媒材：鐵架、手機、喇叭、LED、電磁感應裝置
Material: Metal frame, mobile phone, speakers, LED, electromagnetic wave receiving device
尺寸/ Measures: 180cm(H)、80cm(W)、30cm(D).
重量/ Weight: 25kg.
召喚者是一個裝置作品。在空間中有一個鐘擺裝置，鐘擺的末端有電磁波感應裝置，而鐘擺會在兩台手機間來回擺動。感應裝置感測到手機發出的電磁波時，將會把電波的聲音放大。
藝術家在手機端撰寫了一個程式，這個程式會自動連上網路的搜尋引擎，將設定的關鍵字所蒐尋到的網頁內容文字依序的顯示在手機螢幕上，掃描人類留在網路上的歷史資料，而這次展出所選用的關鍵字為「幽靈」「神」，在台灣的人民認知中，有少部分的人把幽靈與電磁波的能量做類比。這件作品試圖使用人類留在網路上的認知來辯證招喚不同的電磁波。
作品的外觀也布置成一個祭壇的樣子。古代薩滿或是祭司在進行儀式的時候，嘗試著要與另一個維度的神靈取得連結，現在這個手機也是與雲端資料庫做連結，就像是一個數位時代的降靈儀式。
Summoner is an installation artwork. The artist installed a pendulum device in the exhibition space, attached at end of the pendulum is an electromagnetic wave receiving device, and the pendulum will swing back and forth between two mobile phones. When the device senses the electromagnetic wave emitted by the mobile phone, it will amplify the sound of the electric wave.
The artist wrote a customized program on the mobile phone, this program automatically connects to an online search engine, and displays the search results from the designated keywords on the phone screen in order, scanning the historical data that humans left on the internet. The keywords used in this exhibition are “ghost” and “god”, which is recognized by the people of Taiwan, and a small portion of the population relates the spiritual anomaly to electromagnetic energy. This work attempts to summon the different electromagnetic waves using consciousness that was left on the Internet by humans.
The appearance of this artwork is also like an altar. In ancient when shaman held a ceremony, sometimes we will say they want to connect with god, spirit, or higher dimension. These two cell phones connect to a cloud database, just like a descending spiritual ceremony in the digital age.
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