Hsin-Chien Huang Explained

Birth Date:13 January 1966
Birth Place:Taipei
Nationality:Taiwanese
Known For:VR, Digital Art
Education:Bachelor of mechanical engineering NTU
Bachelor of Science of Product Design ACCD
Master of design IIT
Notable Works:La Camera Insabbiata(2017), Bodyless(2019), Samsara(2021)
Awards:[Best VR Experience Award] - 74th Venice International Film Festival
[Honorary Mention] - 2020 Prix Ars Electronica
[Golden Mask] - 2020 Newimages Festival
[Jury Award] - 2021 Texas SXSW Festival

Hsin-Chien Huang (traditional Chinese: 黃心健 born 13 January 1966 in Taipei) 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[1] which won the Best VR experience Award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival[2] [3] (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[4] was also nominated[5] in the 76th of the festival. In 2011，Huang received the "Pride of Taiwan" honor from president of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou.[6]

He founded Storynest Studio after 2001, which engaged in artistic creation and commercial design. Huang is currently a distinguished professor[7] at National Taiwan Normal University.

His VR film Samsara won the 2021 SXSW Jury Award.

Early life

At the age of four, the cornea of Hsin-Chien Huang's right eye was damaged so badly he was practically blind in that eye, his vision only returning after receiving a donated cornea at age 14. He lacked depth perception in the interim, so seeing things "properly" has since felt like a luxury to him.

Huang's mother is the eminent oil painter, Lee Lan.[8] 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

YearTitle
2022VR: The Eye and I
2021VR: Samsara
2020Through the Body
2019VR: Bodyless[9]
2019VR: Kuo Hsueh-Hu: Three States of Home Gazing
2019VR: The Universe of Liu Kuo-Sung
2018VR: To the moon
2017VR: La Camera Insabbiata[10]
2017VR: Aloft
2017Window of Heaven and Earth, Mirror of the Travelers
2013The Moment We Meet

Exhibitions

Collaboration

Awards

Year Event Award WorkStatus
2022Muse Design Awards 2022Conceptual Design - Gaming, AR & VR (NEW)Dance of Light
2022VR AWARDS 2022VR Film of the YearSamsara
2022Bolton International Film FestivalVR CompetitionSamsara
2022SIGGRAPH 2022VR CompetitionSamsara
2022Ottawa International Animation FestivalBest Virtual RealitySamsara
2022Prix Ars ElectronicaComputer Animation Honorary MentionSamsara
2022Annecy International Animated Film FestivalVR CompetitionSamsara
2022Animafest ZagrebVR Competition: the Best VR ProjectSamsara
2022International Festival of Animated Films ANIFILMInternational Competition of VR FilmsSamsara
2022Laval Virtual AwardsVR/AR for Entertainment & MediasSamsara
2021Jeddah Red Sea International Film Festival (RedSeaIFF)Sliver Yusr Immersive AwardSamsara
2021Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)Future IS SENSIBLE AwardSamsara
2021VRE VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE -EXTENDED EDITION (3rd Edition)Special Jury PrizeSamsara
2021Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories (FIVARS)Best Interactive ExperienceSamsara
2021Venice International Film FestivalVR Expanded SectionSamsara
2021Cannes XRBest VR StorySamsara
2021Texas SXSW FestivalVirtual Cinema Competition Jury AwardSamsara
2021The 5th Indian World Film Festival (India)Short AnimationBodyless
Texas SXSW Festival (Texas)Jury Award[21] [22] Samsara[23]
2020Los Angeles Film Award (Los Angeles)Best Virtual Reality[24] Bodyless
Asian Academy Creative Awards (Singapore)Best Immersive(360, VR)[25] Kuo Hsueh-Hu: Three States of Home Gazing
Newimages Festival (Paris)Golden Mask[26] Bodyless
Prix Ars Electronica (Austria)Honorary Mention[27] Bodyless
2019Kaohsiung Film Festival[28] (Kaoshsiung)Special Mention[29] Bodyless
The 76th Venice International Film FextivalInteractive[30] Bodyless
2017The 74th Venice International Film FestivalBest VR Experience Award[31] La Camera Insabbiata[32]
2013Public Art Award (Taipei)Art Creation Price[33] The Moment We Meet

