百廟百門·數位神識｜國際展演

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Digital Deities: The Spirit of Restoration
Rising in the Plate Shift: resist and flourish

(Text from the official release by MEET Digital Culture Center) This work blends artificial intelligence technology with the traditional iconography of Door Gods, protective deities who in Taiwanese culture are traditionally placed at doorways to ward off evil spirits, demons and bad luck, renewed every New Year’s Eve in a family purification ritual. The installation uses twin AI technology to merge the user’s face with that of the Door God, creating a personalized protective deity that faces the new threats of the digital age.

Digital Deities recognizes that while traditional threats (evil spirits, negative energies) persist, the contemporary era generates new vulnerabilities that require evolved spiritual protection: cyberbullying, digital identity theft, online manipulation, social isolation, information overload, existential anxieties related to climate change and geopolitical instability. The digital gateway becomes new sacred liminal space where the user can temporarily assume divine protective power, democratizing access to sacredness.

The work creates new myths appropriate to our digital age, narratives that give spiritual meaning to technology while maintaining the connection to ancestral wisdom through the preservation of traditional iconography, protective function and threshold ritual. It suggests that authentic spiritual protection lies not in form but in intention, allowing tradition to adapt and renew itself to serve contemporary needs without losing its transformative efficacy.