Category: Art Notes 藝文談暢
談藝術，談創作，回顧周圍看向前望。Art reviews and art criticism. Review on reviews. Critique on the practice of criticism. Back story to a performance. Free associations with a novel. Observations on the current milieu of art and social life. …
動畫創作手記：一個箱子的依存 Notes on Animating the Livelihood (of)in a (Tool-)Box
去年九月，劉清華抵達台灣伴著她的是手提的五公斤的箱子。裡面的翻拍臺是十四天閉關創作的夥伴。Last September, Jess Lau arrived in Taipei with her 5kg tool-box, her only companion in a 14-day quarantine retreat. Together, they completed a new stop-motion animation piece.
CIRCUIT: Experimental Movie/Video Installation for new cognition 「虛遊迴路」：感知的拓展，冥想與非主流電影院
What could expanded cinema be in the digital age when the impulses to understand multi-level consciousness could be articulated as the meeting of hardware and audio-visual data to be completed by visitors? Stanley Ng's experiment Circuit materializes all this, and further turns the installation site into that of meditation, the meeting one's selves.
FP Assemblage 2023 (2) Self-organization, Individuation, Synchronization... an Automatic Sequence 同步、個別化、自我組織。不假思索的序列。「據點聚疊」於亞洲藝術文庫。
The second of FP's 2-day intervention-insertion-installation-production performance at Asia Art Archive's new reading room concludes with a show window filled with “live” traces of FP players, friends and on-site visitors. … Another attempt to capture the rich diversities of the happenings, the author's attempt to preserve her own personal glimpses at least.
FP Assemblage 2023 (1) Michael's typewriter: black ribbon red ribbon「聚疊」既遠即近：梁志剛的紅絲黑絲連線
The typing sound of a manual type-writer strikes a record of an on-going Assemblage performance, while providing an audible rudiment of an improvizational event. Michael Leung intervenes.
One Take, many iterations (2000-2020), the morphing life of a moment 一鏡到底：迭代延綿（2000-2020）
Between 2000 and 2020, a 6'38" single-take video footage has been turned into a generative series of art moments crossing artistic genres -- from videography, vocalization, sound collage, performance, sound sculpture, back to videography -- all manifesting automatism as a principle, and improvization as a main artistic method. Only the maker Linda Lai herself could elaborate on this secret history of emergence.
WCH Assemblage #1: Automatism. One step forward. No Waste | 黃竹坑聚疊（一）：不假思索。多走一步。總有點甚麼。
Assemblage at Floating Projects (FP Assemblage) started with two personal stories. Initiation of the Assemblage events are documented here in writing, on 14 July 2015, on the eve of FP1.0’s Grand Opening… (this version: updated May 2022 for D-Normal/V-Essay issue 5)
Longman Luk / Tool-Being (4): Capturing and Presenting Panoramic Images with a consumer-level 360 camera 「工具在，我在」（四）：周視全景的感官世界：篩選與縫合
Part 4 of “tool-being” series, Longman Luk looks inside a 360 panoramic camera for the everyday consumer, to hack its customized functions, and to test its operational limits, which results in his videographic exercise presented at Micro Narratives 2022. A manifesto on his videography follows.
Tate Kwan / Tool-Being (3): Play with ZOOM "errors" -- Video Materiality, Digital Intimacy 「工具在，我在」（三）：遠程關係潛入 ZOOM 的回饋噪聲
In the third of a 4-part series of artists' writings in "Floating Teatime: Art Notes," “tool-being" (Graham Harman, Bruno Latour), Tate Kwan calls our attention to a common defect many have experienced on ZOOM meetings, which she turns into raw material for artistic creativity.
Abby Yuen / Tool-Being (2): Texture? Abstraction? It all began with my semi-analogue synthesiser 「工具在，我在」（二）：抽象、質感，由造聲開始
Second of the “tool-being'” series. What new insights would we have of our experiences if humans and tools/machines are understood as an assemblage, coming into the presence of each other to seek collaborative possibilities? Abby Yuen reveals how her abstract video of foams was the result of a sound machine she made.
Jaron Kuehmstedt / Tool-Being (1): OCTV – Open Circuit Television, interpolating CCTV 「工具在，我在」（一）：「開」路電視打開了甚麼？
Following up on Micro Narratives 2022: the first of the “tool-being” series, featuring Jaron Kuehmstedt's OCTV – Open Circuit Television: a live video installation, which adopts graphic computing Max-MSP, twitch.tv and OBS (Open Broadcaster Studio)...
