2023 LAB X The Young Artist's Atelier – Interdisciplinary Motion Capture Program
Learning x Practice x Professional Communication
National Taichung Theater (NTT) is committed to the application of technology to performing arts as well as the exploration and co-creation of interdisciplinary arts.
NTT launched the LAB X Platform in 2020, with the aim to incubate creative talents, the Young Artist's Atelier (referred to as the program) highlights the "research process" of creative ideas and practice and the public presentation of interim results. The fourth edition of the program features creative works of interdisciplinary new media and interdisciplinary motion capture. Structured as a mentorship program, the platform functions as an incubation space for professional training, research, and experiment where young artists aged 30 or younger study under prominent guest artists from home and abroad.
The mentors of the 2023 interdisciplinary motion capture program are WANG Po-Wei, artistic director of the Digital Art Foundation (DAF), and TSAI Tsun-hung , assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art and Graduate Institute of Art and Technology at National Tsing Hua University. By experience sharing, guidance every step of the way, practical research methodology and intensive exchange for trend insight, young artists will be able to expand their artistic horizon, thinking and agency.
Documentary
Final Presentation
- Date: December 2, 2023
- Venue: Corner Salon, National Taichung Theater
- Time: 10:00-12:00
Mentors|WANG Po-Wei, TSAI Tsun-hung
Creators|HSIUNG Shih-hsiang (Co-creator: HUNG Yi-po) , CHANG Hsiang-hua (Co-creators: LI Yi-zhen, CHOU Chia-jen, KAO Huang-chuang, CHEN Shi-yuan, CHAO Ting-ting)
Commentators|WU Meng-hsuan( Dance critic, dance dramaturg, performance reseacher) , Warrick TSAI (Head of R&D and Planning Department , Technology Media Platform at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab)
Introduction
Mentors
Artistic director, Digital Art Foundation
WANG Po-wei is the artistic director of the Digital Art Foundation and previously served as an assistant researcher at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum as well as a nominee observer for the 2020-2021 Taishin Arts Award. His main research fields include media theory, contemporary art history, culture and art sociology, and art/science/technology. He co-translated Niklas Luhmann's Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy with ZHANG Jin-hui (Taipei: Wunan). More
Assistant professor, Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art and Graduate Institute of Art and Technology at National Tsing Hua University
TSAI Tsun-hung is the assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art as well as the Graduate Institute of Art and Technology at National Tsing Hua University. He received his design doctorate from the College of Design at National Taipei University of Technology, and was the technical director of the Digital Art Foundation, the assistant professor in the Department of Communications Design at Shih Chien University, and the MIS engineer at MoCA Taipei. TSAI's professional fields include computer animation, interactive design, augmented reality, virtual reality and game design. More
Creators & Works
The Queen and the Magic Mirror
Imagination x Body x Motion Capture
This work attempts to contrast the relationship between the queen and the magic mirror in Snow White with contemporary people's questions towards GPT, exploring the emotions and inner motivations of the queen in Snow White. Just as singers use audio equipment, microphones and mixing software to transform their voices, can dancers and actors also create new forms of performance through motion capture technology? How does this style of performance interpret the relationship between physical and virtual bodies? We intend to use motion capture and virtual engine technology to construct the queen's inner projection, exploring the phenomenon and landscape of people swinging between invisible virtual fantasies and visible appearances in the world.
Born in 1995, HSIUNG Shih-hsiang graduated from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and studied at the School of Dance at Taipei National University of the Arts. HSIUNG roams the earth identifying himself as a wanderer and urban ghost. His works include but are not limited to dance, theater, action, or film. He is skilled at exploring non-daily phenomena in mundane life and blending them into unique creative methods. As a guide for this journey, he leads the audience into the deep landscape of the phenomenon.
HUNG Yi-po graduated from the Division of Creative Media Design of the Department of Communications Design at Shih Chien University. He is currently a street dancer and freelancer, and a member of ''Kuang''. HUNG's works combine street dance with technology and art, and he also creates dance videos and music.
Please Allow Me to Wilt for a Few Days
Inspired by Beauty and the Beast in Grimm's Fairy Tales, which explores the opposition between appearance and inner self and the importance of accepting others, this work reinterprets the story, transforming the Beast and the Princess into the light and dark sides split from the protagonist's true self as there are two sides of selves hidden deep in the protagonist's heart. This interpretation emphasizes suppressed emotions and desires, which is the dark side of human minds. We aim to explore the integration of virtual images, avatars, and real dancers to paint the tension and acceptance between character's personalities and emotions. Motion capture technology is applied to enhance the performance effect. Our goal is to reinterpret this classic children's tale and provide a new performance experience for the audience by creating a more comprehensive and vivid performance effect.
