Location: Education Space, 2nd floor of C-LAB Art Space V (No. 177, Section 1, Jianguo South Road, Daan District, Taipei City)
Lecturers (for further information please see below): Tomo Kihara (Participating Artist), Daniel Coppen (from art duo Playfool), Hsiang-Wen Chen & Kuang-Yi Ku (Curators of the Festival)
The event is one of the public events of the Taipei Digital Art Festival “Island of Chimera”. Participating artist Tomo Kihara has been collaborating with the art duo Playfool on the topic of “the relationship between humans and AI”. They have jointly created many interesting and thought-provoking interactive works. This lecture will be combined with the game “outdraw.ai” installed in the exhibition, and invites Tomo, Daniel (Playfool), and art festival curators Hsiang-Wen and Kuang-Yi to join. While trying to draw images that AI couldn’t understand and discussing the development of AI at the same time, we will experience an integral event both like a performance and a seminar.
Notes
1. This event is carried out in English while simultaneous Mandarin subtitles are provided. Translation is provided during the QA session, the audience can ask in Mandarin.
2. The Mentimeter platform will be used during the event to collect real-time feedbacks from the audience. Interested participants are kindly requested to bring their own mobile phones with sufficient battery and internet.
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Speakers
Tomo Kihara
Tomo Kihara is an artist and game developer creating experimental games and public installations. His work often takes the form of embodied playable thought experiments that invite everyone to explore new questions around socio-technical issues through play. Recent projects focusing on AI’s social impact have been developed in collaboration with institutions such as Waag Futurelab (Amsterdam) and the Mozilla Foundation (USA). His works have been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, 2022) and the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, 2024).
Daniel Coppen (Playfool)
Playfool is an art-design unit by Daniel Coppen and Saki Maruyama. Their work intervenes in the relationships between society and technology through the medium of play. Their multidisciplinary and experimental practice comprises object making, installations and multimedia productions, which emphasise play’s experimental, reflective and intimate qualities to create participatory spaces that engage critically yet whimsically with technology. Playfool’s works have been awarded in both the Dezeen Award (2021) and STARTS Prize (2024), and have been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2023) and Ars Electronica (Linz, 2024).
Kuang-Yi Ku
Kuang-Yi Ku is an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Art at NYCU, Taiwan. He is a former dentist, bio-artist, and speculative designer. His works often deal with the human body, sexuality, interspecies interaction, and medical technology, aiming to investigate the relationships among technology, individuals and the environment. He won the Bio Art & Design Award, the Taipei Digital Art Awards, the Core77 Speculative Design Awards, etc.
Hsiang-Wen Chen
Hsiang-Wen Chen is an independent curator. She previously worked as a journalist and editor for art magazines, she was the Artistic Director of Digital Art Center, Taipei during 2019-2024. Her curatorial projects focus in particular on the interrelated dynamics among the displayed artworks; also, with a keen eye for spatial ambience, Chen specializes in constructing exhibition narratives that provide readable and relatable contexts. In recent years, she has participated in numerous curatorial projects, including “VOC, Sea Monsters, Artillery Fire, and Them – 400 Years of Fort Zeelandia” (2024, Taiwan) , “The Ruined Intelligence”(2023, Taiwan), “Jungle Jungle-Zhang Xu-Zhan solo exhibition”(2023, Taiwan), “Li Yi-Fan – Howdoyouturnthison” an online exhibition of 2022 ARKO Art & Tech Festival (2022, online, Korea), “Life in-betweens-Mongolia and Central Asia, A Contemporary Art Perspective”(2022, Taiwan), “16th Digital Art Festival Taipei- Borderless Shelter”(2021, Taiwan), “15th Digital Art Festival Taipei-01_LOVE” (2020, Taiwan).
