在亿万人的瞩目下，2008年奥运以声光炫丽绚烂的场面在北京隆重开幕，其实那正是一场新媒体数字技术的表演效果，将先进的科技，结合了中国传统的视觉语言、舞台型式和表演艺术。这场世纪大戏的总导演张艺谋在接受媒体访问时表示："作为一个实践者，我可以自信地说，我们这次的开幕式，是一个前卫的探索，是一次数字时代的开幕式，是一次全面运用多媒体数字技术的开幕式。领衔二十一世纪大型广场活动的方向。这是必然的趋势。"
从这次北京奥运的开幕式，更清楚看到21世纪的艺术创作，以创意的排列组合为基础，随着日新月异的通讯管道，全球迅速传输且密切互动。创意，是具有高时效性的个人「心念活动」或「事件」，在信息沧海中激荡，透过互联网串联起各种尚未被认知的遗珠。这些自曝个别「差异性」的视觉信息活动与事件，取代了上一世纪藉艺术个别形式来表现独特的「原创性」，当今已经充斥在当下的现实生活里，而且以惊人的速度正在漫延、蔓生。
科技与艺术的结合源起于19世纪科学研发的革命，透过不同阶段的机械、电力、电子技术的演进和实验，一直到1946年电子计算机的发明。这种原本属于运算功能的机器，从上一世纪50年代开始，被艺术家用来创作他们的作品，在这个世纪，这些技术已经成为相当普遍的创作媒体。
科技艺术其实是科研发展的副产品，有些科技艺术被转换成视觉、听觉形式的产品，有的进化为互动的媒体。在新世纪，数字化环境深刻的改变了人类的认知习惯，改变人们对现实与虚拟之间的互动关系。不但从知识角度颠覆了分类和范畴的概念，同时从感官的角度，挑战了官能的极限。
不论你愿不愿意接受或参与，数字化电子媒体已经将艺术带入「多媒体」相互运作的新次元（new dimension）。视象、音讯、动态、官能刺激、虚拟现实.....之间的互动与结合，使得艺术型式远远超乎传统绘画、雕塑、建筑、音乐、舞蹈、戏剧等....具体分类的范畴。面对这样一个以数字技术为主要传导媒介的新时代，艺术创作牵涉到愈来愈高的制作成本，面对团队合作无法避免的复杂管理系统，艺术产业化的跨媒体、跨国界合作趋势，在21世纪必然是一股挡不住的风潮。
1941年在德国Bad Wildungen 出生的迪特·容格(Dieter Jung)，不但是激光全像摄影技术用于艺术创作的先驱者，也是最早从事科技跨越艺术领域的艺术家之一，他像先知一般，三十余年来在世界各地推动着科技结合艺术的创作方向。最初迪特·容格在柏林学习艺术理论和教育，后来先后进了柏林的Academy of Visual Arts和巴黎的?cole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts学习绘画，所以一开始的时候，迪特·容格是一位画家。他在1971至1974年间又从柏林的German Academy of Film and Television学习电影艺术，同时他也已经开始在Universida de Federal da Bahia任教。
迪特·容格是最早使用激光全像术来创作的艺术家，他将传统视觉艺术所熟悉的审美情趣，和激光全像技术结合起来，发展出一种横跨科技与艺术的新美学经验。全像术，是出生于匈牙利的诺贝尔奖科学家Dennis Gabor在1948年所发表的一种能够记录物体三维信息的技术，一直到60年代初因为激光技术趋向成熟，才能够发展出激光全像摄影的技术，而逐渐被商业化应用。迪特·容格就是最早使用这种技术，创造跨越时间与空间的新视觉和感官新体验的一位先驱者。
原本是画家的迪特·容格，运用全像术等于是以光来作画，近年来他更运用数字技术，突破传统全像术景深不够、面积太小，以及颜色失真的局限性，观众可以随着自己所在观看位置的移动，而感受光线、色彩、形象的变化，形成不确定而可持续变动的空间景观，是由观者与迪特·容格的全像光影进行互动所共同创造出来的另一向度。正如迪特·容格所表示的：「全像术创造了第四向度的空间」。
然而这种看似立体的三维影像，只是经由光的振动与振波所形成的虚拟无重力的视觉感知，不具备实物在空间所占据的量体。这种在虚空中显示的虚拟存在，对早期曾研究神学的迪特·容格而言，使他能够从艺术的色彩、结构、型式等理性的思维当中，进一步探索神秘而令人迷惑的感知世界，形成他将不可视的精神性加以视觉化的最佳途径，是一种由科技所创造的海市蜃楼。
迪特·容格已经纯熟的掌握了创造真实可视的光影和空间的互动技术，他的科技艺术创作将艺术创新和公共的关照结合为一体的经验。他将人工智能可视化，又将人生的实境成为不可视的体验。他纯粹以光影所构成的雕塑型结构，同时是真实和虚拟的。迪特·容格的艺术作品中的几何式视觉诗，是与光、动力、时间和空间有所关联，但是参观者才是"实境中视觉影像的指挥"。
在这个互联网的新时代，科技世界给予公众分享艺术游戏和科技智能的平台。迪特·容格以他的动力装置，结合激光全像术和数字化处理技术，以全方位的宇宙观，来彼此互动和对照彼此的存在。迪特·容格从1965开始便发表了他的论述，到处演讲和展出作品，他从不懈怠参与高科技的研究，但他不会因为新的科技而放弃用手工去绘画或制作雕塑。从传统中突破，不断追求创新，迪特·容格最适合的称法，是一位全方位的艺术家。
Dieter Jung 's Techno-Mirage and His Art
Victoria Lu
With the billions of people's wide opening eyes and rapt attention, the 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony was held grandly in a splendid and marvelous scene in Beijing. As a matter of fact, it was a performance effect with a new-media digital technology which combined the advanced technology with the unique traditional Chinese visual language, stage style and the performance arts. Zhang Yimou, the general director of this centurial show, expressed in the interview with the media:" As a practical pioneer, I can state with the full confidence that, this opening ceremony is an avant-courier exploration, it is an opening ceremony at the digital age with the multi-media technology assistance in the whole aspects. It represents the trend of the big-scale square activity for the 21st century. It is an inevitable trend."
