This series of artist talks begins with art, connecting history, identity, and contemporary conditions, while revisiting experiences that have been overlooked or silenced. Through dialogues between artists and speakers from different fields, it reconsiders how “WE” are formed and excluded, and how “WE” continue to emerge in a rapidly changing world, opening new possibilities for understanding and imagination.
▌Session 3
Artificial Stupidity & Artistic Intelligence
TSUI Kuang-Yu, Clara CHEUNG (Discussant), Gum Yee-Man CHENG (Discussant),
WEI Tzer-Jen (Discussant), SHEN Bo-Chen (Moderator)
Time: 05/10 Sun. 14:00-16:00
Venue: Multi-function Space
▶This event is supported by the Ministry of Culture.
▶Free Admission via Online Registration
Speaker Bio
Session 3
▌ TSUI Kuang-Yu
TSUI Kuang-Yu was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1974. He graduated from National Institute of the Arts in 1997, and has exhibited internationally, including Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Werkleitz Biennale, Reina Sofia Museum, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Chelsea Art Museum, Mori Art Museum, and OK Center for Contemporary Art Austria. He is interested in the evolving relationship between humanity and society, and how human nature adapts to shifting social structures. His work interrogates the systemic matrix we inhabit through interventions that defy cultural norms; specifically, his repetitive bodily experiments expose the absurdity of a collective ethos that has become entrenched.
▌ Clara CHEUNG, Gum Yee-Man CHENG (C & G)
C & G (Clara CHEUNG & Gum Yee-Man CHENG) are two Hong Kong artists who founded the independent art space: C & G Artpartment in Hong Kong, in 2007. Since its establishment, C & G Artpartment has curated more than 120 art exhibitions featuring over 200 artists from different regions. The artistic practice of C & G is humourous and challenging. Their projects are collective and participatory in nature. C & G were invited to participate in Shanghai Biennale (2018) and Singapore Biennale (2019). The artists relocated to Sheffield, UK, in 2021 due to political pressures. Since then, C & G have continued their critical art practise, like launching the “Harcourt Road” Art Project in collaboration with Bloc Projects in Sheffield (2023-25), curating “Present Tense 2023: Perilous Playground” art exhibition at Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, US (2023), curating “The Guilty Will Kneel” group exhibition at the Oslo Freedom Forum (2025). At its current location in Sheffield, C & G are now developing a series of exchange projects that connect artists from East and South East Asia (ESEA) and the ESEA community in the UK, and proactively contributing to the broader on-going dialogue of decoloniality that goes beyond Hong Kong.
▌ WEI Tzer-Jen
WEI Tzer-Jen is an associate professor at the School of AI at Yang ming Chiao Tong University, Google Developer Expert (AI/Cloud). When serving in the Department of Mathematics, Dong Hua University, he established technical communities such as Hualien.py and Google Developer Groups Hualien, and participated in the organization of PyCon Taiwan, PyCon APAC. Currently participating in a number of industry-university cooperation and consulting, establishing related AI applications and mathematical models.
▌ SHEN Bo-Chen
SHEN Bo-Chen is an independent curator, art critic, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. He holds a PhD in Art Creation and Theory from Tainan National University of the Arts.His academic path has been anything but linear. Inspired by MacGyver, he once studied chemistry and worked as a materials engineer. Fascinated by the adventurous spirit of Indiana Jones, he also spent time involved in archaeological research. Later, intrigued by the Austrian School’s idea that economics is fundamentally a science of human action, he joined the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research as a researcher.Eventually, however, his true fascination with exhibitions took over. What began as a side interest gradually turned into a parallel career as an independent curator. Over the years, he has also been invited to give exhibition talks and guided tours at institutions such as the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei.His art criticism has appeared in publications including ARTouch and ARTCO Monthly. In short, his career has moved from chemistry labs to archaeological sites, from economic research institutes to art museums—an intellectual itinerary that perhaps makes curating exhibitions feel like the most natural adventure of all.
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