Hsin-Chien Huang

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Hsin-Chien Huang is a new media artist adept at combining VR, interactive installations, performing arts, and machinery to explore greater possibilities for human life through technology. His career endeavor explores the possibilities of cutting-edge technologies in art, literature, design, and stage performance. His projects involve large-scale interdisciplinary interaction, performing, mechanical apparatus, algorithmic computations, and video installations. While being a distinguished professor at the Design Department of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Huang is committed to interdisciplinary collaborative STEAM education and publication.

In recent years, Huang’s revolutionary VR works have attracted international attention and won a variety of awards. While being a distinguished professor at the Design Department of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Huang is committed to interdisciplinary collaborative STEAM education and publication. In recent years, Huang’s revolutionary VR works have attracted international attention and won various awards. His VR feature film La Camera Insabbiata | Chalkroom (2017), made in collaboration with Laurie Anderson, won the Best VR Experience Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival. Bodyless (2020) won an Honorable Mention at the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria) and the Golden Mask, the highest honor, at the Newimages Festival (Paris, France). His outstanding international performance continued when his new work Samsara (2021) won the Jury Award at the Texas South by Southwest Festival (Austin, U.S.A.), Grand Prize for the Best VR Narrative in the XR category at the Cannes Film Market in France, and Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation category at Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). Huang's work has been exhibited in solo or group exhibitions at important international institutions, including Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C., 2022), Aichi Triennale (2022), Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University (Houston, 2022), American Museum of Natural History (New York, 2019), Modern Art Base Shanghai (2019), MASS MoCA (2019), National Fine Art Museum (Taipei, 2017), ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany, 2017), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk, Denmark, 2017), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., 2015). In 2022, Pratt Manhattan Gallery presented Huang’s first solo survey in the U.S.A. - The Data We Called Home.

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Hsin-Chien Huang: The Data We Called Home

September 23nd, 2022–March 4th, 2023

Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York