Fin De Siecle II is a huge wall with a lot of screens on it. On the screens, there are broadcast TV programs, computational art and conceptual art playing concurrently. It attracted my attention because of its monumental size. I found it interesting because there are a lot of things going on at the same time on this screen. And although content varies from screen to screen, it looks harmonious as a whole. And it makes me curious about information and emotions conveyed on each screen. After visiting the museum, I researched on the artwork and found out that: the creator Nam June Paik liberates the moving images, which include close-up footage of David Bowie’s face and choreography performed by both a human dancer and the schematic outline of one, from their original contexts. The work reflects how programming saturates and shapes our world. In this case, programming is applied to media content. It helps to structure and transmit such content.

This artwork called Dance is created in 1979. When I saw it, I was attracted by its music and the movement of the dancers. Drawings on the floor are projected. And they reflect the movement of the dancers on the screen. They are colored based on design of each part. After visiting the exhibition, I did research on these works. They are choreographed by a five-part dance to a score written by Glass. The art piece is to show that there is something similar in terms of approaches by artists when they create art. This is insightful because usually creativity is considered as something subjective and unique. But in fact, there is something common among the creative art pieces.