Tsai-Wei Chen

Education:

PhD in Composition since 2004 Music department, Goldsmiths College
MPhil in Printmaking 2000-2002 Royal College of Art
MFA in Fine Art Media 1998-2000 The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
BA (Hons) Fine Art, 1st Class 1995-1998 Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury
BA Accounting 1991-1995 Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan

Awards:

• The Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORSAS) 2005-2008
  Provider: Universities of UK
• The Research Funding 2005- 2007
  Provider: The music department, Goldsmiths College, University of London
• The Access Fund 2000- 2002
  Provider: The printmaking department, Royal College of Art
• The Margaret Pulsford Annual Book Prize 1999
  Provider: Pargaret Pulsford through the Slade School of Fine Art, for artist’s book making
• Barclays Award 1998
  Provider: Barclays Bank PLC through KIAD, for being the Best (BA) Degree Show

Exhibitions:

• East @ West Wing Festival, The West Wing, Slough, March 2007
• Example is Experiment, Amalgamation and Pleasure, Hwa-Shan Art District, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 2005
• Sound Café, Jedburgh Community and Arts Centre, The Friars, Jedburgh, Nov 2005
• Acústicas Del Control, Zèppelin 2005: Festival de Proyectos Sonoros, Barcelona, España, Nov 2005
• Gathering Momentum, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, July 2003
• A Plea to Somewhere Else, Bury Art Gallery & Museum, Bury, May 2003
• Long Way Home, Goldsmiths College, London, Aug 2002
• The Portobello Film Festival 2002 Multimedia Weekend, London, Aug 2002
• Arcadia in the City, the Marble Hill House, Richmond, July 2002
• Sound and Vision, David Bowie’s Meltdown 2002, The Royal Festival Hall, London, June 2002
• We Did It, domoBaal Contemporary Art, London, April 2002
• Sound of Self-Exile, solo show, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, Nov 2001
• The Golden Emporium, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, Nov 1999
• Alan Smithee, the A Gallery, London, March 1999
• Artists’ books, the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, May 1998

• ‘The Beach in My Room’, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, 18 Oct 2003
• ‘I Hear & I Sing’, Juice, Architecture Foundation, London, 29 Jan 2002
• ‘Read My Writing’ & ‘The Chinese Menu’, Royal College of Art, 13 June 2001
• ‘The Cicada’, Royal College of Art, 8 Dec 2000
• ‘Chinese Dinner’, Date of Return, UCL, 10, 11 Mar 2000
• ‘Sa’, Macadamia, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, 18, 19 Feb 2000
• ‘Friends’ Boards’, the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, 16 Dec 1999
• ‘Something is Going to Happen: Sound Bookwork’, the Slade School of Fine Art, 7 Oct 1999

Other selected experiences as an artist:

• A member of the committee of the UK & Ireland Soudscape Community (UKISC), since Dec 2004
• Graphic designer, the Rotary Club of Taipei Taochiang, District 3480 R.I., Taiwan, since April 2006
• Organising a public sound walk in Tamsui, Taiwan and producing a CD, 26 Nov 2005
• Artist residency in the 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, USA, sponsored by the Council for Cultural Affairs in Taiwan, Aug- Oct 2003
• Virtual artist in residence in the webpage of the department of geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Oct 2002- Oct 2004

Teaching experience:

• Art workshop leader Holy Trinity School, London Jan-March 2007
  Teaching 4 hours per week for year 4 pupils. Using drawings, recycled materials, environmental sounds and vocal performance to produce artworks for an exhibition.
• Teaching assistant Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London Jan-March 2005
  Assisting 3 hours per week for undergraduate year 2 students on the Geographic Information System (GIS) course.
• Art workshop leader Aylesham County Primary Nursery, Canterbury Jan-March 1997
  Doing art workshops for children age 3-5. Using straws, thread and poster paints to produce artworks for an exhibition.
• Art workshop leader The scout group of Fu-Jen University, Taipei 1991-1995
  Teaching scouts of age 13-15 and 19-22 to make posters during term time and holidays.

