Echoes Toward the Stargate

Echoes Toward the Stargate / Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts - Photo: C-Lab Future Vision Lab

Echoes Toward the Stargate

Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts (TW)

In a world saturated by media technologies, perception is no longer immediate—it is modulated, encoded, and rerouted through computational systems. Interfaces, sensors, and AI-driven infrastructures generate a new perceptual regime in which space, time, and relation are governed by flows of information, signal, and data. Media machines act not as tools of representation, but as perceptual coders: modulating delay, resonance, and vibration to reprogram experience itself. They open dimensional thresholds—technocosmic apertures into machinic sensing and control.

Echoes Toward the Stargate traces circuits of signal return, perceptual reconfiguration, and dimensional passage. Artists engage sound, projection, mechanical systems, and algorithmic processes to construct liminal architectures—spaces suspended between material and virtual, human and non-human. These works form feedback zones where distorted signals and unstable information recirculate, activating emergent patterns of meaning and affect.

Rooted in Taiwan—a site historically shaped by Cold War information infrastructures and now central to global semiconductor and AI networks—the exhibition reframes the “Stargate” not as metaphor but interface: where perception, power, and machinic memory converge. Each echo opens a portal—into latent structures, altered states, and possible futures.

POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus

  • Spherical Syntax

    C-LAB Future Vision Lab (TW), Cheng-Wei Chen (TW), Chia-Ning Chang (TW), Chih-Yang Chen (TW), NANONANO (TW), Pin-Chen Chen (TW), Shih-Han Min (TW), Yu-Ting Tsai (TW), Tim Wei (TW), XTRUX x SHENG (TW), Yen-Shan Chen (TW)

    Since 2021, TNUA NMA and C-LAB’s Future Vision Lab have co-developed dome-based media practice. This edition features a compact geodesic dome with works by students and alumni, exploring audiovisual art, folklore, and AI—fostering shared creation across global dome ecologies.

  • Auditory Topologies_ Resonance

    Chan-Liang Kuo (TW)

    As the motor spins, magnetic shifts and coil irregularities produce sonic textures—blending ambient noise with mechanical resonance. This sensory field blurs nature and machine, inviting reflection on the tension between control and chaos in our technology-saturated soundscape.

  • Clamor

    O.R GEN (Ching-Tsung Kuo (TW), Jun-Jia Yang (TW), Kuang-Jui Chen (TW), Yu-Hsuan Shen (TW))

    Multiple motors rotate and collide, generating restless sounds that resonate with the body. The installation explores the emotional, social, and ecological impact of machines, inviting reflection on our relationship with technology and its role in reconnecting humanity to nature.

  • Images of Screenshots

    Fang-Yi Cheng (TW)

    Images of Screenshots explores screenshots as fast, everyday images that capture what matters in the moment. Layering personal and public contexts, it unfolds like a digital documentary, archiving fragments of attention into a collective memory.

  • Bouncing

    Hui-Ling Lo (TW), Yu-Hsuan Shen (TW)

    This work invites viewers to upload phone images—fleeting traces of personal life—which are then transformed by AI into 3D forms that bounce, collide, and drift across the screen. These sculptural memories echo digital life’s rhythms, suspended as data-bodies in constant motion.

  • Doodle Book

    Tung-Yu, Liu (TW)

    Doodle Book is an interactive sound instrument—like a hand-drawn notebook that sings. Visual marks trigger generative audio responses, letting color speak. Through loops and chance, it creates a performative space located between order and play, stability and creative disruption.

  • L. T. Y.

    Tsung-Yun Lai (TW)

    L.T.Y. is a live improvisation merging analog and digital modular synthesis via VCV Rack. It explores sound as embodied experience, unfolding unstable yet fluid sonic structures through real-time sampling. The work invites intuitive listening within a terrain of emergence and transformation.

  • Sweet Water 3.0

    ChunLi (TW)

    Sweet Water 3.0, curated by ChunLi, is an audiovisual performance combining live improvised music with generative visuals. Blending myth and futurity, it unfolds a story of contemporary irony through electronic textures and reverberated fragments of narration.

Credits

Project Director: Fujui Wang I Curators: Lien-Cheng Wang, Yen-Ju Lin I Spherical Syntax Program Leader: Warrick Tsai I Artists: Chan-Liang Kuo, Ching-Tsung Kuo, Fang-Yi Cheng, Hui-Ling Lo, Jun-Jia Yang, Kuang-Jui Chen, Yu-Hsuan Shen I Spherical Syntax Program Artists: Future Vision Lab, NANONANO, Tim Wei, TNUA NMA Collections, XTRUX x SHENG (Chen-En Chiu, Jyun-Jyue Li, Po-Jui Su, Yi-Cheng Chien, Yong-Ren Huang x Sheng-Wen Yang) I Audio-Visual Artists: Chun-Li Wang, Tsung-Yun Lai, Tung-Yu Liu

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