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Once the city government's labor office, and also temporarily served as the Taipei Metro Company's office, since October 2001, the Taipei Cultural Bureau, based on the concept of repurposing idle space, referred to art villages in international metropolises such as New York, Paris, and London, and re-planned it as Taiwan's first international art village. The Taipei International Art Village uses Taipei as an environment for creative culture, actively developing artist exchange programs with cities around the world, providing the general public with opportunities to interact and exchange with artists from different creative fields, and creating a completely open, free, and innovative environment for visual arts, music, literature, and performance arts. Through exchanges, it stimulates the development of local cultural and artistic activities.
In addition to organizing various types of promotional activities, the center includes open studio days for artists, artist workshops, artists entering schools, "Ad's House" art courses, and curator exchange activities; it also provides a venue for professional and amateur artists to exhibit their works.
 

In terms of the artist residency program, the art village has established a systematic artist selection mechanism, with artists from more than 35 different countries around the world coming to "Taipei International Art Village" for city residency creation; and more than 80 artists from Taiwan have gone to art villages in cities around the world for city residency creation. Today, this place has become an important exchange hub for cultural and artistic activities.