About
Chin-Hsiang Hu
胡縉祥
Chin-Hsiang Hu is a media artist and the founder of Peppercorns Interactive Media Art. In the post-natural landscape of the Anthropocene, he transforms media technology from a carrier of information into a probe for perception — using light, data, and algorithms to portray memory, sensation, and the connections between people.
He is recognized for integrating concept, team, and technology into large-scale international projects, and for developing a unique creative language that combines spatial composition, sound, and cross-media visuals to construct narrative-driven digital experiences.
His work has received international recognition including the SIGGRAPH Asia Best XR Technology Award and Audience Choice Award (2019), two National Art Exhibition Gold Prizes in New Media (2016, 2021), Red Dot Design Award, Good Design Award, Golden Pin Design Award, the Lumen Prize shortlist, MUSE Design Awards, and the Arte Laguna Prize (Italy). In 2013, he was awarded an international residency at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media (Netherlands).
Since founding Peppercorns Interactive Media Art in 2016, he has led an 8-member team in executing large-scale art festivals, public art commissions, and international exhibitions. In 2025, the team presented on Signal Festival's main stage in Prague (the first Taiwanese team) and at RADAR Festival in Bucharest (the first Asian media art collective), reaching new heights of international visibility.
His creative practice navigates the intersections of technology and emotion, data and body, virtual and space — committed to constructing immersive, narrative-rich, and humanistically warm tech-art experiences.
Core Concerns
Curriculum Vitae
CV
Education
MFA, New Media Art, National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA)
Residencies
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media — Summer Sessions, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Awards & Prizes
2024
- MUSE Design Platinum Award ×3 (Quantum Landscape, Bloom of Life, Reflection of Rivers)
2023
- Tainan Next Art Award (台南新藝獎)
- London Design Golden Award
- MUSE Design Golden Award
2022
- Red Dot Design Award
- Good Design Award
- Golden Pin Design Award
- MUSE Design Golden Award
2021
- National Art Exhibition — New Media Gold Prize (Dynamic Array: Matrix)
- SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery
- MUSE Design Golden Award
2020
- Lumen Prize (shortlist), UK
- Yilan Prize Silver Award
2019
- SIGGRAPH Asia Best XR Technology Award + Audience Choice
- Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
2016
- National Art Exhibition — New Media Gold Prize (polywave)
Selected Exhibitions
2025–26
- Signal Festival Main Stage, Prague — First Taiwanese team
- Signal Festival 3D Water Screen, Vltava River, Prague
- RADAR Media Festival, Bucharest — First Asian team
- Yuejin Lantern Festival, Tainan ×2
- Taiwan Lantern Festival, Taoyuan
- Bisha Fishing Harbor (ArkOS), Keelung
- Tainan National Museum of Fine Arts
2022–24
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria ×2 (2022, 2023)
- Taiwan Lantern Festival, Tainan / Taoyuan
- Taoyuan Land Art Festival (Quantum Landscape)
- Very Fun Park Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei
- Taipei Dome — Public Art (Impact)
- FUTURE VISION LAB, C-Lab Dome, Taipei
- TAxT (Taoyuan Arts x Technology Festival) ×2
2019–21
- SIGGRAPH Asia, Brisbane, Australia
- Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
- Ars Electronica (online), Austria
- International Light Art Festival, NTMOFA, Taichung
- National Art Exhibition, Taichung
- Taipei Digital Art Festival
- Art Taipei, World Trade Center
2013–18
- 404 International Festival of Art & Technology, Rosario, Argentina
- 404 International Festival of Art & Technology, Moscow, Russia
- V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands (residency)
- Taipei Digital Art Festival
- Yuejin Lantern Festival, Tainan
Complete Exhibition History
2026
- Treasure Hill Light Festival "City of Glimmers" — "Cross-Section Signal Flow", Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
- Yuejin Lantern Festival — "Light Firecrackers", Yanshui, Tainan
- Taiwan Lantern Festival — "Between Mountains and Seas", Taoyuan
- Zhubei Light Festival — "Light Array" (Chasing the Wind ver.), Water Channel Forest Park, Hsinchu County
- Tainan National Museum of Fine Arts — group exhibition
2025
- Signal Festival Main Stage — "Between Mountains and Seas", Republic Square, Prague, Czech Republic
- Signal Festival 3D Water Screen — "Tzolk'in Light", Vltava River, Prague, Czech Republic
- RADAR Media Festival — "Memory Encoder", Bucharest, Romania
- Bisha Fishing Harbor — "ArkOS", Keelung
- Yuejin Lantern Festival — "Tzolk'in Light" (laser ver.), Yanshui, Tainan
2024
- TAxT (Taoyuan Arts x Technology Festival) — "Memory Encoder", Taoyuan
- Taoyuan Land Art Festival — "Quantum Landscape — Like Water", Taoyuan Distillery, Guishan
