• Date：2023 /07 /14(五)-9/10(日)
• Curator：曾鈺涓Yu-Chuan Tseng
• Place：新竹241藝術空間，HsinChu 241 Art Space
• Artists：王伯宇Wang, PoYu、江振維Chiang, Chenwei、吳柏瑤Wu, Po-Yao、吳宜曄Wu, I-Yeh、吳玶萭Wu, Pin-Yu、林暐智Lin, Wei-Chih＋翁哲川 Weng, Che-Chuan＋汪紹綱Gang, Wang Shao 、洪揚Hong Yang＋姚怡均Yao, Yi-Chun＋林妤庭Lin, Yu-Ting＋卓宜璇Cho, I-Hsuan＋馮介怡Feng, Jie-Yi、陶亞倫Tao,Ya-Lun、陳依純Chen, I-Chun、鄭先喻Cheng, HsienYu 、賴彥勳Lai, Yen Hsun、謝佩庭Hsieh, Pei-Ting。（依姓氏筆畫排列）

策展論述Curatorial Statement

“Being Online” is everyone’s daily life and a state of being. Through fast and instant internet communication technology, people use mobile smart devices as their gateway to online life. This constant connectivity blurs the lines between work and non-work, allowing for seamless multitasking and the storage of people’s life experiences and emotional information. It creates a sense of efficiency and happiness.

In the realm of telecommunications and artificial intelligence, we enjoy services provided by technology. We voluntarily upload images and experiences from our daily lives, indulging in the voyeuristic pleasure of observing others’ daily routines. We willingly accept the terms and conditions, relinquishing our privacy rights. Within the ever-expanding realm of powerful artificial intelligence systems, we submit to increasing levels of surveillance, surrendering our autonomy as humans and succumbing to algorithmic manipulation. We gradually become tamed and monitored by the “technological social engineering,” evolving into “objects” in both the virtual and real worlds.

This exhibition invites 12 groups of artists with 15 works under four main themes: “Digital Manipulation,” “Message Specters,” “Simulated Existence,” and “Returning to Reality.” It aims to awaken viewers to the concealed manipulations of a transparent, unobstructed surveillance society. It encourages reflection on the ethics of behavioral technology and the regaining of rational and careful decision-making abilities. It raises awareness of the existence of covert online manipulation.

“Digital Manipulation”

Starting from entering a state of surveillance, viewers are invited to become monitored objects. Through surveillance systems, they experience the pleasure of voyeurism. People engage in collaboration and negotiation between watching and being watched, becoming accomplices in the digital capitalism.

“Message Specters”

As people willingly hand over their information to information capitalism, they also become “raw materials” in big data analysis and marketing operations, transforming into digital entities devoid of individual identity, frozen in the virtual space.

“Simulated Existence”

Digital information becomes datasets, serving as the foundation for technologies like artificial intelligence image manipulation, deepfake technology, text generation by AI, and AI-generated images. Fictitious content loses meaning, surviving only for its display value, ultimately facing insignificance and demise.

“Returning to Reality”

As we grow increasingly accustomed to widespread and extensive surveillance, we should reconsider the impact of “technological social engineering” on our thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors. We must contemplate our online state, acknowledge and confront the truth of these concealed manipulations. （Translated by Chat GPT)

「上線中」是每個人的生活日常，也是生活狀態，人們透過快速即時的聯網通訊技術，以移動智慧型裝置做為進入線上生活的介面，隨時進行的連線模式，模糊了工作與非工作之間的界線，在隨時快速切換的高效率多工任務處理的過程中，儲存人們的生活軌跡與情感資訊，創造了高績效與幸福感的愉悅感。

在電訊科技與人工智慧科技的商業操作與政策規劃中，我們享受科技所帶來的服務，自動上傳生活日常的影像與感受，享受觀看他人日常的偷窺快感，自願放棄隱私條款點擊“我同意”，在日漸強大的人工智慧系統的服務中，接受規模與範圍不斷擴大的監控，放棄屬於人的自主權，服從演算法的操控(manipulation)，漸漸臣服於科技的操控，改變自己的思想與行為，被“技術社會工程”馴化與監控，漸漸進化成為在虛實世界中，被數位操控牽引成為「物」。

展覽邀請12組藝術家、15件作品，以四個主題：「數位操控」、「訊息幽靈」、「擬真存在」、「回返真實」，希望喚起觀者，認知並面對此種隱蔽性的操縱詭計的真相，是透明無遮蔽的集體監控社會，思考行為技術倫理，重拾理性與慎重的決策能力，意識到隱蔽性(covertness)線上操控的存在。

「數位操控」

從進入虛無監控狀態開啟，邀請觀者成為被監控的物，再透過監控系統，體會偷窺的愉悅感，人們並在窺伺他者與被窺伺成為他者之間，進行協作與協商，成為數位資本主義的共謀者。

「訊息幽靈」

當人們享受將自身訊息交付給資訊資本主義的同時，也成為大數據分析與行銷商業運作中的「原物料」，成為不具身份象徵的數位物，個人表徵消失，被保存凝結於虛擬時空當中。

「擬真存在」

數位資訊成為資料集(dataset)，變成人工智慧影像技術、深度偽造技術、ChatGPT「文本生成」技術、AI自動生成影像技術等，創造擬真存在資訊的基礎資料。虛構的內容只剩下展示的價值，意義匱乏而難逃消亡的結果。

「回返真實」 當我們卻越來越習慣於接受規模和範圍不斷擴大的監視，也應該重新思考“技術社會工程”，如何影響我們的思考、感知和行為方式，思考自己在網路中的狀態，認知並面對此種隱蔽性的操縱詭計的真相。