缺位的歷史填補，虛擬影像的肉身再造——論《想像的偏差》中的物質轉譯

Filling in the Blanks of Absent History, Reconstructing the Body through Virtual Imagery: On Material Translation in Echoes of Absence

當代在數位媒介全面滲透下，物質性逐漸失聲、歷史敘事碎裂，感知經驗被壓縮於演算法與資訊流之中。物的沉默不僅關涉人與物之間的擁有與支配關係，更根源於連結兩者卻常被忽略的「身體」，尤其是作為絕對異質之物的「屍體」。本文以藝術家田欣以展覽《想像的偏差》（Echoes of Absence）為案例，探討該展覽如何透過AI生成的虛構敘事展開對死亡與空缺的悼念，並以棺木、翻模與錯置材質等手法，將其轉譯為具身的物質現場。本文主張，田欣以的創作並非旨在重現真實，而是一場無本原的生成性哀悼：透過錯誤的材質與偏移的翻模，使物質成為失落經驗的殘響與感知容器，也為虛構記憶敞開一條奠基於物質活力的閱讀路徑。

In an era saturated by digital media, materiality has gradually fallen silent, historical narratives have fragmented, and sensory experience is increasingly compressed within algorithms and information flows. This paper argues that the silencing of materiality is not solely a result of ownership and control between humans and things, but is rooted in the often-overlooked role of the body—especially the corpse as an absolutely other material entity. Using the exhibition Echoes of Absence by artist Tien Hsin-I as a case study, this paper examines how AI-generated fictional narratives become a means of mourning death and absence, and how coffins, body casts, and misaligned materials are used to translate language into an embodied material space. Rather than seeking to reproduce a lost reality, Tien’s work is positioned as a form of“generative mourning”without origin—through miscast materials and dislocated molds, matter becomes a resonant vessel for lost experience and opens up a reading path grounded in the vitality of materiality.