The included information hidden among the symbols refers to art, religion, science and items involved in people's daily lives -- portraying the aggregate confusion resulting from the information-age explosion.
In another room, one finds an authentic study of the relationship between technology and nature.
Austrian-born Christa Sommerer and French-born Laurent Mignonneau have combined efforts in Interactive Plant Growing. In this piece, through viewer interaction, the growing influence that technology has had on the natural environment becomes evident.
Arranged with sensors responding to touch, five plants lay before a wall-sized screen, which digitally constructs images of the respective plants being touched, creating juxtapositions between nature and technology and the diminishing gap between the two in imaginative cyber worlds.
Exhibition note:
What: Navigator
Where: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2 Wuchuan W Rd, Sec 2, Taichung
When: Until Sept. 5
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