“ Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) plays a decisive role by promoting Taiwan’s creative industry and networking it internationally. The collaboration between Ars Electronica and TAICCA thus leads to intercultural exchange.  This collaboration gave rise to various formats – from mentoring to workshop sessions organized in Taiwan. From this dynamic and interactive process, Taiwanese artists will bring exciting projects and socio-critical questions to the Ars Electronica Festival in 2024. ”   Quote from Ars Electronica Festival's blog ‘From Taiwan to Austria: Expanding artistic horizons’ 

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▻【Selected project of TAICCA x Ars Electronica Art Thinking Program】

• Project Title: Project Patching—Ti hoeh koe - AI and Geocultural Bias Experiment Project
• Creator: Dimension Plus
  Dimension Plus is a New Media Arts collective founded by artist Keith Lam (Hong Kong) and curator Escher Tsai (Taiwan) in 2009. 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.
• Links: 
  • Project Patching—Ti hoeh koe
  • AI BIAS & BLOOD FOOD WORKSHOP - Sunday Sept. 8th 10:00
  • Winning Project: AI Bias Unmasked by Dimension Plus – Ars Electronica Export

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▻ 【Presentation】

Rise Up, Data Peasants: Opportunities for International Co-production and Corporate Synergy

• Introduction:
  • Being creators in an era of Technofeudalism, how can we challenge the status quo by innovating technological application while maintaining cultural diversity? In Taiwan, the cultural content industry collaborates with tech companies, integrating soft power with hardware to foster creativity. Creators, enterprise and the public sector attempt to come up with a human-centered, sustainable solution despite virtualized geoeconomics challenges.
    Followed by the DEMO section of ‘The Heart of the Machine: Virtual Realms X Machine-Controlled Puppetry - A Dialogue Between Glove Puppetry and Body Data’, by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Tainan National University of the Arts.  
• Speakers:
• Wen Ying CHANG, Deputy CEO of TAICCA 
• Ted CHANG, Quanta Computer Inc. CTO, VP & GM
• Escher TSAI, Director of Dimension Plus
• Chih-Yung Aaron CHIU, Vice Dean of College of Arts, Director of Graduate Institute of Art and Technology, and National Tsing Hua University-Delta Distinguished Talent in National Tsing Hua University Taiwan
• Moderator: Chia-Shan CHANG,  Project manager of Dept. Content & Culture Technology, TAICCA

Link to Ars Electronical Festival 2024 official

• DEMO Section:

• Project Title: The Heart of the Machine: Virtual Realms X Machine-Controlled Puppetry - A Dialogue Between Glove Puppetry and Body Data
  The project explores the future possibilities of puppet theater by transforming puppets from virtual characters to mechanical puppets. Using IoTtalk IoT and Quanta's QOCA technology as the technological core, the performance integrates various advanced technologies such as virtual reality, interactive projection, mechanical hands, and heartbeat data detection with traditional puppet theater. The work transcends the conventional boundaries of performance space, translating the beauty of traditional puppet theater gestures between the virtual and the real, as well as between the body and data.
• Creators:
  • He-Lin LUO / Associate Professor at Tainan National University of the Arts
  • Chun-Cheng HSU / Professor in the Industrial Design Division of the Institute of Applied Arts at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  • Yi-Bing LIN / Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University
     

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▻ 【NTMoFA, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts commission project】

• Project Title: Exploration and Exploitation - AI Interactive Video
• Artists: Simple Noodle Art (TW): Zi Yin Chen, Hsiang Feng Chuang
  Founded in 2019 by Chen Zi-Yin and Chuang Hsiang-Feng, Simple noodle art is an art collective working with installation, video, net art, photography and artificial intelligence. With a background in art and information technology respectively, Chen and Chuang focus on the interactions between technological products and humans, along with how such interactions alter and influence our lifestyle. Through interdisciplinary thinking, they aim to create works that are like a simple bowl of noodles, which has uncomplicated ingredients but a great taste.
  Simple noodle art is the recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica, New Animation Art Category, Honorable Mention (2023), and their works have been shown at various institutions, among which are Jut Art Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, C-LAB, and Absolute Space for the Arts.  
• Link: Exploration and Exploitation 探索與剝削- 陳姿尹Chen Zi Yin

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▻【Deep Space 8K - WHAT IS REMAINING】

• Project Title: WHAT IS REMAINING
• Credit:
  • Choreography Matteo Cogliandro, Yu-Teng Huang, Hinako Taira, Pedro Tayette
  • Choreographic advice Yuko Harada
  • Dramaturgy Roma Janus
  • Concept and artistic direction Roma Janus, Joachim Smetschka
  • Tanz und Co-Kreation Elena Sofia Bisci, Mischa Hall, Yu-Teng Huang, Katharina Illnar, Pavel Povrazník, Lorenzo Ruta, Nicole Stroh, Hinako Taira, Fleur Wijsman, Matteo Cogliandro, Pedro Tayette, Ilia Dergousoff, Angelica Mattiazzi, Elisa Lodolini, S. Arthur Sicilia
  • Visualization, music and sound design Carlotta Borcherding, Ariathney Coyne, Holunder Heiß, Lynn Mayya, Noayama, Alex Villard, Emilia Vogt
• Link: Deep Space Experience: WHAT IS REMAINING – Ars Electronica Center 

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▻【Ars Electronica features TAIPEI / Formosa : Metaverse Alliance】 

• “Resonance of Hope: Exploring Love, Technology, and Peace in Turbulent Times”
• Projects & Artists
  • Imagine / Hsin-Chien Huang, Wen-Chieh Chang, Yi-Chun Chang (Billy)
  • Heartbreak Funeral Service / Mei-Chen Guo, Szu-Chi Chen, Chi-An Chen, Kun-Yi Hsiao
  • Future Morphoid : A Cozy Afternoon in Taipei / TECHARTGROUP INC, FEASTOGETHER CORPORATION 
• Links: 
  • Ars Electronica Festival 2024 official
  • https://garden2024.metarealitylab.com/

▻【Deep Space 8K - Deep Stage】

Deep Stage is a carefully curated evening program full of inspiring and stunning audio-visuals by international artists, including “Imagine”.

• Link: Deep Stage - Sept. 5th 21:30 - 22:45

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▻ College of Arts, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

• Theme: “Anthropogenic Encroachment”
• Curator: Chih-Yung CHIU
• Projects & Artists:
  • At the Bend of the Street / Yu-Ching Lin
  • Beggar / Yi-Jie WU, Ying-Ying CHIU
  • Solitude Internet / Wei San Chiang, Yi Yen Chen
  • Vibration and Traces / Chi-Hung Huang
  • Words Nowhere to Go / Chun-Huang Lin
• Links: 
  • https://ars.electronica.art/hope/en/anthropogenic-encroachment/
  • https://chunred.github.io/ARS2024/ 

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▻ Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts

• Theme: “Observer Pattern”
• Projects & Artists:
  • Ghosts of Google / Pei-Ting Hsieh
  • Looking at Between / Kun-Yu Lu
  • Positive Electricity – Plan / Zu-Hao Zheng 
  • Spectacle Extension / Tzu-Yung Kuo
  • Tangivirtuality 2 / Daniel Chiang 
• Link: https://ars.electronica.art/hope/en/observer-pattern/