The performer uses motion capture technology to interpret the Beast's personality and inner nature through movements and body language. This technology allows dancers to manipulate the Beast's avatar and switch to other virtual characters or objects in real-time. They can control and interact with everything in the virtual world, presenting a unique interdependent relationship that transcends the inside and outside realms. Therefore, the application of motion capture technology is the key technology that is indispensable and crucial in this reinterpretation of the Beauty and the Beast performance.
(Front) LI Yi-zhen, KAO Huang-chuang, LI Yi-zhen
CHANG Hsiang-hua is currently a master's student at the Graduate Institute of Technology and Art at National Tsing Hua University. Her works are mainly in the form of interactive program design, AR, VR, etc. CHANG attempts to observe the environment, people, and objects around her from her own perspective and combine these inspirations with different media such as motion capture, AR, VR, and immersive projection to create her works. She was the co-creator at FUTURE VISION LAB 2021 project and participated in ET@T Lab Theater × Ο Echo.Co Studio's Go! Gorenji! as a 3D modeling and motion capture technical executive. CHANG will continue to try to establish connections and dialogues with the audience through her works, exploring the possibilities between technology and art.
LI Yi-zhen graduated from the Department of Communications Design at Shih Chien University. Her works mainly consist of games, VR, and illustrations, LI's works are usually built in virtual spaces, hoping to create without any time or space constraints. Nowadays, the boundary between reality and virtuality has become blurred. LI continues to devote herself to finding various ways of interaction to create new sparks between the two worlds.
Recently, she participated in programming for the FUTURE VISION LAB 2021 project, exhibition production of AGORA Virtual Online Concept Museum of Art, and execution of motion capture technology for ET@T Lab Theater X Ο Echo.Co Studio's Go! Gorenji!
CHOU Chia-jen graduated from the Department of Communications Design at Shih Chien University. Her works mostly consist of illustrations, 2D games, 3D games, and live 2D model production. The stories in the games are mostly based on interpretation of her dreams and the existence and definition between reality and fantasy. Some of the stories are created to explore the meaning of her own existence.
CHOU has participated in the FUTURE VISION LAB 2021 project and the “Keep Rolling Wake Up MV!” video workshop. She also won a Merit award for the virtual idol character design competition hosted by Axis 3D Technology, Inc. and was selected for the Taiwan representative team for the Cannes Young Lions Competitions.
KAO Huang-chuang graduated from the Department of Communications Design at Shih Chien University. Her works mainly consist of interactive installations and are usually initiated from the concept of human beings, using interactive installations to provoke people's introspections. KAO's creativity comes from her daily life. She creates interactive works by transforming emotions and thoughts into art pieces. Ultimately, she hopes to use interactive installations to allow viewers to see themselves in her works.
KAO worked as a visual designer for the 2021 Kaohsiung Local Hi’ Jhen De? Gender? — technology A cappella musical theater exhibition project — at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). She was also in charge of the IPSA Time Reset Installation Art project in collaboration with Shih Chien University's Department of Communications Design in 2022.
CHEN Shi-yuan graduated from the Department of Communications Design at Shih Chien University. His works mainly consist of games, and are usually based on his own emotions and feelings. CHEN believes that it takes one's lifetime of studying to fully understand and deal with oneself. He hopes to use any form of dramatic exaggeration to attract viewers to listen to the stories he wants to tell and to arouse their interest in conveying the meaning behind these stories thoroughly.
CHEN recently participated in several projects, including character design for FUTURE VISION LAB 2021, scene design for FUTURE VISION LAB 2022, and exhibition modeling for AGORA Virtual Online Concept Museum of Art.
CHAO Ting-ting is a freelance dancer and choreographer. Her works mainly combine contemporary dance with new media art forms. CHAO attempts to explore the possibility of body performance in digital art from the perspective of a dancer's body. She experiments with motion capture, 3D scanning, and other technologies as media. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Anarchy Dance Theatre and has worked as a professional dancer at Bare Feet Dance Theatre. She also participated in the 2021 National Taichung Theater LAB X The Young Artists Atelier. CHAO has collaborated with artists from different fields such as technology dance, VR, contemporary circus, sound art and many more.
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