陳怡潔
Agi Chen
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United Islands
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text by Agi Chen

“United Islands” is a collective visual memory database. Every citizen of the island are tuck away deep down within our memory, characters with fabricated colors.

“United Islands” in 5th Fukuoka Asia Art Triennale is based on my series works “Function Color” which I started to develop since 2004. During the process of working on “Function Colors”, In order to explore the collective memory built by mass media through color spectrum of cartoon characters, I transform the characters into centric circles and replace the circles back in to the original setting of the cartoon scenes.

By collecting participants’ selected cartoon Characters as data, “United Islands” expands the concept of “Function Color” into a collective visual memory database online. In this way, I am looking to explore group psychological movements during the delivery of information, because it reveals the method and path which information are delivered in the era of Internet media, and also means Internet provided a cooperative and open platform for collaborative work.

Based on this method of field research that is carried out through Internet and social networking groups, I would make rotatory portraits of cartoon characters collected from participants by a painting machine, which makes images of cartoon characters appear to be concentric layers of colors. On one end, the painting process creates a type of rotatory portrait across the surface of speed. On another end, its motions reveal a process of abstraction that makes colors to reveal a message conveyed across history.
 
 
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