後·街 Post-Street

國立臺北藝術大學
新媒體藝術學系 第五屆系展
Taipei National University of the Arts
Dept. of New Media Art
The 5th Annual Exhibition

媒體，是資訊傳播的介質、工具與管道。21世紀更加興盛且愈發成熟多樣的新媒體（新社會大眾媒體），跨越報刊雜誌、廣播、電視三大傳統媒體，以及網路新媒介，成為現今強而有力的第五權。透過數位科技，世界無國界、地球零時差，資訊爆炸且多元，人人都是傳播者，也是接收者，資訊的真實面變得更錯綜複雜，人的判斷思考卻不見得更清晰正確。

後，是為前帶來新的批判；後街，是有距離的觀看媒體大道。街道擁有無限的交流，經過者即是參與者，正如人們呼吸空氣，卻不易察覺它正是聲波與光波最佳的介質。新媒體藝術創作者，不斷嘗試新「方法」(method)傳播「訊息」(message)，如何透過藝術之表達，喚醒部分沉睡的判斷，讓人們對傳媒與影像有所警醒，才能真正發揮科技帶來的進步與良善，而非操弄與盲從。

本次系展首次嘗試自由與主題兩種徵件方式。以往的自由投件呈現了當代新媒體的進程，本次增加的主題徵件則以媒體批判為主軸，藉由設限與不設限的相互碰撞，試圖找出打破媒體界限、與媒體對話的新可能，實踐新新媒介時代應有的真實自由。

Media is the medium, tool and channel for information transfer. It is getting more prosperous, divers and mature as the new media (new social media) in the 21st century. New media has become as the fifth power that includes the traditional newspaper, magazine, radio, television, as well as the network medium. Information is getting exploding and diverse through digital technology that makes this world no boundary, no time zone differences, and causes everyone as bidirectional communicator. Human being’s judgment thinking doesn’t become clear nor accurate while the truth of information is getting more complex.

The Post is turning new criticism out for prior ones. Post-street means to watch the media stream by a said distance. The creators of new media are trying new methods to communicate messages continuously to awaking people by the expression of arts. The truth is only while people are awaked with media and image by the progresses and goodness of technology instead of neither manipulating nor tracing blindly.

The submission of non-theme is to express the progresses of contemporary new media. Theme submission that focuses on media judgment is new for this year. The purpose is to realize the true freedom of new media era by colliding limitation with non-limitation, breaking the boundary of media, and finding the possibility to dialogue with it.