Trading places at MOCA

Works that stand well on their own but do not engage with the show's premise include Lin Jiun-shian's (林俊賢) Face/Fate interactive digital piece where you can alter your facial characteristics; Lin Shumin's (林書民) brain-wave activated projection of lotuses blooming and Lee Mingwei's (李明維) The Quartet Project in which the visual part shuts off when you approach it.

With so many provocative women artists working in Asia it is quite surprising that there is only one included in the exhibition. Liu Shihfen's (劉世芬) Muse Virus consists of handbooks and digital canvases interspersed throughout the museum.

Astute in some parts, the exhibition feels overall like an inside joke made especially for those working in the arts, and is not particularly generous to the general audience. As a result, the show backfires, as some intelligent ideas may be interpreted by some viewers as elitist.