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YIN-JU CHEN |
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| Training | |
| 2003 MFA | San Francisco Art Institute, New Genres Department (Video and Proformance art), USA |
| 2000 BFA | Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Residency/ Fellowship | |
| 2001-2003 | International Student Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 2010 | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten /Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2010 | Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan |
| Collections/ Distributions | |
| 1. Light Cone - The Light Cone Catalogue/ The Light Cone film distribution, Paris, France | |
| 2. Artists' Television Access 2005 DVD Compilation, San Francisco, USA | |
| 3. Objectifs Film, Singapore | |
| 4. Artists' Television Access 2009 DVD Compilation, San Francisco, USA | |
| 5. UbuWeb, web-based educational resource for avant-garde material, USA | |
| 6. Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, the Natherlands | |
| 7. JAVA Films, Paris, FR | |
| 8. Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Natherlands | |
| 9. Uitgeverij Lipari BV (Private cellction), Vleuten, The Netherlands | |
| Exhibitions/ Screenings | |
| ● 2012 | |
| 2/22-26 | The 34th Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, U.S.A. |
| 1/7-8 | Karel Appel House Open, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| ● 2011 | |
| 12/16-18 | Strange Screen III, Lemesos, Cyprus |
| 12/9 | EXiM 2011 - Asian Experimental Video Festival in Macao, OxWarehouse, Macao |
| 11/3-12/11 | Techno-ecologies: XIII International Festival for New Media Culture Art+Communication 2011, Riga, Latvia |
| 11/11-11/19 | 18th l'Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain |
| 11/17 | A Selected History of Abstract Film, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK |
| 10/25-10/30 | 15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Repulic |
| 10/15-22 | International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC), Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus |
| 9/14-16 | 2011 Preview Show Light Cone, Cinema Action Christine, Paris, France |
| 9/1-9/7 | EXiT - 2011 Experimetanl Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea |
| 7/22-31 | Guanajuato International Film Festival, San Miguel de Allende, México |
| 6/23-26 | 11th Signal and Noise Media Arts Festival, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 5/21-29 | VIDEOEX - International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 5/28 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 5/25 | Songs of Experience, Mendel Art Gallery at Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon, Canada |
| 5/12 | We Live Underground: A temporary exhibition TrouwAmsterdam - De Verdieping, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 5/5-7 | The 2nd Experimental Film Forum, The Substation Theatre, Singapore |
| 5/6-15 | Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland |
| 4/29-5/8 | Urban Nomad Film Fest, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 4/27-5/1 | European Media Art Festival 2011, Osnabrück, Germany |
| 4/27 | Productionist Metaphysics, 92YTribeca, New York, NY, USA |
| 4/15-29 | Edition N.1 - Wonderland, GlogauAIR Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 4/25 | Karel Appel House Open, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 4/1-5 | Tigers in Moscow - International Film Festival Rotterdam in Moscow and St. Petersburg Cool Connections at 35mm Cinema Hall, Moscow, Russia |
| 3/26 | Selections of Works by Hong and Chen, curated by Pamela Cohn and Andrew Grant/ Kino Satellite, at Blood Orange East, Berlin, Germany |
| 3/18 | Projection nomade : Agir au cinéma
- à l'occasion des Rencontres de Sophie au Lieu Unique Mire - Cinema experimental et image en mouvement, Nantes, France |
| 2/8-10 | Persistence Resistence - Films from London International Documentary Festival, New Delhi, India |
| 2/4 | Magic for Beginners, Skalitzer 140/ Temporary, Curated by Pamela Cohn, Berlin, Germany |
| 1/26 - 2/6 | 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 1/28-02/07 | Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden |
| 1/23 | remise: animation, Städtische Galerie Haus Coburg, Delmenhorst, Germany |
| ● 2010 | |
| 3 | San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco,USA |
| 4 | The Chicago Asian American Showcase, Chicago, USA |
| 4 | The 23rd Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore |