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: La Camera Insabbiata. Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
  2. Web site: 2017-09-09. Official Awards of the 74th Venice Film Festival. 2020-12-16. La Biennale di Venezia. en.
  3. Web site: 2017-02-20. 74th Venice International Film Festival Homepage 2017. 2021-05-16. La Biennale di Venezia. en.
  4. Web site: Taiwan's VR films rank among the best in the world - Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA). 2021-05-16. en.taicca.tw. en.
  5. Web site: 2019-07-25. Venice VR 2019: An Overview. 2021-05-16. Submarine Channel.
  6. Web site: President grants an interview to digital media artist Hsin-Chien Huang. (總統接見「臺灣之光系列人物」--數位互動藝術家黃心健老師 in Chinese). 2021-05-25. www.president.gov.tw. zh-tw.
  7. Web site: Faculty. National Taiwan Normal University - Department of Design NTNU.
  8. Web site: Storm.mg. 2017-10-02. Song of nature - Lee lan's exhibition starts at 1st Oct (大地之頌–黎蘭畫展10月1日開幕 in Chinese). 2021-05-25. www.storm.mg. zh-TW.
  9. Web site: 2019-07-19. Bodyless the 76th Venice International Film Festival (Biennale Cinema 2019). 2021-05-16. La Biennale di Venezia. en.
  10. Web site: CTS NEWS. New media artist Hsin-Chien Huang to hold an exhibition in Cannes. (新媒體藝術家黃心健 月中坎城展演in Chinese). 2021-02-26. 華視新聞網. zh-Hant-TW.
  11. Web site: Pratt Manhattan Gallery . 2022-12-15 . Pratt . en-us.
  12. Web site: 高雄市立美術館 . 展覽預告 . 2022-12-14 . www.kmfa.gov.tw . zh-Hant-TW.
  13. Web site: Out of the Window Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts. 2021-05-25. tmofa.tycg.gov.tw.
  14. Web site: "In the name of tree" Art project launched, NTNU promote public art. (「以樹為名」藝術計畫啟動 師大美術館推社區公共藝術 in Chinese). 2021-05-25. pr.ntnu.edu.tw.
  15. Web site: "Bodyless Product info - Taiwan Creative Content Fest" (TCCF創意內容大會展品介紹in Chinese). 2021-05-25. TCCF創意內容大會. zh-Hant-TW.
  16. Web site: L.E.V. Matadero. Vrtx. Bodyless. Hsin-Chien Huang. 2021-05-25. LEV Festival. en-US.
  17. Web site: Singapore Biennale 2019: Every Step in the Right Direction. 2021-05-25. www.singaporebiennale.org.
  18. Web site: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien - Exhibition detail. 2021-05-25. www.nhm-wien.ac.at. en.
  19. Web site: "Thus have I remembered, once my mind was free" :Hsin-Chien Huang's new media installation art exhibition (如是我聞、一時自在：黃心健新媒體裝置展 中華平面設計協會 in Chinese). 2021-05-25. www.tgda.org.tw.
  20. Web site: The art of mortal apparatus : Hsin-Chien Huang's personal exhibition.
  21. Web site: SXSW Film Awards. 2021-05-16. SXSW. en-US.
  22. Web site: 2021-03-21. VR film by Taiwanese artist wins SXSW film award. 2021-05-16. Taiwan News.
  23. Web site: 2021-03-16. Four Highlights from SXSW 2021's Virtual Cinema Competition. 2021-05-16. COOL HUNTING®. en-US.
  24. Web site: LAFA. 2020-12-02. LAFA Winners - November 2020. 2020-12-16. LA Film Awards. en.
  25. Web site: AAA National Winners 2020.
  26. Web site: 黃心健VR創作 奪巴黎新影像藝術節最大獎[影] 文化 重點新聞 中央社 CNA]. 2021-02-26. www.cna.com.tw. zh-Hant-TW.
  27. Web site: 聯合新聞網. 15 June 2020. 黃心健VR作品失身記 奧地利電子藝術節奪榮譽獎 聯合新聞網：最懂你的新聞網站. 2021-02-26. 聯合新聞網. zh-Hant-TW.
  28. Web site: Kaohsiung Film Festival (高雄電影節 in Chinese). 2021-05-16. www.kff.tw.
  29. Web site: 得獎名單 高雄電影節. 2021-02-26. www.kff.tw.
  30. Web site: 2019-07-08. Venice Virtual Reality Lineup Biennale Cinema 2019. 2021-05-16. La Biennale di Venezia. en.
  31. Web site: 2017-07-28. the films of venice virtual reality section. 2021-05-16. La Biennale di Venezia. en.
  32. Web site: 中時新聞網. 黃心健未來劇場 玩VR穿越時空 - 藝文副刊. 2021-02-26. 中時新聞網. 28 May 2017 . zh-Hant-TW.
  33. Web site: 捷運信義線臺北101/世貿站公共藝術設置案文化部公共藝術獎. 2021-02-26. publicartawards.moc.gov.tw. zh-Hant-TW.
  34. Book: Huang, Hsin-Chien. The Color Devourer. Lionart. 2016. 9789574741458. Taipei.
  35. Book: Technology Mirage. LocusPublishing. 2013. 978-9862134221. Taiwan.
  36. Book: Pictographic Labyrinth. Moshi-Design Co.. 2003. 9789574113088. Taipei.

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