The Mirage Replicas 2.0《幻象複本2.0》 | 2023

New Media Art X Dance performance

The work is a new media dance performance that explores the generational differences within a family and culture, starting from the story of the artist’s father capturing a golden bat, while also addressing ecological issues related to bats. Drawing upon French philosopher Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia as a spatial imagination for storytelling, the work creates a technologically diverse space. Symbolically represented by bats, it carries the artist’s memories and cultural perspectives. The performance incorporates bat sound data, field recordings, projected images, the mobile transparent screen displays that interactively overlay images with dancers, and sensors tracking the dancers’ movements. Throughout the performance, the dancers continuously change roles, embodying the roles of a bat researcher, the artist during childhood, and a deity. Some of the visuals in the work are generated through AI, exploring the ambiguity that arises from the dominance of artificial intelligence in an era where information tends to align with mainstream cultural knowledge.

How should we approach the rich human imaginings, mythologies, ancient legends, cultural traditions, and religious beliefs that have shaped our past, especially in a time when artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly “precise” but potentially reinforces a cultural homogeneity of knowledge? How can we confront these challenges? Can we discover alternative ways of coexistence?

作品是一個新媒體舞蹈演出，內容從藝術家的父親抓黃金蝙蝠的故事開始探討家族與文化的世代不同，並且關心蝙蝠生態議題。從法國哲學家 米歇爾·傅柯 (Michel Foucault) 提出的異托邦作為故事穿越的空間想像，打造一個科技異質空間。以蝙蝠的象徵，乘載藝術家的記憶與文化視角，並且使用蝙蝠的聲音資料與田野錄音，影像投影、移動式的透明螢幕顯示器交互疊合前後影像與舞者，並且感測舞者的肢體。舞者隨著演出不斷的變動角色，從找尋蝙蝠的學者、孩童時期的藝術家，以及神氏。作品部分影像透過AI生成，探討在人工智能盛行的時代，人工智能將會越來越“精確”，但在文化面向偏向普遍大眾認知的資訊，而產生了文化間的曖昧性，我們該如何看待人類過往很多的想像、神話故事、古老傳說、文化傳統、宗教等方式與想法？我們該怎麼面對？我們是否可以找到另一種共存方式？

Artistic Director, Sound, and Visual Designer ｜Yen-Tzu Chang
Dancer, choreographer｜Shao-Tung Tseng
Executive Producer｜Yu-Lin Chien
Stage Manager｜Pei-Chun Pan
Lighting Designer｜Fang-Yu Chien
Sound engineer, ambisonic programmer｜Chi-Lin Chien
Technical Research and Development｜Industrial Technology Research Institute
Service Systems Technology Center, ITRI｜Hsiang-Lan Shih, Hui-Ching Ko, Yu-Lin Chien
Intelligent Robotics Technology Laboratory｜Ching-I Liu, Emiliano Alban Naranjo, Wen-Cheng Wang
Multi-perspective Perception Laboratory｜Yuan-Si Liao, Hung Lin
Special Thanks｜Formosan Golden Bat’s Home

藝術總監、聲音與視覺設計｜張晏慈
舞者、編舞｜曾少彤 
監製｜錢又琳 
舞台監督｜潘姵君
燈光設計｜簡芳瑜 
音響工程、Ambisonic程式設計｜陳致霖
技術研發｜產業技術研究院 
工研院服務系統技術中心｜施香蘭、柯惠晴、錢又琳 
多視角感知實驗室｜廖元熙、林泓
智慧機器人技術實驗室｜劉清益、Emiliano Alban Naranjo 、王文正
特別感謝｜黃金蝙蝠生態館
前期受文化部、工研院、桃園展演中心支持，發展《幻象複本》，後受國藝會支持創作《幻象複本2.0》，並受邀至2023年林茲電子藝術節展演場域「林茲新主教座堂 Mariendom」演出。

Photo provided by Ars Electronica Festival.