let me tell you... i use to went to this museum as a kid. so when i see the colour and lines in a painting, i concentrate all my imagination and play in it. i talk with the painting too, in a way that no adult will understand. it is the freedom of imagination to a painting in a museum that make me feel so uplifted. maybe you will say going to a museum is not as fun as going to the nature or playing in the park. I don't like to go to the nature because there is always parents to try put protection or restrictions (and there are always alot and alot of preparation for them to do before going out...), I didn't really enjoy playing in a park with strangely painted horse either. the repetitive motion of swing or sliding down once and once again just bored me. Or maybe also because i was a very, very self-fish kid. as my aunt told me, I use to dominate a octopus shaped slide with 4 stairs and 4 slides all for the use of my own. maybe it was not fun for me to play in the park because i didn't know how to share with other kids.
but anyways, my family bring me to museum some times, they always need to tell me to "hurry up! come on we need to go." I like museums, there was a sense of satisfaction i got from museum visiting as a kid.
but i think that museums in taiwan had changed, it became so dull.
the abstraction, questioning, foreign influences dominate the museum. You will know what i mean when you see the exhibition now. there is no good work in there that i can indulge anymore. there is no stories to tell from it. shit contemporary art! it is not fun to go to museums.
today I went to the taichung museum website, there was a exhibition in 2005 called, climate: ARS electronica...
yes, i know why taiwan museum want to exhibit Ars eletronica so badly. because the festival is an inspiration. for a capitalist society. creates more gimmit, creates more cool stuff, creates more shit for us to consume.
we don't need this technology crap... the website of 2005 climate exhibition is full of shit! it is like a business catagoue.http://climax.digiarts.org.tw/ it is like a show case of something such as CARS.. (if it is a show case of cars or boats in a museum, and the show is an attempts to sell the products i will think the curator is going mad. )
ok , enough of mumbling.
i found out that there is another smaller venue next to the museum that actually organise workshops and discussion to learn and share and criticise..
http://digiark.ntmofa.gov.tw/main.htm
so thats better.
let me see how the research goes. there are simple distinctions of like and dislike. but the distinction shifts between contexts. all i want to do here is TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON... to be able to do that, it involves studying into politics, into economics, so i can know what is going on with the technology art hype culture in taiwan. unfortunately writing a dissertation is more than just like or dislike.
and I, have some political standing of my own as well. I want to understand.... to know people, to learn stories. warm up. to know what is right and what is wrong, to know the situations. for activism, for a future. basics things, good things to know, that what i want to learn and write in here. I believe some time you will find it interesting too.
My dissertation outline:
Dissertation outline:
Chapter 1: Introduction- the context of ARS
Electronica
this chapter will include the histroy of ARS
Electronica, its objectives, the structure of the
institution.
Chapter 2: The working of ARS Electronica
this chapter will include some interview of people who
are involved in making New Media Art and ARS
electronica. And an analyse of ARS Electronica's links
to government and private cooperations.
Chapter 3: Does New Media Art exist?
To explore the relationships between art and
technology in contemporary society is the fundamental
theme in ARS Electronica. I set a question-- Is New
Media Art a subject of technological capitalism, Or is
New Media Art a chance for renovating a more
democratic, positive society?
Chapter 4: Case study: 2007 ARS Electronica theme:
GOODBYE PRIVACY
Chapter 5: Conclusion
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