{"id":336,"date":"2018-03-23T00:17:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/?p=336"},"modified":"2018-03-23T00:17:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:17:45","slug":"shih-chieh-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/2018\/03\/23\/shih-chieh-huang\/","title":{"rendered":"Shih Chieh Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the Artist<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shih Chieh Huang was born in Taiwan. In his childhood he was inspired by the busheling movement and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0lights of night markets in Taiwan. From a young age he enjoyed taking apart toys and electronics to learn how they worked. One of his artworks that takes advantage of this is his short film\u00a0<em>EP-2 <\/em>which uses sculpture with photo resistor sensors from night light to turn on and off parts of the sculpture when a recorded image of an eye looks in a certain direction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"E-P 2 (short) SHIH CHIEH HUANG\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XD8CEI_XcKs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Most Notable Works<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REUSABLE UNIVERSES : SHIH CHIEH HUANG\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PBuK21qDSPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reusable Universe is the name of his most resent exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum. This name is significant in two ways, for his use of up-cycling and for the way he reuses his sculptures with slight additions and rearrangements in his new works of art. In this way, his creatures evolve with his<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Synthetic Microcosm 2015, SHIH CHIEH HUANG, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2015\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0st61L_x6co?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Synthetic Microcosm shows some of the same components as Reusable Universe in a more primitive form.<\/p>\n<h2>Components<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Materials:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plastic bags, PC fans, LED rings, LED strips, steel wire, zip ties, plastic containers, aluminum extrusion, copper wiring, tubing, highlighter fluid.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Technology:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Complex light\/fan control program and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Custom PCB power distribution board<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Tools and Technique<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shih Chieh Huang frequent &#8220;up-cycles&#8217; ordinary modern manufactured components into his works of art. He specializes in combining mundane modern materials and technology in creative ways to form complex sculptures.\u00a0 Here we can see the tupperware container used to house the micro controller and power distribution board for many of his sculptures.<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-340 alignleft\" style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/Capture-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Concepts and Ideas<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inspired by deep sea life after his fellowship at the Smithsonian where he worked with preserved deep sea creatures. Many of his works have an organic feel especially when taken in from a distance then only when the observer gets closer can they see the complex circuitry that makes his sculptures possible. This way he manages to capture some of the magic of exotic organic creatures through extremely inorganic means.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use of sound<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shih Chieh Huang\u2019s work also takes advantage of passive auditory effects to form part of the surreal experience. Seductive evolution takes advantage of the mechanical relays that turn on and off the different parts of the sculpture to create a perfectly synchronized sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seductive Evolution of Animated Illumination 2013 : SHIH CHIEH HUANG\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9HgAHQhKIOQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Artist Shih Chieh Huang was born in Taiwan. In his childhood he was inspired by the busheling movement and\u00a0\u00a0lights of night markets in Taiwan. From a young age he enjoyed taking apart toys and electronics to learn how they worked. One of his artworks that takes advantage of this is his short film\u00a0EP-2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/2018\/03\/23\/shih-chieh-huang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shih Chieh Huang&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}