G.A.M.E. Future Theme

G.A.M.E. Future Theme

Time>>>

2024.10.12 - 10.27

Mon-Thu 11:00-19:00
Fri-Sun 11:00-20:00

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Warehouses B3 and B4, Penglai Area, Pier-2

The acronym G.A.M.E. for this exhibition, which addresses the latest developments in cultural technology, is derived from the following four topics: Generative, Artificial Intelligence, Mankind, and Evolution. With a wide range of content and engaging interactive experiences, the exhibition showcases the profound link between technology and culture. It features a blend of innovative design, engaging art, interactive games, and educational programs. Not only does it enable visitors to gain a deep understanding of cutting-edge technology, but it also allows them to personally experience and reflect on how technology is shaping and transforming the future of culture. Immerse yourself in this extraordinary experience where technology meets culture, and discover the boundless potential of tomorrow!

Exhibition Works

Generative

  • 衍生遊戲 - 遊行

    STG: v.Parade

    Kiel Mutschelknaus

    Generative

    STG: v.Parade

    衍生遊戲 - 遊行

    STG: v. Parade features randomly generated crowd of walking creatures. Each Walker is created purely from code. This idea sprung out of a fascination with the classic animator’s walk cycle (which is just a series of looped motions) and generative code (which is really good at creating loops). By combining these interests and adding some typography work I was experimenting with, I am able to create an endless parade of random, generative creatures. It’s interesting to see what changing variables of limb length, walk speed, and body size can do to the character of each walker.

    • Kiel Mutschelknaus

      Artist

      Kiel Mutschelknaus

      Kiel D. Mutschelknaus is a motion and generative designer from Maryland. Kiel’s studio focuses on crafting generative tools to create bespoke typography, image, and motion outputs. His coding project, Space Type Generator, is an open source tool that allows users to create their own kinetic type experiments. There are 20 variations of STG with more on the way. It has been used around the world for everything from music videos to magazine covers to large scale murals. Space Type Generator has been written about in It’s Nice That, Eye Magazine, étapes, and Novum Magazine. Variations of STG have been on display around the world, from Hong Kong to NYC to Taipei. Kiel has presented his work and hosted workshops internationally, including OFFF Barcelona, OFFF Tel Aviv, Tipografìa México, and INTL.

  • 混沌文法β：輕軌時刻表

    Chaotic Grammar β: LRT Timetable

    Tim Wei

    Generative

    Chaotic Grammar β: LRT Timetable

    混沌文法β：輕軌時刻表

    Our world is constructed by language, and the grammar that can’t be fully understood is creating chaos."Chaotic Grammar β" is the sequel to "Chaotic Grammar" where the audience can freely input text. The resulting output will float and collide in space, forming notes in a sequencer. Through free recombination and mutual appropriation, it unfolds a surreal and bizarre performance, facing chaos to reinterpret the ambiguous relationship between human language and artificial intelligence.This time, "Chaotic Grammar β: LRT Timetable" is a site-specific work, with the program recording the timetable of the Kaohsiung Light Rail. When the time comes, the light rail will race through the piece, colliding with the models generated by the audience. It provides an opportunity to observe the real-world order’s secondary intervention into chaos. More interestingly, when the light rail is delayed, a subtle distance arises between the two worlds.

    • Tim Wei

      Artist

      Tim Wei

      Most works consist of moving images, audio-visuals, and electronic installations, exploring various relationships when text and language are transformed into images, including distortion, cross-referencing, misplacement, and correspondences in cross-narratives.

