Resonance of Hope: Exploring Love, Technology, and Peace in Turbulent Times explores love, technology, and peace. Imagine integrates motion capture and real-time data to reflect on global conflicts. Future Morphoid immerses visitors in Taiwanese life contrasts through immersive installations. Heartbreak Funeral Service guides healing with AI, encouraging empathy and global harmony. This exhibition invites reflection and dialogue on fostering a unified world.
Exploring Love, Technology, and Peace in Turbulent Times
Resonance of Hope: Exploring Love, Technology, and Peace in Turbulent Times delves into the intersections of these themes. Art and technology address global challenges, foster change, and promote reconciliation.
Featured works include:
Imagine
Inspired by John Lennon’s song Imagine, this work integrates motion capture technology and real-time data to reflect on conflicts like the Russo-Ukrainian War and Taiwan Strait tensions. Online participants contribute heartbeats and body data to generate generative art images, fostering global connection and peace.
Future Morphoid: A Cozy Afternoon in Taipei
An immersive installation with a wall projection, kinetic elements, and interactive showcases. It captures the vibrant contrasts of Taiwanese life, featuring Taiwanese food as cultural treasures and offering a fresh perspective on daily life and culture.
Heartbreak Funeral Service
The Heartbreak Funeral Service integrates LineBot and AI chatbot technologies to guide individuals through a healing process akin to the Bardo phase post-death. Featuring introspection, venting, and farewell stages, elements like the “Revenge Shrine” and “Charity Shrine” encourage positive actions and emotional recovery.
Resonance of Hope invites critical discourse and communal introspection within cultural, socio-political, and scientific contexts, toward empathy, understanding, and global harmony.
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Future Morphoid
TECHARTGROUP INC (TW), FEASTOGETHER CORPORATION (TW)
A Cozy Afternoon in Taipei Through this installation, our aim is for visitors to have a glimpse of the different facets of everyday life in Taiwan. It can be intense and dangerous from the outside, but at the same time relaxing and joyful from the inside.
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Heartbreak Funeral Service
Mei-Chen Guo (TW), Szu-Chi Chen (TW), Chi-An Chen (TW), Kun-Yi Hsiao (TW)
The deeply invested love, filled with genuine emotions, is abruptly severed by death. The negative energy that comes instantaneously often suffocates. Heartbreak Funeral Service comprises a 49-day ritual that is crafted to aid those recovering from a breakup, following the tradition from Eastern funeral rites — 7 days * 7 weeks = 49 days, thus…
Metaverse Alliance (TW)
Metaverse Alliance is a cross-domain social organization. It aims to cultivate Taiwan’s tech talents, laying a foundation for the digital virtual world’s development. We plan to discover and connect partners in the Metaverse, forming a major alliance. Our platform will align Taiwan’s technology with international standards, provide policy insights and focus on applications, talent cultivation, regulatory promotion and international exchanges to advance Taiwan’s metaverse.
Credits
Artists: Hsin-Chien Huang, Wen-Chieh Chang, Billy Yi-Chun Chang, TECHARTGROUP INC, FEASTOGETHER CORPORATION, Mei-Chen Guo, Szu-Chi Chen, Chi-An Chen, Kun-Yi Hsiao, Kun-Yi Hsiao / Curator: Hsin-Chien Huang / Producer: Hsiao-Yue Tsao / Technical Director: Wei-Chieh Chiu / Programming: Jiun-Yan You / Project Manager: Yi-Ning Lo / Project Assistant: Sz-Chi Chen/ Partners: Ministry of Culture, Department of Cultural Affairs Taipei City Government, Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association of Taiwan, Metaverse Alliance, Oready Innovation LAB, TECHARTGROUP INC, NVIDIA, GIGABYTE, National Taiwan Normal University, National Taipei University of Technology, National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Cultural Affairs Bureau Tainan City Government, Chunghwa Telecom
