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2026 Taipei Digital Art Festival “Grey Autonomous Entity”
Chinese original:
2026 臺北數位藝術節「灰色自動體」
The Digital Art Festival Taipei began in 2006. Its 21st edition, curated by the new media artists Wang Lien-cheng and Lin Yen-chu, is titled Gray Autonomous Entity and looks at the familiar yet strange presence that appears once artificial intelligence generates images, language and sound from vast amounts of data. The main venue is the Taipei Collectible Botanical Garden, where generative images, interactive installations and mechanical works by more than thirty Taiwanese and international artists and groups are placed among the greenhouse plants; partner shops around Yuanshan show further works under the name Art In Stores.
Featured in: Taipei Anthology: November
1 / 5 Image: 臺北數位藝術節
- Dates
- Oct 31 – Nov 15, 2026
- Venue
- Taipei Collectible Botanical Garden (臺北典藏植物園) · Zhongshan
- Address
- 臺北市中山區濱江街16號MRT Yuanshan Station; about a 10-minute walk, or bus Red 50 to Xinsheng ParkOpen in Google Maps
- Hours
- 09:00–17:00Closed: Mon
Visit planning
The calendar entry covers the whole run of the exhibition. Please check opening hours and closing days before your visit.
Entry notes
On the opening day, October 31, the garden stays open until 2:00 a.m. on November 1 for Nuit Blanche Taipei; the opening performance Audio-Visual Night runs 20:00–23:00 in the first-floor lobby of the Future Life Pavilion, at the garden entrance.
- On the opening day, October 31, the garden stays open until 2:00 a.m. on November 1 for Nuit Blanche Taipei; the opening performance Audio-Visual Night runs 20:00–23:00 in the first-floor lobby of the Future Life Pavilion, at the garden entrance. (Source: 臺北數位藝術節, 2026)
- The festival website says the show is closed on Mondays, while the Taipei Collectible Botanical Garden's notice of October 21 says the garden stays open on Mondays during the festival. Before a Monday visit, check the garden's latest notice. (Source: 臺北典藏植物園, 2026)
From the organizer's announcements and press reports. Arrangements can change; please check the official site before your visit.
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Credits
- Artists
- I-Yeh WuNo Side HereHsien-Yu ChengDries DepoorterVerena FriedrichC-LAB’s Future Vision Lab
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I-Yeh WuNo Side HereHsien-Yu ChengDries DepoorterVerena FriedrichC-LAB’s Future Vision LabSergey PROKOFYEVPing-Sheng WuHello WorldDimension PlusHello Edo!KiviMr. SkinLIM GiongChe YehStefan TiefengraberHsin-Yuan HoJed BerkShu-Yu LinAssocreationPei-Ting HsiehChih-Yu ChenCheuk Hang FanCheng-Wei ChenTzu-Yung KuoYu-Hsuan ShenHyper WaveBety KrňanskáPin-Jhen ChenChia-Yi ChienTzu-I YangFang-Yi ChengTzu-Ting HuangPo-Ting YuFélix-Antoine MorinLiang ChenYen-Chi ChenHuan ChouChe-Yu ChangCheng-Ru Wu (P B)
- Curators
- 王連晟, 林晏竹
- Organized by
- Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
Knowledge cards
Generative Art生成藝術Art in which the artist designs rules or a program and lets an autonomous system decide all or part of what the work looks like.Read moreClose
01About
Generative art is work produced in whole or in part by an autonomous system: the artist writes rules, a program, or a mechanism and hands over details they would otherwise decide themselves. The idea predates computers: Kirnberger's Musical Dice Game of 1757 assembled phrases of music by rolling dice. From 1962, A. Michael Noll of Bell Labs in the United States made computer art from mathematical equations and programmed randomness; in February 1965 Georg Nees showed computer-generated images in Germany, and Frieder Nake exhibited the same year, often seen as the beginning of computer-generated art; the French artist Vera Molnár was another pioneer. In 2020 the Art Blocks platform joined generative art to the blockchain, and its artists must accept every output of their algorithm as a signed work.
02In the gallery
Stay a while in front of the screen and see whether the image ever repeats; change a parameter from your phone and notice what changes and what never does.
Wall label terms in Chinese
- 生成藝術
- Generative art
- 演算法
- Algorithm
- 隨機性
- Randomness
- 參數
- Parameter
- 區塊鏈
- Blockchain
03Notes
In generative art the artist writes the rules or the code and hands some of the decisions to the system.
This time, at Grey Autonomous Entity —
Watch a while. Which parts did the artist decide, and which were left to the algorithm?