Armaan Tagore
Taiwan
Language: English
Year: 2026
Format: Animation
TRT: 10:00 min
Synopsis:
Digital Guanyin is an audiovisual, 3D-animated, code-generated film that explores Guanyin as a figure of translation and compassion. Simulating “binary” systems in nature, the work challenges fixed oppositions and reflects on how gradients of meaning and transformation emerge through combination rather than isolation. Layered with analog and digital harmonies alongside nianfo 念佛 recitations, the piece invites viewers to approach Guanyin’s upaya through a technological and humanitarian lens to ultimately understand how radical acceptance and compassion for others can be convenient and enlightening.
本作品是一部結合視聽、3D 動畫與程式碼生成的影像作品，將觀音視為一個蘊含「翻譯」與「慈悲」意象的符號展開探索。作品模擬自然界中的「二元」系統，藉此挑戰非黑即白的僵化對立，並反思意義的漸層與轉化如何透過「結合」而非「孤立」而顯現。全片層疊交織著類比與數位的和聲，並伴隨念佛的誦經聲，邀請觀者透過科技與人文的雙重鏡頭去觸碰觀音的「方便法門」（upaya），最終體悟到：對他人的徹底接納與慈悲，如何能成為一種通往點化與覺悟的「方便」之路。
Filmmaker’s bio:
Armaan Tagore is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician from New York City. He is deeply interested in the role technology plays in disseminating information and its potential to help people come together and work towards a better world. His work emphasizes the way digital media like video, images, and text can combine aesthetics with functionality to optimize meaning-making and the spread of human-centered ideas.
Armaan Tagore 是一位來自紐約市的跨領域藝術家與音樂家。他深切關注科技在資訊傳播中所扮演的角色，以及科技在凝聚大眾、共同打造更美好世界上的潛能。他的創作強調錄像、圖像與文本等數位媒體如何將美學與功能性相結合，以此優化意義的建構（meaning-making），並推動以人為本（human-centered）觀念的傳播。