“Silicon Serenade (矽晶小夜曲),” a work by Taiwanese artist Hsu Chia-wei (許家維), the winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize in 2024, will be featured in the exhibition “Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art” at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition will run from Feb. 13 to June 8.
Inspired by the fact that the silicon for semiconductor wafers that are essential to modern digital technology products can be extracted from sandy beaches, “Silicon Serenade” is composed of a virtual seaside, an underwater cello performance scene, and footage from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan, which conducts research on chips used exclusively for AI, with music by a generative AI to examine the latest technologies at the level of their materials.
The exhibition brings together 12 artists from around the world, including the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, whose works incorporate technologies such as game engines, virtual reality, and generative AI. While highlighting the latest advancements, the exhibition also engages with themes of life and death, ethics, the environment, history, and diversity.
The Taiwan Cultural Center in Tokyo expressed that the exhibition aims to showcase Taiwanese art in innovative and unconventional ways. In collaboration with Japan’s renowned Mori Art Museum, the center seeks to present the uniqueness and vibrancy of Taiwanese culture to Japanese audiences.
For more information, visit Mori Art Museum website.