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Thoughts and observations on cultural trends and creative practices are collected. Authors are invited to write in-depth articles and commentaries, as well as accounts and reviews of cultural experimentation.
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Technology Anxiety in a “Zero-Latency” Era: in the Footsteps of CHENG Hsien-Yu’s Assimilator
Through Assimilator, we grapple with the conflicts and tensions between human-machine interactions, and reflect on our anxiety towards technology.
DATE2020.06.09
machinetechnology Technology Art
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Recollecting C-LAB: Jointly Recording the Cultural History of a Space
We are initiating the Recollecting C-LAB Project this year. By gathering and compiling information and conducting interviews, we attempt to build an online cultural and historical database of this historic site.
DATE2020.06.09
storyhistoryC-LAB
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Creating a Welcoming Circular Structure: Record of the Experimental Architecture Project
In the southwest corner of C-LAB near the intersection of Jianguo South and Renai roads, where pedestrians and vehicles come closest to this site, is a large, suspended, “circular structure”.
DATE2020.04.01
Experimental ArchitectureCircular EconomyOpenness
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Imagining a Space from the Perspective of “Tower”: Light Weight Crossing Universities Work Camp at C-LAB
Sophomore students from three universities participated in the Light Weight – Crossing Universities Work Camp. This year, the theme is “tower.”
DATE2020.04.01
Experimental ArchitectureOpennessLight Weight 2020
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Is Immersive Art Just a Buzzword or a Must Know “Innovation”?
Is “immersive” a word of the brand-new era? Is it a new concept in aesthetics discourse following the latest technological advancements?
DATE2020.03.31
imageimmersive aestheticstechnology
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The Immersive Aesthetics of Performing Arts in Taiwan
The actor-spectator relationship have changed from confining the spectators to their seats into treating them as the trigger and propeller of the performances.
DATE2020.03.30
public engagementimmersive aestheticsPerforming Art
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Virtual Reality and the Three Modalities That Shaped the World
If “virtual reality” is not simply a “technique” but also a “medium” capable of “shaping the world,” what would such a world look like?
DATE2020.03.30
immersive aestheticscyberspacevirtual reality
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With to Without Walls: C-LAB’s Open New Look
In September 2019, the Ministry of Culture began tearing down the walls that surround C-LAB and carrying out landscape improvements. Welcome to this culture and aesthetics park in the heart of the city.
DATE2020.03.27
public engagementOpennesscultural innovation
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Immersive Theatre: From Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk to Nazi Germany’s Wars
Is theatre always supposed to be immersive? In fact, in the very beginning, theatre is about the act of viewing. The word theatre originates from “theatron,” meaning “a place for viewing [spectacles].”
DATE2020.03.18
immersive aestheticsGesamtkunstwerkWagner