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2009年6月28日台灣第一個數位藝術中心，終於正式跟大家見面了！

在捷運芝山站位於天母這個充滿著自然、多元文化的匯集處，坐落了科技與藝術創意整合的「台北數位藝術中心」，讓人難以想像這個場域的前身，竟是宰豬的肉品市場。此刻卻化身為數位藝術的研究開發平台，逐步建立起台灣數位藝術的研究基礎並拓展國外交流。

28日當天，我們台北市的大家長郝市長特地蒞臨參與，期許數位藝術中心帶動台灣科技與藝術的資源整合，還帶領著學界、產業、官方等代表，在台北數位藝術中心的首座典藏作品-「Speaker tree」曾偉豪作品前，一同手牽手同心協力啟動裝置聲響，象徵了台北數位藝術中心旨在「研發、實驗、創作、育成」等研發與交流的平台概念。

這次為了慶祝台北數位藝術中心正式開館，特別邀請雙個展馬君輔的「兒童製造」，一進入展區看見一個個如豬隻般，被懸吊在輸送帶上的孩童，好似前身為肉品市場的中心，而各式各樣被製造出來的孩童，就像新成立的台北數位藝術中心，如新生兒般嗷嗷待哺。而另一作品陶亞倫的「終結歷史之光」在於探究被切割的生命體，利用光主宰且終結了時間、空間，象徵數位藝術的創作將有無限發展與破除疆界的可能性。

展覽中除了兩位個展藝術家作品外，還有北藝大FBI Lab特別提供的互動式虛擬有聲書牆及eBar-須彌芥子等作品展出，這也是中心開館以來第一次與學校做資源交流與互動。

Special Coverage on the DAC Opening

Official Opening Ceremony of DAC

The first ever Digital Art Center of Taiwan was finally unveiled to the public on June 28, 2009!

MRT Zhishan Station is renowned for its natural realm and remarkable cultural diversity and is where Digital Art Center Taipei is located. With DAC’s integration of technology and artistic creation, it is impossible for one to imagine that the very same venue was previously used as a livestock product market. At this moment, the building has been transformed into a digital art R&D platform and has gradually become a digital art research base to help Taiwan further overseas art exchange.

On June 28, Mayor Hau, a well-respected member of Taipei City, personally showed up at the event. He sincerely hopes for DAC to promote resource integration of technology and art in Taiwan. Numerous representatives from the academic, industrial and government sector accompanied the mayor, standing together hand in hand to activate the sound device of the first permanent collection of DAC Taipei—“Speaker Tree”, the artwork of Wei-hao Tseng. This artwork signifies the missions of DAC Taipei: “R&D, experimentation, creation and incubation”, and the concept of an R&D exchange platform.

To celebrate the opening of DAC Taipei, Chun-fu Ma’s was especially invited by DAC to take part in the two-man exhibition. He displayed his work, “Kodomo Manufacture.” Children, hung on a conveyor belt like pigs, are displayed in the exhibition space, reminding us that the DAC venue was a former livestock product market. Each child was manufactured in a unique way, just like the newly established DAC Taipei, a newborn that needs to be taken care of. Ya-lun Tao’s “The Light of Historical Ending” aims to explore mutilated living organisms. Time and space are controlled and terminated by light to symbolize digital art creation’s unlimited potential with an attempt to push art boundaries in the foreseeable future.

Apart from the two-man exhibition, other artworks were also exhibited at the scene, such as: an interactive virtual audio book wall and eBar- Sumeru Sarsapa, courtesy of FBI Lab of Taipei National University of the Arts, etc. It was DAC’s first exchange and collaboration with a school since its inception.

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