台北數位藝術節講評 之一

陶亞倫 Ya-Lun Tao
(Assistant Professor of Graduate School ofArts & Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts)

There has been very intense competition between the works in the Interactive Installation
category in this year’s Digital Art Awards. The works entered this year are all more mature
than last year’s; showing that this event has encouraged the development of this field with
good results. Among the entered works, there are two works from students of the Yuan Zhi
University Graduate School of Information Communications which stand out. These works
show that the style of our digital arts creation has completely escaped the realms of
traditional art and has formed an inter-disciplinary artistic style.
The winner of the top prize in the Interactive Installation category, “Urban Journal,” features
the interaction of cell phones and the Internet and the interaction of different regions and
times. It displays the form and characteristics of digital media with intentional actions,
forming a new style of social relationship. The work shows a boundless expansion of time
and space, winning it the approval of the jury. It allows our national new media arts to
completely escape from aesthetic theories of art museums and performance centers, climbing
over the walls of Academia and into the community, changing the shape of society through
intentional interaction.
New media itself has intense social significance, drawing on the massive energy of
“incidents”. It is hoped that the winning of “Urban Journal” can attract more outstanding
works, and make people think about the significance and expansiveness of new media,
leading to even more discussion and even greater creative energy.

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本屆數位藝術獎，互動藝術類作品競爭非常激烈，入圍的作品的完成度皆比去年成熟，
顯示本活動帶動了國內相關領域的發展，已有了良好的成效。在入圍的作品中，元智大
學資訊傳播研究所的同學，有兩件作品入圍，表現最為突出，也突顯了國內數位藝術創
作的風潮已經完全跳脫原有的藝術族群，已形成跨領域、跨學門的整合創作。

互動藝術類的首獎「城市日誌」，以手機、網路，與地域性、時間性的互動，充分展現
了數位媒體的形式與特色，以積極性的行動，建構新型態的社會關係，作品呈現了無遠
弗屆、強大的時空擴張性，贏得評審一致的肯定。使國內的新媒體藝術完全擺脫了美術
館與表演場內的美學論證，跨越了學術高牆，融入了社群，以積極介入的方式改變社會
的型態。

新媒體本身具有強烈的社會意義，與引發「事件」的巨大能量，期望「城市日誌」的得
獎，能拋磚引玉，思維新媒體的意義與擴張性，引發更多的討論與更大的創作能量。