Chih-yung Aaron CHIU
Professor, Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art, College of Arts at National Tsing Hua Un
Professor Chih-yung Aaron CHIU is now a full professor in the Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art in College of Arts, and the Director of Arts Center at National Tsing Hua University, as well as a curator and art critic. Prof. CHIU is also in the board of trustee of Digital Art Foundation Taipei. He received his PhD from School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University in USA, with double major in visual arts (painting, sculpture and architecture) and film studies (film aesthetics, theories and criticism), as well as a minor in aesthetics (phenomenology). His specialties are in digital aesthetics, techno-culture studies and contemporary art criticism. In the past few years, Prof. CHIU has also participated in many curatorial works including Fading Digital Memories, Pristine Poetics: Ko Si Chi’s 90th Year of Photographic Art, Post-Digital Anthropocene, IP EXPO Exhibition, 2015-16 Taiwan Digital Art Festival – Trend, the 7th and 8th Taipei Digital Art Festivals, the 4th Digital Performing Art Festival, and also many international exhibitions and festivals worldwide including Hong Kong, Boston and Madrid. Prof. CHIU is also a prolific writer. His articles titled “On the Embodied Aesthetics of Digital Arts” (2007) and “Inter/face: A Reconsideration of Myth of Transparency” (2008) have been nominated by Digital Art Criticism Awards Taipei. His publication titled “Significant Discourse and Local Practice: New Media Art in Taiwan’s Context” (2012) has become one of the most important texts in New Media Art in Taiwan’s academia.