CHANG Shiuan (ACC 2021) has been selected as part of the inaugural cohort for Mozilla’s Artists Make Technology initiative, a collaborative program supported by major foundations including the Mozilla Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Ford Foundation. This cohort brings together twenty groundbreaking projects that span custom, robotics, spatial audio, and mixed reality, uniting artists who are actively building the future of technology from its earliest stages. By stepping in to fund exploratory, artist-led tech that often falls between traditional arts and technology funding categories, the initiative empowers creators to write new standards, ensure open-source accessibility, and preserve the rich cultures and stories that might otherwise be lost as AI training data.

In addition to this major cohort selection, Shiuan Chang’s remarkable interactive installation People Concerto—produced by STUDIO F.A.C.E.—has been named a 2026 Lumen Prize Finalist and an Experiential Innovation Award Finalist. The work transforms any physical space into a responsive musical instrument, leveraging infrared cameras and an AI system built with the Quanta Research Institute to translate the collective, unscripted movement of everyone in the room into a once-in-a-lifetime sonic experience. Fusing live instrumentation from the Ictus Ensemble and sheng soloist Li-chin Li with layered vocal recordings, the installation brilliantly collapses the boundary between performer and audience, inviting participants to explore authorship and collective human presence through sound.