Über mich

Ting-Chun Liu (Taipeh, Taiwan) ist Künstler, dessen Praxis und Forschung an den Schnittstellen von kritischer künstlicher Intelligenz, audiovisuellen Medien und Netzwerkpraxis angesiedelt sind. Indem er technologische Systeme mit feedbackbasierten Interventionen seziert, untersucht er, wie sich Wahrnehmung, Ästhetik und Machtverhältnisse durch computergestützte Prozesse fortpflanzen.

tingchun.liu.tw@gmail.com

Lehre

2025–Lecturer and Artistic Associate (Künstlerischer Mitarbeiter), Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
2026Guest Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art, Digital Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna (Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching)
2024Guest Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Chair of Media Environments, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
2022–2024Student Assistant, Experimental Informatics, Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Ausbildung

2020–2025Postgraduate Diploma, Media and Fine Art (with Distinction), Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM)
2014–2018B.F.A. in New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA)

Auszeichnungen & Fellowships

2026Fellowship für Innovationen in der digitalen Hochschullehre Thüringen, Stifterverband. Project “Lokale KI-Anwendung im Bewegtbild-Studio” (Local AI Application in the Moving-Image Studio), until 2027
2025Weizenbaum-Studienpreis, FIfF e.V. (Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung). Postgraduate thesis: Heat as Generative Image Making

Vorträge, Talks & Workshops

2026“Condition for Emotions”, DFG network “Das Wissen der digitalen Literatur”
2026Animism Revisited, Digital Arts Community, ACM SIGGRAPH, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2026mtrail Ausbildungscamp, Lindau, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2026KISDtalk: Paranoia De-Prompting, KISD Köln International School of Design, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2026Latenz, Storage Museum Düsseldorf, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr, Dominik Bönisch-Alpári, Prof. Dr. Ludger Schwarte
2026Stereotype Encoding, Latent Space Symposium, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2026Generating for the Archive, Storage Museum Düsseldorf, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
202551 Ways to Spell the Image Giraffe: The Hidden Politics of Token Languages in Generative AI, 39th Chaos Communication Congress, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2025Reverberation of the Blackbox Image, Auditory Aesthetics Series, National Tsing Hua University
2025Bauhaus Master Lecture, Bauhaus University Weimar
2025Artistic Experiments on AI Image, Taipei National University of the Arts
2025Feedback in AI, Screen Walks, London, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2025Feedback in Generative Art, Café Nimmersatt, Wolfhagen
2024arafed futures – An Artist Dialogue on Chip Storage and AI Accelerationism, 38th Chaos Communication Congress, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2024On the Materiality of Artificial Intelligence, Correlations – Forum für KI in Kunst und Design, HfG Offenbach
2024Künstliche Intelligenz – Heilsbringer oder Apokalypse, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, Siggen, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2024Artistic Research on Recursive Dynamics in Generative Image Models, TEDA’24: The Magic Machine, University of Cambridge, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2024Chip Shortage, Acceleration and Taiwan’s Dilemma, Magic Wand, [ ] ground zero, Cologne
2024Fotografie in der KI-Krise? Lecture Series Photographic Studies, Fachhochschule Dortmund
2024Kulturelle Bildung in postdigitalen Lebenswelten, jfc Medienzentrum, Cologne, w/ Benita Martis
2023Self-cannibalizing AI – Artistic Strategies to Expose Generative Text-to-Image Models, 37th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2023Aesthetic Approaches to Cyber Peace Work, FIfFKon 2023, Berlin, w/ Christian Heck, Benita Martis, Anton Linus Jehle, Lisa Reutelsterz, Naoto Hieda, Bidisha Das, Kjell Wistoff, Conrad Weise, Pedro A. Ramirez, Leon-Etienne Kühr

Publikationen & Texte

2026Heat as (Generative) Image Making, FIfF-Kommunikation 1/26, p. 64, FIfF e.V. Essay for the Weizenbaum-Studienpreis 2025
2025Stereotype Encoding: How AI Images Learn Cultural Bias, Latent Space, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf
2025On the Materiality of Artificial Intelligence, in: un/learn ai – integrating AI in aesthetic practices, Vol. 3, pp. 218–223, Forschungsprojekt KITeGG
2024Hello, hello, hello, hello? Hello? Hello! Human! Exhibition catalogue “Hello, Human!”, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (Mandarin/English)
2024Positioning – A Prerequisite for Immersion, Digiarts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2022Poetic Materialization – Regarding Midjourney, [ ] ground zero – poetics of technics and cognition
2021The Rule Becomes the Author!, [ ] ground zero – poetics of technics and cognition

Ausstellungen

2026AI-Worlding, Staatstheater Darmstadt, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2026AI-Worlding, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2025Interpolation of the Invisible Color, Storage Museum, Düsseldorf, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr
2025Art Cologne, Messe, Cologne
2025Ars Electronica Campus, Linz
2025Ausstellung Kreisläufen, Café Nimmersatt, Wolfhagen
2023Ephemeral Connections, Glasmoog, Cologne
2023Ghosts at the Feast, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2023Kölner Kongress ’23, Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
2023FILE: Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro
2022soundings Xtra, Aula, Cologne
2022ACHT BRÜCKEN Festival, Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne
2020Urban Interpreter Online, 241 Art Gallery, Hsinchu
2020Ars Electronica .ART Global Gallery, online
2018id_city: Videos by Art Graduates of HK/China/Taiwan, PMQ, Hong Kong
2018Fresh Trend 2018 Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, Hong Kong City Hall
2017Shell Arrows Land On Unique Notes, Šaloun, Prague

Performances

202554. moers festival, Moers
2023Blaues Rauschen Festival ’23, Folkwang-Musikschule
2019Nuit Blanche — Lacking Sound Festival (失聲祭) #Soirée, Winsing Art Place, Taipei
2019Xero Xerco 聲淵, Artalley Café, Taipei
2019Power Up! 全域通電！, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei
2018A/V衝刺班_噪流實習 vol.1, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei
2018Department of “ ” Media Art, Underground Gallery, Taipei
2018Undefined Senses – That Party Looks So “Pa”, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei
2017Lacking Sound Festival 失聲祭, Venue, Taipei
2017Come Down!, Arts Forum, Taipei
2017I Promised to Do Again in Taiwan, Taipei National University of the Arts
2016A/P, Underground Gallery, Taipei

Neue-Medien-Projekte & Theater

2021EAT – KuanDu Light Art Festival, TNUA Da Vinci's Kitchen, Taipei (Co-Artist)
2021Treasure Hill Light Festival, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei (Programmer)
2020Nuit Blanche, Nangang, Taipei (Programmer)
2020Wang Lien-cheng: The Scenery of Little Light, National Taichung Theater (New Media Art Team)
2019Baroque Robotics Studio — Ship of Fools, The Bamboo Curtain Studio, New Taipei City (Sound Design)
2019Sleep 79 — Sanatorium for Information Shock-Workers, First Set, C-LAB, Taipei (Brainwave Programming Assistant)
2018夜長夢多, National Human Rights Museum, Taipei (Interactive Design)
2018Undefined Senses, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei (Director / Technical Coordinator)
2018Yue-Jin Lantern Festival, Tainan (Co-Artist)
2017Bengaluru Fantastic 2017, Rangoli Metro Arts Center, Bengaluru (Sound Engineer)
2017Nuit Blanche, Taipei (Co-Artist)