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Taipei Forum Asks How AI and XR Are Rewriting Art, Education and Institutions
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) hosts its 2026 Trans-dimensional Technology and Art Forum on 16 October in Taipei, bringing speakers from seven countries to debate AI, XR, arts education and international collaboration.
Taipei's Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, known as C-LAB, will stage its 2026 Trans-dimensional Technology and Art Forum on 16 October at the CREATORS shared space on its Air Force Command headquarters campus. The one-day gathering brings together specialists and makers from France, Canada, Vietnam, Austria, the United States, Spain and Taiwan to examine how fast-moving tools such as artificial intelligence and extended reality are reshaping art-making, learning and institutional practice. Entry is free, with simultaneous Chinese-English interpretation and places capped at 150. The morning session turns to education and talent. Moderated by Hsu Chun-cheng of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, it features Vincent Rioux of the Beaux-Arts de Paris digital hub on live coding and teaching between analogue and digital methods, Pasiphae Leclere of UQAM's 1P1 laboratory on extended-reality storytelling, and Lim Kok Yoong of RMIT Vietnam on how digital tools can reframe presence and cultural sustainability. The afternoon session, moderated by Tseng Yu-chuan of National Tsing Hua University, looks at curating and institutional strategy. Speakers include Gunalan Nadarajan of the University of Michigan on a Southeast Asian project that rethinks people and technology, Christl Baur, director of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, on art as a space for negotiating diversity and conflict in the AI era, Edu Meneses of Montreal's Society for Arts and Technology on three decades of immersive research, and C-LAB's Huang Yi-chih on Taiwan's recent trajectory in tech art. The forum is part of C-LAB's Clear Sky Season and runs alongside the Industrial Technology Research Institute's Art and Technology Future Salon on 15 October at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, which approaches the same territory from the research and industry side, covering advanced display, generative AI and interactive sensing. Together, the two events frame a week of exchange on where technology art in Taiwan goes next.


