#Congratulations! Director Hsin-Chien Huang's latest VR works, Samsara and The Starry Sand Beach, were nominated for the 78th Venice International Film Festival!
The 78th Venice International Film Festival (VIFF) announced the shortlisted nominees for the category of VR Film. Taiwanese new media artist, Distinguished Professor of NTNU, Hsin-Chien Huang, winner of the BEST VR Experience in 2017 with his work La Camera Insabbiata, will again contest for the Leone d’oro this year with two of his latest, sci-fi inspired works, Samsara and The Starry Sand Beach. While the Taiwanese athletes are striving for the Gold Medals at the Tokyo Olympics as we speak, director Hsin-Chien Huang dazzles the jury of VIFF with his visually-stunning and thought-provoking works — bringing cutting-edge Taiwanese VR films onto the international stage and letting world-wide audience sees Taiwan!
Before being selected for the 78th Venice International Film Festival, Samsara episode 1. has already grabbed the Jury Award at SXSW and Best VR Story at the Cannes XR Competition. This futuristic VR experience teleports the audience onto a journey that spans millions of years. Samsara is a Sanskrit word meaning “ the world ”. In Buddhism, it means what we perceive as the world is actually an endless cycle of karma (cause and effect), a cycle of life, death and rebirth in the six realms of existence. In this fascinating VR work, the audience is reincarnated into the bodies of different persons and creatures, experiencing the universe in their new bodies and in search for the ultimate spiritual transcendence.
Samsara depicts an apocalyptical story in the near future where human greed has depleted the earth’s resource. Catastrophic wars to fight for resource resulted in global destruction. Finally, the remaining humans had to leave the Earth and go on a search in space for a new place to live.
Nevertheless, their desperate, long quest for a new homeland… could it be just a loop in space and time? The cycle of greedy domination and total destruction that then necessitates the search for a new home…. may have hopelessly repeated itself over and over again? The constant evolutionary process and so-called progress, without transformation in consciousness and spiritual advancement, is nothing more than a Möbius strip that leads nowhere, perhaps…?
Samsara is an experiment based on the theory of Embodied Cognition. Through interactivity and VR, the audience gets to live inside the bodies of different persons and creatures, experiencing their feelings from within. Perhaps It is when we can perceive the world in different bodies that we may truly appreciate the thoughts of others and empathize with them. An experience that will also help us better comprehend our own existence and learn to live in harmony with all.
Samsara explores a complex of deeply interconnected issues of ecology, technology, natural resource and war, etc. It's a story about a journey humans are forced to take on, after having destroyed the earth with nuclear disasters. The survivors seek a new planet, in the boundless, interstellar space, to carry on their lives. Gradually they evolve into a new life form artificially. Yet, many years passed and they’ve come to realize that they would never make it to the new planet they’ve been dreaming of. In fact, they have simply been returning to the Earth, in different life forms, time after time.
Director Huang applies the concepts of embodied cognition, offering a unique way to contemplate about the nature of life. As the audience are transported into different bodies each time, they gain a brand new perspective to experience the world views presented in Samsara.
Samsara was produced under the guidance of Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and Kaohsiung Film Archive VR(VR FILM LAB), it’s a sate-of-the-art VR production made 100% in Taiwan. In the VR experience, viewers are transformed into various kinds of animals to interact with the scenes, including species unique and indigenous to Taiwan, such as Taiwan Blue Magpie and Formosan Black Bear.
Samsara Ep.1 features the latest somatosensory technology, including 4D views shooting techniques by the Industrial Technology Research Institute and TAICCA. A digital shooting system comprised of a high-sensitivity 4 million-pixel, full-color CCD sensor and 48 4DV-EX-Z cameras made it possible for Samsara Ep.1 to be taken from an omnidirectional view and shot without any blind spots, creating the ultimate immersive experience.
THE STARRY SAND BEACH, directed by Hsin-Chien Huang and produced in cooperation with Lucid Reality (France) and Oready 瑞意創科 Oready Innovation Lab (Taiwan), is a scientific fairy tale about a unique ecological wonder in Taiwan and Japan, the shiny starry sand beaches. Foraminifera, from the Latin word “foramen” meaning hole, is a single-celled organism that builds a shell with multiple chambers which intercommunicate with one another through holes. On the Qimei Island, Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands, Japan, beaches have been formed by a specific species of foraminifera with star-shaped shells made of calcium carbonate. Like the real stars in the legends, grains of the starry sand have also been preserving the earth’s memories for millions of years.
