Sensory Voyage

In today’s information age, how to extract desired information and filter out unnecessary signals from the noise field in this world is an art form we must master to find inner peace. In the visual component of this work, a series of clear images are turned into noise and transformed into an abstract landscape.

This work draws inspiration from Hakka mythology and culture. It presents hypotheses regarding the future globalization of the Earth, promotes the vision of achieving prosperity among diverse ethnic groups and carries on the Hakka spirit.

Characters from Asomrof, a sci-fi narative in new media art about Hakka space migration. Asomrof in Bacta Tank displays the Hakka papercutting style CG characters in an aquarium-like device that allows the audience to experience holographic 3D with the naked eye.

West District in Taipei City houses historical sites whose former glory has faded. Taipei West Gateway project employs AR and VR technologies to offer a nostalgic tour of Japanese colonial-era Taipei. VR exhibit showcases landmarks while providing a 360° view.

This work weaves an old sea tale into a story centered around the unique bio-luminescence in the sea around the island of Matzu, known as “Blue Tears”. The naïve hero’s desire to give his heroine a good life leads him down a path of greed and ultimately to his demise in a shipwreck.

The story is from director’s childhood memories which depicts the reduction of humanity by military government during martial law in Taiwan, the colonial culture as well as the digital era, creating a story beyond reality.

There is a darkroom flashing with dim red lights. A person carefully puts the negatives into the cassette with both hands, focusing on the paper below with a magnifier moving up and down in flaring lights. An image emerges on the paper.

By combining five Chinese landscape paintings of historical significance and utilizing machine learning techniques, the artists enable the computer to learn and generate 15,000 images that fuse elements from the five original artworks.

In Gray Room, I use the 3D scan model to visualize my late grandmother’s house as a method to explore the relationship between architectural space and body, and to examine my perception of memory and death from a material perspective.

This work is inspired by Kuo Hsueh-Hu: The Reminiscence of Taiwan in His Heart, written by Sunny Kuo, the second son of Kuo Hsueh-Hu. These three selected paintings of Kuo are a demonstration of the painter’s affections for his motherland despite living abroad.

From Claudia Wang’s fashion brand 23 Autumn/Winter collection, a series inspired by Y2K nostalgia has been launched. This seeks to cultivate the mischievous and open-minded spirit we experienced in our childhood through vibrant designs and bright colors.

Three tin toys keep changing their costumes on the stage and performing in turns. However, they find themselves trapped in a dreamlike state resembling a mirror image, unable to extricate themselves.

OverShadowed: Dependence is a VR escaping game, in which players find a way to switch between self and shadow to figure out the link between true items and hallucinations. By making use of the features of light and shadow, players complete each chapter.

At a train station floating in the cloud, a mysterious red tail catches the boy’s attention. Chasing the red tail, the boy travels through countless magical places, runs into bizarre creatures, and finally he meets a man who seems to know his secrets more than he does.

It is the near future, the Earth’s environment has been destroyed by human beings. We have to abandon it and find a new home in space. After hundred years of space travel, we have re-engineered our DNA and artificially evolved into a new form.

Sophie comes across a worm on the street, and the worm penetrates her chest and plunges inside her body. The worm in her body becomes her secret. She first tries to get rid of it, but she soon discovers that her parents, too, have worms inside them.

Subsistence Machines in Metaworld is an artist’s collection of imaginative machines, addressing needs in the metaverse. The artist compares real and virtual worlds, using media symbols to create these machines for food, clothing, appearance, residence and transportation in metaverse.

Kids are playing hide and seek. They conceal themselves all around the apartment: under the table, behind the curtain, behind the fridge, in the closet. All the other kids are found one by one and discuss the next game excitingly. The last little boy Noddy still stays in the closet peeking at them.

What is life?