The highly anticipated C-LAB FVL DOME returns this November. From November 29 to December 21, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab is presenting the immersive performance project FUTURE VISION LAB 2025 on C-LAB East Lawn. This marks the theater’s return to C-LAB following the traveling exhibition in Hsinchu for the first half of the year. Over four consecutive weekends, the project will showcase 12 works from Taiwan, Argentina, Russia, Romania, China, Canada, and Japan, encompassing video screenings, exhibitions, and live performances. Audiences are invited to enter the dome and engage with future perceptions of immersive imagery.
New Breakthroughs in Dome Technology Showcased in Marquee Events
This year's featured program thewhole is produced by Anarchy Dance Theatre and developed in concert with C-LAB's Future Vision Lab and National Taiwan University physics professor HUANG Yu-Ting. Built on the concept that "the universe is essentially digital," the work uses motion sensing and generative algorithms to create new body language and offer fresh imagination towards black holes and the cosmos. For this project, Future Vision Lab has developed lasers and operating systems for the dome space. These innovations not only support this performance but will also be made available for future creators, demonstrating the lab's capacity for technological development and cross-domain experimentation.
C-LAB leverages the latest generative AI video technologies as a visual foundation with the emotional force of audio narratives to create the self-produced program Echo of Presence. In collaboration with the Industrial Technology Research Institute, the project integrates industry-leading 360-degree image detection technology with generative video for the first time. Through interactive technologies—such as detecting audience numbers, positions, and trajectories—and by capturing and transforming these inputs into dynamic imagery that weaves between the figurative and the abstract, the audience’s bodies become active participants in the generative visuals, intensifying the sense of presence.
Exploring Technology, Humanity, and Civilization through Open-Call Projects revealing Global Perspectives
FUTURE VISION LAB 2025 presents nine works through international open calls and invited presentations, showcasing diverse cultural perspectives. The opening visual What A Screen!, created by YEH Che, explores "proportions" of images—how as devices evolve, images not only continuously change their proportions but also frame how humans see.
Argentine artist Román GOMES brings Babel_Offline, exploring the complexity of language, communication, and humanity's collective dreams. Red Sunrise, a work by Russian duo Danil MATVIENKO and Elizabeth ROS, uses algorithmic sound as a foundation and combines generative graphics with neural imagery to explore tensions between clarity/obscurity and structure/chaos. Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go by Chinese artist Yiou WANG draws on animistic mythology to explore themes of water and all sentient beings, using motion-capture technology to record the performance dynamics of Romanian artist Alina TOFAN and transform these into various manifestations of water.
Taiwan-based collective Happy Cola’s Friends presents “How can WE Perceive BODY with a Braille Typewriter?” - Allegory of the cave, drawing audiences closer to the perspective of blind performer Chang-Xun and inviting them to hear the sounds of dance in darkness. Hollow Giant by Mandala Films depicts the arc of humanity’s journey from glimmers of life captured in cave paintings to the pinnacles of civilization celebrating mechanical energy and commercial magic—a reflection on how humanity perpetuates misunderstandings of the world in darkness.
To demonstrate the aesthetic diversity of dome imagery, three international works are introduced to help audiences to connect with broader sensory experiences. Hurtubise: Orchestrating Chaos, a collaboration between Canada's Normal Studio and the Hippie Hourrah band, pays homage to artist Jacques Hurtubise by combining his paintings with psychedelic music, creating an immersive experience of hearing colors and seeing music in a multi-sensory experience.
Germany-based Japanese artist Ryoichi KUROKAWA’s in s.asmbli digitizes buildings, ruins, and natural environments with 3D laser scanning, reconstructing and distorting these to construct new temporalities of order and disorder. Metaract, developed through the research-creation residencies supported by C-LAB’s partner, the Canada-based Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), is a collaboration between Japanese artists Manami SAKAMOTO and Yuri URANO. The work juxtaposes natural textures, colors, and sounds with digital elements, exploring the duality between the analog and the digital.
Sustained Educational Partnerships Cultivating the Next Generation of Dome Imaging Talent
The FUTURE VISION LAB project has continuously collaborated with universities to promote dome content education since its launch. This year marks its fourth year of collaboration with Shih Chien University's Department of Communications Design, encouraging new generations of artists to showcase creativity within the dome environment through design presentations and curricula. It aims to expand its collaboration with more universities to drive dome content excellence in Taiwan. This year, it is also piloting a two-year open call combining submissions for 2025 and 2026. Next year, the dome theater exhibition programs will be rescheduled from year-end to summertime, illuminating long summer nights with rich audio-visual content.
For FUTURE VISION LAB 2025 program information, please visit https://fvl.clab.org.tw/. Tickets for the following week’s weekend events open for booking every Monday at noon, opening the charm of immersive audio-visual performances at C-LAB FVL DOME to all visitors.