About

          Ben Alderman, aka 林文彬 (Lin Wen-Ben), is interested in the intertextuality of cultural imagery and material culture. He explores ready-made materials, philosophical concepts, and cultural references through experimental animation and mark making. He recontextualises familiar objects and symbols with a handmade quality, composing them as poetic gestures and expressions within installation space. In this approach, viewers are invited to see beyond the surface, revealing new layers of perception and understanding and offering an alternative perspective on our shared reality.

          In a recent inquiry, this practice of recontextualisation extends into his engagement with the materiality and cultural landscape of technology, which he uses to create interactive installations with experimental animation. To explore the human relationship with technology, he works with digital hardware as sculptural objects within the gallery space. Within these systems, he draws on digital aesthetics such as glitches and OS icons, translating them through painterly mark making. Through this process, animation and interdisciplinary methods become tools for examining the evolving and often contradictory relationships between people, objects, and contemporary culture.