Beta +

In a context of rapidly evolving digital technologies and new media, as well as the ever-expanding boundaries of contemporary art, the Beta+ exhibition examines the issues of transience and validity in our quest for information and novelty. Influenced by contemporary visual culture, individuals are constantly looking for visual stimulation from new technologies and yearning for new experiences. However, this consumerist content often comes in fragmented forms, leaving us waiting for the next wave of emerging products, whether it’s a captivating item, a one-off stage, or the launch of the next generation of digital goods. Real-time has become the central tenet of our content consumption model, and capturing the latest trend is the main motivation for this consumption. The competitiveness of today’s large companies is based on the accumulation of knowledge and information, as well as their ability to keep up to date and quickly integrate new features. This agility allows companies to quickly adapt to market changes and remain competitive. Although the applications and tools we use today are relatively proven, they can quickly become obsolete; This is because the rate at which technology is being stereoted and updated is accelerating. In a world where media, technologies and materials are constantly evolving, artists are beginning to rethink different aspects of their creative production practices, exhibition methods and forms of expression to adapt to an ever-changing society. Thus, this exhibition seeks to explore how these updates, rearrangements, additions and deletions, as well as the exchanges between developers and users, manifest themselves in art. The exhibition brings together nine artists or groups from Mongolia, France, Singapore and Taiwan. They respond to multiple facets and challenges related to contemporary spaces, environments and visual cultures by exploring dynamic and real-time spatial experiences. Not a static exhibition, Beta+ presents the artists’ “real-time” creative processes, with works constantly constructed and brought together in the exhibition space, offering the public a unique and transitory diachronic experience. The works on display illustrate a variety of transformative approaches, whether digital and algorithmic, chemical, and material, performative or situational. Visitors are invited to actively participate in this evolving exhibition, to interact with the artists and their creations, and to reflect on the impermanence of fixed forms and the transience of information. Beta+ reflects artists’ keen observations of our current environment and offers deep reflection on what the future might hold.

Collective exhibition

Munkhbolor, Ganbold
, Lin Yu-Cheng
, Marie Havel
, Clément Philippe
, Hyper Wave
, Huang Xuan
, Yeo Chee, Kiong
Teng, Wen-Hsin
, Chung Hsing-Fu