藝術總監 周東彥
Artistic Director Chou, Tung-Yen
藝術總監｜周東彥
倫敦中央聖馬丁藝術暨設計學院，劇場與多媒體碩士（MA Scenography）
國立臺北藝術大學戲劇學系畢業，主修導演
劇場及新媒體影像導演，創作以影像與劇場為核心，亦跨足錄像藝術、紀錄片與VR等。近年投入VR與劇場的跨域創作，探索虛擬、夢境及實體空間的無限可能，持續實驗多元的觀看體驗，現為狠主流多媒體總監、狠劇場藝術總監。
曾以劇場作品《空的記憶》獲2013年世界劇場設計大展「最佳互動與新媒體」大獎；多媒體設計作品《關於島嶼》獲2018年英國光明騎士「劇場投影設計」大獎；2021年以VR作品《霧中》入選威尼斯影展；2022年以《關於島嶼》及《光年紀事：臺北─哥本哈根》獲得世界劇場設計大展「多媒體影像設計」三獎殊榮；2024年以XR作品《穿越霧中》入圍坎城影展，並獲得新影像藝術節評審大獎，同年以半戶外大型XR演出《放開你的頭腦》入圍威尼斯影展。影像作品曾多次入圍金馬獎、臺北電影獎及參與國際影展，並受邀於國際指標性藝術節展演。
Artistic Director｜CHOU Tung-Yen
Chou, Tung-Yen holds a MA in Scenography with distinction from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and a BFA in Theatre Directing from Taipei National University of the Arts.
CHOU Tung-Yen, is the founder and director of Very Theatre Company & Very Mainstream Studio, and an award-winning theatre, film and XR maker from Taiwan. He focuses on envisioning new ways of experiencing narrative through the use of new media.
His work was laurelled with a World Stage Design Award for Interactive and New Media 2013 (for Emptied Memories), the Knight of Illumination Projection Design Award 2018 (for his set design in Formosa by LIN Hwai-Min and Cloud Gate Dance Theater), the PANORAMA VR PRIZE at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal 2021 (for In the Mist), and the World Stage Design Award for 3rd place in professional projection design 2022 (for Formosa and Chronicle of Light Year: Taipei-Copenhagen).Traversing the Mist, a 6DoF multi-user experience that pushed the boundaries of real-time technology and narrative storytelling, earned selection at the 78th Festival de Cannes and won the Grand Prize at the NewImages Festival 2024. His XR public choreography project Free Your Head were selected for the 81st Venice Film Festival.
His film and media works have been selected multiple times for the Golden Horse Awards and the Taipei Film Awards, and have been showcased at numerous international film festivals and major arts festivals worldwide.