Polyphony

The title “polyphony” designates the simultaneous combination of two or more tones or melodic lines in music and, in literature, the co-existence of multiple perspectives. In the turbulent contemporary era, this exhibition attempts to represent exchanges and dialogues that embrace resonating and co-existing differences as well as a collaborative spirit for co-creation across disciplines, cultures, and artistic vocabularies. It evokes essential universal values and proposes positive visions of common prosperity, yet with warnings.
“Polyphony” includes a visual art showcase in POSTCITY, two immersive concerts in Deep Space, and one concert at Anton Bruckner University. The interactive installations, VR works, dance, and immersive performances represent infinite exploration, challenges, and care for the future where new perceptions are expanded with latest technologies, spanning kinetics, interactive programming, AI computing and soundscape design, giving rise to new forms and content in terms of audiovisual, perceptual experiences.
Through collisions and fusion of the local/global, the traditional/contemporary, “Polyphony” reflects Taiwan’s diversity, inclusivity and scientific/artistic innovativeness. In the context of Ars Electronica, this curatorial project embedded particularly examines our changing position and role in the new era and how to maintain heterogeneous values in this ever-changing, fast-paced, and unpredictable global village in symbiosis.