Kaleidoscope of Taipei

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t only have a huge impact on our social life, it also changed the way people view art in a fundamental manner. Contemporary art needs support from new technologies across fields to break through the limit of viewing art from actual venues.

Via Internet transmission, the audience is able to step across boundaries and social distance to elevate the experience of viewing art. Hosted by the Virtual and Physical Media Integration Development Association of Taiwan, Garden Taipei collects the most important Taipei’s XR works in recent years and organizes the Taipei XR Art Team to represent it in the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival.

Garden Taipei gathers the most outstanding artists and teams, whose works center around various fields relating to Taipei’s local character and visual elements, such as its history, nature, environment, folklore, politics, culture, and travel. These brilliant works address different topics, from the delicate to the popular. Garden Taipei emphasizes the interaction between modern technological applications in art and Taipei’s valuable cultural assets to embody the concept of “glocalization.” This ability to see Taipei’s XR development from a bird’s eye view has doubtless helped to bring out the top-notch talents and high-quality production capacity in its XR field.