| 4/23 - 5/8 | The London International Documentary Festival, London, U.K. |
| 4/25 - 4/28 | Karel Appel House Open, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 5 | The 9th Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 5 | Animated Images, Goethe-Institut Taipei & Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, curated by Anita Beckers |
| 5/29 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 5 | The 9th Urban Nomad Film Festival Tour - Hsinchu Image Museum, Taiwan |
| 6/8-13 | The 9th Urban Nomad Film Festival Tour - National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan |
| 8 | Globians world & culture Documentary Film Festival, Berlin, Germany |
| 9/10-9/19 | The 9th Urban Nomad Film Festival Tour - Kaohsiung Film Archives, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| 9/24-25 | Moving Frames Festival - Mytilene Digital Art Festival, Greece |
| 10/11 | FLAHERTY NYC, Anthology Film Archives, New York City |
| 10/14 – 17 | Frieze Art Fair - Lighthouse on ResoVision: VideoClub Selection TV station broadcasting, Regent's Park, London, UK |
| 10/26-31 | International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava ,Czech Repulic |
| 11 | Cinema by the Bay, San Francisco, USA |
| 11 | EX!T 2010 – Experimental Media Art Festival in Taiwan, Taipei City, Taiwan |
| 11 | RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 12 | Il Festival del Cinema Indipendente, "Off Underground Awards",Torino, Italy |
| 12 | "Tangible Intangible", tamtamArt, Berlin, Germany, 2010 |
| 12 | End Transmission, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway |
| ● 2009 | |
| 2009/12.18- 2010/01.09 |
"NOMAD DOCZ" + "MOBILE MAN", Urban Nomad Film Festival + Wolong 2429, Taipei City, Taiwan |
| 2009/12/19 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2009/10/27-11/11 | The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic |
| 2009/10/14-12/15 | Multitud Singular - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain |
| 2009/10/17 | Kings of the Sky, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| 2009/10/9-17 | 12th Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada |
| 2009/10/10-17 | 13th Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films, Giza, Egypt |
| 2009/09/10-13 | Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, USA |
| 2009/6/10-28 | The 8th Urban Nomad Film Festival Tour - Hsinchu Image Museum, Taiwan |
| 2009/7/25 | Reflections: Material and Metaphor - The Inverted Lens, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA |
| 2009/5/31 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2009/5/27 | LA MACHINE EN SOUS, Le Cinématographe, Nantes, France |
| 2009/4/24-5/3 | The 8th Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2009/4/22-25 | Gdańsk DocFilm Festival, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 2009/4 ~ | introview/ Art Dubai 2009, tank.tv, The online gallery, Lodon, UK Curated by Aida Eltorie/ Sponsored by Contemporary Practices |
| 2009/4/7-28 | Permanent State of Emergency, Eyebeam, New York City, USA |
| 2009/4/15-19 | Migrating Forms, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, USA |
| 2009/3/18-21 | ASPIRATIONS: The Fable, The Dream and The One Thousand and One Night - Art Dubai 2009 Curated by Aida Eltorie/ Sponsored by Contemporary Practices |
| ● 2008 | |
| 2008/12 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2008/11/20-30 | The 21st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2008/11/23-12/3 | Detour - Third International Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt |
| 2008/11/13-29 | The XIII International Festival of Performance Art "Controlled Accidents", Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico, Curator: Edith Medina |
| 2008/11/27 | The Brighton Film Festival, Presented by Videoclub and CineCity, Lighthouse, Brighton, UK |
| 2008/11/14-22 | l'Alternativa 2008- 15th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2008/11/4-9 | 14th LYON ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL, Lyon, France |
| 2008/11/5-9 | International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland |
| 2008/11 | Pantheon International Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 7.0, Cyprus |
| 2008/10 | Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2008/10/8-19 | The Festival du nouveau cinema, Montréal, Canada |
| 2008/10/11 | Phoenix Video Festival, Presented by Videoclub at VIDEOPHILE, Brighton, UK |
| 2008/9/13-20 | 13th Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia |
