TAIPEI.- C-LAB’s signature experimental program FUTURE VISION LAB 2026 returns this spring, taking place from April 18 to June 7 over eight consecutive weekends at the FVL DOME, located on the East Lawn of Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab. Bringing together 19 works across 16 programs from artists in Taiwan, France, Spain, Hungary, Austria, South Korea, Japan, the United States, and Canada, this year’s edition spans live performances, exhibitions, and immersive screenings—offering a dynamic cross-section of contemporary media art.
At the core of the program are five live performances that foreground immediacy, interaction, and shared sensory experience. Austrian audiovisual artist MONOCOLOR’s Noosphere stages a striking visual dialogue between collective human consciousness and climate change. Korean artist Kohui’s Panphony: Circular Movement transforms field recordings into a sonic structure operating through repetitive and circular movement, inviting audiences into a shared auditory space. Meanwhile, Mount Ecstasy by YAO Jui-Chung, Yi KUO, and Meuko! Meuko! returns to the dome following its widely discussed presentation at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, expanding its mythological and socio-political narrative in an immersive format.
C-LAB’s in-house production Future Vision Party #3 continues its popular series of improvised audiovisual performances, featuring Taiwanese artists LIU Tung-Yu, Yude LIN, and Warrick TSAI. For younger audiences, Telling Tent’s The Pond Nation Election offers an interactive, family-friendly experience that introduces democratic concepts through playful participation.
This year also highlights two Taiwanese works following their international premieres at the FilmGate Interactive Media Festival in Miami with support from TAICCA. Temporal Strata, by WU Ping-Sheng and Jie LIOU, reimagines time as a perceptual and material phenomenon within the dome environment. NEW MODERN TIMES, produced by Hello World with Dimension Plus, Hello Edo!, Kivi, Mr. Skin, and LIM Giong, blends Taiwanese cultural imagery with AI-generated visuals in a bold, genre-defying audiovisual spectacle.
In addition, the program introduces a new short-film section that invites artists to experiment with dome-based content. These include Drawing Silence by Japanese artist barbe_generative_diary, which translates environmental sound into intricate geometric trajectories; Shared Immersion: A Street’s Archive by Korean artist Root LEE, capturing collective presence in public space through light and perception; Biche 1 by Korean artist Jimmy YU, which explores body image and identity through conversations surrounding cosmetic consultation, imagining the dome as an extension of the body; and Where Light Arrives by Taiwanese artist Damonxart(Damon HSIEH), weaving time, space, and perception into a continuously shifting field of light and energy.
The screening program further expands the sensory landscape. Highlights include Genesis by Floating Point Art, a journey from atomic structures to cosmic systems; Stalking for Errors by Tim WEI, which allows sound and image from different directions to articulate their own versions of “truth,” inviting a rethinking of the multiple possibilities embedded in knowledge, history, and perception; and Deep-Rooted by AINO X Yunyoung JANG examines the coexistence of humans, AI, and plant life through the lens of seismic activity and ecological systems.
Alongside international works, C-LAB continues to foster emerging talent through collaborations with academic institutions, presenting new immersive audiovisual works by students from leading universities in Taiwan. With its expansive program and cutting-edge dome environment, FUTURE VISION LAB 2026 invites audiences to step beyond the screen and into a fully immersive sensory universe.
