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Yinhua Chu is a visual artist and researcher based in Taiwan. Her work explores the ever-changing landscape of media, particularly focusing on how photography mediates memory in the digital age. She is Associate Professor in National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan.
Education Background
- Ph.D. (Practiced-Based), Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster
(Supervisor: David Bate)
- Mphil/PhD, Visual Arts (transferred), Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK (Supervisor: Victor Burgin)
- Postgraduate Certificate, Photography in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UK
- MA, Photography and Urban Culture, Goldsmiths College, University of London
- BA, Radio and Television, National ChengChi University, Taiwan
Teaching Experience
2023- Associate Professor (FT), Culture and Creative Industries Management, National Taipei University of Education
2018- Assistant Professor (FT), Culture and Creative Industries Management, National Taipei University of Education
2012-2014 Assistant Professor (FT), Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts and Creative Design, TungHai University
2011-2012 Assistant Professor (PT), Centre for General Education, Tainan National University of the Arts
2011-2012 Lecturer (PT), Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts and Creative Design, TungHai University
Academic Research
2024. "A Study on the Aesthetics of 'Unboxing' from the Perspective of Vilém Flusser's Theory', Grant Research Project, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan
2023 "'Screenshot' as an Art of Memory: A Case Study of Victor Burgin’s Work Afterlife", Grant Research Project, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan
2022 "Research on Memory Technique from Media Aesthetics: A Case Study on 'BD Louvre'”, Grant Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
2021 "A Study on Photobooks as a Medium from the Perspective of Vilém Flusser’s Theory of Technical Images", Grant Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
2020 "The Post-digital Turn in Contemporary Photobook Practices", Grant Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
2019 "The Study of New Media Culture and Aesthetics: Interdisciplinary Experiments in Taiwanese Contemporary 'Book-Zine'", Grant Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
2019 "Reading- Book Phenomenon", Visual Arts Criticism, National Culture and Arts Foundation
2016 Survey Research in History of Taiwan Photography（「台灣攝影史綱研究計畫」）, National Museum of History, Taiwan, Taiwan
Artists-In-Residence
2017 SITUATE, RMIT iAIR, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Rebirth of Doom - Regional Knowledge Construction and Dialogues between Macau and Taiwan, Macau Artist Residency
2014 Residency Unlimited, New York
2013 University of Macau
2013 City and Memory, Art Square Taiwan, Tainan
2012 Art Square Taiwan, Tainan
2009 [+O] , Singapore
2009 Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan
Curation
2016 Image Imagining, Dance with the Museum Collection – Retrieved, Reimagined, Restated, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Taiwan
Solo Exhibition
2017 Decipher Cities_Melbourne, Site Eight Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2017 Paralleling Memories, Folio Hotel Taipei Daan, Taipei Taiwan
2014 The Atlas Archaeology of an Imaginary City，8 and 1/2, Tainan Taiwan
2013 Hopscotching Tainan, Cheng-Da Book Store, Tainan Taiwan
2012 Encoding Memories: Tainan, Art Square, Tainan, Taiwan
2012 Once Upon a City…, Art Square, Tainan, Taiwan
2012 Once Upon a City…, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Travelling Home, A+ Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
2011 Staging Memories, London Gallery West, London, UK
2010 Imagined City, London Gallery West, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 Soul Speak : Artist's Books, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2022 Messengers: TAV ＆ TOKAS 15th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2021 Artists’ Books: Mediating Heterogeneity, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2020 Taiwanese Artists’ Books: Materials and Interfaces, ART TAIPEI, Taiwan
2017 Experience the City, The Place Royal Hotel, Tainan, Taiwan
2016 Lost in the Môbius - Taiwan．Macau, Oxware House, Macau
2016 Alice's World, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016 Lost in the Môbius - Taiwan．Macau, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Small or Big, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Taiwan
2015 Gezici Bir Makine Olarak Beden (A Body of Mobile Machine), Halka Sanat Projesi (Halka Art Project), Istanbul Turkey
2014 AfterImage, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space/ Residency Unlimited，New York, US
2014 Ça a été, Foto Aura, Tainan, Taiwan
2014 The "Urban Interior" of Jimenez Lai, Venice Biennale Pavilion for Taiwan, Venice, Italy
2013 Retreat x Art Cache, Eslite Park Lane, Taichung, Taiwan
2013 Nostalgias, Visualsing Longing, Pie Factory Gallery, London, UK
2013 Artists’ Open Studio, Taipei Artists Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Next Art Tainan 2013, Tainan, Taiwan
2011 Very Fun Park, National ChengChi University, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 The Power of Colour, Very Fun Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Home and Away, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, US
2011 Portuguese x UK Based Artist, The Mews Project, London, UK
2010 Private/Public, Gallery 320, London
2010 Home and Away, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
2010 ZooArt 2010, ZooArt, Cuneo, Italy
2010 Urban Code, Taiwan Photo Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Home and Away, Fringe Arts Bath 2010, Bath, UK
2009 When InvadingMemories meets WhatdoyouwantobestrangeR?, London Design Festival, London, UK
2008 Home, Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung Taiwan
