Injector before Null - Sandbox

[ Sandbox ] - injector before_null

“Radio has always been there before we discovered it, just as matter does not exist before we define it.”

Brief description:

[ Sandbox ] is a piece of work originating from Injector, the artist’s ongoing project, aiming to bestow machines with imaginative minds. How do people use their imaginations to picture artworks based solely on text? In the exhibition room deliberately left blank, this work uses SMS messages to introduce a couple of absent artworks, and thereby encourages the viewers to imagine them. All the artworks mentioned involve something whose existence people believe in but have no way to prove. This work thus reflects the fact that some things have always been there long before we discover and utilize them, yet they do not exist before we can imagine and define them.

〈沙箱〉(sandbox)命名由來於軟體開發階段所應用的虛擬測試空間，寫程式者透過撰寫實驗性的程式語碼，測試各種可能性。展名中的”Null”，原意義為軟體工程界稱不指向任何位址的值，在中文的解釋為”空”，在本展覽則指向沒有局限的各種可能性。

此次展出的作品是鄭先喻開發中的長期計畫《截夢者》的首次發表。《截夢者》期望透過賦予一台機器生產夢境的能力，反映人類在現實中的想像能力。藝術家認為人在敘述自己的夢境時，由於無法真實傳遞夢境的圖像，往往是透過口述後，在聽者的腦海中自行生產另一個夢境的畫面，而這次展覽中的〈沙箱〉（sandbox）試圖用空白的展覽空間，藉由sms簡訊傳達的文字訊息，並且導引觀眾窺探數件事實上不在場的作品，藉此捕捉各式各樣想像力的運用。

P.S 該作品只限定於本展覽用途，在傳送sms訊息後，會重置資料庫中資料並且刪除，並不會用於其他違法事物上。

Examples of SMS messages:

Hi, welcome to *****. Did you see the small installation next to the entrance that presents a prayer to God?

I am sure that you are seeing many wonderful art pieces in this exhibition, and it is time to feel something different.

Did you see the painting hanging on the wall? It is about alien abduction.

There is a man who always tries to stay away from you. Who is he?

Next to the elevator maze, did you see the kinetic installation which presents Time, Space, and Gravity between infinitely small particles inside our universe?

Things have always been there before we discover them, just as matter does not exist before we define it.

Please walk to the passageway; you will see a ferrofluid work hanging on the wall that shows you the near future as an organic sculpture.

Please grab a drink and go to someone and pay attention to her eyes. You will see that the human eye has such a beautiful pattern on it.

Close to the passageway, you will see a painting that contains microbes, bacteria that grow on the canvas.

Do you like emojis? I would really like to send you an emoji that looks like ?ω?. 

Hi! 

Are you still around? 

I am waiting for you outside in front of the museum.