Curators

LIN Pey Chwen

Born in 1959, Lin Pey Chwen received her doctorate degree in Creative Arts from University of Wollongong, Australia. She is currently the director of the Digital Art Laboratory in the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts. She has also participated in many contemporary art and digital art forums in Taiwan as a keynote speaker and jury. Her works has been exhibited in many contemporary art galleries and museums internationally. Currently, she chairs the Digital Art Lab, one of Taiwan's leading digital art research and creation teams.

LIAO Hsin-Tien

Hsin-Tien Liao received his doctorate degrees from University of Central England in Birmingham (art history) and National Taiwan University (sociology) respectively. He is professor of the Graduate School of Art-Culture Policy and Management, National Taiwan University of Arts. He is now a senior lecture of School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Professor Liao is major in Taiwanese art history, cultural analysis of visual art and art criticism study etc. He has four books published so far: Calligraphy of the Qing Dynasty Stele(2008), Four Essarys in Taiwanese Fine Art:Wildness / Civilization, Nature/ Culture, Identity / Differences, Purity / Hybridity(2008), Dictionary of Fu Chuan-Fu's Cursive Calligraphy(2009), The Tension of Art: Taiwanee Fine Art and Cultural Politics(2010).

Ming TURNER

Ming Turner received her PhD in Art History and Theory at Loughborough University (UK), researching contemporary Taiwanese women’s art with specific focuses on postcolonial and feminist theories. She is a lecturer and Research Fellow at De Montfort University in the UK, and a visiting lecture at the Transart Institute based in New York. She is a former board member of the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester, and was a Research Assistant of the Iris Archive at Loughborough University, assisting Professor Marsha Meskimmon on an international project dealing with women’s lens-based art. Her curatorial projects include Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia (2011-12) to be held at South Hill Park (UK), Creative Hinkley (UK) and The Pier-2 Art District (Taiwan); 0 &1: Cyberspace and the Myth of Gender (2010), staged at the 501 Contemporary Art Centre, Chongqing, China; Simply Screen: Inbetweeners of Asia (2009), held at Tranzfabrik, Berlin and The Bhavan, London. She has delivered many papers on her research to international conferences, and also publishes widely in several international journals and publications, including Gender and Women’s Leadership (London: Sage, 2010), n.paradoxa (2010), The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009), and INFERNO: Journal of Art History (2007).

CHIU Chih-Yung (Aaron)

Chih-Yung Aaron CHIU received his Ph.D degree in School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University in the United States. He currently is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Mass Communication at Providence University. His specialty areas are digital aesthetics, visual culture studies, film theory and criticism, and techno-culture research. His articles were selected in the Digital Art Criticism Awards in 2007 & 2008, and he has an extensive record of publications in journals and conferences. He edited two books entitled Envisage: A Journal Book of Chinese Media Studies (volume 4: special topic on Digital media and technoculture (2006), and Digital Aesthetics and Creative Marketing (2007). He also has a translated book, Cultural Studies: the Basic (2006, from English to Chinese).

LOH Li-Chen (Sappho)

Li-Chen Loh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Applied Arts, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Shih Hsin University, Department of Public Relations and Advertising, and the Chairman of Association of the Visual Arts in Taiwan. Her research interests have been in the Taiwan Digital Art History and Digital Theories. Li-Chen Loh has an extensive record of art exhibitions and lectures.

TSENG Yu-Chuan

Yu-Chuan Tseng received her doctorate degrees from the Institute of Applied Arts, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. Her research interests have been in Interactive Art Practice and Digital Art Theories. She is an Assistant Professor at Shih Hsin University, Department of Public Relations and Advertising, Vice Chairman of Taiwan Woman’s Art Association. Yu- Chuan Tseng has an extensive record of art exhibitions and lectures. She has shown works at the Taipei Fine Art Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, ACM MM 2006, as many more. The net art practices were included in established online exhibition such as Digital Vision 2005, Java Museum and Mobile Image Capture in The New Century. In 2008, Flowerman and All Ways- O’s Chatroom was included in the International Symposium on Electronic Arts(ISEA), Artist Presentation Session. In 2010, Where are you? was included in the juied exhibition International Digital Art Exhibition: Cluster in Taipei.