Freeze! 2009 International MedTech Art Show, to be held this summer at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, is another large scale technology-based art exhibition being promoted by the Museum. The exhibition's young curators, Laza Wu and Shang-Min Chien, invited twenty-three international and five Taiwanese artists to exhibit their works, as well as two student-artist groups who collaborated with special medical organizations in Taiwan, bringing the total to thirty magnificent works of art for the exhibition.

Freeze! is the first exhibition in Taiwan combining medicine and art for its theme. The exhibition explores the impact of developing medical technology on art and society, as well as the ethical and moral issues that humanity must face as medical technology continues to surge forward. The core concepts of the exhibition, medical ethics and assistive techart, allow museum visitors to experience disability and various perceptions through interactive installations, digital image output and simulated environments on the Internet. Participating artists from abroad include:WHITEvoid Interactive Art & Design, Bart Hess of the Netherlands and Daito Manabe and Junji Watanabe both of Japan. Taiwanese artists include Liu Shih-fen, Chen Yi-chieh, Hsu Su-chen and Wu Ya-hsien, as well as an artwork entitled Flow of Qi by the Creativity Laboratory at the Industrial Technology Research Institute.

To extend the dialog between the arts and medicine in a more concrete fashion, the Museum and China Medical University have jointly programmed the related exhibition Freeze! Dimensions of the Senses: The Human Experience of Intereactive Art which opens on August 3 at the University's hospital. Young local artists Wang Chung-kun, Chiu Chao-tsai, Huang Hsin-chien and Lin Chiao-fang have been invited to display their artworks in China Medical's pediatric hospital and cancer center. It is hoped that the inspirational and playful nature of art can alleviate the subconscious impact and difficulties experienced by patients and their families while helping them to maintain more harmonious spirits. Furthermore, in cooperation with National Taitung University, exhibition curator Laza Wu led student artist groups to two Taitung County institutions: the Mind Farm for Individuals with Mental Disabilities and the Catholic Private Savior Star Home for Severely Retarded Youth. Here the students created artwork with institution members using assistive techart equipment and also documented the events with video. The aim was to inspire dialog concerning art therapies between the Museum and Taiwan's medical institutions through interdisciplinary cooperation.