2025 Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival

The curatorial theme of the 2025 Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival is Hybrid Evolution · New Life New Type, focusing on the imagination and exploration of future life forms. The exhibition is divided into three sub-themes: Cyborg Assemblages, Hybrid Genesis, and Virtual Life, presenting the diverse possibilities of future life evolution—where what we create and what we have become evolve together. Humans, animals, and machines co-evolve through the currents of time. Topics addressed include new modes of existence such as Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Hybrids, Genetic Modification, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life.The exhibition’s title, New Type, is inspired by the classic Japanese sci-fi animation Gundam. The term “Newtype,” literally meaning “New Human,” symbolizes a breakthrough and transformation in human thought and capability in adapting to life in outer space. Extending from this reference, New Type is used to explore the multiple possibilities of future life forms and to reconsider the essence and boundaries of life in an era shaped by the interweaving of technology and biology. It not only connects technological breakthroughs in reality with the imaginative power of science fiction but also invites audiences to reflect, from artistic and philosophical perspectives, on the symbiotic relationship between humans and technology, the ethical challenges that arise, and the potential directions of life’s evolution.

The 2025 Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival features works by 13 international artists. Centered on immersive and interactive techno-art installations, the exhibition invites audiences to actively participate and engage in exploring the ethical, philosophical, and social implications of new life, and to envision the possibilities of coexistence between human and non-human beings in the future world.