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Samsāra Award-winning VR Experience at the Moody

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until Friday, April 1, 2022

Free

About the Film

Samsāra, a virtual narrative by Hsin-Chien Huang, begins in the near future when the Earth’s resources have depleted due to human greed. Fighting for natural resources leads to catastrophic wars and global destruction forcing the remaining population to leave Earth and find a new home. Will this long quest for a new home be a loop in space and time? Without spiritual evolution, is progress and evolution nothing more than a Möbius strip that leads nowhere? Using the concept of embodied cognition,Samsāra uses virtual reality and interactivity to create the experience of transforming one’s body into different beings while promoting empathy and a holistic view of our shared existence.

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.

Details

Date:
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Time:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://moody.rice.edu/exhibitions/samsara

Venue

Rice University Moody Center for the Arts
6100 Main Street
Houston, 77005
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Phone
7133484005
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Organizer

Moody Center for the Arts
Phone
7133482787
Email
moodyinfo@rice.edu
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