TSAI-WEI CHEN

Website: http://homepage.mac.com/wei224/TWC.htm

Education:

• PhD in Music   2004-2009 (expected)    Music Department, Goldsmiths, University of London
• 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

Teaching experiences:

• Adjunct lecturer in Phonography    Music Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, Oct-Dec 2007-8
• Art workshop leader    Summer Uni London, organised by Barnet Council, Aug 2008
• Art workshop leader    Asia House, London, Nov 2007, April 2008
• Art workshop leader    Holy Trinity School, London, Jan-March 2007
• Teaching assistant    GIS, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Jan-March 2005
• Art workshop leader    Aylesham County Primary Nursery, Canterbury, Jan-March 1997
• Art workshop leader    The scout group of Fu-Jen University, Taipei, 1991-1995

Received Teaching trainings:

• Postgraduate Certificate in Management and Teaching (for higher education), Nov 2007- (Goldsmiths, University of London)
• 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)
• 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)

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 Funding    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)   

Selected exhibitions:

• Hear! Taiwan, commissioned by Wind Music, Oct 2009
• Hear In Taiwan, interviewed by Radio Taiwan International's English Service, Aug 2009
• Jam: Cultural Congestions in Contemporary Asian Art, South Hill Park, Feb 2009
• Essence, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, July 2008
• Sonic Constellations, solo show, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2008
• 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

Public performances:

• 'About Sonic Constellations', Lacking Sound Festival, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 21 March 2008
• '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 management committee of the UK & Ireland Soudscape Community (UKISC), as the treasurer and in charge of membership, since Dec 2004
• Graphic designer, the Rotary Club of Taipei Taochiang, District 3480 R.I., Taiwan, since April 2006
• Curating two CD projects through my blog Taiwan Soundscape. The theme of the first album was a public sound walk in Tamsui, Taiwan on 26 Nov 2005. The second album was a collected sound diary recorded around different places of Taiwan on 23 June 2007.
• Graphic designer, the Rotary Club of Taipei Taochiang, District 3480 R.I., Taiwan, April 2006-June 2007
• 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

Publications by Tsai-Wei Chen

Exhibition 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, 2002

Published papers

• 'My Favourite London Sound', in Soundscape, The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2007, p. 8.
• 'A Nostalgic Soundscape of Taiwan: An Acoustemology of Taiwanese Sojourners Listening Experiences in London', in Earshot (5), J. Drever (ed.), the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community, 2007, 51-55.
• '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 2002