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C o n t e m p o r a r y

A r t

Lien-Cheng Wang

R e v i e w

Special Issue

that could trigger a chain reaction, where
things would turn strange one by one. I
found this abnormality is interesting and
wanted to enlarge it to a wall landscape. In
the process of collecting scraped CD-ROM
drives, which was relatively accessible for
me because Taiwan is an electric products
kingdom where numerous IT products
manufactured and discarded every day, I
realized those products I collected were
still usable. We throw them away because
new models comes to replace. Therefore, I
started to build this work and made
scraped CD-ROMs brought them back to
live.
Your works almost always offer fruible set
of elements that trigger the viewers'
primordial parameters concerning our
relation with physicality and with
everyday life, inviting us to a multilayered
experience. So we would like to ask you if
in your opinion personal experience is an
absolutely indispensable part of a creative
process... Do you think that a creative
process could be disconnected from
direct experience?

No, I don’t think so. I consider personal
experiences produce the process of
creation. If a person has no experience of
life, he/she cannot connect to any creation.
If I would not live in Taiwan, I could not
create works such as ”Regeneration
movement", and "Parallel Cities” etc.
Another interesting work of yours that
has particularly impressed us and on
which we would like to spend some words
is Computed Scenery, that questions
impact of cutting edge techniques in our
unstable and ever changing contemporary
age. The impetuous way modern
technology has nowadays came out on the

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