Marketing & Communication Unit, University of Technology , Sydney , Level 3A , Building 1, No. 1

Singing is a primal way of showing or expressing feelings. Each of us can relate to the experience of singing sad love songs. Many of us relate to the experience of using exaggerated performance when we sing in KTV. We are singing to show and enjoy passion. Each song is simultaneously interpreted as, and interprets, different episodes or experiences of life, each resolves diverse atmospheric forms, different themes and different memories. Faced with only a plane image on the flickering screen surface without music, we fill the depth with our fantasy and story. “Virtual Songs” is an artistic conception in and of simulation, and at the same time a dissimulation, a form of telling ourselves, of living, untruth. It is a Zen meditation on life: and it is also the semiotic visual assumption of our living space. It is a unique cultural phenomenon in the development of Taiwanese society.

“The ZEN-PDMK （ Post-Digital Meditation Kit ） comes with a portable subliminal chanting CD free to every novice. In a world driven by speed today's forward thinking monk is able to rise above the city chaos. With the ZEN-PDMK you will effortlessly slip through the quantum planes of times with a calm and centred mind” [advertising copy only]

This work was inspired by a seeing a Buddhist monk sitting still in the middle of a busy Taipei city street. He was deep in meditation and was able to separate himself from the commotion of the traffic noise and rushing crowds. The monk's presence draws the viewer in and concentrates the mind into a state of sympathetic meditation. The ultimate aim of all meditation is to loose or let go (forget) the self as you are transported into a pure being-ness of white light noise – becoming one with the world.