2025 LAB X The Young Artists' Atelier –Algorithmic Art Program
Learning x Practice x Professional Communication
National Taichung Theater (NTT) focuses on exploring the collaborative possibilities between technology and performing arts, actively advancing innovative applications in interdisciplinary arts.
Since 2020, NTT has launched the LAB X Platform, fostering deeper collaboration between performing arts and technology. The Young Artists’ Atelier (referred to as the program) aims to nurture creative talent under the age of 30 on their artistic journey, providing opportunities and support for focused learning, exploration, and experimentation. The program emphasizes the importance of exploration, research, and critical thinking, encouraging creators to practice and validate their ideas within the program. The sixth edition, in collaboration with the TSMC Education and Culture Foundation, features creative works in Algorithmic Art and Audio-Visual Art.
The mentors of the 2025 Algorithmic Art program include Cosima Terrasse, Hans Block, and Moritz Riesewieck from Laokoon, while the mentor of the 2025 Audio-Visual Art program is Escher TSAI, creative director of Dimension Plus. Through experience exchange, creative guidance, and hands-on research, young creators will be encouraged to cultivate visionary artistic perspectives, innovative thinking, and practical skills.
Introduction
Mentors
Laokoon
Laokoon is a collective of artists based in Berlin and Vienna that combines investigative and scientific research with various forms of creative . They develop essays, documentaries, theater productions, lecture performances and radio plays centering on the question of how our concept of human beings and societies is changing in the digital age.
Cosima Terrasse is a german-french artist and landscape architect, who develops new participatory art projects for public spaces, theaters and cultural institutions, currently for the European Capital of Culture 2025 in Chemnitz, Germany. The underlying aim of her award-winning work is to explore the relationship between public and private interests. In collaboration with an international transdisciplinary team she developed the live-data-analysis-performance “Mauvais Je(ux)” for CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. For KÖR - Public Arts Vienna, Austria, and in collaboration with data scientists, Cosima Terrasse is currently developing a participatory project based on Google-Maps-data. From 2018 - 2020 Cosima taught at the Social Design Studio of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna.
Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck are authors and documentary film directors. Their debut film ‘The Cleaners’ about the shadow industry of digital censorship in Manila celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2018 and has since been screened at more than 70 international film festivals, in cinemas and on TV worldwide. It was nominated for an Emmy and the German Television Award and has received numerous international awards, including the "Prix Europa" for the Best European TV documentary 2018 and the Grimme Audience Award 2019. Their second feature documentary "Eternal You" about the emerging digital afterlife industry celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2024, is currently shown in theatres and on TV in various countries worldwide and was again nominated for several international awards, among others as Best European TV documentary. Their TED talk on freedom of in times of social networks has reached an audience of millions. Their essay "Vom Ende der Endlichkeit" (Goldmann 2022) was translated into several languages. Since 2024, Block and Riesewieck are members of the German Film Academy.
Under the label Laokoon Cosima Terrasse, Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck collectively developed the artistic data-doppelganger-experiment “Made to Measure” (2021) consisting of an interactive AI-driven web-experience (awarded with the renowned “Information is beautiful”-award) an international TV documentary (which was nominated for Best European TV-Documentary of the year 2021 and a global impact campaign in collaboration with OSCE Representative for the Freedom of the Media. The web-experience has reached millions of people and is still available online in several different languages, the TV documentary has already been distributed to Canada, Chile, multiple European countries in theatres and on TV.
In addition, the artist collective Laokoon is developing new theatrical forms and formats, recently for example with their work "Where you will find me" for the Munich Kammerspiele in the form of an analog-digital search for clues in a hyper-realistically staged Munich apartment and through dialogues with an AI chatbot, with their live data experiment "Before my very I" for PACT Zollverein Essen or their piece "Keine Menschenseele" for the Vienna Burgtheater, for which they staged human-like avatars and created an artificial voice that sounded suspiciously similar to a well-known Viennese acting legend.
