Chih-Yung Aaron Chiu
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ISEA2024
Chih-Yung CHIU is now a full professor at National Tsing University Taiwan. He serves as the associate dean in College of Arts, the director for Graduate institute of Art and Technology, and the director for Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art in College of Arts, as well as a curator, art critic, and photographer. Prof. Chiu is also a board member of Trustee of Digital Art Foundation Taipei, and the council member of Cultural Studies Association Taiwan. He received his PhD from School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University in USA, with double major in visual arts and film studies, as well as a minor in aesthetics. His specialties are in digital aesthetics, techno-culture studies, art criticism and curation.
ISEA2020
Chih-Yung Aaron Chiu is now a full professor in Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art, and Director of Center of Arts, College of Arts at National Tsing Hua University, as well as a curator, photographer, art critic. Prof. Chiu is also the supervisor of Digital Art Foundation Taipei and has participated in many curatorial works including Post-Digital Anthropocene, IP EXPO, 2015-16 Taiwan Digital Art Festival – Trend, 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 most recent 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.
