The 2021 Kuandu Light Art Festival has kicked off at TNUA’s on-campus restaurant, DaVinci’s Kitchen, and will be running till December 31. The festival, organized by the Department of New Media Art, carries the theme “EAT DaVinci,” aiming to interrogate the core and expressions of new media art through food and drink and immersive projection activities.
The festival is exploring the components of sound, image, and taste, and how they can be linked to form a new experience that transcends everyday life.
Prof. Jia-Ming Day, chairman of the Department of New Media Art, noted that it is the first time that technology and food has been combined to create a theme for the Kuandu Light Art Festival. It is an “immersive dinning” experience created by TNUA alumni and students around three dished provided by DaVinci’s Kitchen. Dinners can experience the experimental tech art while enjoying the delicious food and the night view outside.
The immersive dining experience is offered inside a “lab” transformed from a private room at Da Vinci’s kitchen. There is a table for eight people, where the immersive images echo the dishes, allowing the taste buds to have different sensations with the images, sounds and interactions, gradually stacking the layers of the senses to let diners feel as if they are in the vast universe or a poetic space with blossoming flowers. From the tip of the tongue to the eyes – what you taste and what you see are all surprises.
EAT DaVinci is running until December 31, every Monday to Saturday. There are three shows per night, at 6pm, 7pm and 8pm, respectively, with a maximum of eight people per show. Audiences are cordially invited to enter the “DaVinci Artificial Lab” to taste and experience a new dining experience that challenges the taste buds and the eyes.
For more information about the event, please visit the Facebook page and search for “Kuandu Light Art Festival KDLAF”.