Beta+

Beta+

2024/9/28(六)~2024/12/29(日)

展覽場地Venue：台北當代藝術館主題策劃展區1F、戶外廣場MoCA Plaza、

展覽官網Website：https://mocatpe.tw/art04K6zei

《Beta+》展覽介紹

在數位技術和新媒體迅速發展，以及當代藝術邊界不斷擴展的背景下，「Beta+」一展探討了我們在追求資訊和新穎事物過程中的短暫性和有效性問題。在當代視覺文化的影響下，人們不斷追尋新技術所帶來的視覺刺激，並渴望新的經驗；然而，這些消費性內容往往以碎片化的形式出現，使我們急切地期待下一批新興產物，如：下一篇新奇文章、下一個別致場景，抑或是下一代簇新的數位產品到來。即時性已成為我們內容消費模式的核心原則，捕捉當下最新動態成為主要的消費動機。

現今大型企業的優勢不僅在於積累知識和資訊，更在於能夠快速而有效地更新和整合新功能的能力。這種能力使企業能夠迅速適應市場變化，保持競爭力。儘管我們當前使用的應用程式和工具都經過了相對完善的測試，但它們在不久的將來仍有可能被淘汰；事實上，這種技術迭代和更新的速度正不斷加快。在這個媒體、技術和材料不斷更新的世界中，藝術家們開始重新思考其作品產出的做法、展覽的方式以及表現的形式等不同面向，以適應不斷加速變化的社會。因此，展覽試圖探討這些更新、重新排列、增加和刪除、開發者與用戶之間的交流以及演變現象如何在藝術創作中體現。

本次展覽匯集了來自蒙古、法國、新加坡和台灣，共九位／組藝術家／團隊，他們透過探索動態和即時的空間經驗，對應且展現了其對於當代空間、環境以及視覺文化的多重面向和挑戰。不同於靜態的展覽呈現，「Beta+」展現出藝術家的「即時性」創作過程，使作品在展覽空間中不斷被構建和重組，為觀眾提供一種獨特且短暫的歷時性體驗。

本檔展出的作品展示了多種轉化方法，包括數位與演算法（Algorithm）、化學與材料、表演與情境。觀眾被邀請積極參與這個不斷演變的展覽，與藝術家及其作品互動，並思考固定形式的無常性和資訊的短暫性。「Beta+」不僅反映了藝術家對當前環境的敏銳觀察，也提出了對未來可能性的深刻思考。「Beta+」Exhibition Introduction

Against the backdrop of rapidly developing digital technology and new media and the ever-expanding boundaries of contemporary art, Beta+ is an exhibition that explores issues of transience and validity in our quest for information and novelty. Influenced by contemporary visual culture, people are constantly seeking visual stimulation from new technologies and craving new experiences; however, such consumer content often comes in fragmented forms, leaving us eagerly awaiting the next wave of emerging products, such as the next eye-catching article, the next unique scene, or the launch of the next generation of new digital goods. Real-time has become the core principle of our content consumption model, and capturing the latest trend has become the primary motivation for consumption.

The competitiveness of today’s large corporations lies in the accrual of knowledge and information and also the ability to quickly and efficiently update and integrate new functionality. This ability enables companies to adapt quickly to market changes and remain competitive. Even though the apps and tools we use today are relatively well-tested, they can still soon become outdated; in fact, the rate at which technology is being iterated and updated is accelerating. In a world where media, technologies, and materials are constantly being updated, artists have begun to rethink the different aspects of their creative production practices, exhibition methods, and forms of expression to adapt to a society with ever-accelerating changes. Therefore, this exhibition seeks to explore how these updates, rearrangements, additions and deletions, exchanges between developers and users, and the evolutionary phenomena are manifested in art.

The exhibition brings together nine artists/groups from Mongolia, France, Singapore, and Taiwan. They respond to and present multiple facets and challenges related to contemporary spaces, environments, and visual cultures by exploring dynamic and real-time spatial experiences. Not a static exhibition, Beta+ presents the artists’ “real-time” creative processes, with their works constantly constructed and reassembled in the exhibition space, providing the audience with a unique and transient diachronic experience.

The artworks in the exhibition showcase a variety of transformative approaches, including digital and algorithmic, chemical and material, performative and situational. Viewers are invited to actively participate in this evolving exhibition, interact with the artists and their works, and reflect on the impermanence of fixed forms and the transience of information.Beta+ reflects the artists’ keen observations on our current environment and proposes a profound reflection on what the future may hold.