ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 5

Lien-Cheng Wang
Taiwan, is well-known as consumer electronic
industry, where numerous electronic products are
produced and discarded, older models are replaced by
newer models.
I collected hundreds of scraped and old CD-ROM drives
which were originally connected with computers. They
are actually functional and usable. But people throw
them out because a newer generation model is
published in the market.
I used a different method with nutrients from the
information on the internet, brought CD-ROM drives
back to live. The Internet, the blood of my work, is itself
a stream from which data, consisting of 0’sand 1’s, are
put in(uploaded) and taken out (downloaded; accessed).
Likewise, data in a CD-ROM can be put in(burned) or
taken out (read). In my work, I want to convert the
Internet data—the 1s and 0s—into the CD-ROM drives’
physical ejection and retraction, thus making the
activity of logging on
to the Internet both
visible and audible. Audience
stands in front of a wall
linked by CD-ROM drives, they get sensation as if
placing bodies in the data stream. Body receives
outcomes and incomes precisely from the inorganic
movement of the previously discarded CD-ROM drives. It
gives audience in a grand informational torrent
materialized by a collective of actions. The mechanic
movement shall create a space with undefined, moving,
developing and “massaging” mind and body all at the
same time.
Lien-Cheng Wang, new media artist residences at
Taipei, Taiwan, obtained B.S. in computer science and
M.F.A. in Art and Technology at Taipei University of
Arts. His work involves with interactive devices and realtime sound performance. He uses open source to create
installation arts and audio-visual real-time performance.
The Works are committed to seamless combination of
images and sounds created by computer algorithm as
well as human perception with universe and nature. He
often utilizes a volume of installed approach to achieve
a specific physical perception.