從景觀社會到意識工業——沃倫．奈迪奇個展

# 展覽介紹大腦與心智是二十一世紀的工廠，我們早已進入「心智—螢幕」勞動的時代，不論此刻呆坐螢幕前的你或者使用手機點擊App書寫的我，無時無刻皆是認知資本主義系統下的心智勞動者（mental labours），個人的奇異性皆為資料與數據，正在共同建構著代表著大我的機械意識。外置化到搜尋引擎中的集體記憶，我們活在搜尋引擎和社交媒體中所創建出的同溫層泡泡中（filter bubbles），被細緻地控制著；供過於求的海量資訊，成就了注意力經濟存在為必要之惡，卻也截斷了我們自身和所處世界的真實全貌；事實上我們就是數據與資料，肉體僅是資訊的孿生，我們都是這個新興的、龐大的網路意識工業生產線上過勞的勞動份子。曾經參與2022年第十七屆數位藝術節的美國藝術家沃倫・奈迪奇將再次展出由DAC委託再製的大型霓虹燈雕塑《從景觀社會到意識工業》（ From the Society of the Spectacle to the Consciousness Industry），並因應臺北數位藝術中心的空間重新調整再現。霓虹燈作為顯然已不合時宜的科技物，但依舊標示著消費社會的奇特景觀，遍佈空間時而閃滅的霓虹燈詞組，如被大數據所數據化和資訊化的腦神經元。同時展出藝術家稱為「匿名者Q」的YouTube風格下所拍攝成的實驗性紀錄片《披薩門事件：從謠言到妄想》（ Pizzagate: From Rumor to Delusion），啟發自2016年美國總統大選期間，因假新聞所引發的真實社會事件，討論後真相社會中的荒誕，以及網路假訊息和仇恨言論作為武器所潛藏撼動網路鄉民認知的力量。展期 2023.06.20~07.23 地點臺北數位藝術中心臺北市士林區福華路180號1樓相關活動開幕導覽 2023.06.20（二） 14:00 展覽座談 2023.06.20（二）14:30~17:30 資訊操弄：心智、認知與權力 Information Manipulation: Mind, Cognition, and Power 主持與策劃Moderator and Organizer／黃祥昀 Hsiang-Yun Huang 講者Speakers／沃倫．奈迪奇 Warren Neidich 意識工業中心智模型的當代意義 Mind-Models in Our Moment of the Consciousness Industry 李澤廣 Alex Taek-Gwang Lee 大腦顯像 The Invention of the Brain 林映彤 Ying-Tung Lin 假新聞與資訊操弄：知識環境污染與心智運作 Fake News and Information Manipulation：The Polluted Epistemic Environment and Mental Mechanism 演講1：假新聞與資訊操弄：知識環境污染與心智運作／講者：林映彤演講2：意識工業中心智模型的當代意義／講者：沃倫・奈迪奇演講3：大腦顯像／講者：李澤廣討論：李澤廣、沃倫・奈迪奇、林映彤與黃祥昀 # Panel Discussion Intro講座概述 #### Information Manipulation: Mind, Cognition, and Power In the era of the attention economy, technological devices such as cell phones and computers function not only as means of communication, but also symbolize the tangible manifestation of the complex network of control inherent in global capitalism. Moreover, technology and its environment can be seen as extensions of our bodies and minds. They exert a significant impact on our behaviors, memories, thought patterns, and even possess the capacity to mutually shape our cognition and consciousness. How does the technology and information we rely on for our daily lives impact our minds and brains? Do we possess the mental autonomy to discern fake news and recognize information manipulation? How do these digital technologies shape our mental models, neural systems, and power dynamics within society? American artist Warren Neidich and Taiwanese researcher Ying-Tung Lin will engage in a discussion about the convergence of fake news, cognitive warfare, and the contemporary information landscape, exploring their effects on the human brain, mind, and consciousness. Their interdisciplinary approach draws from philosophy of mind, neuroscience, sociology of information, and aesthetics. 在注意力經濟主導的時代，手機、電腦等科技技術，不僅是傳播與接受資訊的工具，也是讓我們能「體驗」全球資本主義的通道 ── 我們可以具體地將手機、電腦握在手中，並由此連結到抽象的控制網絡。數位技術與資訊環境同時也可能是我們身體與大腦的延伸，因為它影響著我們的行為舉止、思考模式、記憶組建，甚至與我們共創了新的認知架構與意識歷程。然而，我們賴以維生的技術與訊息，跟我們的心智與大腦有什麼關係呢？面對真假難辨的新聞，我們的心智有足夠的自主性嗎？我們能覺察訊息流背後的資訊操作嗎？這些數位技術又是如何形塑我們的心智模式、神經系統與社會中的權力關係呢？美國藝術家・奈迪奇與臺灣研究者林映彤，將從心智哲學、神經科學、資訊社會學與美學的觀點，討論假新聞、認知作戰等等當代資訊環境議題與人類大腦、意識、心智的交互作用。 # Warren Neidich’s Bio 沃倫・奈迪奇簡介 Trained in art, architecture, neuroscience, and medicine, Warren Neidich uses written texts and neon-light sculptures to create cross-pollinating conceptual works that reflect upon situations at the border zones of art, science, and cognitive justice. He is founder and director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art. Selected solo and group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1 MOMA, and other museums and galleries all over the world. His performative and sculptural work Pizzagate Neon (2018), recently on display at the Venice Biennale 2019, analyzed through a large hanging neon sculpture the relations of fake news, the networked attention economy, the evolving techno-cultural habitus, and the co-evolving architecture of the brain. 背景為藝術、建築、認知科學和醫學的沃倫・奈迪奇（Warren Neidich），透過文字、霓虹雕塑，創作異花授粉式的跨域概念作品──融合藝術、科學與認知正義三個領域。奈迪奇為薩斯婓夏季藝術學院（Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art）創辦人兼現任院長。其個展和聯展分別於威尼斯雙年展、惠特尼美術館、紐約現代藝術博物館PS1分館（MoMA PS1），以及其他多家國際畫廊、美術館展出。他具有表演性的雕塑作品「披薩門事件霓虹燈」作品（2018），曾在威尼斯雙年展展出（2019）。這件作品透過懸吊的霓虹燈裝置，探討假新聞、網絡式的注意力經濟、不斷演變的科技文化慣習與共同演化的大腦架構之間的關係。 # Warren Neidich’s Lecture- Mind-Models in Our Moment of the Consciousness Industry沃倫・奈迪奇的講題：意識工業中心智模型的當代意義在我們的日常生活中，每個人都越來越依賴他們的手機和應用程式，如Google地圖、搜索引擎，它們不僅幫助我們能在世界中運行，但也介入了我們在「心目」中（mind’s eye）形塑敘事的方式。它們構成數位專制主義中，新型態的心智機制，共同參與了奈迪奇所提出的「神經權力」（neuropower）而非生命權力（biopower）。這種殖民現象屬於在新自由主義式的晚期認知資本主義中，新型佈署策略的重要元素，依循上述脈絡，奈迪奇將把「心智之眼」（mind’s eye），稱為「心智之我」（mind’s Ｉ），以強調其對主體化和工具化過程的重要性，並提出透過藝術性解放這種心智處境的方法，他稱之為「心智之我們」（mind’s we）。 In our daily lives, everyone is increasingly dependent on their cellphones and their apps such as Google Map, Google Search Engine and which operate to aid us in the world but also engage with the stories we conjure in the mind’s eye. They are the new mental dispositifs of digital despotism and together engage with what Neidich calls neuropower as opposed to biopower. This colonization is an essential component of the new dispositfs of neo-liberal late cognitive capitalism that refer to the mind’s eye going forward as the minds’ I to stress its importance to processes of subjectivisation and instrumentalization. Neidich will also propose a means of artistic emancipation of this mind’s, which he called the mind’s we. # Ying-Tung Lin’s Bio 林映彤簡介 Ying-Tung Lin is associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and obtained her doctoral degree in philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. Her areas of expertise include philosophy of mind, consciousness studies and AI ethics. Her current research focuses on self-consciousness, with a particular emphasis on exploring the diverse variations in self-consciousness through an examination of the experiences of the self in memory and imagination. Additionally, she conducts research on the experience of suffering from a philosophy of mind perspective, aiming to develop perspectives that can bridge cognitive neuroscience, clinical medicine, and social science. Furthermore, her research encompasses the examination of the impact of AI and neurotechnology on the human mind, along with the associated ethical considerations. 國立陽明交通大學心智哲學研究所副教授，德國古騰堡大學（Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz）哲學博士。專長領域為心智哲學、意識研究與 AI 倫理學。當前的研究重點為自我意識，透過檢視記憶與想像中的自我經驗，探討自我意識變異的多樣性。其他研究包括透過心智哲學探討受苦經驗，發展能夠用於橋接認知神經科學、臨床醫學、社會科學等領域之觀點。AI 與神經科技對人類心智的影響和相關的倫理學問題亦為其研究範圍。 # Ying-Tung Lin’s Lecture-Fake News and Information Manipulation：The Polluted Epistemic Environment and Mental Mechanism Over the past nine years, Taiwan has consistently faced the highest number of foreign disinformation attacks, often involving cognitive warfare driven by political and strategic motives. While the national security implications of disinformation and cognitive warfare are evident, it is equally important to understand the impact at the individual level. Why are we susceptible to fake news and information manipulation, and what are the consequences for individuals? Ying-Tung will explore our relationship with the epistemic environment from the perspectives of philosophy of mind and sociology of knowledge, and how fake news and information manipulation "pollute" our epistemic environment and harm our mental autonomy. # 林映彤講座：假新聞與資訊操弄：知識環境污染與心智運作台灣連續九年為境外假訊息攻擊最頻繁的國家，其中不乏政治、戰略意圖的認知戰。假訊息和認知戰除了在國家層次造成國家安全的危害，我們要如何理解在個人層次的傷害？另一方面，我們究竟為什麼容易受害於假新聞和資訊操弄？映彤將從心智哲學和社會知識論的角度，探討我們與知識環境 (epistemic environment) 之間的關係，並探討假訊息和資訊操弄如何「污染」我們的知識環境，並傷害我們的心智自主 (mental autonomy)。 # 李澤廣講座：大腦顯像 ALEX TAEK-GWANG LEE's Lecture-The Invention of the Brain 我的演講探討意識和機械性的腦部掃描造影之間的關聯。為了達到這個目的，我深入研究了安吉洛・莫索（Angelo Mosso）的人體力量器和它對當代心理學的影響。莫索的實驗基本上圍繞在如何測量大腦中的血流，雖然他調查大腦的方法，具體細節至今仍然未知，但他對神經機制的描述獲得了廣泛認可。然而，即使在今天的神經科學背景下，莫索的提出的理論預設仍然經得起考驗。先進的技術為我們提供了更詳細的大腦圖像，但相較於莫索的早期描述，新科技並沒有賦予我們對其運作機制有嶄新的理解。觀察大腦的視覺表象未能充分解釋身心關係。通過研究威廉・詹姆斯（William James）和吉爾・德勒茲（Gilles Deleuze）關於莫索的見解，我們可從中得到關於神經科學的寶貴視角。總之，對大腦的理解不能僅僅化約為其掃描圖像的作用機制。 In my talk, I explore the association between consciousness and the mechanical scan of the brain. I delve into Angelo Mosso's ergograph and its impact on contemporary psychology to achieve this. The fundamental issue with Mosso's experiment is the mystery surrounding how he measured blood flow in the brain. While the specifics of Mosso's brain investigation method remained unknown, his description of the neural mechanism gained widespread recognition. However, Mosso's underlying assumption remains unchanged even in today's neuroscientific context. Technological advancements have provided us with more detailed brain images, but they do not necessarily grant us a significantly different understanding of its mechanism compared to Mosso's early account. Observing visual representations of the brain fails to explain the mind-body relationship adequately. By examining the insights of William James and Gilles Deleuze regarding Mosso's experiment, we can gain a valuable perspective on neuroscience. In conclusion, the effects of the brain cannot be solely reduced to the scanned images of its mechanism. # 李澤廣簡介 ALEX TAEK-GWANG LEE's Bio 李澤廣是韓國慶熙大學的英美文化研究系教授和科技人文技術中心的創始主任。他曾應邀擔任印度新德里中央大學（Jamia Millia Islamia）文化、媒體和治理中心的客座教授，以及國立臺灣大學人文社會高等研究院的國際訪問學者。他還曾是英國布萊頓大學和巴黎南特大學的訪問教授。他曾擔任2017年光州雙年展的學術顧問委員會成員和2021年威尼斯建築雙年展的項目主管。他是國際批評理論課程聯盟（ICCTP）和亞洲理論網絡（ATN）的董事會成員。他共同編輯了《共產主義的理念》第三卷（2016年）和《德勒茲、瓜塔里和後媒體的精神分析》（2023年）。 ALEX TAEK-GWANG LEE is a professor of cultural studies at Kyung Hee University in South Korea and visiting professor at the University of Brighton. He is a member of the advisory board for The International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia and a board member of The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP). He edited the third volume of The Idea of Communism (2016) and Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postmedia (2023). # Credit Moderator and Organizer Hsiang-Yun (Emily) Huang, curator of Taipei Digital Art Festival - Fake it Real (2022). 黃祥昀｜講座策劃與主持、第十七屆臺北數位藝術節「真相碎片」策展人（2022）合作單位指導單位臺北市政府主辦單位臺北市政府文化局臺北數位藝術中心