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前天下午终于从台北回到广州。这是我第一次去台湾，尽管办入境许可证时波折重重，但总算在出发前一周收到了台北寄来的许可。

台北总的感觉人文和教育素质比较高，城市发展比中国内地要平缓，没有那种明天就要翻天覆地的恐慌。台北文化深受日本和韩国文化影响。

台北的的士司机很友好也有一定的知识面。在台北的最后一天晚上，我们遇上了一位女的士司机，第二天她还把我们送去了机场。机场的一路上我和她聊开，了解到一些独特的台湾现象。

那天上了车后，出租车女士热情地要载我们去买葱油饼早餐，我们自然也赞同。我下车买了葱油饼后，出租车女士告诉我卖饼的男人是从大陆来得。他很年轻来台湾做工，虽然他在大陆有一个妻子，但以当时政策他以为他再也不能回大陆，所以他就在台湾又娶了一个妻子。后来回国政策宽松后，他回去大陆探望他在那儿的妻子，而其实在他离开她不久，她才发现她有了他的孩子。二三十年后，孩子都已经长大了，而他才第一次见到他。后来，大陆的妻子决定跟他一起去台湾。所以现在他有两个妻子，一个大陆的妻子和他一起做葱油饼赚钱，另外一个台湾妻子则和他感情上比较亲近。出租车女士告诉我这样的情况在台湾很常见。

这次在台湾除了参加亚洲与公众创用国际研讨会，我们还在非常廊(VT Art Salon)举办了第二次媒体互换活动（Media Exchange 2)。除了预定的几位展示者：Christopher Adams， 王春燕，朱捍东，Jon Phillips方力中和我展示之后，林其蔚等几位台湾艺术家也播放和介绍了他们的录像行为作品。我很庆幸尽管时间仓促我们还是最后做了这次活动，特别是回想起媒体互换在广州的第一次活动，我想这样定期的交流活动对个体艺术家来说很重要。所以我们的原则是不排除任何流派或艺术形式。谢谢Christopher Adams ，蔣慧仙和非常廊的支持和场地提供。

我没有拍太多的照片，我把其中一些放到了我的flickr上。另外还有一些来自Rebecca MacKinnon的照片。她拍得比我的好多了。

非常廊的媒体互换2活动。这些是Rebecca MacKinnon拍的照片。

方力中和林其蔚（Lin Chi-Wei)

猪头皮和他的乐队搖滾主耶穌。我很欣赏猪头皮的表演，因为你无法辨认他的慷慨陈词和夸张的表演是讽刺还是真实的。不过无论怎样，他都有办法把自己和其他人表演弄得有意思。

By Rebecca MacKinnon

台湾新闻很有娱乐性。

台北故宫博物院

We are heading to Taipei tomorrow. In this five days trip, we will attend ACIA (Internationl Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age) 資訊時代之亞洲與公眾創用國際研討會. On Friday night January 18, Jon Phillips, Christopher Adams, Wang Chunyan and I will be hosting Media Exchange 2 at VT Art Salon. Media Exchange 1 took place last winter, with a big group of artists and students lead by our artist friend Huang Xiaopeng in the new mega university town of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts campus. The initiative of the event was to present and discuss projects. Now it’s already one year! So to me it will be an “annual report” on my work.

Here is more information on Media Exchange 2. Sorry it’s a last minute call. But if you are in Taipei. Show up with your friends or your work!

Media Exchange 2: Open Call

Location: VT Art Salon
Address: Yitong St., #47, B1
Map: googlemaps , vtartsalon
Time: January 18, 2007 Friday 9:00 - 11:00 PM
Contact: christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com
Tel: 09-53-036-630

Open Call to Exchange Media: come and present your project this Friday at VT Art Salon in Taipei. Media Exchange 2 is a night of presentations about art projects, models of art practice and art communities. The set presenters of the night are Christopher Adams, writer and critic based in Taipei; Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org), Open Source Developer and artist from San Francisco; Deer Fang (www.deerfang.org), media and video artist from Guangzhou and San Francisco; and, Wang Chunyan, project Lead for Creative Commons China, and a Professor at Renmin University of China Law School.

