Beta +

Against a backdrop of rapidly evolving digital technologies and new media, and the ever-expanding boundaries of contemporary art, Beta+ examines the issues of transience and validity in our quest for information and novelty. Influenced by contemporary visual culture, people are constantly seeking visual stimulation from new technologies and longing for new experiences. However, this consumer content often comes in fragmented forms, leaving us waiting for the next wave of emerging products, whether it’s a captivating article, a unique scene or the launch of the next generation of digital goods. Real time has become the central principle of our content consumption model, and capturing the latest trend is the main motivation for this consumption.

The competitiveness of today’s large companies depends on the accumulation of knowledge and information, as well as on their ability to update and integrate new functionalities rapidly. This agility enables companies to adapt quickly to market changes and remain competitive. Although the applications and tools we use today are relatively tried and tested, they can quickly become obsolete; indeed, the pace at which technology is staged and updated is accelerating. In a world where media, technologies and materials are constantly evolving, artists are beginning to rethink various aspects of their creative production practices, exhibition methods and forms of expression to adapt to an ever-changing society. So 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 the multiple facets and challenges of contemporary spaces, environments and visual cultures by exploring dynamic, real-time spatial experiences. Not a static exhibition, Beta+ presents the artists’ creative processes “in real time”, with works constantly being constructed and brought together in the exhibition space, offering the public a unique and transitory diachronic experience.

The works on show 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, interacting with the artists and their creations, and reflecting on the impermanence of fixed forms and the transience of information. Beta+ reflects the artists’ acute observations of our current environment, and proposes a profound 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