The TSMC Education and Culture Foundation (Foundation) has long dedicated itself to arts and culture promotion. The Foundation holds the TSMC Hsin-chu Arts Festival each year to strengthen the cultural literacy of students and the general public, and to promote cultural heritage. As it enters its 22nd year, the Arts Festival set this year's theme as "A. I. - Arts & I" in response to the growing global trend of Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, nearly 70 performances and exhibitions from a wide range of arts were held between April 18 and June 29, attracting more than 30,000 participants.
The Foundation partnered with the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-Lab) and National Tsing Hua University Arts Centre (NTHU Arts Centre) and moved Taiwan's only mobile outdoor immersive theatre, the "C-Lab FVL Dome" to the campus of National Tsing Hua University for the first time for this Art Festival. The FVL Dome deploys innovative tools such as AI, image generation, generative arts and high performance computing platforms and combines them with creative images and live performance to lead the audience in exploration of the unlimited possibilities of next-generation technological art.
Diverse Arts Festival Energizes the Community's Cultural Vitality
The TSMC Arts Festival features a unique theme each year and specially designs arts and culture programs to cultivate arts in the communities surrounding TSMC campuses in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan. This year's arts festival highlighted technology and art, encompassing arts forms such as music, traditional theater, dance, and literature. Through a diverse program of performances and exhibitions, the Foundation hopes the public can experience the charm of the arts and make cultural nourishment part of their everyday life.
Special Features of the 22nd TSMC Hsin-chu Arts Festival Program
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- Brought the C-Lab FVL Dome (with a diameter of 15 meters and a height of nine meters) to Hsinchu for the first time, and screened digital image works by nine international and Taiwanese artists and held two live performances. The C-Lab FVL Dome offers the audience an all-round and immersive experience of technology and art
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- French cellist Gautier Capuçon and pianist Frank Braley joined forces with Capuçon's Cello Septet Capucelli to perform a feast of soul-stirring chamber music
- The Korean pianist Seog-Jin Cho, a leading pianist of his generation who won the gold medal at the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition at the young age of 17, performed classic piano works by German and Austrian composers such as Liszt and Beethoven, showcasing his accomplished musical techniques
- Japanese artistic unit Maywa Denki teamed up with innovative AI teams Hello Edo and Dimension Plus to perform the retro yet futuristic 'New Century of Ukiyo-E' concert, which combined self-made mechanical instruments with creative image works
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- The GuoGuang Opera Company performed a youth version of "Wang Xi-Feng". The Peking Opera master Wei Hai-Min mentored young actors to create a brand-new vocal style tailored made for this production, injecting fresh life into a piece of theatrical classic
- The Taipei Puppet Theater, a traditional performing arts group which has won the Best Director Award and Best Puppetry Performance Award of Golden Melody Award for Traditional Arts and Music, presented a modern adaptation of "Water Ghosts' Theatre", which mixes the traditional stage performance unique to Taiwanese puppet theater and techniques of shadow puppetry to create a brand-new theatrical experience
- The Festival invited the LEI Dance Theatre, the first local dance troupe from Hsin-Chu city to be selected for Taiwan Top Performing Arts Group, to present the Taiwan-France co-production dance piece "Proximities". This cross-border collaboration brought out deep emotional resonance through moving body languages
- The festival specially invited the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan for a charity performance of their latest work "Sounding Light". The performance was free to junior and senior high school students in the greater Tainan area. Through the sound and physical rhythm of the dancers' voices and dance, the audience learned to appreciate the beauty of mountains and forests
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- Through reading and analyzing her works, Taiwanese essayist Jian Zheng led the audience to understand the ways in which the late fourth century Chinese politician and poet Tao Yuanming built his seclusive haven, the Peach Blossom Spring in turbulent times, and how Li Shangyin, a late Tang poet, lamented his unfulfilled political career through poetry
The TSMC Education and Culture Foundation aims to promote the public's appreciation for and participation in arts and cultural events. Through the TSMC Hsin-chu Arts Festival, the Foundation brings rich arts and cultural ideas as well as resources into local communities while energizing local creativity. The Foundation will continue to support talented teams from abroad and within Taiwan and explore diverse performance platforms to realize cultural innovations and create space for arts and culture to flourish.
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