Hsin-Chien Huang

Hsin-Chien Huang (, born 13 January 1966) is an artist and director working in mixed media. Science, technology, new media, programming, and algorithms are tools he uses to bring the universe of his imagination to life. He served as artistic director for SEGA and Sony. Huang collaborated with pioneering American media artist Laurie Anderson on their VR work La Camera Insabbiata/Chalkroom which won the Best VR experience Award (it was the first edition of the festival that introduced its virtual-reality section); he also designed her 1995 CD-ROM, Puppet Motel. His work Bodyless was also nominated in the 76th of the festival. In 2011，Huang received the "Pride of Taiwan" honor from president of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou.

He founded Storynest Studio after 2001, which engaged in artistic creation and commercial design. Huang is currently a distinguished professor at National Taiwan Normal University.

His VR film Samsara Raised in an artistic environment, Huang was given his first computer, an Apple II, when he was in senior high school. Since that time, programming language has become his second language.

After graduating from college in Taiwan with a degree in mechanical engineering, he went on to earn a bachelor's degree in product design from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, followed by a master's degree from the Institute of Design at Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology.

Artwork

Exhibitions 2024 - 'Living in the (Un)real: An Immersive Journey between Art and Surveillance ' at MEET Cultural Digital Center, Milan, Italy 2022 - 'Hsin-Chien Huang: The Data We Called Home' at Pratt Gallery - New York, the States 2022 - 'Being X: Hsin-Chien Huang's Metaverse Theater' at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts - Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2021 - "Un portal a la memoría " at L.E.V. Festival, Gijón, Spain 2020 - "Out of the window" International Exhibition Produced by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts & Centraal Museum Utrecht - Taoyuan, Taiwan 2020 - "In the name of tree" Art Museum of National Taiwan Normal University - Taipei, Taiwan 2020 - "RE:Human Touch- A Closer Future" Taiwan Creative Content Agency - Taipei, Taiwan 2019 - "Immersive Interactive Unit" International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam - Amsterdam, Netherlands 2019 - "Vortex Program" Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual L.E.V. Festival - Madrid, Spain 2019 - "Every step in the right direction" Singapore Art Museum - Singapore, Singapore 2019 - "Our Moon. Longing, Art and Science" Naturhistorisches Museum Wien - Vienna, Austria 2017 - "La Camera Insabbiata/Chalkroom" Taipei Fine Arts Museum - Taipei, Taiwan 2014 - "Thus have I remembered, once my mind was free" Cathay Gallery - Taipei, Taiwan 2008 - "The art of mortal apparatus" Taipei Fine Arts Museum - Taipei, Taiwan

Collaboration

2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition: Hall Design (2019) Expo 2010 Shanghai China: Interactive Device (2010) Incomparable concert Jay Chou: Audio Visual Design (2004) Puppet Motel: Designer of the music/art CD-ROM by Laurie Anderson (1995)

Awards La Camera Insabbiata The Moment We Meet

Publications

Huang Hsin-Chien's XR Insights 2022. The Color Devourer 2016. Technology Mirage 2013. ISBN 9862134224 Pictographic Labyrinth 2003. ISBN 9789574113088