Venue Info

Marine Traffic of Future Kaohsiung

Location: DOME

The large outdoor dome projection, with immersive audiovisual equipment, presents the positioning of Kaohsiung Port in the world with visuals, animations, an interactive system, and the global real-time marine traffic system, as well as introducing the environment of the port and its cultural features.

Program Details

Free UR Head

Location: OUTDOOR PLAZA

Free UR Head: Reverse the relation of “seeing and being seen” as the audience puts on the VR headset to enter the virtual world, in which they will be instructed by the dancer to be mindful of their body, to relax, and to dance along the rhythm.

Through mirror images and choreography of different sequences, the audience will move their head to the music to create a unique dance of the moment and become a performer in the experience. This work is the newest immersive masterpiece by the new media director, Tung-Yen Chou, whose previous works also are a combination of technology and theater performance, including In the Mist and Gazing, In the Mist.

● The development of this work was supported by the 2022 Future Content Production Support Project of the Taiwan Creative Content Agency.

COLORED

Location: DOLPHIN VENUE

Take a deep breath, exhale, you are now in Montgomery in Alabama in the 1950s. You’ve become Claudette Colvin, an ordinary 15 year-old black girl. On March 2nd, 1955, Claudette refused to vacate her seat for a white person and got arrested. In the past, no one was brave enough to fight racial segregation like Claudette but no one remembered her name.

In 9 months, Rosa Parks did the same thing and became a hero who inspired the civil rights movement. History was changed. Claudette made everything possible but she was forgotten. This work is adapted from the book of the same name by the French writer, Tania de Montaigne. On April 20th, 2023, it was premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats

Location: DOLPHIN VENUE

Rave was an important cultural symbol for the youth in the late 1980s. This interactive VR experience was produced by East City Films and BPM XR. The audience is taken to the Rave scenes on a night in the UK as the youth of that time would hold parties illegally in abandoned warehouses across the country.

The Rave cultural scenes range from bedrooms full of posters to pirate radio stations, from the police headquarters to secret warehouses. You will be thrilled as you see their wild partying and even having a reckless police chase. In this well produced VR interactive experience, the audience will move along as they share this secret event with the DJs, the bands, the police and music.

Sensory Extraction

Location: DOLPHIN VENUE

Curated by Fundesign, the exhibition invites two Japanese artists to extract senses and plant them into the still cultural field to enhance the partial sensory experiences for the viewers.

Fujimoto Minoru, who produced the LED performance for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, brings Humanized Light. Lights are turned into the body of a giant as it moves between each corner. On the other side is Lenna brought by Hosoi Miyu, a Japanese new media artist famed for the creation of diverse soundscapes. This time with Lenna, an immersive audio feast with delicate sound creations will be brought to the audience.

Vision and hearing are the two most intuitive senses in the virtual world. In Sensory Extraction, they have become the most crucial elements for the connection between the virtual world and the real world.

XR Dreamland

Location: VENUE 1F

The biggest immersive and virtual reality film exhibition in Asia, the XR Dreamland is a film revolution of the next generation, bringing over 30 exceptional works of the future to Kaohsiung. The Annual Focus centers on the hybrid reality experience where multiple viewers may interact with one another. The International Panorama includes visual masterworks of virtual reality, augmented reality, hybrid reality, and offsite showcase. The Kaohsiung Original presents the masterpieces made locally. The International Competition brings the best XR works beyond reality from around the world.

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i-Ride Experience Center

Location: Brand Venue

Brogent builds the VR flying seating equipment for two, with a 6DoF motion platform to finely simulate the motions of flying, shooting, dodging, in a fighter jet as well as the motion feedback of being attacked. The high performance VR wireless helmets allow players to turn into a pilot of the jet and engage in an intense aerial battle with the enemy. The first person perspective is integrated with high quality digital content to present the ultimate flying experience that transcends senses. The two seating design also allows the players to invite their friends along for the joy of aerial combat.

Pili AI Age – Warrior Show

Location: Brand Venue

The Pili glove puppetry show brings the exhibition, themed “Pili AI Age – Warrior Show,” which features the glamorous and sci-fi style of cyberpunk to build a fantastical exhibition space. AI generated images and sound simulations are combined to present the ultimate audiovisual feast and demonstrate Pili’s ability to evolve the traditional puppetry show into a media of new technology.

This time, the Vincent Huang Voice Acting AI Project will be revealed. Visitors will become Pili voice actors and the final narration will be presented by the AI version of Vincent Huang. There will be a zone dedicated to the belongings and works related to Vincent Huang. It’s a must-see for fans of Vincent Huang, the genius with 8 voices!

Virtual Entrance

Location: VENUE 2F

Moonshine Studio is a visual technology integration company with a virtual film studio. Some of the famous works include the teaser video of STARLUX Airlines, the movie Incantation, and music videos of Mayday and Jay Chou. In this exhibition, two visual technologies will be showcased, 3D REC and VPXR, for the public to understand the two applications of the integration of the virtual world and the real world.

Through the 3D REC system, visitors can scan for a virtual avatar and interact with the exhibition space through the AR technology. Through the VPXR system, visitors can experience what it’s like to be in a virtual film studio to see how the virtual scenes can be changed swiftly.

Besides the experiences, visitors will also receive digital gifts (to be revealed on the scene).
The virtual world and the real world come together at the TTXC!

AI Ongoing

Location: VENUE 2F

In response to the most popular keyword of the year, generative AI, we work with the Taiwan AI Labs to help the public understand how AI identifies, understands, and generates. Works include the AI Virtual Newscaster, a virtual character made with AI technology with a lifelike appearance and its personality and movements. The AI Dream Studio creates virtual scenes. As long as visitors can picture it, it can lead them into the fantasy world. Last, it’s the AI Your Name font simulation system. The operator only has to write a word by hand and the AI will be able to imitate their writing based on it and display the name analysis generated from this font.

As AI becomes the trend, the Taiwan AI Labs demonstrate the rapid development of AI to the public through three works and pictures of how AI will be able to speed up our work and life.

Virtual ⇌ Real Us

Location: VENUE 2F

The AI application has followed the metaverse and become the popular topic of the industry. Creators has crossed multiple fields with identities such as virtual characters and avatars to give real experiences a brand new definition.

With the theme Virtual ⇌ Real Us, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency has selected the creative applications of culture and technology in Taiwan in recent years, from virtual idols, films, TV, video games, to pop music. With cases like the MR immersive exhibition, motion capture, 4DViews volumetric video capture, AI art generation, it explores the contemporary scene of cultural experiences as we welcome a new world for creators as technology advances.

Have a Drink

Location: VENUE 2F

We work with FEWdrink, a small bar on the balcony of the second floor, to provide visitors a space to rest. Have a cocktail in the sea breeze by the port and enjoy the lights and music so visitors can take a break while learning about culture and technology.

Opening Hours: Mon. – Thur. 14:00–19:00, Fri. – Sun. and public holidays 14:00–21:00

Cheng-Po Speaks

Location: VENUE 2F

The things and paintings Cheng-Po Chen didn’t get to finish are not lost because of his passing. Though buried for a long time, his paintings have been hidden or given to others by his wife, Chieh Chang. Thanks to her, we get to see Cheng-Po Chen’s paintings while we explore a common question, the island’s identity, through these works. The pictures will be presented with AUO Corporation’s realistic art screens. Visitors will be able to see the world of Cheng-Po Chen’s oil paintings without the influence of space, temperature and humidity, and sunlight.