MODERN TIMES, centering around the charming Little Blue Robot. This immersive spectacle of light and kinetic music humorously and satirically responds to Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 classic Modern Times, asking: what would life look like if the Industrial Age and the AI Revolution happened at the same time? Staged under the 19-meter-high luminous venue at the National Taichung Theater, Modern Times is a whimsical factory of “retro-futurism” that brings out the child in everyone. While the Industrial Age often evokes the image of humans being reduced to mere cogs in a machine, here, our Little Blue Workers aren’t just laboring—they’re dancing, playing music, and mastering the rhythms of assembly, turning conveyor belts into musical staves. Humor wraps around a deeper melancholy, transforming the routine of screws and bolts into an artistic party

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Production Crew List

Curator: Escher Tsai

Visual Artists: Hello Edo！ / Dimension Plus

Visual Authorization: Maywa Denki

Music Composition: Mr. Skin

Production Team: Hello World

Executive Producer: Szu-Ya Wang

Producer & International Liaison: Monique Chiang

AI  Visual Creation: Tzu-Chen Lee / Revlis Huang

Visual Editing: Yuwei He

Production Assistant: Zun-Yu Tan

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NTT Arts NOVA 2025

Date: March 28 – May 11, 2025

Venue: The foyer of 2nd Floor, National Taichung Theater