虛構百景 in /correct キング架空の百

ARTIST：KUO, Hsin-Hui
TITLE：in /correct
YEAR：2010
LENGTH：3’24″

Format: Single Channel Video
Material: Ready Made Cinema(original Footage was B&W,no sound, from japanese colonial period,1937), Mass Media Texts
Technique: Google Translate, Adobe Premiere Pro(moving image), Steinberg Wavelab(sound)

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The name of this work starts from a personal experience in mis-using the new web tool : Google Translate. It has double meanings as “incorrect”and “in + correct”, to criticize the implantation of mass media.

I tried to pick up many kinds of media messages,which including : news headlines , advertising slogans and the warning words on a cigarette box…. While import those messages into Google Translate, it remains only some fragmental details to recognize the original idea.

At the same time, artist also tried to invent a conceptual experiment, with the “Imitated Subtitle” as main character, I start to make sound, and try to find footages in cooperation .

In order to reverse a common cognition – that the visual image as main primary element, operating “music” or “dubbing” “subtitle”.

background footages ：the work“Kindergarten Games”by Deng Nan-Guang , filmed in Taipei, during the Japanese Colonial Period, 1935.

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作品來自於使用google translate這項新媒介的誤用經驗,英文名稱在字意上可視為incorrect(不正確,錯誤), 以及 in +correct(置入作為正確) , 表達對於媒體操作行為的批判。

在這件作品中, 我擷取了當下各式身邊媒體的訊息, 包含: 新聞標題, 商業廣告標語, 和菸盒上的健康警語等等。並運用google translate翻譯這些訊息, 呈現的結果是片斷化的局部閱讀, 原意只能經由想像推演, 無法由字面企及。

同時, 作者也企圖進行一場觀念實驗, 以自行開發的“仿字幕” 作為主角, 開始製造聲音, 並進而尋找搭配的影像, 試圖扭轉一般認定中影像作為主體, “配樂” 或 “配音” “字幕” 作為輔佐的結構關係。

背景片段：1937年由鄧南光先生於日據時期拍攝的台北影像 :[台北幼稚園運動會]。