“New Friends” is a participatory art exhibition initiated for the opening of New Taipei City Art Museum. It symbolizes that the museum will become a new local cultural community and creates an experience both entertaining and educational for its participants.

The immersive gaming device ID located in the R1 exhibition room of the dome art space helps to develop cognitive spatial coordination and improves logical thinking skills. Also, it reinforces the idea of community development and collaborative growth as family and friends can play and create together. It attracts an audience of all ages to take part in the growth of the New Taipei City Art Museum.

The experiential creation series, distributed amongst the R2 and R5 exhibition rooms of the dome art space and the outdoor plaza, are jointly built by seven artists, including Chang Huei-Ming, Chen Yun-Ju, Cheng Yi-Wen, Chiang Chung-Lun, Liao Chi-Yu, Liao Chien-Chung and Zoe-Fu. Combined with scenarios and installations that allow the participants to experience with all five senses, the series revolves around the exhibition theme “New Friends”, encouraging the public to interact and participate through their senses, thoughts and actions.
By creating a micro-community model in the digital era, we expect the public to recognize the multiple metaphors about technology, humanity, nature and more in this art exhibition, and hope that they can develop their own answers through the collaboration process.