Jun-Jieh Wang was born in Taipei in 1963, Taiwan, and is associate professor at the Department of New Media Art at Taipei National University of the Arts, and Director of the Center for Art and Technology. He holds a master’s degree from HdK Art Academy, Berlin and has been honoured with prestigious awards including Hsiung-Shih New Artists Award (1984), the Berlin Television Tower Award (1996) and the Taishin Arts Award (2009). His work has been included in numerous international exhibitions, including Monad-ism, (Cité des arts, Paris, 2011), Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention (Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, 2004), Promenade in Asian: Cute (Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, 2001), The Sky is the Limit: Taipei Biennial (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2000), The 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, 1999), The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, 1999), Inside Out: New Chinese Arts (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998), Cities on the Move (Secession, Vienna; CAPC Musée, Bordeaux; P.S.1 Art Center, New York; Louisiana, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, 1997), and the 47th Biennale di Venezia (1997).