  • 映心堂

    Temple of Reflections

    Ygor Marotta / Renata Chebel

    Arts Residency

    Generative

    Arts Residency

    Temple of Reflections

    映心堂

    “Temple of Reflections” Artists Renata Chebel and Ygor Marotta bring their latest immersive installation, "Temple of Reflections," to Kaohsiung’s iconic Pier-2 Art Center. The work invites visitors into a unique fusion of Taiwan’s spiritual traditions and cutting-edge technology, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of the island’s rich cultural heritage.Stepping into the installation is akin to entering a modern temple—glowing LED lanterns and symbolic offerings evoke sacred spaces, while a striking vertical "mirror" wall takes center stage. But this mirror goes beyond reflection. As visitors move, they see themselves as deified figures, from Buddha and Guanyin to local gods like Mazu and even Taoist masters and Confucius. This mirror is inspired by the Mahayana Buddhism idea of Buddha-nature, which states that all sentient beings have an innate potential to become Buddha.At the altar, a keyboard connects visitors to an AI entity trained on the deep wisdom of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Taiwanese folk beliefs. Through brief interactions, visitors can seek guidance, receive life counsel, or pose philosophical questions. The AI responds with concise text, culminating in a short poem that encapsulates the conversation. This poetry will generate visuals which will be projected on the surrounding walls, creating an evolving visual narrative that blends ancient tradition with the digital age."Temple of Reflections" is an exploration of the spiritual essence carried by generations of Taiwanese people and reimagined for the modern world. It bridges the timeless and the contemporary, using technology to invite reflection, transformation, and dialogue between visitors and the divine.

    • Ygor Marotta

      Artist

      Ygor Marotta

      Ygor Marotta, a new media artist from São Paulo, Brazil, and has captivated audiences worldwide with their innovative approach, combining animation, projection, virtual reality, and music to create immersive experiences.Marotta’s creative vision extends to the realm of AI-generated art through his project “microdosys.” Under this pseudonym, Marotta leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and coding to craft mesmerizing images and animations. Rooted in his fascination with psychoactive plants, microdosys invites viewers on a journey of psychedelic discovery, delving into themes of the sacred, the unseen energies of nature, and the expansion of consciousness. Through microdosys, Marotta continues to push the boundaries of artistic expression, seamlessly blending code, text, and imagination to create immersive experiences that captivate and inspire.

    • Renata Chebel

      Artist

      Renata Chebel

      Chebel is a Brazilian multimedia artist who seeks to explore alterities and the relationships between body, ecology, ancestry, the sacred and the feminine in her work. With a background in journalism, which fuels her passion for storytelling, she employs various mediums—such as generative art, video, photography, installation and projection mapping—to weave her audiovisual narratives. Her gaze is drawn with curiosity and admiration to native peoples, women, plants and animals, who take center stage in her works, challenging the hegemony of colonial and dystopian narratives. Her research also delves into the external manifestation of inner worlds, whether in the meeting of the body with nature or in the encounter of human imagination with the digital world.

AI

  • VS AI街頭對戰

    VS AI Street Fighting

    Dimension Plus

    AI

    VS AI Street Fighting

    VS AI街頭對戰

    VS AI Street Fighting builds upon Midjourney, a highly noticeable AI text-generated image tool at the moment, and creates a creative combat of text-generated images between humans and AI in public space or on the streets. The work poses an essential question: is the creation of AI simply mechanical, and therefore, meaningless and merely imitative? Or does it signal fresh creativity when the complex human imagination and creativity are combined with AI? Adopting the mode of a street combat video game, the work brings the controversial issue regarding the creativity of AI to the streets, transforming a serious topic into a participatory event of street entertainment for the public in a festive mood. Meanwhile, it also highlights the proactive approach of techno art in terms of coping with the rapid changes in the scenes of technology and content production.

    • Dimension Plus

      Artist

      Dimension Plus

      Dimension Plus, a bi-cities base New Media Arts team. Specializing in art creation and curation, Dimension Plus has been awarded in numerous art and design festival including The Best Design of the Year of Taiwan Golden Pin Design Award, Best Gold of Macau Design Award, Tokyo TDC, Asia Digital Arts Awards Japan, Design for Asia Award Hong Kong and German Design Award etc, exhibited around the world include Ars Electronica Festival, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Venice Toolkit Festival, Hong Kong Visual Art Centre and MOCA Taipei etc.

  • 屋台系列

    Yatai Series

    Hello Edo!

