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NCKU Initiates Its Master Program on Techno ArtNational Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has initiated its first ever program focusing on techno art practice, which results from the university's renowned and excellent reputation in technology, science and design, and is part of College of Planning and Design. NCKU Master Program on Techno Art Program opened on August 1, 2015 and welcomed its first batch of students. Led by its Director, Professor Chien-Hsu Chen, the teaching of the program is currently conducted by four professors, including Professor Yen-Ting Cho, Professor Eleanor Gates-Stuart, Professor Hsuan-Cheng Lin and Professor Ming Turner. NCKU Master Program on Techno Art aims to cultivate talent in new technologies and art, to train talent in interdisciplinay creative practice, and to actuate the development and internationalization of techno art. Since the beginning of the program in August 2015, several internationally renowned scholars, artists, designers and curators have been invited to deliver talks on their research and projects at NCKU, including Rachel Marsden (Transcultural Curator based in the UK), Kevin Ryan (Director of Charnwood Arts, UK), Professor Mike Stubbs (Director of FACT, UK), Pei-Ying Lin (Bio-artist), Professor Emily Dolan (The Harvard University Department of Music) and Kristefan Minski (Researcher at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Austria). NCKU Master Program on Techno Art currently organizes a group exhibition, Broken Windows Theory, at Aglow Space in Tainan, and it is on display until January 28. The students exhibit their work in the show are Hsu Fan, Pei-Shan Huang, Yi-Chin Lee, Yi-Ning Lo, Tai-You Ye and Ting-Yi Yu, and the group skills set includes computer programming, industrial and graphic design, science and arts, curatorial practice, and digital holography.
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