Wang Fujui

Wang Fujui is a sound artist and curator specialized in sound art and interactive art whose work has played a key role in establishing sound as a new artistic genre in Taiwan. A pioneer of sound art in Taiwan, he founded ‘NOISE’ in 1993, the country’s first experimental sound label. In 2000 he joined the media art collective ‘Etat’ and launched the ‘BIAS’ International Sound Art Exhibition and Sound Art Prize for the Digital Art Awards Taipei. He worked for the Taipei Digital Arts Center and the Center for Art and Technology, TNUA, he has curated numerous exhibitions and festivals, including the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 editions of the ‘TranSonic’ Sound Art Festival and the 2007 to 2009 editions of the ‘Digital Art Festival Taipei’. In 2011 Fujui Wang and Yi Lu have co-founded ‘the Soundwatch Studio’ to promote the creation, exhibition, performance and workshop of renovating experimental audio art both locally and internationally.

Wang Fujui is currently an assistant professor of the Taipei National University of the Arts, Department of New Media Arts, TNUA. His work has been widely exhibited in museums and festivals in Taiwan and abroad, including The Cube Project Space (Taipei), Project Fulfill Art Space (Taipei), Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Digital Art Center Taipei, Taipei Biennial, Art Basel Hong Kong, The Physics Room (Christchurch, New Zealand), Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance (Berlin), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Ars Electronica Center (Linz), École nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Antena (Chicago), The Lab (San Francisco), Queens Museum (New York), Casino Luxembourg, Festspielhaus Hellerau (Dresden), Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Cafe Oto (London), Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Arts Centre Melbourne and The Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane). His sound works, videos and live performances have been issued on publications and media, most notably, Sound Bulb (2008), Sound Dots (2010), Hollow Noise (2011) and Electromagnetic Soundscape (2012).