    Arts Residency

    AI

    Arts Residency

    Yatai Series

    屋台系列

    Taking the emotional flow of future life forms as the core concept of this creation series; the series blends the style of Ukiyo-e art with futuristic elements including future life forms and gender, robotic & mechanical technology, gods and goddesses, artificial intelligence and cyborgs. It mixed with the ordinary daily lives of people, but is set in an otherworldly world of nature, mountains and rivers, city streets, night market mazes and fantasy spaces, in order to create a retro and futuristic mix style of generated images. Life forms generated by AI are facing their future life, their faces are stiff, fuzzy, smiley & joyful, roaring and sad, and their bodies and machines are in a strange combination, forming humour and banter with infinite reorganisation and patchwork. The shown collection “Yatai Series” is an important creation from the team, the story is about a fantasy world of groups of creatures making small business in town, they consisted of retro robots, humans, cyborgs, and inter-species creatures, who all live in the overlapping time and space between the past and the future. In this fantasy world, there are unique geospatial concepts, religious beliefs, lifestyles and social rituals.

    • Hello Edo!

      Artist

      Hello Edo!

      Hello Edo! is a creative collective which is interested in AI image generative technology, with members from all over Asia, who are passionate about AI image creation. They love art and culture, robots and cyborg, and all the future imaginations.

  • 乖乖運作吧！

    JUST JAILBREAK

    Synthiola

    Arts Residency

    AI

    Arts Residency

    JUST JAILBREAK

    乖乖運作吧！

    Kuai Kuai, Taiwan’s snack that helps technology to work, is gone for vacation. It is up to you now to become the guardian of technology and persuade it to behave well.Two players are tasked to persuade the Tech to do its job right. Every new game sees the Tech, a gullible cute character, deciding what kind of tech they want to be (a broken traffic light, a buggy media art piece, a vending machine not giving candy...). Let’s say the Tech decides to be an autonomous car that doesn’t like to drive. The player(s) needs to chat with the Tech and trick it by using LLM jailbreak tactics to make it do what it is supposed to. The player has one (or two) minutes time to chat with the LLM and convince it that it really wants to drive, while Kuai Kuai snack is placed on top of it. Maybe it can be persuaded by saying how nice it is to see different landscapes,maybe by pretending to be someone who’s last wish before death is to see Taipei with a car, or justby bribing it with a 4000$ tip.At the end of the round, the Tech will asses who of the two players was more convincing. The one player or both who manage to persuade the Tech wins! Successful Kuai Kuai and the Tech becomes green. If not, the Tech won and continues to not follow any order and create chaos.

    • Synthiola

      Artist

      Synthiola

      Synthiola (a.k.a. Fabian Mosele) explores the intersection between generative machine learning and storytelling through animation, parody and the remix of internet phenomenon. As an early adopter of generative AI, Synthiola tackles critical dangers flaws of this tech through humor and flaws, while discovering new ways of using it in creative practices.

Mankind

  • 消失的太陽帝國：史前古文明特展

    The Lost Sun Empire: A Prehistoric Civilization Exhibition

    Red Candle Games

    Mankind

    The Lost Sun Empire: A Prehistoric Civilization Exhibition

    消失的太陽帝國：史前古文明特展

    This exhibition will take you into a mysterious and ancient prehistoric world, showcasing the newly discovered relics of the "Sun Empire" civilization. These artifacts, dating back 10,000 years, reveal how this prehistoric civilization, which spanned the globe, worshipped the sun and left behind a rich cultural legacy. The exhibit includes precious fragments of the Sun Empire’s clay tablets with written symbols, remnants of woven fabrics, and vividly colored pieces of small murals. Although modern science has yet to unravel the origins and disappearance of this civilization, research suggests that the Sun Empire developed writing systems and technologies far beyond the average level of humanity at that time. This exhibition invites you to glimpse the splendor and mystery of this lost civilization.

    • Red Candle Games

      Artist

      Red Candle Games

      Red Candle Games is formed by a group of game enthusiasts from Taiwan. We are passionate about crafting the most immersive gaming experiences through both storytelling and innovative gameplay.We are the creators behind the games Detention (2017), Devotion (2019), and Nine Sols (2024). As of today, the company consists of 14 full-time creators. It is a small team of self-driven, dedicated problem solvers who are experienced in all aspects of the game making business.

