About HsienYu Cheng (鄭先喻)

HsienYu Cheng (鄭先喻) is a Taiwanese artist and software developer born in 1984 in Kaohsiung. He creates artworks, software, and experimental bio-electronic devices that examine human behaviour, emotion, software, and human-machine relationships. Awards include the 2014 Taipei Digital Art Award First Prize, 2017 Kaohsiung Art Award New Media Art First Prize, 2019 Tung Chung Art Award, 2021 19th Taishin Arts Award Visual Art Award, and a 2023 S+T+ARTS Nomination / Honorary Mention at ARS Electronica. Recent exhibitions include ARS Electronica 2023 and Sónar 2025 Barcelona, with further shows in the Netherlands, Slovenia, Norway, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, and Korea.

鄭先喻,1984年生於台灣高雄,藝術家兼軟體開發人員。創作藝術作品、軟體及結合電子設備的實驗性生物電子裝置。透過專注於人類行為、情感、軟體以及人機關係的作品,以幽默的方式傳達對社會與環境的獨特見解。曾獲2014年台北數位藝術獎首獎、2017年高雄獎新媒體藝術首獎、2019年銅鐘藝術獎、2021年第十九屆台新藝術獎視覺藝術獎,並於2023年獲得奧地利電子藝術節S+T+ARTS提名/榮譽獎。

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Sandbox

2017

[ Sandbox ] - injector before_null

SDR( software defined radio), metal, customized software, lights, FPGA board, laptop, signal jammer(optional)

size variable

“ Radio has been always there before we discover it, just like the

matters do not exist before we define them. ”

Brief description - 

[ Sandbox ] is a piece of work originating from Injector, the artist’s ongoing project, aiming to bestow machines with imaginative minds. How people use their imaginations to draw those artworks by only texts in their mind? 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 mentioned artworks involve something which people believe its actual existence but find no way to prove. This work thus reflects the fact that some things have been always there long before we discover and utilize them, yet they do not exist before we can imagine and define them.

 

Example of SMS text massages :

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

I am sure that you see many wonderful art pieces in this exhibition, and time to feel some different things.

Did you see a painting that hung up 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 been always there before we discover it, just like the matters do not exist before we define them.

Please walk to the passageway, you will see a ferro fluid work that hang up on the wall and that shows you the nearly future as a organic sculpture.

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

Close to the passageway, you will see an painting that contents microbe, bacteria that grow on the canvas.

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

Hi! 

Are you still around? 

I am waiting you outside in front of museum.

 

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