THE STARRY SAND BEACH is a real-time 3D interactive VR adventure into the natural and mythological landscape of the starry sand beaches on Qimei Island in Penghu Archipelago, Xing Sha Wan in Kenting National Park and Taketomi Island in the far south of Japan. The experience is full of aesthetically-amazing elements and enriched with cultural and religious significance like Shintoism in Japan. A beautiful, haunting legend tells the story of the starry sand…
The final winners will be presented at the award ceremony held on Sep11. With great anticipation and hopes, Hsin-Chien Huang is expected to bring home again the grand prize for Taiwan!
https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/selection-complete-works-venice-vr-expanded-0
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頭暈不一定是耳水不平衡
不少人都試過頭暈、眼花、耳鳴耳塞、噁心、冒汗、嘔吐等症狀,閉目休息一會狀況就會紓緩,西醫視之為耳水不平衡,中醫角度則屬於「眩暈」範圍,「眩」是指眼花,「暈」指頭暈,輕則如感到暈車浪,重則天旋地轉且難以站立。
眩暈成因眾多,最常見的原因為氣血不足、腎精不足、痰濕內阻及肝陽上亢。女性天生氣血較弱,有因為生理週期者,或者經歷懷孕、手術以致氣血虧虛,都會使氣血不足,腦失所養而出現眩暈。先天不足、年老體衰、思慮勞碌、房勞過度、熬夜等均會導致腎精不足,腎主骨,骨生髓,髓海不足就容易出現頭暈、耳鳴等症狀。另外所謂「無痰不作眩」,體內痰濕較重,痰濕阻塞經絡,引致氣血運行不暢,亦會引起暈眩。怒傷肝,急躁易怒個性亦會導致肝陽亢盛血上衝,出現頭暈症狀。
想從根本解決眩暈問題,必須了解自己體質對症下藥,留意以下各種眩暈成因及生活小貼士,眩暈發作時可以飲用天麻茯苓茶紓緩症狀。
氣血不足 — 適量進食補氣健脾養血食物,例如人參、紅棗、小米、薯仔、紅豆、靈芝等,做適量輕量運動如慢跑。
腎精不足 — 適量補充水份,避免熬夜及縱慾過度,多進食黑色養腎食物如黑木耳、黑豆、黑芝麻等。
痰濁中阻 — 戒吃生冷肥膩甜食,不宜進補,多進食健脾胃食物如淮山、薏米、白扁豆等。
肝陽上亢 — 調整心情,避免動怒,適度減壓,多喝有疏肝解鬱功效的花茶。
天麻茯苓茶
功效:健脾益胃,紓緩頭暈、頭脹、噯氣等症狀。
材料:天麻9克、茯苓15克、陳皮1角
做法:所有材料洗淨,鍋中加入約1000毫升水,放入全部材料,武火煮至水滾,調文火煮約1小時即可。
Causes of dizziness
Many people have experienced dizziness, blurred vision, clogged ear, tinnitus, nausea, sweating, vomiting and other symptoms. When you close your eyes, your condition may improve. Western medicine regards this as Meniere’s disease. It is simply “blurred vision and dizziness” in Chinese medicine. It can cause motion sickness, and feeling as though everything around you is spinning which makes it hard to stand still in serious cases.
There are many causes to dizziness. The most common causes are lack of blood and qi, insufficient kidney essence, internal resistance of phlegm and dampness and hyperactivity of the liver yang. Women’s qi and blood are weaker in nature. The menstrual cycle, or pregnancy or surgery may lead to qi and blood deficiency. It will reduce the qi and blood and the brain do not have enough nutrient supply which leads to dizziness. Innate deficiencies, age and weak body, excessive thinking, too much sexual activity, staying up late, will lead to insufficient kidney essence. The kidney is closely related to bone and marrow. When there is a lack of nutrients in the brain, you may be prone to dizziness, tinnitus and other symptoms. In addition, too much phlegm and dampness in the body will obstruct the meridians, causing poor qi and blood circulation which can also lead to dizziness. Anger hurts the liver, irritability will also lead to hyperactivity in the liver yang and dizziness symptoms.
If you want to relieve Dizziness, you must understand your body condition. Pay attention to the following causes of dizziness and tips. You can drink Poria tea with gastrodia to relieve those symptoms.
Insufficient qi and blood- appropriately consume ingredients that can replenish qi, strengthen spleen and nourish blood, such as ginseng, Chinese red dates, millet, potato, red bean and lucid Ganoderma. Moderately do low-intensity exercise such as slow jog.
Insufficient kidney essence- drink appropriate amount of water, avoid staying up late and having too much sex. Eat more black coloured ingredients that can nourish kidney such as black snow fungus, black bean and black sesame.
Excessive phlegm- avoid cold/raw, fatty, sweet and tonic food. Eat more ingredients that can strengthen spleen and stomach such as Chinese yam, coix seed and hyacinth bean.
Hyperactivity of the liver yang- adjust your mood, avoid being angry and appropriately relax your mind. Drink more floral tea that can relieve depression.
Poria tea with gastrodia
Effects: strengthens spleen and stomach, relieves symptoms such as dizziness, headache tension and burping.
Ingredients: 9g gastrodia, 15g poria, 1 dried citrus peel
Method: rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Combine all ingredients with 1000ml of water and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour.
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