlarging the image of a tiny space and projecting it onto the same location. Media technology creates reality and shortens the distance, removing our feeling of the real things from our consciousness and experiences. Consequently, we have lost our awareness of our bodies. Human history seems return to the Renaissance age, where the existence of art and human totally depended on the surrealistic visual mirage created through perspectives. Our brains are thus separated from our bodies.

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