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Holder of a doctoral degree in aesthetics from the Institute of Philosophy at Université Paris 8, Chien-Hung Huang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and part-time Assistant Professor at the Tainan National University of the Arts. Huang has also held the positions of Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio, Television & Film at Shih Hsin University, cinema magazine columnist, and curator of the exhibition "POST.O – The Reverse of TOPOS". His fields of research include the philosophy of imagery, aesthetics, and the film theory of Gilles Deleuze. He is the author of An Independent Variety of Discourse and the editor of books including COQ. Huang received the top prize for translation at the first Taipei Digital Art Criticism Awards in 2007, and has translated numerous titles including Deleuze's Cinéma I: L'image-mouvement and Cinéma II: L'image-temps, Jean Baudrillard's The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel's The Singular Objects of Architecture, and Jacques Rancière's The Future of Images.

Chien-Hung Huang

A graduate of the Institute of Plastic Arts at Université Paris 8 with a diploma from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France. Chen Taisong is an Assistant Professor at Taipei National University of the Arts, National Taipei University of Education, Chung Yuan Christian University, and Shih Chien University. Chen is also an observer member of the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, and member of the National Cultural Association's Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta Promotional Committee. Chen has authored several books of art criticism since returning to Taiwan in 1995, and has published numerous articles in catalogues and periodicals.

Chen Taisong