長年工作於跨媒體藝術、媒介研究、網絡社會學與技術文化研究之間,關注文化與技術交織所生成的空間形態及其歷史變化。研究視野涵蓋信息空間、數字基礎設施、平台治理、勞動流動與文化生產,並結合政治經濟學、空間理論、STS 與文化研究的方法,思考技術、資本與社會想像如何在不同歷史條件下彼此牽動,進而塑造制度環境、感知形式與社會關係。
曾任《破報》總編輯,並歷時兩年製作《諸眾之貌》亞洲社會運動影像紀錄檔案庫。t同時進行策展與藝術創作,被稱為批判的藝術行動者(artivist)。紀錄片《我們家在康樂里》被視為亞洲第一部聚焦都市更新運動的作品,後來成為臺灣多所大學建築與都市相關科系的教材,並在全球多座城市巡迴放映。
當前的研究重心為「技術與文化三部曲」,以 Silicon Valley、深圳與新竹為核心場域,藉此展開對當代技術文化的歷史解剖。舊金山與矽谷處理反文化與計算機起源的結合,以及其如何逐步演變為一套影響全球的思想與技術體系;深圳部分聚焦於移動互聯網、山寨、電子製造與勞動網絡;台灣新竹科學學區則從計算媒介的歷史切入,以代工到晶片前沿製造作為理解臺灣當代社會及其自由主義命脈的重要線索。
這個網站整理文章、研究、講稿、策展與創作軌跡。生命是一項進行中的計畫,這裡保存的,正是它開展過程中的痕跡。
For many years, work has unfolded across transmedia art, media studies, network sociology, and the cultural study of technology, with a sustained focus on the spatial forms produced through the entanglement of culture and technology, and on their historical transformations. This work addresses information space, digital infrastructure, platform governance, labor mobility, and cultural production, drawing on political economy, spatial theory, STS, and cultural studies to examine how technology, capital, and social imagination interact under different historical conditions to shape institutions, perception, and social relations.
Former editor-in-chief of POTS Weekly, and spent two years developing Faces of the Multitude, an audiovisual archive of Asian social movements. Also active in curatorial practice and artistic production, and often described as a critical artivist. The documentary My New Hometown. regarded as the first work in Asia to focus on an urban renewal movement. It later became teaching material in architecture and urban studies programs at several universities in Taiwan, and has toured in cities around the world.
The current research focus is the “Technology and Culture Trilogy,” centered on Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, and Hsinchu. This project offers a historical analysis of contemporary technological culture through these three sites. The San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley section examines the convergence of counterculture and the origins of computing, and how this gradually developed into a global system of thought and technology. The Shenzhen section focuses on the mobile internet, shanzhai, electronics manufacturing, and labor networks. The Hsinchu Science Park section in Taiwan approaches the history of computational media through the trajectory from contract manufacturing to advanced semiconductor production, treating it as a key thread for understanding contemporary Taiwanese society and the liberal order that sustains it.
This site brings together essays, research, lectures, curatorial projects, and artistic works. Life is a living project, and what is preserved here are traces of its unfolding.