RE:CAVE

The classic allegory of Plato’s Cave describes people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave immersed themselves in the simulation of flicker lights. A roughly made virtual cave made people think of immersive audio visual spaces and helplessly indulge into the metaverse, even it is far from real.

Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, a famous example of technology art in the 90s, which constructed an immersive audiovisual environment by high performance computing, was directly named after Plato’s Cave. When staying in the developing process of experimentation, artists are aware of the limitation of technology art on one hand, but marvel at the innovative vision on the other hand. When being like Sisyphus, moving and chasing by the same stone every day, we wonder if there is a way for artists to escape from their own caves?

As an immersive A/V exhibition of T.A.P Project for 2022 NTT-TIFA, RE: CAVE revisits the meaning of cave, computing, and immersive art by inviting worldwide generative artists to create performances inspired by the marvelous cave-like spaces of NTT.

Alex GUEVARA is a digital artist born in Lima, Peru in 1986 and currently living in Berlin. He works in a wide range of fields including digital art, data visualization, generative design, and real-time music visualization — combining art, science, and technology to create immersive experiences and digital landscapes. His works have been presented at international festivals and exhibited all over the world.

NANONANO is an art group founded by artist Hsun-Hsiang Hsu and materials engineer Yin- Hao Huang. They are focusing on the environmental future phenomenon and using the top industrial technology to create the possibility of the living future landscape. Their projects have been selected for Arte Laguna Prize 15, Future Vision Lab, etc. And consecutively been selected to Creative Innovation Counseling Project from Taiwan’s ministry of culture in 2020-2021.

Endospace was founded in 2012 by millennial new media creators, starting from independent bands and underground parties, based on visualizing sound and music with videos to make the VJing works. We play the sounds and music with new media images, such as experimental photography, graffiti art, visual effects/animation, projection mapping, and other subculture styles. Nowadays, our main work is more focused on our art, exhibitions, and cultural events. We aim to keep trying to bring experimental visuals into daily life and let imagination be shown in physical space via light and colours.