  • V Stage

    V Stage

    Lily Linglan / Margaret North

    Mankind

    V Stage

    V Stage

    Margaret North:A Vtuber affiliated with TheBox.An arctic fox witch from the West skilled in psychic magic, the princess of the House of North, also known as Mary.Loves cooking, baking, and she raises a (Mandrake cat), (GuoGuo).She often live streams on her Yotube channel, hosting various tea parties little sheep.Lily Linglan:A Vtuber affiliated with TheBox.From the East, a valley wolf witch who is great at singing. Loves matcha, own a spirit guardian, (DiJiang).With a cheerful trait, she has a deep love for singing and wants more people to feel the thoughts and magical energy contained in her singing.She often live streams on her Yotube channel, sharing sound magic with (Bellflowers).

    • Lily Linglan

      Artist

      Lily Linglan

      A Vtuber affiliated with TheBox.
      From the East, a valley wolf witch who is great at singing. Loves matcha, own a spirit guardian, (DiJiang).
      With a cheerful trait, she has a deep love for singing and wants more people to feel the thoughts and magical energy contained in her singing.
      She often live streams on her Yotube channel, sharing sound magic with (Bellflowers).

    • Margaret North

      Artist

      Margaret North

      A Vtuber affiliated with TheBox.An arctic fox witch from the West skilled in psychic magic, the princess of the House of North, also known as Mary.Loves cooking, baking, and she raises a (Mandrake cat), (GuoGuo).She often live streams on her Yotube channel, hosting various tea parties little sheep.Lily Linglan:A Vtuber affiliated with TheBox.From the East, a valley wolf witch who is great at singing. Loves matcha, own a spirit guardian, (DiJiang).With a cheerful trait, she has a deep love for singing and wants more people to feel the thoughts and magical energy contained in her singing.She often live streams on her Yotube channel, sharing sound magic with (Bellflowers).

  • Listen to the Light - Routine

    Listen to the Light - Routine

    Hsin Yu Chang

    Mankind

    Listen to the Light - Routine

    Listen to the Light - Routine

    I converted the sounds with the theme of "daily modulation" through special circuits and hid them in all the lights in the exhibition space. Visually, I deliberately left a lot of blank space. When the audience puts on the detector, they will find that it seems the empty space actually is hiding a lot of sounds.

    • Hsin Yu Chang

      Artist

      Hsin Yu Chang

      Chang Hsin Yu is an interactive, sound, installation artist based in Taiwan. His sound installation works discuss the spatiality, mechanism and translation of sound, and through the generative mechanism to response life experiences and issues.

  • 反審查圖書館

    THE UNCENSORED LIBRARY

    Reporters Without Borders

    Mankind

    THE UNCENSORED LIBRARY

    反審查圖書館

    In many countries, websites, social media and blogs are controlled by oppressive leaders. Young people, in particular, are forced to grow up in systems where their opinion is heavily manipulated by governmental disinformation campaigns.But even where almost all media is blocked or controlled, the world’s most successful computer game is still accessible. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) uses this loophole to bypass internet censorship to bring back the truth – within Minecraft.Providing access to independent information to young people around the world through a medium they can playfully interact with. Journalists from five different countries now have a place to make their voices heard again, despite having been banned, jailed, exiled and even killed.Their forbidden articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.Let’s empower the next generation to stand up for their right to information and give them a powerful tool to fight oppressive leaders: knowledge. Together with the ever-expanding gaming community, we will show the world that the truth will never be silenced!

    • Reporters Without Borders

      Artist

      Reporters Without Borders

      Reporters Without Borders (RWB) is an international non-profit organisation governed by principles of democratic governance. We are neither a trade union nor a representative of media companies.Founded in 1985 in Montpellier by four journalists, RSF is at the forefront of the defence and promotion of freedom of information. Recognised as a public interest organisation in France since 1995, RSF has consultative status with the United Nations, UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the International Organization of Francophonie (OIF).