If not presenting, come to have a drink and discuss the topics throughout the night. And, if you want to present, contact us as soon as possible. Otherwise, show-up the night of and we’ll have a projector and sound system to plug you in. （Email: christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com, Tel: 09-53-036-630)

Christopher Adams - CRUFT: The generative and procedural artwork of Robert Spahr (digital images) 
Jon Phillips - Collaborative art models with Overlap.org and Fabricatorz
Deer Fang - Straight Outta HK and Panda Express. (video screenings)
Wang Chunyan - CC Photo Contest in China

媒體互換 2：公開召集

地點：非常廊
地址：伊通街47號B1
地圖： googlemaps , vtartsalon
時間： 2007.1.18 星期五 晚上九時到十一時
联系：christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com
电话： 09-53-036-630

“媒體互換 2”公開召集：我們邀請您這個星期五來 “非常廊” 展示您的作品和項目。“媒體互換 2” 是一次展示藝術作品，藝術工作和藝術團體模式的活動。預定展示者包括Christopher Adams， 駐台北的作家和評論家；方力中Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org)， 來自舊金山的開放源發展者和藝術工作者；方鹿 (www.deerfang.org)， 廣州和舊金山的媒體和影像藝術工作者；和王春燕，中國人民大學法學院教授和創意共同體中國大陸項目主任。

如果您不打算展示作品，請來一起參加我們的討論。如果您希望參加展示，請盡快和我們聯繫。（christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com， 09-53-036-630）

Christopher Adams － CRUFT: Robert Spahr 的生成和程序式的藝術作品(數碼圖片）
方力中－ 合作性藝術模式（Overlap.org和Fabricatorz)
方鹿－ “直出香港”和”熊貓快遞” (錄像播映）
王春燕 － 中國CC攝影比賽

In Guangzhou, or most of other big cities in China, the city is surrounded by small villages. But as the city grows bigger, this layout turned into villages surrounded with city. These villages in the city are neighborhoods for lower income families and migrant workers. They are also the only place you can see “old Guangzhou” now. Eventually these villages are shrinking and replaced by city planning.

The pictures below is taken from the Lie De village near to where I live. The whole area is called Pearl River New Town, which is a new area the government planning to develop into the new city central.

Entry of Lie De Village, now it’s the entry of ruin.

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The night of first day of 2008, Jon and I were walking around the city and ran into a dance scene that we totally didn’t expect. It was almost ten o’clock at night and people were dancing in different groups with different styles of music in an open air public square. Low-fi but very loud speakers were set on wheels. I am really amazed by how engage people are from all age. It was not common to see public space being activated like this in the US. So without further investigate how the dance activity was formed, I felt a moment of liberation.

In the last two weeks I have left from San Francisco to Guangzhou to Beijing to Hong Kong, and now back to Guangzhou. Last night new years eve was calm and peace, which gave me some chance to reflect on things. And thinking about last year how we blindly joined the count down crowd outside of a shopping mall, this might be a wiser move.

Beijing, the alien buildings are about to complete: Bird Nest (National Stadium), Bubble (National Swimming Center) and The Egg (National Center for the Performing Arts). Witnessing these futuristic forms of architectures in live scale, I almost lost the sense of location of where I was. But when I pull my eyes away from the structure, the workers that were working on the site immediately reminded me I was still in Beijing China.

Beijing has been cleaned up and made green since last year I visited. Rows and rows of trees have been planted in the city and along the high way. All the new planted trees are fully grown and so this was done in a way that you won’t be able to tell that they were just planted. Once I had seen on the side of a highway there were workers making meters depth holes to put in large scale grown trees.

Guangzhou is a city with little less expectation for the public and therefore things are going and building out of control. My family moved to the newer part of the city about two years ago. Within a year or so the relatively flat surrounding already filled with high rises that are completed with sales ad hanging on top of the building and high rises in progress with bamboo structure. The air has gone worse with the traffic going more aggressive. Most of the newly finished buildings with brand new surfaces I saw last time already turned into dusty antiques. Walking on the street, all kind of sounds are amplified to make themselves stand out in the highly competitive environment. Small street shops one next to each other put out their speakers in front of their stores to play their own ‘energetic’ beats and how much discount you can get.

Everyone here can equipped with cheap and outrage fashions: purple feather top, cowboys boots with shorts, girls with hip hop jackets…If you are tired with the street battle scene, you can go into a bubble tea shop, which will be an instant transfer you to a fairy tale condition.
Plastic trees, columns filled with bubble water and swing seats with nerdy boys and smoking punk girls…

I still like Guangzhou，even though so many things have gone “wrong”.

Beijing

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