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Following the inaugural Future Media Art Festival in 2021, which envisioned the future of art, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) presented the second edition in 2024 under the theme "Singularity." The festival explored the transformations and social implications of the age of artificial intelligence, focusing on AI's rapid development and the new perspectives it brings to contemporary society. Bringing together 23 artists and collectives from nine countries and featuring 26 works, the exhibition invited audiences to engage with the artistic possibilities of the present and the future, while imagining the ever-evolving relationship between humanity, technology, and the world.

Aligning with the 2024 Olympic Games, the 2024 Play Arts Festival centers on the theme of "challenging limits" through various forms of "play." Inspired by the Olympic spirit that participation matters most, participating artists push the boundaries of performance, narrative, and audience engagement using chosen superlatives—ranging from the loneliest to the most dedicated. Featuring immersive storytelling, interactive performances, music, and theater podcasts, the festival invites audiences to actively participate. By pushing creative limits together, C-LAB fosters a dynamic space to celebrate artistic vitality and expand the horizons of performing arts.

Centered on "games" and "gathering," the 6th Play Arts Festival—SHOW ME A PLATE—explores land, slow living, and Taiwaneseness. Curated by Betsy Lan, the festival transforms serious topics like folk culture and environmentalism into accessible performances. Featuring market fairs, games, theater, music, and film, highlights include Southeast Asian bands, Taiwanese-language theater, interactive dance, and day-night collaborations around dining culture. Indoor programs offer a children’s plant-conservation electronic music party, mime theater, environmental board games, and film screenings. Together, these diverse practices redefine locality and showcase an alternative futurity.

「FUTURE VISION LAB 2023」實驗展演計畫受到文化部支持，今年得以突破過往尺度，開啟「DOME 2.0」升級計畫

Fever Genesis invokes the metaphor of Genesis to explore humanity's relentless pursuit of technology and art, questioning the unknown consequences of progress. Against Taiwan's unique geopolitical context, six Taiwanese artists—LI Yi-Fan, HU Nung-Hsin, LIN Tzu-Huan, WU Chia-Yun, WU Chi-Yu, and CHANG Li-Ren—use video, film, and installation to address species evolution, digital tools, environmental fragility, urban reality, and world-weariness. Reflecting on imperialism and consumerism, the exhibition highlights Taiwanese creators' passion for "creation" while advocating for ESG sustainability and voicing concerns over technological expansion, AI, and climate crisis. Ultimately, it offers a speculative journey into the relations between technology, art, and society.

This exhibition examines how history continues to shape the present through the textualization of histories and the materialization of memories. Bringing together works that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, archive and imagination, artists reinterpret historical events, cultural symbols, and collective memories through diverse media and perspectives. Rather than looking back with nostalgia, the exhibition explores how history is continually rewritten, reimagined, and transformed, inviting audiences to reflect on the evolving relationship between memory, culture, and contemporary life.

As contemporary culture increasingly reuses historical materials, anachronism has become the norm. The Internet amplifies this nostalgia, evoking longing for eras people never lived through. Inspired by Mark Fisher's concept of "the slow cancellation of the future"—where capitalist society replaces visionary futures with endless upgrades—this forum reflects on modern cultural production and hauntology. It examines how cultural memories are remixed in the post-internet era and explores possibilities for defiance as past countercultures become nostalgic commodities.

In The Unrestricted Society, artists explore technological dilemmas—including digital privacy, surveillance, facial recognition, deepfakes, and cloned food solutions. Through transdisciplinary collaborations, they utilize new technologies to turn abstract data into unprecedented sensory experiences. Ultimately, the exhibition challenges the notion of technology as a tool for human liberation, offering visitors an alternative perspective on whether technological freedom is genuine or merely an illusion.

「FUTURE VISION LAB 2022」，自10月8日起至12月4日止，連續9個週末，推出15檔節目和2場推廣講座及工作坊

Following the removal of C-LAB’s outer walls, the 2023 PLAYARTS Festival embraces the theme "All-Purpose Humanity" to rebuild post-pandemic interpersonal connections. The festival transforms the grounds into an open, interactive space with projects like non-artist performance curation by Jianguo Jade Market stallholders, competitive circus shows, and Hokkien storytelling. Additional highlights include family object theater, app-based interactive performances, improvisational body-space dialogues, and music shows co-curated with Wild Goose Run. Featuring paper airplane installations and an art slashie market, PLAYARTS invites audiences to explore how performing arts foster human connection.