2024 LAB X The Young Artist's Atelier – Augmented Reality
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 fifth edition of the program features creative works of Body Sensing and Augmented Reality (AR). 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 2024 Augmented Reality program are Joris Mathieu, director of Théâtre Nouvelle Génération, Centre dramatique national de Lyon, and Nicolas Boudier, scenographer, device designer, lighting designer and photographer. 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.
Presentation
- Date: November 23, 2024
- Venue: Rehearsal room , National Taichung Theater
- Time: 14:00-17:00
Mentors｜Joris Mathieu, Nicolas Boudier
Creators｜Coco CHEN, HUNG An-hsu (Co-creators: LI Yu-hung, HSU Chao-feng)
Host & Commentator｜KAO Hsien-lang (Director, EggImage. Inc.)
Commentator｜HUANG Wei-hsuan ( VR Director)
Interpreter｜Carole CHEN
Introduction
Mentors
Stage director, author, director of the Théâtre Nouvelle Génération – Centre dramatique National de Lyon, France
After getting a Master in Theatre Studies, Joris Mathieu founded the Haut et Court art collective in 1998 with a few fellow actors and technical creators in Lyon. As passionate about literature as about visual arts, Joris Mathieu focuses on adapting novels or short stories, which gives him the opportunity to fully express himself as a stage director and author on stage.
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Scenographer, device designer, lighting designer and photographer
He designs shows and scenic devices integrating light, sound, video, innovation, technology and virtual images, digital (augmented reality) or mechanical (optical theater) processes. These scenic proposals lead to immersive experiences allowing another perception of stage and a new relationship with the audience. He develops his work in the field of theater, dance, installation and museography. As a permanent artist at the Théâtre Nouvelle Génération - CDN of Lyon, he collaborates since 1998 with Joris Mathieu in the conception of all the creations of Haut & Court company.
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Creators & Works
Cleo
This project explores the integration of Augmented Reality (AR) into the realm of performing arts. It attempts to break the boundaries between the theater stage and the audience, immersing viewers in the narrative through the blending of the virtual and the real. By blending the virtual and the real on stage, it aims to create new narratives through the application of new media in theater. Cleo is inspired from the classic film Cléo de 5 à 7 by French New Wave director Agnès Varda, focusing on women's self-dialogue and growth during intimate moments. The work continues the character of Cléo from the film, exploring the gender-specific challenges faced by the modern Cleo and portraying the inner conflict and contradictions between Cleo's female image and her true self through AR dance compositions in the head-mounted display that intertwine with the live dancer's choreography.
The work explores different viewing methods, allowing the audience to become part of the overall theatrical experience as they peer into the protagonist's inner world.
Project Partners｜Choreographer: YEH Yu-hsuan Music Producer: Zech CHIU Stage Producers: XIAO Tian-yu and WANG Yi-hsun Program development consultant: AI Kuei-hua
CHEN is a new media artist specializing in implementing AR and VR as creative mediums, exploring the projection of virtual spaces onto everyday objects and the possibilities of applying gaming in artistic creation. Recently, she has focused on women’s gender issues, creating the current research project Cleo and the VR interactive animation About Your Death. CHEN graduated from the Department of Interior Design at the School of Architecture, Feng Chia University in 2021. After graduation, she focused on 3D digital art and virtual space creation. In 2022, she pursued the master's program in Techno Art at National Cheng Kung University, delving into the exploration and application of gaming, animation, and virtual reality media. In 2023, she published the study “Research on Digital Archives and Value-Added Applications of Matsu Battlefield Cultural Heritage through Minecraft”, exploring the potential and approaches for preserving battlefield heritage through online gaming. In the same year, she also participated in the joint exhibition Matsu: Island Art - External Impressions/ Internal Perceptions, extending the theme of Matsu battlefield cultural heritage and co-creating the VR immersive experience M.A.T.S.U - Memories and the Stories Underneath with music artist Peter Harrison and visual artist Amurzaya Batdavaa.
Exhibition
2024 Offset Perspectives—Contemporary Art Exhibition, B.B. ART, Tainan
2022 LIQNFT Solanland Collection, Singapore
He Is Elsewhere
This work is inspired by the cyclical nature of encounters and farewells, familiarity and estrangement, and intimacy and unfamiliarity in life. The protagonist repeatedly wanders between such crossroads and decides to break free from this cycle to pursue an ideal life. Through the performative form of Extended Reality (XR) theater, the creators aim to use this script as a metaphorical reflection on the medium itself, integrating the creators' distilled personal experiences. While implementing XR technology, the creators strive to maintain a theatrical perspective in their thinking and creation, enabling new technology to generate novel experiences within the theatrical realm.
HUNG An-hsu(L)、LI Yu-hung(M)、HSU Chao-feng(R)Currently studying in the Department of Ethnology at National Chengchi University, HUNG is pursuing a double major in Digital Content and a minor in Philosophy as well. His works span experimental video, immersive theater, and visual design, oscillating between art and social sciences, and attempting to infuse observations of self and society into works utilizing different mediums.
Experience
2024 Director and Installation Designer for the immersive theater work Circling: A Floating World.
2023 Assistant Director and Props Designer for Étude.
2023 Director and Producer for Experimental film 1-2(2-1) screened at Ground Level/Rebel Cinema Vol. 4.0.
A 3D scene designer and concept artist who graduated from the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts at the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2023. LI has collaborated with companies such as NetEase Games, Volta Keywords Studio, Wave, WLab, and others on projects involving games, films, and virtual concerts. He excels at using his 3D skills to explore and design captivating scenes.
Experience
2023 Instructor for scene concept design program at Wingfox.
2023 Scene Concept Designer for the Creative Research Project at NetEase Games.
2022 3D Scene Designer using Unreal Engine for the music video Ten Thousand Times by Nine CHEN.
A video scoring and sound designer, currently studying at the College of Communication, National Chengchi University. HSU has participated in the production of various short films and is also involved in experimental electronic music and interactive technology. He exploring the relationship between sound, space, and social environments from a humanities and cultural perspective.
Experience
2024 Exhibit Assistant for the National Palace Museum's Immersive Digital Exhibition Capturing Aura: In Search of New Emotions.
2023 Installation production for Superposition at Huashan 1914 Creative Park's DCT Special Exhibition.
2023 Performer in the audio-visual performance Sound Cube.
