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Chih-Chieh Huang - NTHU

Scottie Chih-Chieh Huang (黃致傑) is an artist, designer, and educator, currently serves as an associate professor at the Center for General Education (CGE) at the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), where he actively leads the BioLogicDesign (BLD) Lab. He also maintains a joint appointment at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Institute of Art and Technology. His work focuses on biologically-inspired computing as a means to explore new aesthetics in the realm of generative graphic art and kinetic structural systems. His work have been showcased in museums, galleries, and festivals globally, including prestigious venues such as the ZKM, NYSCI, Kinetica Museum, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, and notable events like the Milan Design Week and Dutch Design Week, among others. His research exploring topics in shape-changing interface, recursive growth computation, creative robotics, interactive art and kinetic structural system has been presented and published in top-tier conferences and journals, including Bridges (Mathematical Art Galleries), ACM SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, IEEE VIS, ACM CHI, ALIFE, ISEA, CAAD FUTURES, HCII, Leonardo, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications, and others. He was received Aesthetica Art Prize (2022), MUSE Design Award (2022), ALIFE Art Award (2021), Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA (2020, 2022), Awards of Excellence by Communication Arts (2020), American Illustration Chosen Winner (2021), Semi Prize of Flower Design Award by Matsuyama Design Week (2018), 2rd SaloneSatellite Award by Salone del Mobile Milano (2015), featured in Elle Decor Italia's "Best of Design 2015," iF Design Award (2014), Red Dot Design Award (2013), DOMUS, FRAME magazine (2016), and A' Design Award (2020). Educationally, Scottie earned his Master's degree from the Graduate Institute of Architecture at the National Chiao Tung University before completing his Ph.D. in Architecture at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He spent time as a Visiting Researcher at the Digital Building Technologies (DBT) chair, Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) at the Department of Architecture (D-ARCH), ETH Zürich. In addition, he held residency positions at Grame - Centre National de Création Musicale in Lyon, France, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, USA. Before joining NTHU, Scottie taught at National Dong Hwa University and Chung Hua University. he has commitment to the development of the digital arts is evidenced by his service on the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community committee. He coordinated and chaired the SIGGRAPH Asia art gallery in 2014 and 2016, highlighting his dedication to this evolving field.