Selected Conference Presentation
2024 Photography in Virutal Culture, University of Westminster, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
2024 Cultural Meme-ing: 2024 Annual International Conference of Cultural Studies Association, NTUE, Taiwan
2023 Memory Studies Association (MSA), Newcastle University, UK
2023 ACG Power in Taiwan: The First International Conference of Taiwan Association For Animation, Comics and Game Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
2022 The 9th European Conference on Media, Communication and Film, The IAFOR Research Centre (The International Academic Forum), Birkbeck, University of London
2022 War. Generations: The 22th Annual International Conference of Cultural Studies Association, Commentor, NTUE, Taiwan
2021 媒介與共生：當代跨域交流論壇 , National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
2021 The 12th Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (ACAH 2021), The IAFOR Research Centre (The International Academic Forum), Tokyo/ Online
2020 Photographies Conference: Photography in Asia, Photographies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2019 Materiality and Multiculturality in Arts— Theory and Practice in Arts and Aesthetics, IPAA（International Projects on Arts and Aesthetics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2019 日本慶應大學 Cultural Typhoon 2019，カルチュラル．スタディーズ, Keio University, Japan
2015 Culture, Capital & Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the 21st Century, AHRC research network, National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan
2014 The Re-Generate: Innovating and Inheriting in Art Education, Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts and Creative Design, TungHai University
2012 Migration, Memory and Place, University of Copenhagen/ Arken Museum, Denmark
2011 Crossing Borders: Travelling, Teaching, and Learning in a Global Age, New York Institute of Technology/
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
2011 Mediated Cities, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Canada
2010 Lost in Space, University College of London
2010 Once Upon a Place – Hunted Houses and Imaginary Cities, International Conference on Architecture and Fiction, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 Migrants, Identity and the City, Regent’s College London, UK
2010 Public Lives, Private Lives, University of Brighton, UK
Awards/ Funding
2023 Grant Research Project, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan
2022 Grant Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
2021 Grant Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
2020 Grant Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
2019 Grant Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
2019 Visual Arts Criticism, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan
2017 Artist's Residency Grant, KdMoFA (Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts), Taiwan.
2014 Residency Unlimited New York, Taiwanese Ministry of Culture and Taipei Cultural Centre in New York
2013 2013 Exhibition Funding, Art Square Tainan, Tainan Culture Foundation
2013 Next Art Tainan, Tainan Culture Foundation, Tainan, Taiwan
2012 2012 Artist Residency Funding, Art Square Tainan, Tainan Culture Foundation
2012 2012 Taipei Artist Residency Exhibition Funding, Taipei Culture Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Exhibition Funding, Centre for Media Arts and Design, University of Westminster
2010 Exhibition Funding, ZooArt, Cuneo, Italy
2009 Exhibition Funding, London Design Festival, Singapore Art Council, Singapore
2009 Visiting Artist, The Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
Editor
Publication
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"Unboxing: Book Phenomenon"，《ACT藝術觀點》，93（2023）春季號，pp. 91-101
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“The Mediality of Photobooks: Books as Apparatus of Technical Images”, ARTS REVIEW, NO. 43, pp. 185-218 (2022)
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〈藝術自出版的後數位美學實踐：以《沒有未來》與《現在過去式》為例〉，《文化研究》，刊登證明111年7月。（TSSCI、THCI）
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〈技術性圖像作為鏡像／映像的可能〉，《鏡像．映像：80後的當代影像藝術》，台灣：國立台灣美術館，2022
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〈攝影書的媒介性：談機具與記憶的共生可能〉，研討會論文，「媒介與共生：當代跨域交流論壇」，2021。
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《閱讀筆記：Book Phenomenon》，桃園：製菓部，2021。國藝會 現象書寫—視覺藝評專案 （ISBN 978-986-06639-0-7）。
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《閱讀筆記：Book Phenomenon》, self-publishing, 2021 (ISBN 978-986-06639-0-7)
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〈擴延閱讀「閱讀筆記 Book Phenomenon」訪談計畫〉，研討會論文，第一屆「跨域影像與 XR 展延實境」學術研討會，2020。
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〈台灣當代攝影的多元實踐與想像〉，《起始．永遠—日本清里攝影美術館典藏精選展》，國立台灣美術館，2017
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〈写真筆談〉，《舞弄珍藏：召喚／重想／再述的實驗室》，台北市立美術館發行，2017
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〈從「写真筆談」想像台灣戰後寫實攝影〉，《現代美術》，105（2016）年12月，第183期，90-97頁
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〈從「美姿學」漫談北美館店藏攝影作品的人物姿態〉，《現代美術》，105（2016）3月，第180期，94-104頁
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〈賞味期限：日常生活的快照記憶〉，《藝外 Artitute》，104（2015）5月，第68期，79-85頁
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‘Staging Memories’, The Culture of Migration. Politics, Aesthetics and Histories, Sten Moslund, Anne Ring Petersen and Moritz Schramm (eds), London: I.B. Tauris, 2015. pp.271-280
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‘Chance Enconter in Urban Imaginary- Encoding Memories: Tainan’, The Re-Generate: Innovating and Inheriting in Art Education, JAD (Journal of Art and Design), No.4, June 2014. pp.71-84.
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‘Staging Memories: Mise en Scene the Imagined Cities in Photographic Practice’, Once upon a Place. Haunted Houses and Imaginary Cities, Pedro Gadanho and Susana Oliveira (eds), Lisbon Portugal: Caleidoscópio, Edição e Artes Gráficas, 2013. pp.213-223.
© 2014 YinHua Chu