Dear me

lacquer thinner、Print
2020

Dear me
香蕉水、文字輸出
2020

Human civilization shares the same path of development with Gordon Moore’s (founder of Intel) Moore’s Law, which in Intel’s term, is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit tends to double about every 18 months. The denser the coverage of internet has tracked down human’s intelligence, streamed their consciousness, infiltrated and slipped into their lives, it changes the way we perceive this world, comprehend this world, exchange information and even our lifestyle.

It came to me one day that I discovered Google search has retained all my search history for the past decade, and these rows of web addresses somehow indexed my personalities between these years. I was curious and nervous at the same time seeing what happens to be a tiny part of my private self in an ocean of a greater collective consciousness.

In the beginning of this project, the search engine data will be imprinted onto the exhibition, then in the later phase be washed off. I intend to expose the private search history into the public, and review the “publicity” and “privacy” of the internet. And through the process of “imprinting” and “removing”, which represents “Accessing browser history- slowly exposing the private loggings and profiles into the collective mind” and “Deleting browser history- wiping oneself away from that collective conscious”.

The purging process was not thorough, and therefore some scrambled, scattered data remains, so does the browser data we deleted can never be verified if it’s truly wiped clean, maybe there were debris and fragments of information, like space trash, wandering in the space of the internet.

人類文明的發展依循英特爾(Intel)創辦人戈登．摩爾(Gordon Moore)所提出的「摩爾定律」以每18個月倍增的速度成長。效能越來越好的晶片讓訊息的計算與傳遞速度越來越快。密度越來越高的網際網絡(Internet)搜羅了人類的智慧，串接人類的意識，逐漸滲入、浸透人類生存的隙縫，改變人們觀看世界、理解世界、接收資訊、傳播資訊的方式，甚至是生活起居。

偶然之中發現Google留存了我過去十幾年來的搜尋紀錄，這些文字猶如我不同時期的人格側寫一般，我既新奇又不自在的在裡面看見了人類集體意識中，私密的我自己。

本創作計畫將過去所累積的搜尋紀錄拓印在展場中，並在展覽後期將拓印磨除。試圖將私密的搜尋紀錄揭露於公共空間之中，重新檢視網際網路的「公共性」與「私密性」。並透過「拓印」與「磨除」的過程，象徵「提取瀏覽紀錄—慢慢暴露自己在集體意識中的私密記憶與側寫」以及「刪除瀏覽紀錄—把自己從集體意識中抹除」。

最後並不會磨除得非常乾淨，而是留下一些殘破、不完整的文字，就如同我們永遠無法確定刪除瀏覽紀錄是否真的完全刪除了，是否還是會殘存一些片段的、不完整的資訊，像是太空垃圾一般，飄蕩在網際網路的宇宙之中。