【Vanishing Acts — Offline Screening & Post-screening talk】
Date: Sunday, Mar 8, 2026 · 2:00–3:00 PM (UTC+8)
Venue: TFAM Library and Archive
Moderator: FENG Hsin | Curator, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Post-screening Speaker: Chia-Lin Angie LEE | Independent curator
*The event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.
This event is a special offline screening and guided session of the 2025 TFAM Net.Open online exhibition Vanishing Acts. The program will feature a selected screening of RGBFAQ by British artist Alan Warburton, followed by a post-screening talk in which independent curator Chia-Lin Angie Lee will respond to the film from a technical perspective and offer guided commentary.
【About the Film and Artist】
RGBFAQ
UK | 2020 | 27'38''
A video essay by Alan WARBURTON
RGBFAQ traces the trajectory of computer graphics from WWII to today’s synthetic datasets—computer-generated images used as “ground truth” for training AI. The video essay questions whether this virtual data is truly a “clean” alternative to biased real-world sources, arguing that early CGI solutions created a technical debt still influencing technology today. The project introduces the “exploded image”—a forensic, unstable mode of seeing born from early render economics, with broad implications for surveillance and behavioral science. Ultimately, RGBFAQ explores both the risks and generative possibilities of these slippery digital aesthetics, balancing critical caution with a sense of wonder.
Alan WARBURTON is an applied media theorist working directly with CGI, AI, XR, VR and ML between art, industry and academia. An advocate of digital literacy and the creative industries, his critical video essays discuss software, labour, gender and visual epistemology and are fixtures in university curriculums worldwide. His work has featured in Neural, the Financial Times, It’s Nice That, The Guardian, METAL, Filmmaker Magazine, Sight and Sound and Creative Applications and is archived by the British Film Institute.
He’s exhibited in landmark group shows at Carnegie Museum of Art, Somerset House, Centquatre Paris, Baltic Gateshead and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and has had solo exhibitions at Arebyte and The Photographers’ Gallery. He’s also undertaken lectures, workshops and residencies at Birkbeck, ÉCAL, Central St Martins, Carnegie Mellon University, the Architectural Association School, Somerset House, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Science Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
For more information, please refer to Chinese version,
or visit the online exhibition Vanishing Acts.