Featuring 5G interactive video installations, the 2022 Taiwan International Light Festival "Play and Playing- Light and Shadow (光•舞弄•影-2022臺灣國際光影藝術節)" indoor exhibition will run until Mar. 20 at the Taichung-based National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA).
Following the successful outdoor exhibition which concluded on Feb. 28, the indoor exhibition kicked off on Feb. 25 with a special Taiwan-Japan co-production by Taiwanese artists Chen I-chun (陳依純) and Luo He-Lin (羅禾淋), and a professor of Department of Fine Arts at Osaka University of Arts, Ando Hideyuki (安藤英由樹). This interactive video installation titled "Your Movements and Smiles Will Be Everything for Me (你的肢體笑顏 將是我的全部)" uses the IoTtalk network technique from the laboratory of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, enabling a co-performance from different places.
In post-pandemic everyday life, physical and facial expressions are reduced to bodiless video conferences or mask-wearing faces with facial expressions. For this reason, this work attempts to utilize real-time image recognition and transmission enabled by 5G technology to converge and merge physical and facial expressions, to discuss the possibility of how people could socialize after the outbreak of the pandemic.
NTMoFA's director Liang Yung-fei (梁永斐) pointed out that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed people's living habits and the way people communicate, resulting in the absence of expressions, words, and physical interactions. This work attempts to lead the audience to think about the post-pandemic era and explore the possibility of socialization between people.
He added that the high bandwidth, low latency, and multi-connectivity of the 5G network not only support various creative directions, but also enhance the presentation of the performances with an effect of virtual-reality fusion.