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pey-Chwen Lin 16-06-2022
I will introduce my “Eve Clone” series and present the video of my solo exhibition “Revelation of Eve Clone” held at the Tainan Art Museum from 2019 to 2020. By using 3D computer animation, I created a digital female figure with hybrid texture named, Eve Clone, in order to criticize humans’ desire of playing the role of God.
I established a critical narrative that uses the media art to reflect the symbolism of “Eve Clone”, who has many layers of metaphor. For the purpose of emphasizing the perfect shape of her body in a golden ratio, I overlapped the image of “Eve Clone” with Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man”. Additionally, I imprinted the Number of the Beast, 666, on both her forehead and her right hand to symbolize her as the evil female figure, Whore of Babylon, mentioned in the Book of Revelation, who tried to tempt and take control of the entire world. In addition, her skin was colored according to the “Great Image” from The Book of Daniel in the Bible with a golden head, a silver chest, a bronze belly, iron legs, and half-iron-half-clay feet to show her greatness and arrogance. Furthermore, the Book of Revelation and Book of Daniel were applied to define her feature of evil, power, and final destiny.
The curator Dr. Ming Turner states, “Pey-Chwen Lin began her ‘Eve Clone’ series in 2006. This series conveys both femininity and religious symbolism. Although the creation of Lin’s works relies heavily on technology and digital techniques, she is actually being critical of the negative impact of technology on modern human society.” I especially utilized the technology of media such as hologram, interactive sensors, computer programming, facial identification and motion capture system to represent “Eve Clone” as an artificial life with the capability to be reproduced. Her omnipresence living with humans in the same time and same space, and vividness allow her to interact with humans and even learn from human’s motion expression.
pey-Chwen Lin: , 16-06-2022, in: Archive of Digital Art I will introduce my “Eve Clone” series and present the video of my solo exhibition “Revelation of Eve Clone” held at the Tainan Art Museum from 2019 to 2020. By using 3D computer animation, I created a digital female figure with hybrid texture named, Eve Clone, in order to criticize humans’ desire of playing the role of God.
I established a critical narrative that uses the media art to reflect the symbolism of “Eve Clone”, who has many layers of metaphor. For the purpose of emphasizing the perfect shape of her body in a golden ratio, I overlapped the image of “Eve Clone” with Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man”. Additionally, I imprinted the Number of the Beast, 666, on both her forehead and her right hand to symbolize her as the evil female figure, Whore of Babylon, mentioned in the Book of Revelation, who tried to tempt and take control of the entire world. In addition, her skin was colored according to the “Great Image” from The Book of Daniel in the Bible with a golden head, a silver chest, a bronze belly, iron legs, and half-iron-half-clay feet to show her greatness and arrogance. Furthermore, the Book of Revelation and Book of Daniel were applied to define her feature of evil, power, and final destiny.
The curator Dr. Ming Turner states, “Pey-Chwen Lin began her ‘Eve Clone’ series in 2006. This series conveys both femininity and religious symbolism. Although the creation of Lin’s works relies heavily on technology and digital techniques, she is actually being critical of the negative impact of technology on modern human society.” I especially utilized the technology of media such as hologram, interactive sensors, computer programming, facial identification and motion capture system to represent “Eve Clone” as an artificial life with the capability to be reproduced. Her omnipresence living with humans in the same time and same space, and vividness allow her to interact with humans and even learn from human’s motion expression.
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