“Entangled Things, Entangled Connections “ with a New Twist A NPM, NTM, and NMTH Joint Digital Experiment Exhibition.
Inspiration for Exhibition:
From 2021 to 2023, the National Palace Museum, National Taiwan Museum, and National Museum of Taiwan History held a joint exhibition showcasing the three main players in Taiwan’s history, including the indigenous peoples, the Han Taiwanese, and the Chinese imperial court and officials, using cultural artifacts provided from the collections of the NTM, the NMTH, and the NPM, respectively. Together, the artifacts displayed by the three museums highlighted the rich material cultures of Taiwan’s diverse population. Typically, objects are at center stage in museum exhibitions, but what kinds of stories could be created and what kinds of thoughts stimulated if the physical pieces were removed and the stage handed over to digital technology?
The three-museum joint exhibition is over, but the new exhibition will experiment with digital collections. First, images from the collection are transformed into spatial art, then disassembled and reassembled as if they were alive. Does doing so create a new relationship between object and viewer? Second, in an innovative experiment, 3D printing technology is used to create teaching aids from the display objects, so that they can also be experienced through the sense of touch. Third, 3D digital artifacts can be rotated to provide a dynamic view of the real objects that cannot be done in a static display case. Fourth, what kind of visual experiences are created when artifacts made into digital art creations and then combined in different ways? Let’s go into the exhibition hall and check it out!
- Spatial Art in the Collection
Please think of the whole exhibition venue as a piece of digital artwork.
In this collaboration between American artist Zach Lieberman and the exhibition design team, consisting of Es Design Studio and Neon · Galaxy, the screen images that flow through the exhibition space are a set of "code art" created from pieces from the three museums' collections. 2050 images were created by combining hundreds of images taken of cultural artifacts from the NPM, the NTM, and the NMTH's collections with some contemporary objects. The resulting images have been pieced together by objective algorithms to form a new "interwoven landscape". We invite you to come and experience the resulting spatial effects.
- Plate Universe
This small work of digital art was created using images of plates.
When plates are combined
including auspicious symbols and landscapes in the center,
the decorations along the edges,
and seals on the bottom,
a kaleidoscope of images emerges.
- Material Transformation
This is an innovative media presentation of snuff bottles.
3D digital printing technology is used here
to contrast the different textures of the snuff bottles.
What happens when the craftworks of the royal court are incorporated into the life of everyday people through modern media?
Consider this an attempt at creating a new medium for innovative thinking.
- Touching Experience
This is a small attempt at using technology to make art more accessible.
The twin cups of the Paiwan people represent bonding and solidarity.
The example here was molded using 3D digital printing technology and is offered as a tactile experience for the visually impaired.
Feel free to touch.
- Language Situations
We have created a world of incomprehensible words.
Words are ubiquitous,
including on historical relics and everywhere in the modern world.
To some, they make sense.
To others, they don't,
but to all, they require decoding.
- Gaze and Question
This is a group of clay figures of Taiwan's indigenous people made by Japanese folk artists who produced them based on their own perspectives and understanding.
The 3D digital images provide a 360-degree view of the artifacts.
As you look closely at the details, think about what you believe to be true and what you believe to be questionable.
- Thoughts on Beauty
What is fashion? What is beauty?
Is it decided by the individual or by society as a whole?
In this interactive 3D digital cultural artifact area,
feel free to take a closer look at these two objects, each of which was born of very different aesthetic circumstances and for different purposes.
Can you imagine wearing these shoes or this hat yourself?
- A Matter of Perspective
In the world of the erotic,
views change with perspective.
Look at this erotic artifact from different angles,
then at images generated by AI
after we had a “sex talk” with it.
Both are bound to bring you a chuckle.
