Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1976 he identifies himself as a Chinese Malaysian, a contemporary artist and also a multimedia arts creator. Based in Japan since 1996, Tan has gained favorable reviews and official recognitions through his incessant creative activities over the years. To name a few, his first computer animated short film Snowland won the Award of Digital Contents Grand-Prix Tohoku 1998, while his experimental film Held Even If It Rains was used as the official trailer for Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 1999. During his graduate years at Kyoto Seika University, he actively engaged in exhibition planning and took part as curator of film festival. Stimulated and inspired by contemporary arts, Tan is fond of integration of artistic forms. The distinctive feature of his artistic expression can be traced in the combination of digital interactive installation and analog technology. His consistent interrogation of the reality of existence has become his recent thematic concept, in which audience is challenged with exceptional visual experience. Tan’s representative works include Fluid City (live projection of water and oil), Papers and light (pile-ups of paper money) and Post (flashlights in a closed space).
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| 1976 |
born in Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia |
| 1997 |
graduated from The
Asian Students Cultural Associasion
Japanese
Language Institute (TOKYO, JAPAN) |
| 2001 |
Bachelor's Degree of Tohoku
University of Art & Design
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Design Department, Media Arts Course |
| 2003 |
Master's Degree of Kyoto
Seika University
Media
Arts Department |
| 2007 |
Researcher and Doctoral Candidate of major in Fine Arts |
Selected Exhibition
1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 1999
2002 Circle For Reseach On New Ways Of Artistic Expression, Yamagata
2003 solo show : Message in Progress, White Cube, Kyoto
2003 solo show : View of Science & Art, Kyoto University
2004 Digital Interconnection, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
2004 Mobile Future, Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies, Kyoto
2004 dual show : Oops, , Neutron, Kyoto
2004 solo show : The Inhabitant of The System, Ishida Taiseisha Hall, Kyoto
2004 dual show : Eloquence of Facts, Dog Pig Art Caf_, KauHsiung, TAIWAN
2005 Move On Asia Animation & Single Channel Video Art Festival
2005-2006 Fluid City, Kobe - Kyoto
2006 Roots of Origin, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, FRANCE
2006 ideodetection # 02, galerie Insight, Strasbourg, FRANCE
2006 1 day in Old Tenno Reservoir, Sakai, Osaka
2006 solo show : Make Love in 34 seconds, shin-bi, Kyoto
2006 Skepticism & Fabrication : The Dilemma of Art, Kyoto
2007 The Mirrors : Comfortable doze and Reflection, Kyoto |
