Second Life: Habitat / 棲息地
2016
MEME Space - Hong's Foundation for Education & Culture  洪建全文教基金會 覓空間
5:23 minutes/ HD, Colour, Stereo

Synopsis

Working with National Taiwan University’s Department of Entomology, the artist bred thousands of Asian tiger mosquitoes in Second Life: Habitat, a project that integrated digital technology in an ecosystem. The mosquitoes went through stages of their lifecycle in the installation created, and were then killed by a bug zapper. Those “lives” were converted by a digital system and transformed into virtual avatars in a computer game. As the game progressed, the artist’s blood was used as food for the mosquitoes. Through the game, the meaning of life in the digital era was examined.
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《Second Life：棲息地》為一結合數位科技與生態系統的多媒體裝置。在台大昆蟲系的協助下，藝術家在展間中孵育數千隻白線斑紋，蚊子在裝置內羽化成蟲、在捕蚊燈下結束生命，其「真實生命」被電子系統轉換，成為電子遊戲中的「虛擬生命」；隨著遊戲的進行，藝術家的血液成為蚊子孵育下一代之養分，本計劃透過此「遊戲」的過程，探討數位時代裡生命的意義。

Artist: Ting-Tong Chang, Hsien-Yu Cheng
Video: Tubie Tsai
Collaboration: National Taiwan University’s Department of Entomology

藝術家：張碩尹、鄭先喻
影片：蔡弦剛
合作：台大昆蟲系