Chang Liu
Lecturer
Office:GHKH A208
E-mail: chliu@wku.edu.cn, chliu@kean.edu
Courses Teaching activities
GD 3224：UI/UX Design I
GD 4225：UI/UX Design II
Research Field
– Digital Art
– Museum interaction design
– Artistic creation and comprehensive media
– Visual communication design
– Generative art
Biography
Liu Chang is an artist, educator, and writer. In recent years, Liu Chang’s research has focused on cutting-edge technology and museum experience design. Her teaching focuses on combining digital technology with the aesthetics of integrated media, spanning on the directions of generative art, graphic design systems, exhibition design, and user experience design. She utilizes computational methods, such as creative coding, physical computing, cutting-edge interactive technology, and other digital media to implement the interdisciplinary integration of art and technology in the experiential classroom she advocates.
Liu Chang’s artistic creation involves interactive installations, artificial intelligence art, innovative materials for digital art, exploring the relationship between nature and technology. Chang’s works have been exhibited in the National Museum of China, Shanghai Power Station of Art (PSA), Pudong Art Museum, Today Art Museum, A4 Art Museum, Carroll/Fletcher Gallery (London), FOU Gallery (New York), etc. Her works and art reviews have been published on Shanghai Daily, Yishu, Art World, Art Review, and Artforum, etc. In addition, Chang established her cultural podcast channel called “Tomorrow Museum” in 2023, which focuses on topics around museum and exhibition designs related to cultural topics. The podcast is developing fast and getting influential, receiving widespread attention from both inside and outside the industry. Chang’s monograph of the same name, 《Tomorrow Museum》, will also be published in 2025.
Education Background
2014 – 2016, Master of Professional Study, (Terminal Degree), New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of Arts, New York
2013 -2014, Pratt Institute, Department of Digital Art, Interactive Art, New York
2005 – 2009 B.A, Film & TV Directing, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing
Honors & Awards
Solo Exhibitions
2016 – “Coding is Beautiful” Liu Chang Solo Exhibition, FOU Gallery, New York
2018 – “The Light of Small Things” Liu Chang Solo Exhibition, FOU Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020，“Stitched Landscape”, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu;
2018，“Love: Intimate”, Today Art Museum, Beijing;
2016，“Aquarium”, New York Hall of Science, New York;
2015， “INFINITE”, Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, London;
2014， “Double Vision – The Culture China Overseas Chinese Women’s Invitational Exhibition”, He Xiang Ning Museum, Shenzhen;
2013，“NighTime – Dreamreal” The first international contemporary design exhibition, Power Station Museum of Art, Shanghai.
2011，“The First Beijing International Design Triennial”, The National Museum of China, Beijing
Press & Publication:
2024 | 《Tomorrow Museum》，Upcoming Book Publishing;
2023 | “Cinema in Meta in Short Film Awards“, featured in《NOWNESS》, Author:Liu Chang;
2023 | “The Shape of Shadow”, 《ELLE》, Author:Liu Chang;
2023 | “Museums of Tomorrow”, 《National Geographic》,Author:Liu Chang;
2021 | “Examining Human Bonds with High-tech Art”, Shanghai Daily, Aug.15;
2020 | “The River of Time”, Be Water Journal, Artist Interview.
2018 | ITP/IMA Online Journal, Liu Chang, Article “Far from Home, Far from Here: Riverbooks I & II.” Adjacent, issue 4:(December 2018), illustrated.
2018 | “Liu Chang: The Light of Small Things“, Yishu Magazine;
2018 | “微物之光中的联系”《典藏Art Collection》;
2018 | “Algorithm, Interface and Graphic Interpretation”, <<Art World>>Issue No.333;
2016 | Artforum, Exhibition Review: “Liu Chang: Code is Beautiful”;
2015 | “Social Clinic”, Hyperallergic, US
2015 | “Social Clinic”, The New York Times, US
2011 |《First Beijing International Design Triennial》, China Building Industry Press;
Social and education Experiences
2024 Spring Semester – Distinguished Lecturer of “Future Museum Studio”, ICCI – SJTU & USC
May 2023, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arts, Tisch School of Arts, NYU
Sept 2017 – Dec 2022, (Full-Time) Clinical Assistant Professor of Arts, Interactive Media Arts, NYU Shanghai
June 2016 – August 2017, Resident Research Fellow, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU-ITP
