01/29/03
“We have all had the sensation of drowning in a sea of information — the challenge we face is to learn to swim in that sea, rather than drown in it.”, Peter Lyman.
The Internet is one of the youngest and fastest growing media in today’s world. In the Internet, People produce a huge amount of information with texts, images and sounds, etc. While we use the Internet more often, consuming information becomes lots of work to our life.
Exploring a huge amount of images form the Interenrt and exhibiting them physically are the ways that I represent the universal, complex and virtual ideas of the Net Culture. What do we interact with such intensive information when related images juxtapose together? Do huge information create a new meaning of a subject and bring us different understanding about the world? These are interesting transformation of the relationship between information and culture.
What we see is “not” necessarily what we believe. To perceive and to think about information is the main issue that I concerned in this project. Images as information come from many different intentions and they represent wide aspects of the Internet culture. In the future, the fast growing information will also change the way of our perception.
Subjects Selected:
1. TV
2. FAMILY
3. FOOD
4. FEMALE
5. MALE
6. APPLE
7. WAR
8. TOY
9. COMPUTER
10. FUTURE
11. NATURE
12. WEDDING
13. REALITY
14. BLUE
15. Marriage
01/29/03
「我們都有過淹沒在資訊海洋中的感覺——我們面臨的挑戰是學會在這片海洋中游泳，而不是淹沒在其中。」彼得·萊曼。
網路是當今世界最年輕、發展最快的媒體之一。在網路上，人們透過文字、圖像和聲音等產生大量的資訊。
探索網路上的大量圖像並以實物形式展示它們，是我表現網路文化普遍的、複雜的、虛擬的思想的方式。當相關圖像並置在一起時，我們如何與如此密集的資訊互動？海量的訊息是否會創造一個學科新的意義，並帶給我們對世界不同的理解？這些都是資訊與文化關係的有趣轉變。
我們所看到的不一定是我們所相信的。感知和思考訊息是我在這個專案中關注的主要問題。圖像作為訊息來自許多不同的意圖，它們代表了網路文化的廣泛方面。未來，快速成長的訊息也將改變我們的認知方式。
所選科目：
1. 電視
2. 家庭
3. 食物
4. 女
5. 男
6.蘋果
7. 戰爭
8. 玩具
9. 電腦
10. 未來
11. 自然
12. 婚禮
13. 現實
14. 藍色
15. 婚姻
Description of work
This work is titled: “ The Sea of Information”. Searching and Documenting Images from the Internet is the way I represent photography and culture in net time. There are 10 subjects to represent the body of work. These subjects are Apple, Art, Family, Female, Food, Male, Marriage, Toy, TV and War. Each subject has more than 300 images with the same file name such as “ art ” and 3000 images are the total amount. This searching process is also indicating the question we are asking and the answer we are looking for.
This huge amount of images of the search results also present universal knowledge resources in the Internet. Images of these search results are resized as 4”X6” photos and installed in gallery space. Using the gallery space as a container and filling the image data in this space, the installation is mimicking a computer hard drive. Audiences passing through the gallery will experience walking into a computer or virtual space. Database becomes art material and creates visual aesthetics to audiences.
Interaction is an issue of net culture in this project, audiences can find a image and clicking the mouse to link back the source of its home page and do their own research by computer interface.
說明
這部作品的標題是：《訊息的海洋》。從網路上搜尋和記錄影像是我代表網路時代攝影和文化的方式。有 10 個主題來代表作品主體。這些主題是蘋果、藝術、家庭、女性、食物、男性、婚姻、玩具、電視和戰爭。每個主題有超過300張具有相同檔案名稱（例如「藝術」）的圖像，總數為3000張。這個尋找的過程也顯示了我們正在提出的問題和我們正在尋找的答案。
這些海量的搜尋結果圖像也呈現了網路上的普遍知識資源。這些搜尋結果的圖像被調整為 4”X6” 照片並安裝在畫廊空間中。該裝置利用畫廊空間作為容器，並在該空間中填充圖像數據，該裝置模仿了電腦硬碟。穿過畫廊的觀眾將體驗到走進電腦或虛擬空間。資料庫成為藝術素材，為觀眾創造視覺藝術形態。
互動是這個項目中的網路文化問題，觀眾可以透過電腦介面找到一張圖片，點擊滑鼠連結回其主頁的來源，並進行自己的研究。
