Exhibition explores how different species experience the world
Exhibition explores how different species experience the world
2025-08-19
Ever wondered how animals experience the world? A new exhibition in Taipei explores the concept of “Umwelt,” a term coined by zoologist Jakob von Uexküll to describe how different species experience the world through their sensory lenses. FTV reporter Stephany Yang takes us in for a look!
After choosing a card, visitors can project the animal onto the wall. The work reimagines creatures from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, giving them traits like big eyes, round faces and soft textures. The work hopes to reshape how we engage with often-overlooked endangered animals.
Yian Chen
MoCA Taipei public relations specialist
It’s designed to resemble a baby nursery, because many of us grew up seeing cute animals like puppies and kittens in such spaces. But the artist breaks away from that conventional image by decorating the nursery with lesser-known creatures—like bats or animals that live in the deep sea. What’s especially unique is the interactive element: you can choose the animal you want to see and have it projected onto the nursery-themed display in the background.
Another work explores the inner world of aliens and allows participants to generate their alien persona.
Yian Chen
MoCA Taipei public relations specialist
He has long been engaged in research related to aliens. For this exhibition, he created a specially designed device that allows participants to engage in a meditative experience and even generate their imagined alien persona. He also incorporated AI tools to explore and analyze human brainwaves as part of his investigation.
A new exhibition in Taipei explores the concept of “Umwelt,” a term coined by zoologist Jakob von Uexküll to describe how species experience the world through their sensory lenses. By utilizing various artistic and scientific techniques and technologies, the exhibition observes how cats, pigs, bats, whales, mice and more experience the world. Curator Lin Cheng-wei invited nine contemporary artists from Taiwan and abroad to create works by collaborating with the Institute of Molecular Biology at Academia Sinica, the National Center for Biomodels and the exhibition’s science consultant, evolutionary biologist Dr. Jeff Tseng.
Yian Chen
MoCA Taipei public relations specialist
Different animals possess different sensory systems, so their ways of perceiving the world vary greatly. Each species has its own worldview. This exhibition, curated by science and contemporary art curator Lin Cheng-wei, is unique in that it includes a scientific advisor, evolutionary biologist Jeff Tseng. During the preparation phase, the artists collaborated closely with this advisor to explore how their artworks could integrate scientific perspectives. The goal is to help the audience understand the sensory differences between humans and other animals, and to encourage us to see the world through the eyes of other species. One artist created a wearable device that highlights this idea. It allows the wearer to hear sounds that cats, bats or other animals hear. The artist wore the device continuously for 24 hours a day for about a month to experience how a cat senses the world.
The exhibition will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei until Sept. 7.
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環世界探討動物感知 開啟近身觀測.理解的旅程
2025-08-19
你有沒有想過動物是如何感知世界的？「環世界」一詞由德國動物學家魏克斯庫爾所提出，意旨不同物種透過自己所擁有的感官體驗世界。台北當代藝術館推出新展覽「環世界日誌」，深入探討「環世界」的概念。
參展者選擇一張想要的動物卡後，將其投影到牆上。這件作品瀕危物種紅色名錄中的動物們，透過互動裝置，改造成可愛圖驣，賦予這些不被世人所熟知的動物們，大眼睛、圓臉和柔軟的皮膚紋理等特徵。作品希望重塑人類對於這些常被忽視的瀕危動物的理解。
[[台北當代藝術館媒體公關專員 陳奕安]]
“它是呈現嬰兒房的樣子，因為可能小時候看到嬰兒房裡面佈置或是我們有比較可愛的動物，像是小狗或是小貓，但是藝術家跳脫大家以往想像，他把一些比較冷門的動物，譬如說蝙蝠，或是深海的動物，去做成嬰兒房的佈置。比較特別的是他可以用一個互動的方式，你可以選出你想要看到的動物，去把它投射在後面的嬰兒房的佈置上”
另一件作品探索外星人的內心世界，並繪製出參展者腦海中的外星人形象。
[[台北當代藝術館媒體公關專員 陳奕安]]
"他長期對外星人有相關的研究，在這次的展覽中，他用一個限定的裝置，讓大家可以去做冥想的體驗，也可以生成出自己的外星人。他也有去AI工具導入，去研究說人類的腦波"
「環世界」一詞，是由德國動物學家魏克斯庫爾所提出，意旨不同物種透過自己的感官體驗世界。此展覽深入探討關於「環世界」的概念，運用各種藝術和科學技術，觀察貓、豬、蝙蝠、鯨魚、老鼠等動物如何接收世界的訊號。策展人林承緯邀請九位來自台灣及海外的當代藝術家，與中央研究院、國家生物模式中心以及展覽科學顧問演化生物學家曾文宣等研究、創作作品。
[[台北當代藝術館媒體公關專員 陳奕安]]
“不同的動物有不用的感官，他們看世界的方式都不太一樣，其實每一個動物都有自己的世界觀。這次的展覽由科學與當代策展人林承緯去策劃，比較特別的是這個展覽有搭配一個科學顧問，他是生物演化學家Jeff Tseng，所以在展覽籌備期，藝術家都會跟科學顧問去做討論，作品如何跟科學去做結合，希望讓大家理解到人類跟動物有不用的感官差異，我們也可以試著用動物的視角去理解他們。有一個藝術家做了一個裝置，去佩戴這個裝置，裝置比較特別是我們可能人類聽到的聲音跟譬如說蝙蝠或是其他的動物聽到的聲音不一樣，這個裝置可以聽到貓咪可以聽到的聲音。他配戴這個裝置生活24小時，做了大概一個月的時間，去感受説貓咪怎麼樣去感知這個世界”
「環世界日誌」在台北當代藝術館展出至9月7日。
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