Press Release Realization of future: Zone_V2_ presents life in unstable media
2007-8-20

Realization of future: Zone_V2_ presents life in unstable media 

 

Exhibition Title: Zone_V2 Unstable Media: Act - Interact

Duration: 8.11 – 10.7. 2007

Curator: Alex Adriaansens

 

The exhibition:

 

Many people lead their lives revolving around television, internet and mobiles, which constitutes the reality of their lives. This current trend will be elaborately presented in Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei’s Zone_V2_ Unstable Media: Act – Interact exhibition. All kinds of hi or low tech media, including many pieces of interactive installations resembling to games, wittily reflect the role of new media in depth.

 

Zoze_V2_ is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei in association with V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, and co-organized by the YAGEO Foundation. Curated by Alex Adriaansens, director of V2_ Institute, the exhibition is structured around the three themes: "Machine Times”, “Information is Alive”, and "Interact or Die."

 

With the rise of technical media, time became malleable. In technical media (i.e. cinema, video, radio, the internet, etc.) we can detach time and space, stretch and compress time. Media also re