In the work ‘Across the Unreal Oceans – Elapsed Zeeland’, which Chen Yu-Jung worked on during a residency at iii at the end of last year, Chen responds to the memories of Formosa during the 39-year rule of the Dutch East India Company 400 years ago through images, sound and installations.

Based on the technologies of 3D point cloud scanning and audio transcriber for documents, which have been repetitively extracted and stored, he attempts to re-define the segments of history while reconstructing the space of historic sites and envisioning its future. The intervention of technology in this project corresponds to the boundary of the body and the expansion of senses. Both Fort Provintia and Fort Zeelandia are deconstructed as abstract lines in space and reproduced by AI algorithms as a digital interpretation of the legacy of Tainan. This digital interpretation also correlates with reality and imaginary as well as the process of reasoning between original architecture and the space calculated by AI.

Based in Tainan, Taiwan, Chen Yu-Jung is a sound and intermedia artist focussing on contemporary composition, experimental improvisation, and mixed media. Through the translation of sound narrative, his works induce the intermediary state of the human body in time and space. At the same time, he opens up the body’s perceptual experience as a system connecting inner emotions with outer space.

This residency was supported by Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government and Soulangh Cultural Park