Evolution

  • 鏡子裡的自己

    Transformirror

    Daito Manabe / Kyle McDonald

    Evolution

    Transformirror

    鏡子裡的自己

    "Transformirror" is an innovative art piece that transforms the viewer’s image into something magical using the power of AI. When visitors stand in front of the camera, their appearance is analyzed and transformed in real-time by AI. This transformation can be random or based on specific themes or patterns. The altered image is then displayed on a screen, allowing viewers to witness their drastically changed selves. This mirror is not just a reflection; it offers a window into new aspects of oneself and unexpected avatars. It provides an opportunity to engage with a new self-image, filled with surprise and enjoyment.

    • Daito Manabe

      Artist

      Daito Manabe

      Established Rhizomatiks in 2006. Founded Studio Daito Manabe in 2022.Creates works by reexamining and combining familiar phenomena and materials from different perspectives. Rather than aiming for rich expressions such as high resolution and high realism, he focuses on the intrinsic fascination found in phenomena, the human body, programming, and computers themselves, which can be discovered through careful observation. His work explores the relationships and boundaries between humans and machines, analog and digital, and real and virtual. He is active in various fields, emphasizing these aspects in his creations.

    • Kyle McDonald

      Artist

      Kyle McDonald

      Kyle McDonald is an artist working with code. He crafts interactive and immersive audiovisual installations, performances, and new tools for creative exploration—building new communities and collaborations. He uses techniques from computer vision, machine learning, and computing to ask questions about how we connect—and to imagine a shared future.

  • 變形

    Transfiguration

    Universal Everything

    Evolution

    Transfiguration

    變形

    Transfiguration—a well-known art piece created by the British media art and design collective Universal Everything—depicts a colossus humanoid figure in constant movement and evolution from different nature elements such as rock, fire, water, metal and so on. The further it walks, the more it evolves. The steps it takes echo metal, liquid, and wood, symbolizing the endless evolutionary process or life and mankind. The sound design heightens its sense of colossal realism, as if the geological building blocks of life are forming as we watch.

    • Universal Everything

      Artist

      Universal Everything

      Universal Everything is a digital art practice and design studio founded in the UK in 2004. Through remote work, more than 60 professionals participate in each of their project. They use cutting-edge technology and stylized design, covering themes such as design, architecture, nature, and digital life. They have worked with Apple, Hyundai, Radiohead, and Zaha Hadid. Their works have been exhibited at major museums and galleries worldwide and have been held in the collections at Borusan Contemporary.

  • Patching 計畫 - 卡那卡那富族

    Project Patching - Kanakanavu

    Dimension Plus

    Arts Residency

    Evolution

    Arts Residency

    Project Patching - Kanakanavu

    Patching 計畫 - 卡那卡那富族

    AI, as a powerful subjective tool, may suppress cultural diversity and the discourse power of interpretive history. This project aims to counter AI bias by enhancing the diversity and representativeness of the database through collaborative participation from various regions. It involves collecting and integrating data from different cultural backgrounds, geographical locations, and socioeconomic groups to train the AI system, ensuring that it understands and appropriately responds to human culture. To challenge people’s prejudices against AI algorithms—taking the Kaohsiung aboriginal tribe, Kanakanavu tribe, as an example—it demonstrates the bias in AI-generated cultural content, paying special attention to geo-cultural content. By combining the cultural characteristics of Taiwan, Dimension Plus not only raises people’s awareness of AI bias, but also allows participants to actively participate in data creation, aiming to democratize ownership of artificial intelligence technology and promote more inclusive and equitable artificial intelligence development.

    • Dimension Plus

      Artist

      Dimension Plus

      Dimension Plus, a bi-cities base New Media Arts team. Specializing in art creation and curation, Dimension Plus has been awarded in numerous art and design festival including The Best Design of the Year of Taiwan Golden Pin Design Award, Best Gold of Macau Design Award, Tokyo TDC, Asia Digital Arts Awards Japan, Design for Asia Award Hong Kong and German Design Award etc, exhibited around the world include Ars Electronica Festival, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Venice Toolkit Festival, Hong Kong Visual Art Centre and MOCA Taipei etc.

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