Daito Manabe Solo Exhibition "Relational Tenses": Life Forms Beyond Simulation
Technology runs, time flows. Daito Manabe's solo exhibition "Relational Tense" reshapes the rhythm between the body and machines regarding perception, memory, and response, inviting people to step into the fluid temporality of the post-AI era and experience what emerges and what fades away.
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Daito Manabe Solo Exhibition “RELATIONAL TIME” - Life Beyond Simulation DAITO MANABE Solo Exhibition “RELATIONAL TIME” Life Beyond Simulation
Daito Manabe Solo Exhibition "RELATIONAL TIME" - Life Beyond Simulation
Supervising Units: Taichung City Government, Taichung City Cultural Bureau Organizing Unit: Taichung Museum of Art Exhibition Dates: October 3, 2026 to January 3, 2027 Exhibition Venues: Exhibition Rooms A, B, and C
Exhibition Introduction
This exhibition combines large-scale immersive installations with architectural space, bodily perception, real-time computing, image, and sound systems to construct a continuously evolving perceptual environment. The artwork transforms the audience's movement, duration of stay, and interactive states into crucial variables for generating sound and imagery, enabling viewers to transcend the role of mere observers and become key participants influencing the development of the work.
Through computational generation and data response mechanisms, the work breaks through the framework of traditional visual displays, transforming generated images and sounds into spatial and temporal perceptual experiences, thereby making the architectural space an integral part of the expansion and transformation of the artwork. The body, machine, environment, and music respond to one another within the same system, forming a field that continuously generates over time, space, and interactive relationships.
This exhibition continues Daito Manabe's long-term research into life, intelligence, and computational systems, exploring how humans, artificial life, and AI agents form new relationships through interaction, adaptation, and memory. In an era where machines can rapidly simulate multiple possibilities, the exhibition departs from differences in temporal scales to contemplate how relationships generate their own temporal forms, proposing a mode of generation that transcends mere simulation: how life and systems gradually take shape amidst continuous response and change.
Artist Introduction
Daito Manabe | Artist, Programmer, Composer Daito Manabe is an artist, programmer, and composer whose work explores how life, intelligence, and society emerge and evolve through music, computation, and audiovisual media. After founding Rhizomatiks in 2006, he developed interdisciplinary works combining programming, music, visual art, and performance. His early research focused on the feedback relationship between the human body and machines, transforming motion, muscle activity, and physiological signals into sound and images. Subsequently, he further expanded his creative practice to neural networks, brain organoids, and spiking neural networks, treating biological activity itself as a generative medium. In recent years, his research has focused on social systems composed of humans, artificial life, and AI agents, investigating how processes such as adaptation, cooperation, and emergence within these systems become new methods for generating music and moving images. In addition to his research and creative work, he continues to develop large-scale performances, exhibitions, and public art projects. He contributed to the technology development, visual systems, and lighting system design for the Tokyo Handover Ceremony at the Closing Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and has collaborated across disciplines with artists such as Perfume, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk, Nosaj Thing, and Squarepusher, continuously exploring new forms of creation intertwined with technology, art, and performance.
Daito Manabe | Artist, Programmer, Composer Daito Manabe is an artist, programmer, and composer whose work explores how life, intelligence, and society emerge through music, computation, and audiovisual media. After founding Rhizomatiks in 2006, he developed works combining programming, music, visual art, and performance. His early research investigated feedback between the human body and machines by transforming motion, muscle activity, and physiological signals into sound and images. His practice later expanded to cultured neural networks, brain organoids, and spiking neural networks, treating biological activity itself as a generative medium. His current research focuses on societies composed of humans, artificial life, and AI agents, exploring how interaction, adaptation, and emergence can become new methods for generating music and moving images. Alongside his research, he develops large-scale performances, museum installations, and public artworks. He contributed technology development, visual systems, and lighting systems for the Tokyo Handover Ceremony at the Closing Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and has collaborated with artists including Perfume, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk, Nosaj Thing, and Squarepusher.
Curator Introduction
Joel Kwong is an international media art curator, producer, and writer based in Hong Kong. She is the Programme Director of the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival and the founder of SIBYLS, a creative consultancy focused on art and technology. With nearly two decades of experience across media art and technological creation, her curatorial practice spans media art, tech performance, digital culture, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. She actively participates in international art and technology platforms as a curator, speaker, and juror, while also engaging in related research and professional exchanges.
Joel Kwong is an international media art curator, producer, and writer based in Hong Kong. She is the Programme Director of the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival and the founder of SIBYLS, a creative consultancy focused on art and technology. With nearly two decades of experience across Asia, her practice bridges media art, performance, digital culture, and technological innovation. She actively engages in global art-tech discourse as curator, speaker, researcher, and jury member.
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This is an electronic ticket (QR Code); physical paper tickets will not be mailed. Present the electronic voucher (QR Code) at the verification desk for staff redemption or scan it at the kiosk.
Taichung Museum of Art
Verification Method: Please proceed to the ticket verification entrance of each exhibition room to redeem the item (electronic verification, physical tickets are not provided). Service staff will scan the QR code and apply a hand stamp for entry.
Redemption Location
Exhibition Room A on the 2nd floor, Exhibition Room B on the 3rd floor, Exhibition Room C on the 5th floor. Tickets can be verified at Exhibition Rooms A, B, and C. Re-entry is permitted on the same day with a hand stamp without the need for re-verification. Valid Period: October 3, 2026 to January 3, 2027
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Sunday, Tuesday to Friday: 09:00–17:00 Saturday: 09:00–20:00, open as usual on national holidays Closed on Mondays Official Website: https://www.tcam.museum/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TaichungArtMuseum/
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- Some works in this exhibition contain flickering lights, strong light, and loud or sudden sounds. If you are sensitive to light or sound, please consider your condition before purchasing tickets to view the exhibition.
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Applicable Ticket Categories
- Full-fare Ticket: General visitors
- Discounted Ticket: Children aged 6 to under 12, holders of student IDs recognized by the Ministry of Education, holders of educational/cultural volunteer cards, Taichung City residents
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