About the Event
Experience the award-winning virtual reality film, Samsāra, and speak with the director and artist Hsin-Chien Huang (remote) about how VR can promote a spiritual evolution via immersive experiences grounded in building empathy. Huang’s talk and Q&A will begin at 7:30 p.m. Attendees will have an opportunity to see the film before and after, please note headsets are limited and the film runs for 24 minutes.
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The exhibit will be on display through March 31. For more information about the exhibit, click here.
About the Artist
Hsin-Chien Huang is a Taiwanese creator of new media with backgrounds in art, design, engineering, and electronic gaming. His projects involve large-scale interdisciplinary interaction, performing, mechanical apparatus, algorithmic computations, and video installations. His virtual reality work Samsāra (2021) won the Jury Award of the SXSW Virtual Cinema Competition, Best VR Story at Cannes XR, and People’s Choice award at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories.
Samsāra is a joint presentation of Rice Electroacoustic Music Labs at the Shepherd School of Music and Moody Center for the Arts with additional support from the Taiwan Academy in Houston, an arm of the Taiwan Ministry of Culture.
Presented with support from the Taiwan Academy in Houston and the Taiwan Ministry of Culture.