From this Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony, we can see more clearly that, the arts creation of the 21st century is based on the innovative arrangement and combination, with the quickly changeable telecommunication pipelines development, the global transmission is swift and closely interacted. Innovative idea is a personal "mind activity" or "affair" with a high effectiveness, drifting in the information sea and can connect all types of non-cognitive lost beads. Those visual information activity and affair which expose automatically "difference" can substitute the unique "originality" with the individual art form for the last century, pervade and evolve at a striking speed in the real life nowadays.
The integration of the technology and the arts originates from the science revolution developed from the 19th century. With the different stages' mechanical, electro-power and electro-technology's evolution and experiments, the electronic computer had been invented till 1946. Those machines which originally belong to the calculation operation function have been used by the artists to create their works since the 50s of the last century. Since then, those technologies have become to be the quite common media for creation.
Technical art is a by-product of the development of the science actually, some technological arts are converted into the products in visual, audio forms, and some are evolved into the interactive media. In the new century, the digital environment has deeply changed the human being's cognitive habits, changed the interactive relationship between the reality and the virtual. Not only the definition of the classification and the category has been changed from the perspective of the knowledge, but also the sense limits have been challenged as well.
No matter whether you are willing to accept or join this transformation or not, the digital electro media has taken the arts into a new dimension interacted with multi-media. The interaction and combination between the visual, audio message, dynamic, sense stimulant, virtual reality…make the arts style greatly exceed the specific category of the traditional drawing, sculpture, construction, music, dance and opera etc….Facing such a new age which takes the digital technology as the main transmission media, the arts creation has been involved in the higher and higher production cost, and facing the inevitable and complicated management system from the team work, the cooperation trend of the across media and across boundary for the arts industrialization must be an irresistible tendency for the 21st century.
Dieter Jung, who was born in Bad Wildungen, Germany in 1941, is not only an avant-courier who utilizes the holography in arts creation, but also one of the earliest artists who are engaged in the crossing from the technology to the arts. Like a prophet, he has promoted the creation trend of combination of the technology with the arts for more than 30 years on the whole world. At first, Dieter Jung studied theology and art education in Berlin, later, he went to Academy of Visual Arts of Berlin and ?cole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts of Paris to learn painting and graphic art, so, from the first start, Dieter Jung used to be a painter. From 1971 to 1974, he had studied movie arts in German Academy of Film and Television of Berlin, at the same time, he had been teaching in the Universida de Federal da Bahia.
Dieter Jung is the earliest artist who utilizes the laser hologram to create the works, combining the familiar beauty sentiments in the traditional visual arts with the laser hologram technology so as to develop a brand-new aesthetics experience across the technology and arts. Hologram technology is a technique created by Dennis Gabor, a scientist who was born in Hungary and won a Nobel Prize, which can record the object's three dimension information. Till the beginning of the 60's, due to the mature tendency of the laser technology, the laser hologram technique could be developed and applied in the commercialization gradually. Dieter Jung is such an avant-courier who uses such a technique, and creates the new visual and sense experience of spanning the time and space.
As an aboriginal painter, Dieter Jung applies the hologram to paint, which is equal to draw in light. In the recent years, he applies the digital technique, making the breakthrough in the traditional hologram to solve the problems of limited perspective, too small area and the color distortion, so as to form the indefinite and continuous space views. It is another angle created by the interaction between the viewers and Dieter Jung hologram. Just like Dieter Jung said : "Hologram creates the forth dimension space."
However, this seems-like solid three dimension image is only the weightless virtual visual sense formed by the light libration and wave, and can't possess the capacity that only the real objects can occupy in the space. Such virtual existence showing in the space can make Dieter Jung, who has been engaged in the study of theology in the early time, explore the mysterious and puzzled sense world from the rational thoughts of the artistic color, structure and type etc, so as to create the best way to visualize the invisible spirit. This is a mirage made by the technology.
Dieter Jung has mastered the skills of creating the real visible interaction technique consisting of the light, shadow and space. His technical artistic creation has integrated the experience of the arts innovation with the public notification. He visualizes the artificial intelligence, and turns the real life situations into the invisible experience. The sculptural structure composed of light and shadow is both real and virtual. The visual geometric poem in Dieter Jung's artistic works connects the light, drive, time and space, but only the viewers are "the commander of the visual image in the real situation".
In such a new age of Internet, the technology world provides the public with a platform to share the artistic games and technical intelligence. Dieter Jung utilizes his dynamic installation to combine the laser hologram and digital processing techniques to interact and collate the each other existence from the whole universal perspective. Since 1965, Dieter Jung has begun to publish his theories, make speeches and exhibit his works. He has never lagged behind on the research of the high technology, and never gave up the manual painting and the sculpture even with the advent of the high technology. Making breakthrough from the tradition, pursuing the innovation constantly, Dieter Jung's more appropriate title should be an all-around artist.
迪特．容格《光之磨坊之一》．电脑全像影像、玻璃、基座．170x140x35cm．1985。（台北市立美术馆提供）
迪特．容格《伊卡鲁斯之眼》．全像影像、钢．58x45x45cm．2002。（台北市立美术馆提供）
迪特．容格《线》．光线装置．2003。（台北市立美术馆提供）
迪特．容格《影像平面之一》．全像影像．2004。（台北市立美术馆提供）