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《Disturbance 2》– Symptom and Media Society

國立臺北藝術大學 / 新媒體藝術學系碩士班 / Author:Po-Ting Lee

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Allow in school after 2013/07/08

Since departure of the originality of my creation of paintings in 2006, through the

alternative circulation and rise and decline of body system, the genetic mutation influences

the relationship between subjectivity and its existence. On one hand, the objection of

technology and media results in the negative effect of turbulence and monopolization in

this modern society; on the other, the body has to count on the salvation of artificial

technology in order to sustain it. In this regard, the contradiction of technology has been in

existence. A yearly routine of physical examination forces me to put daily trivia aside, to

serenely and cautiously inspect if any minor decay of body is damaged by all kinds of

enormous and complicated medical devices; in the meanwhile, to view the destruction

from life and the physical system seemingly working properly by the artificial assistance

for the past one year. This observation and perception of this specific body operation is

often considered as the similarity of social phenomena of where we live in our daily life. In

certain level, it influences me to interpret the social structure from imitating the body

system. In this sense, the structure of diseases could be a metaphor of the morbid society

today. The creation of works is regarded as a medium of the metaphor, and the piece of

work becomes the interface of the connection between the body and the external world.

The interactive video/sound/kinetic installation Disturbance is inspired from the repulsive

reaction generated from allergy. It tries to express the appearance of disturbance which

triggers a further discussion of the interactive media disorder in the society immersed by

the internet and media. The mobile Internet keeps us being in a condition of crowds at

every single moment. When incidents occur, there are only few people who realize the

whole context, whereas most of them are deceived by the real-time and superficial

consciousness spread via Internet that forms peculiar atmosphere. Therefore, the Internet

turns the society into an allergic condition. The metaphor of disease connects the subject

matter of symptom to social phenomena.

This thesis is expected to structurally collate and elaborate the subjective point of view

toward rapid decayed physical system with the methodology of text thinking. By the

interpretation of disease, it metaphors the external views as the subjectivity, trying to

connect the internal and external of body system which separated by skin.