Together with Professors 沈揚庭, 簡聖芬, and 林軒丞 from the Department of Architecture and Techno-Art, I am initiating a new research approach to explore AI in music improvisation. This project aims to integrate AI into developing a holistic performance involving human dancers, a robotic arm, visual art, story scripts, and live music improvisation.
… A New Journey
We recently held an immersive workshop in Zuojheng, exploring the potential of the metaverse to digitally revitalize rural communities. In this hands-on experience, participants engaged in a collaborative game where virtual avatars repaired lantern installations, traveled through time, and explored historical versions of Zuojheng’s old street, blending past and present in a playful yet meaningful way.
… 像素惡地-左鎮小聚第三版像素惡地網址 https://app.gather.town/app/8XifmgUaoJhtMaHx/Badlands
Our Pixel Badlands Project started in 2019 during the COVID outbreak and is now 6-year old. In this journey, we encountered several difficulties, including technical, social-cultural, and educational issues. However, our local partners in ZuoZhen have always gave us the best support. We also found friendships world-wide, giving us inspirations and technical tips. Here is a short overview of what we have done in this 6 years:
… Pixel Badlands 像素惡地In our Humanistic Experience and Technology Design course, students presented their assigned reading tasks. The 10 assigned articles cover the subjects of design, education, reflection, and technology in 40 years.
… Reading and PresentationWe have two master designers graduated from the lab. They shows different approaches of how a design student can promote her/his design skills and research ability in a design research thesis. Their works (in English) are soon available in our library.
… Noopy and StepsTogether – two Master Theses
Students of our master program in techno-art presented their graduate projects in August. Have a look of their wonderful works at 初次見面.
… Final Presentation of Techno-Art Program
The final presentation of our class Reflexive Methods in Design/Art Practices was given on the platform gather.town. The subject of this semester is “landscape design”, in which we generally follow Burkhardt’s concept of Strollology. According to my teaching plan, students will create different artefacts to shape the experience of landscape. Further, by installing the artefacts physically in the field, we can stroll in the “designed” landscape and create a reflexive experience. However, due to the pandemic breakout in Taiwan, all activities on the campus were cancelled!!
… Design Presentation in the Pixel Field
The bachelor students presented their degree project finally in May 2021. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in May in Taiwan. The very final exhibition and presentation were held online. Please have a look of students’ design project here – 漸進線.
… Final Presentation of ID-Bachelor Project
“selections from the photographs taken by me during my eastern travels would prove useful, seeing that each photograph was taken to represent something peculiar to the lands and to the people I visited” (letters to Wellcome, Thomson, 1920). Today, the chief of a small bookstore represented this history in front of us…
… a bookstore chief, a photo, and a history
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