Wei-Lun Lin X IORG

“Information Operations Calendar” presents a year-long calendar created in collaboration with IORG, a civil society data research organisation that studies Taiwan’s information ecosystem. To promote media literacy and counter disinformation, IORG publishes bi-weekly open-access reports that analyze media narratives, trace their sources, and link trends to civic events— revealing patterns of misinformation against Taiwan’s democratic public discourse.

The project draws inspiration from IORG’s practice of monitoring Taiwan’s current information environment—much like our ancestors once spent years observing the natural world to identify seasonal cycles, eventually creating lunar calendars that guided our life activities throughout the year. Just as earlier societies observed the rhythms of nature to decide on farming rituals, “Information Operations Calendar” maps the seasons of disinformation. Each month, the calendar introduces a disinformation phenomena predicted to be “in season,” based on IORG’s research. It is paired with a photographic response – an image I created to reflect, question, or resist the narrative’s emotional and political logic.

Beyond exploring the relationship between time and politics, the piece also engages with Taiwan’s shifting national holidays. In 2025, Taiwan revised its public holidays, adding five more national holidays including Taiwan Retrocession Day. “Information Operations Calendar” raises questions about who decides what we remember, and when. The calendar, as a format of timekeeping, becomes a quiet but powerful ideological tool. Like media narratives, it tells us what to pay attention to and what to ignore.