The experimental exhibition and performance program FUTURE VISION LAB 2026, presented at the FVL DOME, returns earlier this year, taking place over eight consecutive weekends from April 18 to June 7 at the East Lawn of C-LAB. The program brings together 19 works across 16 programs from Taiwan, France, Spain, Hungary, Austria, South Korea, Japan, the United States, and Canada. Spanning five live performances, two exhibitions, and thirteen screening programs, the lineup responds to the growing audience interest in immersive experiences through diverse formats, showcasing C-LAB’s continued commitment to interdisciplinary experimental art.
Executive Director HSIEH Tsui-Yu of Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) noted that the FVL DOME, through its double-layer acoustically transparent membrane, combined with powerful computational systems and directional sound technology, creates a fully immersive environment integrating visual, auditory, and real-time interactive experiences. Over the past seven years, it has accumulated 238 works, of which 118 have been digitally archived in C-LAB’s audiovisual database. Some works have also been successfully presented on tour in Canada. Moving forward, C-LAB will continue to build on this foundation, with the aim of establishing the platform as Taiwan’s leading hub for immersive works—bringing together professionals and the public while offering entirely new sensory experiences.
Immersive Live Performances: Exploring Real-Time Sensory Stimulation and Interaction
Live performance remains one of the most compelling formats within the program, offering a shared immersive experience between performers and audiences.
Highlights include Noosphere by Austrian audiovisual artist MONOCOLOR, which presents a visual confrontation between collective human consciousness and climate change through dynamic point-cloud imagery. Korean audiovisual 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.
The collaborative work Mount Ecstasy by YAO Jui-Chung, Yi KUO, and Meuko! Meuko! returns to the dome following its widely discussed presentation at U108 Space at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, continuing its exploration of mythology intertwined with contemporary society.
C-LAB’s in-house production Future Vision Party #3 also returns for its third edition, featuring improvised performances by artists LIU Tung-Yu, Yude LIN, and Warrick TSAI, blending image and sound in spontaneous interplay. Meanwhile, Telling Tent invites audiences of all ages to participate in the interactive performance The Pond Nation Election, offering an engaging and playful introduction to collective decision-making.
Taiwanese Works Return After International Premiere: Showcasing Contemporary Creative Energy With support from TAICCA, Temporal Strata and NEW MODERN TIMES both premiered at the FilmGate Interactive Media Festival in Miami in March 2026 and are now presented at FVL DOME. Co-created by WU Ping-Sheng and Jie LIOU, Temporal Strata reinterprets the materiality of time within the dome environment, moving beyond linear narrative and inviting audiences to recalibrate their perception of time through audiovisual experience. NEW MODERN TIMES, produced by Hello World in collaboration with Dimension Plus, Hello Edo!, Kivi, Mr. Skin, and LIM Giong, merges Taiwanese cultural imagery with the speculative imagination of the AI era, resulting in a humorous yet visionary audiovisual epic.
International Artists Experiment with Dome Shorts: Diverse Visual Languages on Display This edition marks the first time C-LAB has invited both local and international artists to create short-film dome works, resulting in four distinct visual explorations. 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.
Curated Screenings: A Multi-Layered Sensory Journey The screening program spans themes of nature, ecology, time, and digital civilization. The opening work, Genesis by FPA (Floating Point Art), journeys from microscopic particles to the vast cosmos, reflecting on cycles of creation and existence.
Tim WEI’s Stalking for Errors 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. Following the deer by Sandrine DEUMIER and Ralph KILLHERTZ revisits a 400-year-old Siraya hunting practice, exploring the relationship between humans and nature.
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. Additionally, Mountain Nocturne by American animator and media artist Lynn TOMLINSON employs clay stop-motion animation to depict the nocturnal rhythms of the Colorado mountains. Across these works, audiences are invited to navigate a spectrum of perception—from the microscopic to the cosmic, from biological systems to consciousness itself.
C-LAB also continues to support emerging creators and expand collaborations with academic institutions. This year marks its first collaboration with the Department of Interaction Design at National Taipei University of Technology, alongside students from the Department of New Media Art at Taipei National University of the Arts and the College of Arts at National Tsing Hua University, presenting new works in immersive audiovisual creation. For more information, please visit: https://fvl.clab.org.tw/festival/2026
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