• Day 3. Special Session: Photographer Presentation – Chien-Chi Chang & Lulu Shur-Tzy Hou
  • 6:15 – 7:15pm (Arizona)
  • 9:15 – 10:15am (Taipei)

HOU Lulu Shur-tzy was born in Chiayi, Taiwan. She graduated from the Department of Philosophy at National Taiwan University in 1985 and she received a Master of Fine Art degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Crafts and Creative Design of the National University of Kaohsiung. She recently had her solo exhibition “Out of Place — A Trilogy on Kaohsiung Military Dependents’ Villages” at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2017.

Hou’s works have been addressing Kaohsiung’s Zuoying and Fengshan military dependents’ villages over the course of many years. HOU has been widely exhibited in numerous international venues, including the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (2019); Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2018); Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (2012); Kokanecho Art Bazzar, Yokohama (2014) and in 2017, her works “Song of Asian Foreign Brides in Taiwan” were included in the book titled Creating Across Cultures: Women in the Arts of China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, which features the stories of 16 leading Chinese women artists.

Chief Curator, Tainan International Photo Festival

• Day 3. Roundtable
  • 7:15 – 8:15pm (Arizona)
  • 10:15 – 11:15am (Taipei)

Albert Huang is a film director and curator in photography. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography video and related media from School of Visual Arts, New York City. He is currently the Chief Curator of Tainan International photo Festival. He recently curated Emerging Taiwanese Cultural Landscape at the National Center of Photography and Images (NCPI). As a filmmaker, he directed and produced War Game 229, Xu Liang liang and her girls.

He is also the director of Eye on Taiwan Series, Ten years after 921, Portraits of Taiwan: Wu Chin-Yu, Lin Hwai-min (Discovery Channel International); Gods in Taiwan Series (National Geography Channel); Finding Formosa Series for Taiwan Public Television service. His solo exhibitions includ Taiwan between Centuries, Skin Deep, Homeless in the Gobble Village, Seeing East Seeing West Seeing, and Feels So Good To Be Home. His works are in the following collections: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The New York Public Library, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

• Day 2. Panel 1: Taiwanese Photography Then & Now
  • 5:00 – 7:00pm (Arizona)
  • 8:00 – 10:00am (Taipei)
• Day 3. Panel 2: Taiwanese Photography in Global Scene
  • 4:00 – 6:00pm (Arizona)
  • 7:00 – 9:00am (Taipei)
• Day 3. Roundtable
  • 7:15 – 8:15pm (Arizona)
  • 10:15 – 11:15am (Taipei)

Jeehey Kim’s research encompasses the history of photography, visual culture, and film studies in East Asia. Kim is currently working on two book projects: Imagining Korea through Photography, on the history of photography in Korea, and Photography and Death: Funerary Photo-Portraiture in East Asia. She also has been writing articles on vernacular photographic practices as well as on documentary films and visual culture in relation to the Cold War and to gender politics in East Asia.

As a curator, Kim has organized exhibitions such as the recent “Pyongyang Bookstore,” at Seoul Metropolitan Library, which presented North Korean artists of the 1950s and ’60s. Kim earned her doctorate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a dissertation on funerary portrait photography in East Asia. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

University of Sydney

• Day 3. Panel 2: Taiwanese Photography in Global Scene
  • 4:00 – 6:00pm (Arizona)
  • 7:00 – 9:00am (Taipei)

Dr Olivier Krischer is a historian of modern and contemporary East Asian arts with a particular interest in transcultural networks and photomedia. Following his PhD in Art History at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University and a Visiting Fellow at Academic Sinica, Taiwan. He is author and editor of What’s in a Name? After Orientalism (JOSAH #52, with Meghan Morris, 2021), Zhang Peili: from Painting to Video (2019), and Asia through Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation Across Borders (2013, with F. Nakamura, M. Perkins).

His curatorial projects include Wei Leng Tay – Abridge (2021); Wayfaring: Photography in 1970s-80s Taiwan (with Shuxia Chen, 2021), Zhang Peili: from Painting to Video (with Kim Machan, 2016), and Between: Picturing 1950-60s Taiwan (2015). He currently lectures in Asian Art at the National Art School, Sydney, and is convenor of the Sydney Asian Art Series at the Power Institute for Fine Arts, University of Sydney.

Publisher and Editor of Voices of Photography

• Day 2. Special Session: The Taiwanese Photography Magazine and Books
  • 7:00 – 8:00pm (Arizona)
  • 10:00 – 11:00am (Taipei)

Wei-I Lee, the founder and publisher of VOP. He publishes Voices of Photography, an independent publication dedicated to image culture which he helms as the chief editor. He engages in writing, design and editing, and also publishes books focusing on the cultural and historical diversity in photography. He has obtained several awards at the Golden Tripod Award, the highest honor in Taiwan’s publishing industry. He has also participated in the planning and judging of forums, workshops and exhibitions related to visual arts in Taiwan and internationally. He now lives and works in Taipei.

Professor, National Taiwan University of Arts

• Day 1. Keynote Speech.
  • 5:30 – 6:30pm (Arizona)
  • 8:30 – 9:30am (Taipei)

Hsin-Tien Liao is a professor at the National Taiwan University of Arts. Dr. Liao served as the Director-General of National Museum of History, Taiwan from 2018 to the early 2022. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Golden Bell Award of Radio, Best Host of Art and Culture and the Taiwanese Culture Award. He holds two doctoral degrees in sociology from the National Taiwan University and in Art History from the Central England University. He is the author of Metamorphosis – An Anthology of Essays by Dr. Hsin-tien Liao, the 14^th General Director of National Museum of History (Taiwan) and The Modern and Post-modern: Art and Visual Culture Theories.

