2025 台北當代計畫單元

Extending their collaboration for a second year, Taipei Dangdai and the Ministry of Culture co-host a special exhibition of work by Taiwanese artists. Titled “Pulling the Plug,” the exhibition includes three large-scale digital installations by artists working at the cutting edge of technology and contemporary culture. Shu Lea Cheang, the legendary new media artist based in Paris, presents a digital moving image installation featuring an ever-morphing self portrait challenging AI algorithm. Su Hui-Yu works with digital collective XTRUX, combining open-source AI tools with traditional film production in a sly reinterpretation of the military propaganda that sits within media culture. Finally, Zhang Xu Zhan, who comes from a family of traditional paper artisans, works in stop motion animation to tell a story of termites that shift their dietary habits to consume artificial cables after sudden ecological changes due to climate. Taken together, these three works give a sense of the shock and urgency with which technology appears in our culture today.