Abstract

mov.i.see is a unique immersive tech art experience, inviting participants to interact with information they input to explore form, time and space boundlessly, and transfer their inputted story into strong, colorful and ever-changing contemporary patterns. These can be applied to diverse fields (from performance to textiles and sculpture), creating cultural connections that cross the limitations of time and space. mov.i.see aims to give participants a different perspective to view visual data, and to destructively innovate linear artforms. It encourages interaction and re-connection, so that digital information produces new meanings, from the highly personal to critiques of the human condition or social and cultural environment, and most importantly creates a new aesthetic.

Bio.

Dr. Yen-Ting Cho is a designer, artist, educator and researcher with expertise in fashion and textiles design, and interdisciplinary digital design methods, including architecture, interaction design, and animation. He has a PhD in Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) from the Royal College of Art (RCA), London; and a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University. He was awarded Film Study Center Harvard Fellowships and his animation practice has received awards internationally. He has worked at INVIVIA (Cambridge, MA), and designed interactions for Microsoft Surface, GSD and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and designed patterns for American retailer CB2. He was a visiting tutor in IDE at the RCA, where his doctoral research was on ‘Cubic Film: Interdisciplinary Development of a Digital Participatory Moving Image Medium’.

Since 2016, Yen-Ting Cho has directed Yen Ting Cho Studio, a British-based digital design studio and consultancy with the brand YEN TING CHO, and offices in London and Tainan city, Taiwan. The YEN TING CHO brand of luxury fashion and interior design products is retailed in boutiques and stores across Asia, Europe and America, including the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The YEN TING CHO brand has won numerous awards, most recently gold for fashion design at the 2020 International Design Awards (IDA) and the 2021 MUSE Design Awards, and a 2021 A’Design Award. It has featured in international media, including Harvard GSD Platform, Design Magazine, Mot Times, Taipei Times, DFUN and Junction. Commissions and exhibitions include Camden Arts Centre (London), Manchester Science Festival, Siggraph Asia, ACMM, and curation of ‘Movement – Pattern – Object’ exhibition for the Taiwan Design Expo 2018.

In addition to his corporate design work, Yen-Ting Cho is Associate Professor in the Institute of Creative Industries Design and Master Program on Techno Art at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan and a consultant for the university’s Culture and Creativity Incubation and R&D Center.

All faculty and students are welcome to join.