- Taiwan Lantern Festival — "Between Mountains and Seas", City of Light Zone, Tainan
- Taiwan Lantern Festival — "Reflection of Rivers" (Anping River Light Stories), Tainan
- Taiwan Lantern Festival — "Infinite Light" (River Light Stories zone), Tainan
- Taiwan Lantern Festival — "Light Array" (River Light Stories zone), Anping Canal, Tainan
- Zhongyuan Cultural and Creative Park — "Impact", Taoyuan (2024–present)
- Taipei 101 — "Impact", Taipei
- Taipei Dome — "Impact" (permanent public art), Taipei
- Very Fun Park Contemporary Art Exhibition — "Infinite Light", Taipei
- Yuejin Lantern Festival — "The Sandbox Reconstruction Project" (Yuejin ver.), Tainan
2023
- Ars Electronica — "AI Impressionism: Dynamic & Serene Landscapes", Linz, Austria
- Tainan Next Art Award — "Shape of Winds" / "Hiraeth" / "Sandbox" / "Cybercube" / "Law of Light II" / "Light Array", Zuei-Mei Gallery, Tainan
- New Taipei Lantern Festival — "Light Array", Bear Monkey Forest Park, New Taipei Metropolitan Park (Jan 26 – Feb 12)
- "Homogeneous Heterogeneity" Solo Exhibition — "Dynamic Array" / "neuromancer" / "Infinite Light" / "Hiraeth" / "Cybercube" / "Law of Light II", National Tsing Hua University Art Center, Hsinchu
- Art Tainan — "Infinite Light", Tainan
- TAxT (Taoyuan Arts x Technology Festival) — "The Sandbox Reconstruction Project", Taoyuan
- FUTURE VISION LAB — "The Sandbox Reconstruction Project" (dome ver.), C-Lab, Taipei
- Taoyuan Creative Expo — "The Sandbox Reconstruction Project", Taoyuan
- Yuejin Lantern Festival — "Tzolk'in Light", Yanshui, Tainan
2022
- Ars Electronica — "The Sandbox Reconstruction Project", Linz, Austria
- Taiwan Lantern Festival — "Reflection of Rivers", Kaohsiung
- Taipei Lantern Festival — "Infinite Light" (lantern ver.), Taipei
- Hsinchu Moat Light Festival — "Infinite Light" (moat ver.), Hsinchu
- Taiwan Design Expo — "Infinite Light", Kaohsiung
- "Existence — A Poetic Inquiry" (Saury Art Center 20th Anniversary) — "Infinite Light", Yun Fei Fann Art Museum, Tainan
- National Art Exhibition — "Dynamic Array: Matrix", NTMOFA, Taichung
- Yingge Art Festival — "Light Array", Yingge Ceramics Museum (Everlasting Plaza Lawn), New Taipei (Dec 13, 2022 – Jan 2, 2023)
- Summer Songshan "Summer Weee!?" Festival — "Light Array", Songshan Cultural & Creative Park, Taipei (Jul)
2021
- International Light Art Festival — "Signal", NTMOFA, Taichung
- Ars Electronica (online) — "Signal", Austria
- SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery — "Dynamic Array: Matrix"
- TCCF — "Signal", Songshan Cultural & Creative Park, Taipei
- Kinmen Ocean Art Festival — "Shape of Winds" (Sound Wall ver.), Beishan Broadcasting Wall
- Taipei Digital Art Festival — "Infinite Light", Songshan Cultural & Creative Park
- Pingtung Luoshanfeng Art Festival — "Infinite Light"
2020
- "Data × Creation" New Media Art Exhibition — "Shape of Winds", B.B.ART, Tainan
- B.B.ART 2F — "Hiraeth", Tainan (2020–present)
- Art Taipei — "Shape of Winds", World Trade Center, Taipei
- Yilan Prize — "Shape of Winds", Luodong Cultural Working House, Yilan
- Ars Electronica (online) — "Upload Not Complete", Austria
2019
- SIGGRAPH Asia — "Upload Not Complete", Brisbane, Australia
- Arte Laguna Prize — "Upload Not Complete", Arsenale, Venice, Italy
- TAxT — "Shape of Winds", Taoyuan Arts Center
- Taoyuan Land Art Festival — "Dynamic Array", Danan Forest Park
2018
- "ROOM — Welcome! Please Come In!" — "Hiraeth", Hsinchu 241 Art Space, Hsinchu
- 7th Jingray Art Festival "The Daily Life of Bauhaus" — "Hiraeth", AMA Gallery, Taichung
- 404 International Festival of Art & Technology — "Upload Not Complete", Japan
- Taipei Digital Art Festival — "Upload Not Complete", Songshan Cultural & Creative Park
2017
- Performance 36 Rooms — "Cybercube", Yongan Arts Center, Muzha, Taipei
- 現代龐貝 — "Hiraeth", Taipei
2016
- National Art Exhibition — "polywave", NTMOFA, Taichung
2015
- "GAME・NOT OVER・YET" Video Game Art Exhibition — "neuromancer", Fuzhong 15, New Taipei City
- 404 International Festival of Art & Technology — "Law of Light II", Rosario, Argentina
- EYEBONBON VJ;ING — "Law of Light II", Neo Studio, Taipei
- "Motion • Emotion" Digital Art Exhibition — "Law of Light II", Fuzhong 15, New Taipei City
- Danei Art Festival — "Law of Light II", Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei
2014
- "Human vs. User" 404 Electronic Art Festival — "neuromancer" / "Law of Light II", Platforma, Moscow
- "Insects, Sounds and Phantasms" Exhibition — "Law of Light II", National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taipei
- Taipei Digital Art Festival — "Law of Light II", Songshan Cultural & Creative Park, Taipei
- "騷動" New Media Art Exhibition — "neuromancer", National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei
2013
- V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media — "neuromancer" (Summer Sessions), Rotterdam, Netherlands
- "Post-Community Digital Art Exhibition" — "neuromancer beta", 435 Art Zone, Taipei