Name of work, size/length, year of production, mediums.

Name of each work: Inorganic life

size/length: Dimension Variable.

year of production: 2019

mediums: Second-hand dot-matrix printer, electronic components.

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Introduction of art work

Inorganic life is an installation artwork. Wang Lien-cheng collects discard or second-hand dot-matrix printer and refit them in order to make symphony orchestras using their origin mechanical sound. The mechanic movement shall create a space of aesthetics with undefined, moving, developing and melodious. It will affect the new perspectives on sensory experience with audience all the time.

  The original function of printers is printing but now they just make sound, like workers in a factory. They do their job without meaning. Asia was a big factory all over the world for a long time, there are a lot of electronic products and E-waste generated by laborers all the time.

Wang use e-waste and modify them to labor-only machines to present globalization problem in Asia country.

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Introduction of artist

Lien-Cheng Wang is a new media artist, open source education collaborator and audiovisual performer, residing in Taipei, Taiwan. His artistic and research involve with interactive devices and real-time sound performance. He uses open source to create installation art 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 the universe and nature. He often utilizes a volume of installed approach to achieve a unique physical perception. His works have been exhibited and performed at Linz Ars Eletronica (Austria), New Technological Art Award (Belgium), Les Journées GRAME (France), MADATAC (Spain), Digital Art Festival Taipei (Taiwan), Taipei Art Award, etc.