Taiwan – Cyland Video Archive https://videoarchive.cyland.org Video Archive Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.25 Calligrapedia: A Universal Algorithm #2 https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/a-universal-algorithm/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:15:54 +0000 https://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=20933 Based on the artist’s experience of practicing calligraphy for many years, Calligrapedia: A Universal Algorithm #2 utilizes a machine learning to analyze a large number of calligraphy drafts. Drawing inspiration from natural elements such as landscapes, animals, and plants, it has developed a series of human-machine-made Chinese characters that flow between script and organic things. … Continue reading "Calligrapedia: A Universal Algorithm #2"

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]]> Based on the artist’s experience of practicing calligraphy for many years, Calligrapedia: A Universal Algorithm #2 utilizes a machine learning to analyze a large number of calligraphy drafts. Drawing inspiration from natural elements such as landscapes, animals, and plants, it has developed a series of human-machine-made Chinese characters that flow between script and organic things. On the other hand, through collaboration with a folk tale narrator, it reinterprets ancient oral stories passed down worldwide with “qualitative transformation” as its core. Deconstructing machine learning’s aspects of image style recognition and simulation, the work explores how words, language, and mythological narratives in human history continuously interpret themselves through learning from the world around them. It constructs an intertwined view of human-machine-nature interaction.

  • Machine Learning Engineer | Aisthesis Savage
  • Sound Performer | Ku Hsiang-Yu, Yang Yu-Chiao
  • Folk Tale Narrator | Yang Yu-Chiao
  • Sound Designer | Chen Lin-Shuang
  • Data Organizer | Ray He
  • Supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation
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]]> It was just a virtual kiss https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/it-was-just-a-virtual-kiss/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:02:52 +0000 https://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=20905 The love story set in the online game World of Warcraft becomes the basis for exploring how players construct their virtual bodies in the digital world and how these bodies extend into digital form. In this process, the game becomes a medium through which players can touch, embrace, and kiss one another, embodying their avatars … Continue reading "It was just a virtual kiss"

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]]> The love story set in the online game World of Warcraft becomes the basis for exploring how players construct their virtual bodies in the digital world and how these bodies extend into digital form. In this process, the game becomes a medium through which players can touch, embrace, and kiss one another, embodying their avatars in different fantasy races. By crossing to the other side of the screen, players create the illusion of physical and emotional connection, overcoming the limitations of their real bodies. This digital construction of the body is heavily shaped by machinima and computer-generated animation. The game world links digital haptic perception with real-world movement, allowing free traversal between the physical and virtual realms.

Being in the game world raises important questions: Are there other ways our bodies can exist? How far can the media really expand to overcome the physical limitations of our bodies? Will new forms of connection and romance emerge from these digital bodies? Are we anticipating entirely new emotional connections?

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