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The contemporary video art exhibition Human Training Center, curated by Yi-Chun Chen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Yuan Ze University, is currently on view at Absolute Space for the Arts (No. 18, Lane 102, Zhongzheng Rd., Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City) from May 31 to July 6.
With the subtitle “It’s not that we can’t, we’re just too noisy,” the exhibition delves into the multilayered conditions of human technological training, social adaptation, and sensory renewal. It transforms video into a training arena, launching a bold experiment at the intersection of humanity and technology.
Curator Yi-Chun Chen holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts and currently teaches at Yuan Ze University’s Department of Art and Design. Her practice focuses on narratives from industrial ruins, social margins, and lower-class life. She is known for her ability to fuse experimental video, new media, and painting with methods such as dream analysis, mysticism, and historical reconstruction. Her work has garnered multiple accolades, including the ACC Asian Cultural Council Award, the Golden Harvest Award for Best Experimental Film, and the Taipei Digital Art Performance Award. She has been invited to various international biennials and film festivals and is currently represented by Áunn Museum Shanghai and Fibre Shanghai.
The exhibition brings together artists from Japan, China, Macau, Germany, and Taiwan, featuring diverse media such as video art, 2D/3D animation, AI-generated imagery, and experimental video installations. This wide-ranging presentation offers a rich landscape of visual and sensory experiences. Highlighted artists include Japanese contemporary master Makoto Aida, Professor Yung-Shien Chen from the National Taiwan University of Arts, Lee Siu-Chong, Artistic Director of Ox Warehouse in Macau, along with numerous creators from Taiwan’s academic and artistic communities. Yuan Ze University professors Chia-Hui Lo, Jason Chiu, and Ming-Hong Wu from the Department of Art and Design are also participating, demonstrating a vibrant dialogue between academia and creative practice.
The exhibition also features several cross-national collaborations, such as the Taiwan-Germany team Jasmine Fan + EdiVi Interactive, Dalian new media artist hypersomniazzzz, and Shandong-based musician Hou Zhenyu. These contributors bring together varied media and cultural perspectives to construct disoriented, overloaded narrative spaces, inviting visitors to reconsider the boundaries and conditions of their own perception.
Human Training Center embodies Yi-Chun Chen’s long-standing inquiry into “video as a technique for perception and conditioning.” The exhibition space is designed to resemble a simulated training ground. Chen is also presenting her notable 2010 work, Measuring the Distance Between the Self and the Other, which reflects on a traveler’s journey across linguistic and cultural divides. The piece probes the philosophical tension between subjective cognition and survival instinct, infusing the show with profound humanistic reflection.
The exhibition is organized by Absolute Space for the Arts and co-organized by Yuan Ze University’s Department of Art and Design. It is supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department of Digital Multimedia Design at China University of Technology, and Lida Lin Digital Printing. The show runs until July 6, and art lovers and the general public are warmly invited to step into this contemporary training ground of perception, video, and humanity.
