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In the simplest case, re-activity is about the relation between two conditions. In this perspective, re-activity is just the >natural< way to introduce change inside a given >system<, and it is sensitive to environmental phenomena such as human presence or cosmic radiation...
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It re-acts, so I am. 
To reflect reactivity is a question of understanding environment, but also a strategy of definition of the observing/acting subject. The technological and commercial development strategy of making things smart is working on the ongoing renewed definition of a subject/player able to see her/his self in a data-made context. Data-based diagnostic already upgraded the metaphoric dimension of the mirror as far as we recognize >intermediated< realities – about us and the space around us – as realities we can move through, as realities we belong to...
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re-active platform tries to reflect the fascination for >intermediation< of reality on a minimalistic, somehow abstract level, on the level of the diagram, we could say...
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The visualization of relationships, the construction of simple systems made by correlated elements, are the leading idea the platform is going to use for the set-up in MOCA Taipei. 
The set-up is organized in modules, dedicated to functional ideas as self-regulation; reception; 
amplification; navigation; coincidence (detection of). And the gesture of >intermediation< itself...
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The three spaces of the Di Xia Jie are open, thought as a kind of series of circuit modules. 
The spaces are artificially >simplified<, reduced to a single function or to a display of it, concentrating on the system and its possible states...
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re-active platform was initiated by Susanna Schoenberg in 2004 in collaboration with artists, art students and technicians related to the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (activities archive online under www.khm.de/export/re-active). Actual platform members are: Ralf Baecker, Artur Holling, Karin Lingnau, Luis Negrón van Grieken, Ji Hyun Park, Susanna Schoenberg. ..
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The production of a re-active platform presentation at MOCA Taipei was developed with the support and intermediation of Andreas Walther and Wang Chunjen.

Text by Susanna Schoenberg