Jun-Jieh Wang currently serves as the director of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and is a professor in the Department of New Media Art at Taipei National University of the Arts. He received a master’s degree in art from Berlin University of the Arts. In 1984, Wang started making videos and became a pioneer of new media art in Taiwan. He is a recipient of the Hsiung-Shih New Artists Award, Berlin Television Tower Award, and the Taishin Arts Award for visual arts.
He has shown work at major international exhibitions, including the Gwangju Biennale, Venice Biennale, Taipei Biennial, Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, European Media Art Festival, and Transmediale Berlin; and curated the B!AS: International Sound Art Exhibition (TFAM, 2005), Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga (TFAM, 2006), the Taipei Digital Art Festival (2009, 2012, 2013, 2014), and Re-Base: When Experiments Become Attitude (Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, 2018).
Wang has also contributed to interdisciplinary digital scenic designs for productions of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungen performed by the Taiwan Philharmonic in 2006, and Giacomo Puccini's Turandot performed at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2015 and at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts Weiwuying in 2019. He directed Sin City, which was performed at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in 2013, and The Night of Sodom, performed at the TFAM in 2015.
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