New Media

2010

Length:20.3 x Width:29.2 (cm)

Lin Pei-Chun (b. 1959, Pingtung) holds both BFA and MFA degrees from Central Michigan University in the United States and earned a Ph.D. in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong in Australia. She has taught at Chung Yuan Christian University, National Taiwan University of Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, and China University of Technology. Lin is the founder and director of the “Lin Pei-Chun Digital Art Lab.” She has received numerous awards both in Taiwan and internationally, and in 2019 became the first artist from Asia to receive the Lorenzo il Magnifico Award (First Prize in New Media Art) at the Florence Biennale in Italy. Her works have been exhibited at major art institutions around the world.
In 2004, Lin created the first version of Eve Clone, a 3D animation featuring a human-butterfly hybrid. In 2010, she developed the concept further with the Eve Clone Portrait Series. These portraits depict Eve-like figures with facial features shaped by 3D animation, merging the textures of cocoons with bestial horns. On each forehead is the number “666” rendered in different languages—a reference to the Mark of the Beast from the Book of Revelation, symbolizing control over humankind. Created using holographic photography, the portraits shift as viewers move around them under spotlight illumination. Eve’s seductive gaze and subtle posture changes follow the viewer, suggesting that humanity is now under the persistent gaze—and perhaps control—of a technologically driven civilization. Through this work, Lin probes the tension between identity, myth, surveillance, and post-human transformation in the age of digital dominance.

Accession number:20190100045