Prof. Xiaoniu Su-Chu Hsu
major: digital art, net art, digital creative learning
Dr. Su-Chu Hsu is the Director of the Center for Art and Technology at Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), where she is on the faculty. She created and built the Graduate program in Art and Technology and was the first chair. She is known for her work in network art, digital art, digital creative learning, and digital archives. She has held FBI Lab ("Futuristic Brilliant Interaction Laboratory"). She is a leading proponent for the integration of art and technology in Taiwan.
Dr. Hsu maintains active collaboration at UC Berkeley and its affiliated laboratories, where she spent the 2004-2005 year as part of a sabbatical research visit sponsored by Taiwan's National Science Council. She also spent six months in MIT Media Lab in 1996. Her project "DIGIart@eTaiwan - Manipulating Digital Archives Using Digital Art Techniques" received the 2006 award as the best technology innovation from Taiwan's National Science Council. She consulted with the National Digital Archives Program and she has done many different projects including of :
. 2009~2011 ZEN Research on Creative Space for Ease and Mindfulness
. 2006~2011 Wireless Sensor Network in Interactive Art & Humanity
. 2006~2008 Innovation Technology Development in Digital Life
. 2004~2006 Future Museum
. 2002~2004 Interactive Art
. 1999~2004 Digital Archives & Digital Museum
Dr. Hsu's current work focuses on the smart museum, the mart furniture and the digiart art using wirless sensor network. She built a feedback system for learning that collects information about participant behavior using wireless sensor networks that can be statistically analyzed, and examine the data through a visualization display in another interactive art work exhibited in the museum. In a new project that she directs together with professors at National Taiwan University and National Taipei University of Technology, she is proving her theme that "When Artists And Engineers Work Together, The Result is Something Neither Can Expect." Her projects, supported by the Taiwan National Science Council and Taiwan Ministry of Education include: "eLife - Innovation Application and Technology Development of Digital Life", "SMART - Streamlined Mobile Adaptive Resource Technology", and "Integrating Smart Clothing and Multimedia Feedback for Improving Personal Breathing Habit."
Dr. Hsu has published and lectured widely in the field of technology and art and advises a number of museums and art festivals on new media artworks. She also is involved in the field of Human Rights and has published several books and articles on issues relating to Human Rights. She is an avid traveler and photographer and has visited six continents and Antarctica.