| 2008/8/21 | VIDEO CLUB rememberedforgotten, Hold and Freight Gallery, Curated by Jamie Wyld, London, UK |
| 2008/6/26-29 | Darklight Festival 2008, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2008/6/28 | The Prison House of Technology - Some Experiments from California, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| 2008/6/13-15 | Pocket Films Festival, Center Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2008/6/4 | EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: CHEN & HONG, SPONTO Gallery, Los Angeles (Venice Beach), USA |
| 2008/5/31 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2008/5/21-26 | Busan Asian Short Film Festival, Busan, Korea |
| 2008/5/1-6 | 54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany |
| 2008/4/25-5/4 | URBAN NOMAD FILM FEST 2008 Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2008/4/12 | Other Cinema - EAST-WEST ESSAYS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NEW ASIA
Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2008/4/7-13 | The 2nd Cineposible International Film Festival of Extremadura, Spain |
| 2008/3 | Le Cinéma Oblò & L’Autre Cinéma, Switzerland |
| 2008/3/6,3/7 | Tampere Film Festival 2008, Tampere, Finland |
| ● 2007 | |
| 2007/12 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2007/11 | Encounters 13th International Short Film Festival Watershed, Bristol, UK |
| 2007/10.25-11.4 | 17th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - CURTA CINEMA, Brazil |
| 2007/10 | ATA 2007 Film & Video Festival Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2007/09.22 | Other Cinema - Daughter Knows Best Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2007/09.11-26 | 11th Annual MadCat Women's International Film Festival Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2007/07-08 | Das Prekarium Arttransponder, Berlin, Germany |
| 2007/07-08 | Notthatbalai Art Festival Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 2007/06 | Scope Basel International Contemporary Art Fair Basel, Switzerland |
| 2007/05.26 | Wunderkammer, 2nd Annual Garage Biennale 2nd Annual Garage Biennale, San Francisco, USA |
| 2007/05.26 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2007/05 | BUSAN ASIAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Busan, Korea |
| 2007/04-05 | URBAN NOMAD FILM FEST 2007 Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2007/04.26 | 10th SAGUNT SHORTFILM FESTIVAL (FIRST PRIZE in Video Art) Sagunt, Spain |
| 2007/03 | La Enana Marrón, Madrid, Spain |
| 2007/03.13 | ALTERNATIVE VISIONS:When a Stranger Comes to Town: Recent Animations
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA |
| 2007/03.08 | Imported Landscapes, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| 2007/01 | T-10 Video Festival, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, USA |
| ● 2006 | |
| 2006-2007 | FLUXUS 2006 - 6th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ON THE INTERNET Brazil |
| 2006/12.18 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2006/11.4-18 | Gen Art SF: EMERGE! Warfield Building, San Francisco, USA |
| 2006/10 | Women Make Waves Film Festival Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2006/10 | ATA Film Festival Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2006/09.14 | Light Cone Preview Show 2006 Au Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2006/09 | Seoul Net Festival Korea |
| 2006/09 | Media Art Festival Friesland The Netherlands |
| 2006/09.30 | Antimatter Underground Film Festival Victoria, BC, Canada |
| 2006/07.28 | State of Exception, Studio 27 Studio 27, San Francisco, USA |
| 2006/06.24 | Flaherty Film Seminar New York, USA |
| 2006/05.20 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2006/06.18 | Dislocations, NewYorkRioTokio, NewYorkRioTokio, Berlin, Germany |
| 2006/05/14 | San Francisco Cinematheque Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, USA |
| 2006/04-05 | The 49th San Francisco International Film Festival Kabuki theater, San Francisco, USA |
| 2006/03 | Women of Color Film Festival Yerba Buena Gardens theater in San Francisco, USA |
| ● 2005 | |
| 2005/12.17 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2005/11-12 | Mayhem, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA |
| 2005/10 | You Don't Know San Francisco, INVISIBLE VENUE - an online exhibition |
| 2005/09.22 | APAture 2005 : A window on the art of young Asian Pacific Americans San Francisco, USA |
| 2005/09 | 8th Antimatter Underground Film Festival Victoria, BC, Canada |
| 2005/09 | MadCat Film Festiva San Francisco, USA |
