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當兩岸三地互打資訊戰，網路上的資訊彷若為具有生命，能夠移動、重組、突變、擴散、產生能量、大量繁殖、也能死亡。
「遠房親戚實驗室」自2020年在C-LAB的CREATORS進駐期間，開始發展「芥面」計畫。該計畫以中國官方在華文資訊傳遞與儲存的監督控管為例，參照過去台灣與中國資訊交流的歷史，和當下的網路資訊傳輸的現實需求與潛在困境，提出一套以基因改造阿拉伯芥植株，作為兩岸三地資訊交流及語彙保存介面（芥面）的完整方法，並準備作為未來國際間任一網路極權控管區域在資訊無法自由傳輸，甚或「斷網」情境下，匿名訊息傳遞、擴散、複製、儲存的一種可能格式。作為本計畫一項潛在的後續行動，「擴散全球生態影響不明」所引發的（基改）生物之生態環境爭議，也將進一步帶動討論極端情境下，資訊戰略的適切策略、倫理規範與自我審查等議題。此計畫的階段性成果，現正於C-LAB的當期展覽「Signals實驗通信 CREATORS 2020–21」中展出，至3月14日。
延伸自展覽活動，「遠房親戚實驗室」特別推出新春系列講座，四位團隊成員將以四個小子題，分別介紹「芥面計畫」背後脈絡，漫談跨領域合作過程中的自我觀察，以及中國網路管控等議題，並分享過去一年間對國共冷戰時期的心戰文宣調查成果。
[ 講座子題 ]
1) 芥面：計劃簡介（講者｜曹存慧）
2) 芥面：跨領域藝術合作研究（講者｜葛昌惠）
3) 敏感祠：網路審查初探（講者｜楊克鈞）
4) 橫跨冷戰半世紀：兩岸心戰文獻解密（講者｜陳韋臻）
＊因應政府防疫措施，進場請全程配戴口罩，並配合體溫量測、酒精消毒與資料填寫，以利後續追蹤。
＊現場若超過一定人數將進行人流管控。主辦單位保有因應疫情狀況調整與變更活動之權利。
Intergrass: Happy New Year Lucky Combo
As information warfare rages on between China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, information on the internet has gradually assumed a lifelike power with which it can move, reassemble, mutate, and transmit itself as well as generate power, multiply, and, of course, die.
Lab of the Distant Relatives has been developing the Intergrass project since the period of CREATORS 2020 at C-LAB. The project incorporates the Chinese authority’s surveillance of the transmission and storage of Chinese information, the history of information exchanges between Taiwan and China, and the current needs and potential challenges of internet information transmission to propose a complete interface of information exchange and storage using the genetically modified (GM) Arabidopsis thaliana plants. This interface, or “intergrass,” can also serve as a potential format of anonymous information transfer, transmission, multiplication, and storage in the event that any international totalitarian internet surveying area controls the free transmission of information—or even disconnects the entire network—in the future. Following this project, the unmeasurable ecological impacts of the global propagation of the GM “intergrass” will facilitate discussions of the strategies, ethical codes, and self-surveillance of information warfare in extreme circumstances. A work-in-progress version of the Intergrass project is now showcased in the recent exhibition, Signals: CREATORS 2020–21, until 14th March at C-LAB.
In this New Year Forum Combo extended from the exhibition, Lab of the Distant Relatives will briefly introduce their Intergrass project, talk about how they work as an interdisciplinary team, the censorship of China internet, share their investigation on psychological warfare between Taiwan and China during the prolonged Cold War.
Keynotes
1) Intergrass - A Brief Introduction (by Theresa Tsun-Hui TSAO)
2) Intergrass - Interdisciplinary Collaboration as Research (by Zin GE)
3) TErMPLE: An Initial Study of Internet Censorship and Sensitive Terms (by Ko-Chun Yang)
4) The Half-Century Spanning Cold War: De-coding the Archive of Psychological Warfare between Taiwan and China (by CHEN Wei-Chen)
《實驗通信 CREATORS 2020–21》展覽介紹
在2020年，共有16項創作研發計畫在C-LAB空總臺灣當代文化實驗場進行，主題橫跨敘事、空間、表演、農事、網路輿論、媒體批判、基因改造、聲景採集、歷史檔案、地理踏查、文化交流等。這些計畫透過「CRETATORS創研進駐／支持計畫」，以及臺灣聲響實驗室的「聲鬥陣」項目徵選而來，並以各自的方式持續發展至今。「實驗通信 CREATORS 2020–21」透過展覽、表演與現場活動，集合呈現這16項計畫各自進行中的樣貌。
展期｜2021年2月19日（五）—3月14日（日）
地點｜空總臺灣當代文化實驗場- 通信分隊展演空間
開放時間｜週二至週日11:00-18:00，週一休館
*2月19日僅於開幕活動開放參觀
*3月1日連假期間照常開放，延至3月2日休館
策展人｜游崴
參展藝術家｜引爆火山工程、她的實驗室空間集、安魂工作隊、江之翠劇場、吳秉聖、李慈湄、走路草農／藝團、施懿珊、許哲瑜／陳琬尹、陳志建、黃苓瑄、黃偉、黃博志、黃鼎云、遠房親戚實驗室、羅懿君
指導單位｜文化部
主辦單位｜空總臺灣當代文化實驗場C-LAB
Signals: CREATORS 2020–21
In 2020, 16 research and creative projects were carried out at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) on topics of narrative, space, performance, agriculture, online public opinions, media criticism, genetic modification, soundscape collection, historical archives, geographical research, and cultural exchange. These projects resulted from open calls for the CREATORS Creation/Research Residency & Support Program and Taiwan Sound Lab’s Sound-Off Program last year and have been undergoing their own stages of development. Through exhibition, live performance and events , Signals: CREATORS 2020–2021 assembles and presents the current progress of these 16 projects.
Date｜February 19, 2021- March 14, 2021
Venue｜Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab – Art Space III
Opening Hours｜Open 11:00-18:00, Tuesday-Sunday
*Open during holidays (including March 1), closes on March 2
Curator｜YU Wei
Artists｜Engineering of Volcano Detonating, Her Lab Space, Libera Work-Gang, Gang-a Tsui Theater, WU Ping-Sheng, TM Li, Walking Grass Agriculture, SHIH Yi-Shan, HSU Che-Yu/ CHEN Wan-Yin, CHEN Chih-Chien, HUANG Ling-Hsuan, HUANG Wei, HUANG Po-Chih, HUANG Ding-Yun, Lab of the Distant Relatives, LO Yi-Chun
Supervisor｜Ministry of Culture
Organizer｜Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
