About TAxT-Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival

About TAxT

ABOUT TAxT

Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival is an annual festival held in Tauyan City, Taiwan, hosted by Arts facilities Manage Center of Taoyuan city government. The festival aims to connect arts and technology, and invites innovative artists, scientists, and researchers from around the world to present their latest projects at the event.

Since its inception in 2017, the festival has not only continued to showcase outstanding tech-art creations from both domestic and international artists, but has also engaged in various educational outreach activities in schools. Additionally, since 2019, it has launched the "Taoyuan Tech-Art Performance Award" to cultivate and nurture talents in the field of tech-art. Over the years, it has accumulated significant cross-disciplinary energy in tech-art, becoming a leading and iconic tech-art festival in Taiwan.

WORDS FROM THE DIRECTOR

In 2024, the world is swept up in a super AI craze, with topics like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and supercomputing shaping global developments and human competition. The Taoyuan Tech Art Festival remains closely aligned with these global trends, using the creative vision of artists to push the boundaries of technological imagination. Through various exhibitions and events, the festival invites public participation, aiming to achieve cultural equity between technology and art.

Taoyuan is a major hub for Taiwan's tech industry, and the Tech Art Festival has now entered its eighth year. Over the years, the festival has consistently collaborated with local tech industries, with partnerships evolving from hardware sponsorships to deeper creative collaborations. This year's festival features 14 groups of artists from Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Italy, including three local Taoyuan artists. This highlights Taoyuan's strong connections with the global art scene and demonstrates the growing prominence of local tech art on both the national and international stages.

WORDS FROM THE CURATOR

uperintelligence domain, deriving from the term “superintelligence”, refers to artificial intelligence systems that surpass the level of human intelligence. The concept is often associated with futurology, artificial intelligence research, ethics, and philosophical discussions. Theoretically, super-intelligent AI can not only simulate all human cognitive tasks, but also far exceed human capabilities in these tasks. This concept involves not just ordinary numeracy, but also the ability to understand, perceive, solve complex problems, and possible emotional and social intelligence.

The concept was first proposed by philosopher Nick Bostrom in his book "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies," which how the fundamental threats from artificial intelligence could be caused against the future of human beings once it reaches or exceeds human intelligence is discussed.

The evolution from superintelligence into the "superintelligence domain" may lead to the technological singularity, which refers to the point at which fundamental changes will occur in human history after the capabilities of artificial intelligence surpass human intelligence. Upon the emerging of the technological singularity, new issues including changes in economic structures, the nature of working, and new ethical and legal challenges might follow. Although superintelligence domain brings great potential, it also generates widespread attention and discussion.

Curator Helin Lo

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