| 2005/05.28 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Work Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2005/05.24 | Pirated, SOMARTS Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA |
| 2005/04.05 | Kino Lab screening of San Francisco Video Art, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2005/03.26 | URBAN NOMAD FILM FEST 2007 Treasure Hill , Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2005/01.21 | Death by Tealight II Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| ● 2004 | |
| 2004/12.18 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2004/11.12 | EPIC, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA |
| 2004/09.29 | En el patio video-arte desde San Francisco en Bogota, Valenzuela y Klenner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia |
| 2004/09.14-25 | APAture 2004 : A window on the art of young Asian pacific Americans SOMARTS Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA |
| 2004/06.19 | Death by Tealight Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2004/05.29 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2004/03 | Hua Shan Round Table - 3rd Artist Fair Hua Shan Art District, Taipei |
| ● 2003 | |
| 2003/12.20 | Other Cinema - New Experimental Works Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2003/11.13 | “Crash” ,Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA |
| 2003/11.13 | Asian Experimental Films and Video, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of art and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries, USA |
| 2003/10-11 | Intervals (themes and variations on) relational space Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, USA |
| 2003/11 | Microwave Media Art Festival Hong Kong Space Museum, Hong Kong |
| 2003/09.26 | The Element of Temporary, New Langton arts, San Francisco |
| 2003/06 | Chine [s] - Videoart et cinema experimental de Chine populaire et de Taiwan Scratch Projection, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, France |
| 2003/04.10 | Other Directions of Documentary, New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco |
| ● 2002 | |
| 2002/11 | Public behavior, private dream, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, USA |
| 2002/10-11 | Loaded, Dorothy W. and C. Lawson Reed, Jr. Gallery DAAP Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| 2002/5.15 | Pedestrian Imposter, Galeria De Raza Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
| 2002/3.12 | Not Ready to Go Public (Performance/Video), McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, USA |
| ● 2001 | |
| 2001/12 | Beruhrungsangst (Fear of Touching), 701 Studio, San Francisco Art Institute, USA |
| ● 2000 | |
| 2000/09 | Annexation of Art Exhibition (by various artists) of the Taipei Biennial Art Exhibition Leisure Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2000/07 | Improvisation Taipei, Taiwan |
| ● 1998 | |
| 1998/12 | Stupid South-North Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Publications | |
| 2004-now | 1. "Bay Area Arts" & "Contemporary Art", Artist Magazine, Vol. 351(August/2004 – Present), Taipei Taiwan |
| 2006 | 2. "From Cremaster Cycle to Drawing Restaint 9 - Matthew Barney's Total Work of Art", 2006 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Catalogue 3. 2006 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival News issue no.2 " Another Variant of the Gender Myth: Cremaster Cycle" and no. 5 " Barney-Style Romance: Drawing Restaint 9" |
| Lectures/ presentations | 11/26/2008 Paradocs talks: Tools'r us International Documentary Festival Amsterdam/IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 12/12/2008 Madeleine Bernstorff - First Person Film seminar Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK), Germany |
| Bibliography | 1. Petra Bibeau, "Long Story Short: Bay Area Exposes Roots"
2. Other Zine - Chen Chews: Musings on Cultural Indigestion, by Sylvia Shedulbour 3. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film Volume: 6 | Issue: 2 Panthers vs. Vixens: Report on the 54th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, 1–6 May, 2008 Authors: Benjamin Halligan 4. "Frames of Fear", by Jill Conner, Entrepreneur Magazine, Afterimage 5. "Film Fest Spotlights Asian American Experience", by Sura Wood SF ART Monthly, SF ARTS.ORG, March 2010 | Vol. 21 | no. 9 6. "Bumper Corp of Local Asian-American Docs", by Mara Math Cine Source – a forum for moving image makers, March 2010 |
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