Teaching training:

• Training to be a teacher of Mandarin April-June 2007
  The Chinese Language Education Centre, National Taipei University of Education
• Training to deliver creative projects for children and to achieve the Arts Community Exchange Training Community Arts Leader Award Dec 2006 and Jan-June 2007
  Time Bank, a national charity
• Preparing to Teach for Postgraduates May 2004
  Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design (CLTAD) at Central St Martins College of Art & Design

Publications by Tsai-Wei ChenExhibition catalogues

• Example is experiment, amalgamation and pleasure, Y. C. Chou (ed.), Taiwan: The Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan, 2005
• Gathering Momentum, Manchester: Chinese Arts Centre, 2003
• Arcadia in the City at Marble Hill, UK: English heritage & the-e-gallery Ltd, 2002Papers
• ‘On the way home: Taipei sojourners’ sonic constellations in London’ (With K. A. Melachroinos), in The West Meets the East in Acoustic Ecology, T. Imada, K. Hiramatsu and K. Torigoe (eds.), Japanese Association for Sound Ecology and Hirosaki University International Music Centre, Hirosaki, Japan, 2006, 119-129
• ‘Sonic Constellations: Taiwanese Sojourners’ Listening Experiences in London’, in Organised Sound 11/1, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 37-44
• ‘Mapping with Gaps’, MPhil in Printmaking dissertation, RCA, 2002
• ‘Text Singers’, an bookwork with an audio CD, collaborated with the Slade postgraduates, curated and edited by T. W. Chen, 2001
• ‘Now I am Ready to Shout’, the Slade Journal, Vol.4, Summer 2000, 109-126
• ‘Now I am Ready to Shout’, MFA in Fine Art Media dissertation, The Slade School of Fine Art, 2000
• ‘The Expressive Text in Theory and in Practice’, BA Fine Art dissertation, KIAD, 1998
  Papers presented for academic conferences
• ‘On the Way Home: Taipei Sojourners’ Sonic Constellations in London’ (with K. A. Melachroinos). Invited talk for LSE’s London Taiwan Seminar at SOAS, 9 Nov 2006
• ‘On the Way Home: Taipei Sojourners’ Sonic constellations in London’ (with K. A. Melachroinos). In World Forum Acoustic Ecology at Hirosaki University, Japan, 3 Nov 2006
• ‘The Taiwanese Soundscape’. Invited talk for the Rotary Club of Taipei Taochiang, District 3480 R.I., Taiwan at the Caesar Hotel, 31 Oct 2006
• ‘On the Way Home: Taipei Sojourners’ Sonic Constellations in London’. Invited talk for Live Art’s Artist Review Series: Immersivity, Art, Architecture, Sound and Ecology at Goldsmiths College, London, 20 Sep 2006
• ‘On the Way Home: Taipei Sojourners’ Sonic Constellations in London’. In Architecture/ Music/Acoustics at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 8 June 2006
• ‘On the Way Home: Taipei Sojourners’ Sonic Constellations in London’. In Sensi/able Spaces: Space, Art and the Environment at University of Iceland, Iceland, 2 June 2006
• ‘Sonic Constellations: Taiwanese Sojourners’ Listening Experiences in London’. In Contemporary Cultures of Time and Space at Goldsmiths College, 2 Dec 2005
• ‘Sonic constellations and cross-cultural identities of Taiwanese sojourners in London: echoes of nostalgia’. In RGS-IBG annual conference: Urban Sustainability at Royal Geographical Society, London, 1 Sep 2005
• ‘Sonic constellations’ and cross-cultural identities of Taiwanese sojourners in London: echoes of nostalgia’. In Expo 966: annual sonic arts network exposition at University of Hull, Scarborough, UK, 20 June 2005
• ‘Sonic constellations’ and cross-cultural identities of Taiwanese sojourners in London: echoes of nostalgia’. In the Music Research Forum, Goldsmiths College, 10 May 2005
• ‘Nostalgic Soundscape of Taiwan—An acoustemology of Taiwanese sojourners in London’. In the Nostalgia and Cultural Memory Grad Conference at University of Victoria, Canada, 5 March 2005
• ‘Nostalgic Soundscape of Taiwan—An acoustemology of Taiwanese sojourners in London’. In SonicInteractions: postgraduate conference on interactivity and sonic art at Goldsmiths College, 20 Feb 2005
• ‘The Interactions between the auditory perspectives and the politics of power—a London-based Taiwanese overseas student’s auditory experiences in cross-geography’. In Research Week 2004 at the Wimbledom School of Art, London, 24 Sep 2004
• ‘Mapping with Gaps’. In the Emotional Geographies International Conference at Lancaster University, UK, 25 Sep 2002Web sites