2015《The Night of Sodom》Technology-Integrated Arts Cross-border Creation Subsidy Program

Dazzling / Death / Sublimation ∣ Envisioning the Future with Transdisciplinary Media

Date: 2015/10/03~2016/01/10

Opening Reception: 2015/10/03 15:00

Venue: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Gallery 1B

Website: http://cat.tnua.edu.tw/sodom2015/

The Night of Sodom takes its inspiration from Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom. Instead of reenacting the scenes in the novel, the exhibition uses the events of a fictional murder as a narrative frame to reconsider ‘contemporaneity’. A dynamic installation and new media performance echo and intensify the exhibition theme, constructing a large-scale, multidisciplinary work that deals with the plight of civilization and sublimation of death.

Marquis de Sade lauded nature for its evil and unending cycle of creation and destruction. In The 120 Days of Sodom, Sade created a hypothetical and encyclopedic system of evil that criticized society’s norms and rules, and continually went beyond the limits of all known experimental ideologies.

The performance component of the exhibition revolves around the murder of a teenager, and is divided into five sections:The Universe of Things, Homicidal Maniac, Depression, Gross Anatomy, and apparition. The intention is to identify elements, much like Sade did eroticism, perversion, and cruelty, and deploy them in various configuration with regard to position or action. The artwork is computer automated, interactive, and relates ambiguous situations, fissures and disturbances in contemporary life to video, mechanical movements, body detection devices, and lasers in a symbolic manner. The theme for the installation component of the exhibition is titled Depression/Teenager. Feathers float in the center of the installation, which are surrounded by two dimensional artworks on the venue’s four walls. Organized using an encyclopedic concept, different elements corresponding to words comes together to form these images, and build relationships between the exhibition themes.

The Night of Sodom is a new media, interactive installation. Through narrative content, new media visual effects and theatricality, the audience explores completely new experiences of how technology manipulates our lives and perceptions. But can technology reveal subtle and never before seen relationships among things, or will it lead us farther on our path to utter destruction?

《Night of Sodom》Media Kinetic Installation Timetable

The duration of each presentation is 15 minutes. The venue is closed between presentations. Please take a number. Each presentation is limited to 30 audience members.

Premiere: October 3rd / Showing

Tuesday –Friday, Sunday / Showing

Saturday / Showing

Artistic Director ∣ Jun-Jieh Wang

Text and Development ∣ Jun-Jieh Wang, Man-Nung Chou

Director of Automation and Mechanical Design ∣ Eugene Yang

Director of Human Tracking Technology ∣ Timonthy K. Shih

Director of Scene 3D Detection Technology ∣ Shih-Wei Sun

Sound Designer ∣ Blaire Ko

Lighting Designer ∣ Cico Yang

Video Editor ∣ Huei-Ming Chang

Actor ∣ Deng-Jyun Yang

Graphic Designer ∣ Po- Chun Yen

Photographer ∣ Huntz Yen

Producer ∣ BiBi Lin

Executive Producer ∣ Jerry Chiang, Hung-Pin Liao

Technician ∣ Yen-Hong Kuo, Shih-Nung Chen, ZSam Yau

MCS Design and Production ∣ YingJie Electrical Co., Ltd. Tsou Kuei-Chun

Mechanical Production ∣ Chanhong Stage Co., Ltd.

Lighting Technical Engineering ∣ Hispot Workshop Co., Ltd.

Exhibition Documentary ∣ Onework International Co., Ltd.

Technical Support ∣ Cubical Motivation System., Ltd.

Assistant Mechanical Design ∣ Wei-Han Chen, Min-Jing Du

Programming Development ∣ Ching-En Cheng, Sian-Jhang Peng, Jheng-Wei Peng, Che-Wei Li, Ying-Ting Chen, Yi-Hsuan Lin

Acting Graphic Designer ∣ Hao-Ning Chang

Model Production ∣ Kuo-Wei Lin, Wei-Yu Chen, Meng-Che Hsieh

Video Grapher Assistant ∣ Ming-Chih Yang

Co-Creator ∣ Linking LAB－

Trans-Disciplinary-Media Lab, TNUA, Stage Machine Lab, TNUA, Ultra-Communication Vision Lab, TNUA, Multimedia Information Networking Lab, NCU

Official Support ∣ Ministry of Culture

Organizer ∣ Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Project Development ∣ Center for Art and Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts

Project Founder ∣ Subvented by Digital Technology and Visual Arts Collaborative Program of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art

Special Thanks ∣ Hispot Workshop Co., Ltd. Digital Art Center, Taipei. Jaguar Land Rover Taiwan

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Creators ∣ Jun-Jieh Wang, Man-Nung Chou

Executor for Works on Pape r ∣ Hao-Ning Chang

Executor for Villus Installation ∣ Hung-Pin Liao, ZSam Yau, Shih-Nung Chen

Production Assistants ∣ Yii-Min Lin, Nai-Yun Yang, Chih-Yin Chang, Yun-Ling Chai, Yu-Chih Cheng, Wen-Lin Lan

Production ∣ Center for Art and Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts

Special Thanks ∣ Hispot Workshop Co., Ltd., Digital Art Center, Taipei