Professor, Taipei National University of Arts

• Day 3. Special Session: Photographer Presentation – Chien-Chi Chang & Lulu Shur-Tzy Hou
  • 6:15 – 7:15pm (Arizona)
  • 9:15 – 10:15am (Taipei)

Hongjohn Lin (Taiwan) is an artist, writer, and curator. Lin earned a Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities from New York University. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including Taipei Biennial (2004), Manchester Asian Triennial (2008), Rotterdam Film Festival (2008), Taipei Biennial (2012), China Asia Biennial (2014), and Guangzhou Triennial (2015). Lin was the curator of the Taiwan Pavilion Atopia, Venice Biennial (2007), co-curator of Taipei Biennial (with Tirdad Zolghadr, 2010).

He is currently a Professor at the Taipei National University of the Arts. His writings were published in international magazines, journals, and publications. He wrote the Introductions for the Chinese edition of Art Power (Boris Groys) and Artificial Hells (Claire Bishop), and his publications in Chinese include Poetics of Curating (2018). He is the editor-in-chief of the online journal Curatography. Lin curated Hold the Mirror up to His Gaze, the premiere exhibition of the National Photography and Image Center in 2021. Lin is now working on a multi-year public art project in Wanhua District, Taipei, and the exhibition Immemory in Keelung Museum.  

Associate Professor, California College of the Arts

• Day 2. Panel 1: Taiwanese Photography Then & Now
  • 5:00 – 7:00pm (Arizona)
  • 8:00 – 10:00am (Taipei)
• Day 2. Special Session: The Taiwanese Photography Magazine and Books
  • 7:00 – 8:00pm (Arizona)
  • 10:00 – 11:00am (Taipei)

Mia Yinxing Liu is Associate Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at California College of the Arts, in San Francisco, CA. She received her Ph. D. in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2013, and previously was Postdoctorate Fellow at Yale University in 2014 and Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at Bates College. Her first book, The Literati Lens: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema (1950-1979) published in 2019 (University of Hawai’i Press), deals with the how landscape in feature cinema in Maoist China became fields of contesting visions. She also published on Chinese photography in the past few years, for example, “The Allegorical Landscape: Lang Jingshan’s Photography in Context” (Archives of Asian Arts, 2015), and “The Surrealist and Documentary in Chang Chao-Tang’s Photography” (Art in Translation, 2018). Her research interests focus on cinema, photography, optical devices, and other issues of media in the history of Chinese art and visual culture. Currently she is working on a book manuscript on the intermedial dialogues between ink painting and photography in modern China. 

Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography

• Day 3. Closing Remarks
  • 8:15pm (Arizona)
  • 11:15am (Taipei)

Rebecca Senf is Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Her B.A. in Art History is from the University of Arizona; her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded by Boston University. In 2012, her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press; in 2017, her book To Be Thirteen, showcasing the work of Betsy Schneider, was published by Radius Press and Phoenix Art Museum. Senf is an Ansel Adams scholar, with a book forthcoming on Ansel Adams’s early years, called Making a Photographer, copublished by the CCP and Yale University Press, due in early 2020.

Chief Curator, Research and Development Division, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Convener, National Center of Photography and Images

• Day 1. Special Session: National Center of Photography and Image
  • 6:30 – 7:30pm (Arizona)
  • 9:30 – 10:30am (Taipei)

Chao-yi Tsai is currently working as chief curator of Research and Development Division at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and also acts as the convener at the Preparatory Office of the National Center of Photography and Images. She joined the curatorial staff of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 1999 and worked as the chief curator of the Exhibition Division from 2009 to 2019, leading several projects at home and abroad, and organizing various exhibitions, seminars, international art works competitions, etc.

She was a board member of the International Committee for Exhibition Exchange (ICEE) of ICOM in 2002-2005. In 2003, she was an exchange research scholar of the Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A., and worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for 6 months. From 2010 to 2017, she was the Executive Director and a board member of the Taiwan Fine Arts Foundation.

She specializes in the curating of Asian Contemporary Art and modern/contemporary art in Taiwan and has curated numerous exhibitions including, Have you Eaten Yet? – 2007 Asian Art Biennial and Viewpoints & Viewing Points – 2009 Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Sensory Topology – Bodily Perception of Taiwan Contemporary Art at the Guangdong Museum of Art, China (2010), and Rolling! Visual Art in Taiwan at the Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, in 2013. Recent curatorial projects include The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists, 1951~1960 (2014), Eighty Years of Energy: Hsiao Chin’s Retrospect & Prospect (2015), Intuition‧Memory‧Primitive Energy: A-Sun Wu Retrospective (2018).

Founder, Lightbox Photo Library

• Day 2. Special Session: The Taiwanese Photography Magazine and Books
  • 7:00 – 8:00pm (Arizona)
  • 10:00 – 11:00am (Taipei)

Liang-Pin Tsao is an artist and founder of Lightbox Photo Library based in Taipei, Taiwan. He holds an MFA degree from Pratt Institute, and is the recipient of Fulbright Grant, New York Residency Program sponsored by the Ministry of Culture Taiwan, and Paris Photography Exchange program sponsored by French Office in Taipei, among others.

Additionally, he devotes himself to public services, art education and open culture. He is one of the advisory committee members of National Center of Photography and Images, an adjunct assistant professor at National Chengchi University, and the director of Lightbox Photo Library, a shared social infrastructure for Taiwanese photography community.