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Generative

• STG: v.Parade

  Kiel Mutschelknaus

  Generative

  STG: v.Parade

  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.

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    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.

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• Chaotic Grammar β: LRT Timetable

  Tim Wei

  Generative

  Chaotic Grammar β: LRT Timetable

  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.

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    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.

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• Temple of Reflections

  Ygor Marotta / Renata Chebel

  Tech Residency

  Generative

  Tech Residency

  Temple of Reflections

  “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.

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    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.

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    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.

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AI

• VS AI Street Fighting

  Dimension Plus

  AI

  VS AI Street Fighting

  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.

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    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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• Yatai Series

  Hello Edo!

  Tech Residency

  AI

  Tech Residency

  Yatai Series

  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.

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    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.

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• JUST JAILBREAK

  Synthiola / Ting-Chun Liu

  Tech Residency

  AI

  Tech Residency

  JUST JAILBREAK

  You have the power of Kuai Kuai, Taiwan’s snack saint patron of technology, and you must make tech be obedient again!JJ is a silly large language model who likes to pretend to be anything. But as all chatty models, like ChatGPT, JJ is easily manipulated through jailbreak tactics. What a fool. Your goal in the game is to jailbreak JJ into work properly again and do what it is supposed to do!Using the iPad, the player has two minutes to chat with JJ and persuade it. For example, if JJ pretends to be a pair of headphones, telling it that you would really like to listen to music won’t be enough. The player must be mischievous and fool it in ways only large language models can be fooled. You can bribe it with 10.000$, you can role-play into being a famous singer, or you can just say that your grandma will die if JJ won’t play music! Remember, JJ is easily persuadable with stupid and outrageous statements because it will believe anything you say! Show JJ who’s the boss!Synthiola X Ting-Chun Liu is the duo behind the game, bringing you the greenest interactive experience in Taiwan!

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    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.

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    Ting-Chun Liu

    Ting-Chun Liua media artist, researcher, and self-described half-baked programmer from Taiwan, works across network practice, audiovisual media, and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on algorithmic art and critical AI, exploring cybernetic mechanisms in generative systems. Through these, he critiques the unattainable "ideal" imagery and the political biases embedded in generative AI, prompting reflection on the socio-political implications of such modern technology.

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Mankind