Founded in 2012, the Sandwishes Studio strives to achieve inclusion, diversity, and sustainability. It collaborates with various governmental, industrial, and academic organizations and uses art and design to create different possibilities for cultural participation based on the idea of “play together, play everywhere.”
Chih-Hua Chiu’s art focuses on image-related studies and experiments with image concepts and different possibilities. In recent years, he has also collaborated with performers to explore the three-way relationship between body, image, and space. With the framework and the medium of experimental video expanded, he pays attention to unfinished businesses that are lost, faded, or gone. Using different forms to document and revive those defunct memories, he reorganizes them and gives them a narrative, while also forming connections between himself and the history of other places.
Born in 1989 in Taichung, Taiwan, Lin lives and works in Taipei. She graduated from the MFA Program in New Media Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts.
Lin focuses on the images, symbols, language, aesthetics, and meanings between digital media and the physical realm, attempting to use art as a method of connection to cosmology. Utilizing a variety of mediums, including video, painting, installation, and new media, she practices the concept of “in place.” She has presented solo exhibitions such as Long Stay and Stream May Be... Pillow, Stone Can Rinse... . Lin’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions including Non-syntax, Groundless, Video Lounge, Taiwan Annual, Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, 3rd Outstanding New Media Art Award – Recounting Emotions, 8th Digital Art Festival Taipei – Data-Neurons, The 11th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, and Nintender, among others.
Wing-Yu Luk, poet from Hong Kong, lives in Taipei now. She has won the City Literature Award and Chinese Literary Creation Award in Hong Kong. Author of three collections of poetry and three independent publications. Poetry works were selected into: 2011 Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, 2012 Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: Anthology of Poets born in the 1980s, Ten Hong Kong female poets born in the 1980s: Poetic Homeland, 2020 Taiwan Poetry Anthology. As a poet and curator, she has collaborated with Century Contemporary Dance Company, Taipei Literature Festival, Taipei Poetry Festival and other organizations.
Pin-Ling Huang was born in 1986 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts, and obtained the DNSAP from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2014. While studying in France, she adopted oil painting as her primary medium, using the thickness and texture of the paint to create expressive layers and lines, influenced by her experience of living alone in a foreign country, her paintings focus on the theme of the landscape of her inner world. During her time in France, she was selected for the prestigious Jeune Création Award in Paris. Her first solo exhibition abroad, Piece of Peace, was held in Prague in 2013. And her graduation solo show, Lonely Land, was held in Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2014. In 2015, she had a solo exhibition, Somewhere Else, in Paris. Her first solo exhibition in Japan, Dust of Mind, was held in Tokyo in 2017. She also had a solo exhibition Dreams Rise From the River Surface in Tokyo in 2021. She is currently working and living in Japan, in an art residency at the Tsunagi Art Museum, Tsunagi town, Kumamoto County.
Hsien-Yu Cheng (b. 1984, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; lives and works in Taipei) graduated with a BFA from the Department of Theatrical Design & Technology at Taipei National University of the Arts. Cheng holds an MFA from the Frank Mohr Institute at the Minerva Art Academy, Hanze University Groningen, the Netherlands. As an artist and a software developer, Cheng’s working process expands into electronic installations, software, and experimental bio-electronic devices, with an aim to explore the relationships amongst human behavior, emotion, software, and machinery. In a humorous manner, he attempts to endow his works with vital signs and existential or empirical significance, to metaphorically embody his own experience and observation of the environment. He was selected as Young Talent 2011 in the Netherlands and won the first prize of Taipei Digital Art Award in 2013, New Media Art of Kaohsiung Award in 2017, Tung Chung Art Award in 2019, and 19th Taishin Arts Award - Visual Arts Award. His solo and group exhibitions have mostly been held in Taiwan, Asia, and Europe.
Kaoru Tanaka is a generative artist based in Japan. She uses TouchDesigner for real-time rendering to create installation art and other works. Her creative inspiration comes from everyday life, dreams, and fantasies, which are woven into her daily experimentation and production process. Tanaka's works have been exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach, the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, TODA in Dubai, Prada Extends TOKYO, and in countries such as the United States, France, Dubai, Germany, and China.