HsienYu CHENG
HsienYu CHENG enters the art scene with a background in information technology. He specializes in translating multiple knowledge systems and is concerned about the humanistic reality in the midst of technological evolution—where it comes from and where it is going. He has become a contemporary storyteller with dry humor. Afterlife Ver. 2.0 plays to the death of mosquitoes as a virtual life game. This immediate prophecy about rebirth is his debut work. Sandbox intercepts the signal of viewers’ mobile phones in real time and delivers a message to them. Now is the beginning, from which life starts to change.
HsienYu CHENG
Afterlife Ver. 2.0, 2013
Recycled E-waste, custom electronic circuit, micro controller, lamp, steels and monitor, 29 x 36 x 20 cm，3 Ed. + 1 A.P.
NT$420,000
HsienYu CHENG
Sandbox, 2016
SDR (software defined radio), metal, customized software, FPGA board, laptop, signal jammer (optional), Based on Site Size, 1 Ed. + 1 A.P.
NT$1,280,000
By intercepting and redirecting radio signals from the audience’s mobile devices provided by local carriers, sandbox seeks to make use of the empty exhibition space to obtain a temporary phone number by which SMS messages fabricated in situ can be transmitted in order to guide the audience to explore several works supposedly absent from the site. The content of the text messages mostly concerns “things that seem to exist even if the viewer cannot verify their existence from beginning to end”.