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2024
CANOPY PROJECT
STYLUS
RANDY YANG
2024/02/24 - 03/23
The exhibition "STYLUS" endeavors to explore, through the artist's recent work, Randy 16, the imaginative concept of cicadas utilizing their mouthparts as a means to read hidden information on the surface of tree bark and broadcast it through sound, resembling a fax-like device. In the research process, the mechanisms of reading, transmitting, and recording observed in early telegraph machines (pantelegraph) are linked to the mouthparts of cicadas and their ear-shattering reproductive signals. Ultimately, these characteristics are overlaid in the form of a sound-based installation. When tasked with creating a perfect fusion between a man-made tool and a biological organism, can the magnified deviations and traces evident in the results, influenced by interactive processes, be considered as a sensory migration of this amalgamation?
Date ❘ 2024/02/24 - 03/23
Opening ❘ 02/24(Sat) 14:00（& Sound Performance）
Sound Performance ❘ 02/24(Sat) 14:30 Artists: Somanana Rain、Chi-You Dean
Venue ❘ Hong Foundation（12F, No.9, Sec. 2, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei）
Visiting ❘ 11:00-18:00（Closed on Sundays and national holidays）
ARTIST
RANDY YANG
Media artist Randy Yang, born in Taiwan in 1993, recalls memories of his upbringing centered around the tangled power and signal cables behind TV cabinets and computer desks. In his recent studies, he focuses on the stylus mechanism—a structure involved in drawing or reading analog signals. Yang envisions its presence in communication and consumer audio devices, exploring its multifaceted roles in reading, recording, delineating, and creating. He contemplates how these functions can connect with the mouthparts of insects.
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