「時間」與「空間」,為構成「存在」的條件,亦是描述「事件」的要素。相較於空間而言,時間是無形體的,一種似乎瞭解卻又難以斷言的名詞。萊布尼茲說:「時間僅是事件的順序;它本身並不存在。」而科學推論出的宇宙維度,或是哲學探討的存在感知,皆是企圖辯證時間的存在模式,這也是藝術自古以來所關注的命題,而其表現的手法、呈現的內涵與當下的媒材特質息息相關。繪畫對記憶的描繪、照相術對時空的凝結、攝影對時序的紀錄。於數位媒材的時代,並非特意就其媒材特性做為創作方向,而是處於當下,思維與觀點無形地陷入此邏輯運行。 作品《後視徑》,作者營造出一條行進中的時間路徑,將〝發生過〞的影像進行解構,重組在這行進中的「後視」影像。意圖將觀者置入時序的旅程,如同檢視後視鏡般的對經過的時間進行校閱,感受難溯回的時光流逝狀態。 作品《換日線》,針對現實世界對時間的定義做一個提問。處於數位網路傳訊的時代,距離與空間被劃除了,我們所習慣的鐘錶時間,在無距離的數位漫遊下呈現虛構的共時狀態,於這個當下「世界時間」、「自然時間」與「自主時間」三個時態的共構,形成一個新的時場型態,作者藉由數位媒材的自身特性,試圖詮釋這數位網路時代的時場樣貌。 藉由科技的不斷推進,人類得以持續的擴展眼界、探討萬物的真理,而「時間」的解答似乎是個終站,在尋得解答之前,只能藉由自身的思維拼湊出我對時間的凝視與觀感。
“Existence” is composed of “Time” and “Space” which are also the major factors of describing circumstances. Different from “Space”, “Time” is abstract, and indescribable. Both scientific investigation of dimensions and philosophical definition of existence have been trying to explain and visualize “time,” which is also an everlasting topic for artists. Artists portray memory with painting, pause the moment with photography, and recollect motions with videotaping. At the age of digital media now, instead of making artwork based on the type of media used, we living in the moment, create in the moment, deliberate the ideas as part of life. In“Rear”, the artist analyzed the remnant images from the passerby, and reassembled them in a time tunnel like path. Place the audiences in the journey of time, survey the idea of “time” like looking at images behind in the mirror, experience the untraceable statement of time. In“Date Line”, the question of how does the world defines the idea of time is proposed. Space and distance are dismissed in the digital transmission world; the measurement of time in real life represent a fictitious timeless status in the digital world. At the same time spot, the time space appears different measurement, 8 p.m. at Taipei is 7 p.m. in New York. There is the true time, and the time we use to measure our day. The artwork takes the concept which composed by different idea of time, and represent the cyber aspect through the character of digital media. We expand our knowledge endlessly with the progress of technology to discover the truth of everything, at the end it all goes to the idea of “time”. Before the answer is found, we can only draw the shape of time with our own apprehension.