Huashan after dark: eight ways an image becomes a world

A lake slowly acquires its trees and reflections. Elsewhere, a staircase refuses to stay standing. Huashan's current digital-window programme,《影像成形時，我們看見什麼？》, rotates work by eight artists. The same screen can carry something that behaves like paint, a growing organism, a financial chart or a watching eye.

Four bodies, then growing units

YUDHO opens with Not Giving Up: four shapes surface in darkness, crossed by dots, short lines and noise. They hover between human, animal and hybrid. In Paweł Dudko's Noema, code produces changing image states, then the artist watches and selects. Generating an image and choosing one are different parts of the work.

Omar Lobato's Life’s Emerging follows units that resemble slime mould: they multiply, follow and connect. Matt Perkins takes code toward a landscape in Lake Festival. Simulated marks and mixed colour build water, trees and reflections; the Huashan version slows that process down. Its poster shows coloured curls scattered among pale trunks. The interesting bit is how a view gets there.

A staircase has a bad day

Andreas Rau's Stairs & Stocks pairs generated staircases with fictional stock charts. Lines rotate, collapse and rebuild. In its poster, orange steps hang inside a fine mesh of drawn lines. The title lets architecture borrow the market's nervous energy without asking anyone to trade.

Ganbrood, the Dutch artist Bas Uterwijk, selects and combines synthetic images made with GANs—generative adversarial networks—in work from 2021–2024. 柯棋勝's LAND OF SURVIVAL uses AI-generated images to compress flowers blooming, changing and wilting into a screen-based flowering season.

The eyes at the end

Patrick Amadon's Panopticon fills the image with rows of eyes. Huashan's programme connects them to images and data being tied to identities, stored and classified. Then the rotation returns to YUDHO's bodies in the dark. After those eyes, the same uncertain silhouettes may feel different.

Come in the evening and leave time to linger. Through October 19, you can start with the Taiwan Panorama photography exhibition in West 2 Hall, eat, and return for the screens. Our evening guide puts the two together.