Draft:Peppercorns Interactive Media Art
Taiwanese media art studio founded in 2016
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Peppercorns Interactive Media Art (Chinese: 黑川互動媒體藝術) is a Taiwanese media art studio founded in 2016 by new media artist Chin-Hsiang Hu (胡縉祥).[1] Based in Taipei, the studio creates light installations, interactive exhibits and immersive digital environments that combine lighting, moving image, sound, kinetic mechanisms and artificial intelligence.
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Native name | 黑川互動媒體藝術 |
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| Type | Private company |
| Industry | Media art, interactive design, experiential technology |
| Founded | 2016 |
| Founder | Chin-Hsiang Hu (胡縉祥) |
| Headquarters | Taipei , Taiwan |
| Key people | Chin-Hsiang Hu (founder & creative director) |
| Products | Large-scale light installations, interactive exhibits, immersive digital experiences |
| Website | peppercorns |
History
Peppercorns was established in 2016 in Taipei by Chin-Hsiang Hu (胡縉祥), who has spoken about the studio's approach and creative philosophy in Taiwanese arts media and in invited lectures, including a talk given as part of the Techno Art programme at National Tsing Hua University.[2][3] The studio's work spans outdoor public art, light sculpture performance, theatrical interactive experiences, experiential exhibitions and lantern festivals, and has been commissioned by venues and festivals across Taiwan, as well as in Austria, Australia, Japan, the Czech Republic and Romania.[1]
Practice
The studio's practice is interdisciplinary, combining artists, engineers and producers to develop projects that integrate programming, interactive sensing and lighting design.[1] Recurring themes include the relationship between humans and machines, the transformation of data into emotion, and the boundary between physical and virtual space. The studio has collaborated with other Taiwanese new media artists, including VR artist Hsin-Chien Huang on the AI-generated landscape work Chinese AI Impressionism: Dynamic and Serene Landscapes at the 2023 Ars Electronica Festival.[4] As of 2026, the studio has around 12 members.[1]
Selected works
| Year | Work | Exhibition / Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Upload Not Complete | SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 | Brisbane, Australia[5] |
| 2021 | Signal | International Light Festival, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts | Taichung, Taiwan |
| 2021 | The Weight of Data | Ars Electronica 2021 – Formosa Grand Tour (online) | Linz, Austria[6] |
| 2023 | Tzolk'in Light | Yuejin Lantern Festival | Tainan, Taiwan |
| 2023 | Chinese AI Impressionism: Dynamic and Serene Landscapes (with Hsin-Chien Huang) | Ars Electronica | Linz, Austria[4] |
| 2024 | Memory Encoder | Taoyuan Techno Art Festival (TAxT) | Taoyuan, Taiwan |
| 2024 | Sandbox Reconstruction Project – Yuejin Edition | Yuejin Lantern Festival | Tainan, Taiwan |
| 2025 | Between Mountains and Seas | Signal Festival | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2025 | Tzolk'in Light (mist projection version) | Signal Festival | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2025 | Memory Encoder | RADAR New Media Art Festival | Bucharest, Romania |
| 2026 | Light-Woven Wind (光築吟風) | Zhubei Light Festival 2026 – Realm of Flourishing Ages | Zhubei, Hsinchu, Taiwan[7] |
| 2026 | Phoenix of Light (火鳥啟靈光) (with Yao-Jui Wang) and Symbiotic Island (共生島) | Taiwan Lantern Festival 2026 in Chiayi | Chiayi, Taiwan[8] |
| 2026 | Light · Bee Fireworks (光·蜂炮) | Yuejin Lantern Festival 2026 – Cloud Light Scenes | Tainan, Taiwan[9] |
| 2026 | Cross-section Signal Flow (斷面訊號流) | Treasure Hill Light Festival 2026 – Glimmering City | Taipei, Taiwan[10] |
International exhibitions
In October 2025, Peppercorns presented works at two European new media art festivals, the Signal Festival in Prague (Czech Republic) and the RADAR New Media Art Festival in Bucharest (Romania). Taiwanese arts magazine VERSE described the appearance as the studio's debut at RADAR and among the first by a Taiwanese media art team at these two festivals.[11][12]
Signal Festival, Prague (16–19 October 2025)
At Náměstí Republiky the studio installed Between Mountains and Seas, a ring-shaped work combining 62 transparent LED screens and 81 two-metre-high LED tubes, organised as five chapters ("River Lights", "Sea", "Blind", "Wind Peak", "Fengtian") that reference Taiwanese landscape and history.[11] A mist-projection iteration of Tzolk'in Light was also shown on a barge on the Vltava, using mist as its projection medium.[13][14]
RADAR New Media Art Festival, Bucharest (3–5 October 2025)
The studio presented Memory Encoder, an AI-driven interactive installation combining a diffusion model with Stable Diffusion, TouchDesigner and StreamDiffusion (SD-turbo with TensorRT), which transforms audience-uploaded images into generative visuals in real time. The work originally premiered at the 2024 Taoyuan Techno Art Festival.[15]
Awards
| Year | Work | Organisation | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | polywave | National Art Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts | Gold in New Media Art[16] |
| 2019 | Upload Not Complete | SIGGRAPH Asia | Best XR Tech[17] |
| 2020 | Shape of Winds (風之形) | Yilan Awards | Silver[18] |
| 2021 | Signal | MUSE Design Awards | Gold[19] |
| 2021 | Signal | SIGGRAPH Asia | Art Gallery[20] |
| 2021 | Dynamic Array (Matrix version) | National Art Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts | Gold in New Media Art[21] |
| 2023 | Khek (客垠) | International Awards Associates | London Design Gold Award[22] |
| 2023 | – | La Vie magazine | Top 10 Creative Teams of the Year (Taiwan)[23] |
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