YI Kuo

"Render Gohst" is an immersive VR theater work. At the onset of consumer VR's popularity, this piece challenged the concept of large-scale, multi-person VR experiences, exploring actorless ritual theater and post-human themes. The work received the First Prize at the Taiwan Digital Art Performance Award and is recognized as a representative VR piece in Taiwan.

In the theater experience, audience members donned dust suits and carried heavy computers with VR displays, resembling pilgrims in the Tibetan Buddhist "KORA" ritual, climbing a tower constructed from discarded information. At the performance's end, viewers removed their helmets to experience illusions crafted from soundscapes, particle storms, and dense fog, all constructed using lasers and lights.

As our bodies inevitably merge into a new reality mediated by screens, networks, and algorithms, our bodies, memories, and consciousness are gradually transformed through the transmission of fiber-optic cables. With the approach of the "post-human" era, NAXS created a virtual ritual, imagining the future dissolution of the human body into digital information and reflecting on the contemporary reality of technology as a new mythology.