露餡的總是手──介面／交握
It’s Always the Hands That──Interface／Handshake
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開幕：2025.07.05（六）14:30
展期：2025.07.05 – 08.31
地點：鳳甲美術館（台北市北投區大業路166號11樓）
文／李佳霖（策展人）
雕塑家亨利．摩爾（Henry Moore）年邁生病時畫下《藝術家之手》（The Artist’s Hand, 1979）這一系列對他自己手部的描繪，讚嘆雙手作為人類表達媒介的悠久歷史，「在雕塑與繪畫的歷史中，藝術家透過雙手呈現他們所欲言說的情感。」；而孵化許多科技新創的創投公司 Y Combinator 創辦人保羅．格雷厄姆（Paul Graham），年輕時在資工所畢業後曾到藝術學院學習繪畫，他在散文集《黑客與畫家》（Hackers and Painters）裡將黑客與畫家都視為「用自己的雙手創造東西的人」。
雙手萬能，但露餡的也總是手。在生物演化的歷史中，現代人類因為發展出可以四指對握的有力大拇指，相較於其他靈長類能以更加精密的方式使用和製造器具，被人類學家視為人類文明發展的關鍵；如今，當人們讚嘆人工智慧爆炸性的效率與效能，似乎可以將我們從許多重複性的工作中解放，但也擔心被自己創造出的技術取代的同時，手又再度成為思考的關鍵進路。
展覽構想最初啟發自近年進入大眾視野的「文字生成圖像（text to image）」AI 算圖 。根據現階段的技術，AI 繪製人像時最容易「計算錯誤」的部位正是手，比如產出多根手指或是所有手指完全黏成一塊的圖像，而這也是區分一張圖像是否為 AI 生成的線索之一。彷彿在人工智能的理解裡，並沒有手的存在。
此外，數位（digital）的核心概念是二進制編碼，「digit」是「10 以下的數字」也就是用手指可以計算的範圍，而拉丁字根「digitus」指涉的就是手指本身。手不僅是技術的起源，也是計算的起源，更是人與機器——這種透過雙手打造出的人造物——兩者互動的主要肢體部位。本展試圖思考，倘若技術不只是人類手部的延伸，手的隱喻能否作為一種技術多樣性的乘載，而藝術創作具有某種分岔（fork）技術史的潛力，能豐富我們更多層次的想像，甚至為虛擬實境中「手的消失」帶來積極意義。
誠如唐娜．哈洛威（Donna Haraway）所言，新科技是創造了重塑主體的可能性，使人重新討論何謂身體與心智；另一方面，海德格對於打字機時代技術與人的關係的詮釋，亦創造了一種面對技術的歷史觀，人的手也許不再長出厚繭，但必定將突變成適應新技術條件的器官。
凝視雙手，這個精密又感性的肢體，或許我們一直都是「機器－人」。
【藝術家】
林亭君
好奇機
陳琛
蕭育禮
黎寧駿
【展期活動】
◼ 講座｜VR中的手
時間：07.13（日）14:00
地點：鳳甲美術館
藝術家：CURIOSKI 好奇機
與談人：王柏偉（財團法人數位藝術基金會總監）
◼ 藝術家工作坊｜《三C形意拳》開發工作坊
時間：07.19（六）14:00
地點：鳳甲美術館
藝術家：林亭君
※本場活動需要報名，名額有限，詳情請見鳳甲美術館官網與社群平台
◼ 藝術家座談｜傑出的一手 漫畫分享會
時間：08.23（六）14:00
地點：鳳甲美術館
藝術家：陳琛、蕭育禮、黎寧駿
※本場活動歡迎觀眾帶私藏的漫畫或書籍來一同分享
主辦單位：財團法人國家文化藝術基金會、策展人培力美術館、財團法人邱再興文教基金會
執行單位：鳳甲美術館
贊助單位：春之文化基金會
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Opening: 2025.07.05 (Sat) 14:30
Dates: 2025.07.05 – 08.31
Venue: Hong-Gah Museum (11F., No. 166, Daye Rd., Beitou Dist., Taipei City 11268, Taiwan)
Text / Chia-Lin LEE (Curator)
When sculptor Henry Moore was elderly and ill, he drew a series of depictions of his own hands titled The Artist’s Hand (1979), praising the long history of hands as a medium of human expression. He stated, “Throughout the history of sculpture and painting, one can find artists have shown through the hands the feelings they wish to represent.” Meanwhile, Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, a venture capital firm that has incubated many tech startups, studied painting at an art school after graduating with a computer science degree. In his essay collection Hackers and Painters, he views both hackers and painters as “people who create things with their own hands”.
Hands are versatile, but they also often give us away. In the history of biological evolution, modern humans developed powerful thumbs capable of opposing the other four fingers, allowing for more precise use and manufacturing of tools compared to other primates. Anthropologists consider this a key factor in the development of human civilization. Today, as people marvel at the explosive efficiency and effectiveness of artificial intelligence, which seems capable of liberating us from many repetitive tasks, while also worrying about being replaced by the technology we created, hands once again become a critical entry point for reflection.
The exhibition concept was initially inspired by the “text-to-image” AI image generation that has entered the public sphere in recent years . According to current technology, the part that AI is most likely to “miscalculate” when generating portraits is the hands, such as producing images with multiple fingers or fingers completely fused together. This has become one of the clues to distinguish whether an image is AI-generated. It is as if hands do not exist in the understanding of artificial intelligence.
Furthermore, the core concept of “digital” is binary encoding. “Digit” refers to “numbers below 10″—that is, the range that can be calculated using fingers—while the Latin root “digitus” refers to the finger itself. The hand is not only the origin of technology but also the origin of calculation, and moreover, it is the primary bodily part through which humans interact with machines—these artifacts created by our own hands. This exhibition attempts to consider whether, if technology is not merely an extension of the human hand, the metaphor of the hand can serve as a vessel for technological diversity, and whether artistic creation possesses a certain potential to fork technological history, enriching our imagination and even bringing positive meaning to the “disappearance of hands” in virtual reality.
As Donna Haraway has noted, new technologies reshape our understanding of subjectivity, prompting us to reexamine the boundaries of body and mind. Meanwhile, Heidegger’s reflections on the typewriter offered a historical lens on technology’s shifting relationship with humans. Our hands may no longer grow calloused, but they are surely mutating into organs fit for new technical conditions.
Gazing at our hands, these intricate yet expressive limbs, perhaps we have always been “machine-humans.”
[ Artists ]
Xia LIN
CURIOSKI
Chen CHEN
Yu-Li HSIAO
Ning-Jyun LI
[ Exhibition Event ]
𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗥
Time: 07.13(Sun) 14:00
Location: Hong-Gah Museum
Artist: CURIOSKI
Guest Speaker: Po-Wei WANG(Artist Director, Digital Art Foundation)
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 | 𝟯𝗖 𝗫𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗶 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻: 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽
Time: 07.19(Sat) 14:00
Location: Hong-Gah Museum
Artist: Xia LIN
※Due to limited capacity, early registration is recommended. For detail, please visit the Hong-Gah Museum website and social media.
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 | 𝗔𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲
Time: 08.23(Sat) 14:00
Location: Hong-Gah Museum
Artist: CHEN Chen, HSIAO YU-Li, Li Ning-Jyun
※Feel free to bring your favorite comics or books to share!
Organizer: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Curator’s Incubator Program at Museum, Hong-Gah Museum
Sponsor: Spring Foundation
