Kuang-Yi Ku
  • About
  • Works
    • Grandmom Mom
    • Future Museum of Holy Pig
    • Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert
    • New Ultimate Imperial Feast
    • Delayed Youth
    • Millennium Ginseng Project - Time Machine Farm
    • Millennium Ginseng Project - Extreme Greenhouse
    • Millennium Ginseng Project - Moon Ginseng
    • Tarot of Pulse
    • Tiger Penis Project
    • The Cunnilingus/Anilingus Modification Project
    • Dolphin Eroticarium
    • Pet's Pettings
    • The Fellatio Modification Project - Male Masturbation Cup Mouth
    • The Fellatio Modification Project - Bird Beak Clone
    • Organic Mimicry of Prosthesis
    • My Garden
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Kuang-Yi Ku 

Kuang-Yi Ku was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, and has been based in the Netherlands since 2016. He graduated with triple master degrees in social design from Design Academy Eindhoven; in dentistry from National Yang-Ming University; and in Communication Design from Shih Chien University. Formerly a dentist, Ku is a bio-artist and speculative designer. He co-founded TW BioArt (a Taiwan bioart community) to stimulate the fields of BioArt and Science + Art in Taiwan. His works often deal with the human body, sexuality, interspecies interactions, and medical technology, and aim to investigate the relationships among technology, individuals, and the environment.

Kuang-Yi Ku’s “Tiger Penis Project” was awarded the 2018 Gijs Bakker Award, the annual prize for the best project by a graduating master’s student in Design Academy Eindhoven. He also won First Prize in the Taipei Digital Art Awards in 2015 with “The Fellatio Modification Project,” in which body modification, gender studies, queer theory, and dentistry all come together.  Ku’s works have been featured in international media ranging from New Scientist, The Huffington Post, Elephant Magazine, DAMN° Magazine, Dezeen, and Designboom, to VICE, Dazed Digital, Daily Mail, and the New York Post.


Education

2018 Master of Arts, Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands
2015 Master of Design,  Communications Design, Shih Chien University, Taiwan

2015 Master of Dental Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
2009 Doctor of Dental Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan



Awards/Grants/Scholarships

2020 Design Trust Grant, Hong Kong
2019 Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), 3 Package Deal (Social Design), Netherlands
2019 Stimuleringsfonds, Talent Development, Netherlands
2019 Core77 Design Award, Speculative Design Award, Student Notable
2019 Creation Grants, “CREATORS Creative/Support Project”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-Lab), Taiwan
2019 Creation Grants, Arts and Technology: Creative Innovation and Counseling Project, Ministry of Taiwan
2019 Stimuleringsfonds, design grants, Netherlands
2019 National Culture and Arts Foundation Grants (International cultural exchange), Taiwan
2018 Stimuleringsfonds, Starting grants, Netherlands
2018 National Culture and Arts Foundation Grants (creation grant), Taiwan
2018 Gijs Bakker Award 2018, Winner, Netherlands
2018 Future Food Design Award, Nominee, Netherlands
2018 National Culture and Arts Foundation Grants, Taiwan
2016 National Culture and Arts Foundation Grants, Taiwan
2016 “The Fellatio Modification Project” selected in “MOUTHY- Into The Orifice”, Science Gallery London
2016 Scholarship of Taiwan Government Sponsorship for Overseas Study (Transdisciplinary Art)
2016 Creation Grants, Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
2015 Taipei Digital Art Awards, The First Prize
2012 Exhibition of the Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan 3D Creation Series, Selected
2011 Geisai Taiwan 3, Most popular award



Teaching

2021 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Art National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2020 Adjunct Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Design, Shih Chien University
2019-2021 Lecturer, Bio Art course, Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts



Experiences

2015-2016 Committee (Cultural Policy Consultant), Commission on Youth, Taipei City Government
2014-now Co-founder, Ouroboros - Organic Organism of O (Artist Collective)
2012-now Co-founder, TW BioArt (Taiwan BioArt Community)
2011-2015 Dentist, Private Dental Clinic
2009-2011 Dentist, Taipei Veterans General Hospital



Residencies

2020-2022  STUDIOTOPIA – Art meets Science in the Anthropocene
                       hosted by GLUON in collaboration with VIB Grand Challenge Program (BE)
                       Funded by Creative Europe program of the European Union


2019-2020 “3 Package Deal”, social design category (Waag Society + Next Nature Network),  Amsterdam,
                       Netherlands. 
Funded by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK)

2018 AirWG, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2018 Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands
          Funded by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts


2016 Eindhoven, Netherlands
          Funded by World Design Capital Taipei 2016 (Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government)

2016 FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK    
          Funded by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 
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Workshops

​2020/08/02        Designing Disease - the Theatre of Future Medicine
                                Department of Industrial Design, Shih Chien University
                                Tutor

2020/08/02        Imagining a Bio Lab
                              Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan
                              Tutor with Paul Gong

2020/07/04        Fictional Life: Hybridity, Transgenics, Innovation - Future Body Imagination
                              Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan
                              Tutor with Paul Gong

2019/11/16        Food Design Workshop (Microwave International New Media Arts Festival)
                           Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
                           Tutor with Adelaide Tam

2019/06/30     Heartbeat of the Earth
                           De Ketelfactory, Schiedam, Netherlands
                           Tutor with Arita Baaijens and Corine Datema

2019/01/14        Bioart - Imagining the Laboratories of Artists
~2019/01/16      Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
                           
Tutor with Paul Gong, Theresa Tsao, Pei-Ying Lin


2018/10/13        Asian Futurism Dinner
                            Natlab, Eindhoven, Netherlands
                            Artist with Pei-Ying Lin


2018/10/06       Tiger Penis: The Future of Chinese Medicine
                            Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
                            Artist


2018/10/04       The body as sensor: fortune telling by pulse
                            Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands
                            Artist


2018/06/09     Workshop derived from the Tiger Penis Project - Workshop About Traditional         
                            Chinese Medicine (TCM)
                            Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, Netherlands
                            Tutor


2017/10/13       Workshop with Kuang-Yi Ku 
                           
FACT  Lab, Liverpool, UK
 
                           
Tutor


2017/07/29,    Workshop of Biological Fortunetelling
2017/08/05     Yiri Living Space, Taipei, Taiwan
                           Tutor with Pei-Ying Lin, Paul Gong, Ai Hasegawa and Yiyun Chen


2016/11/02     Fellatio Modification Project: Sex and Dentistry Skills Workshop
                         London Dental Education Center, London, UK
                         
Tutor


2015/08/16     Bio-fiction Taiwan - Bio-Art Workshop
                          National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan

                          Tutor with Pei-Ying Lin

2015/05/30     The Future of Body Modification - Bio-Art Workshop
                           National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 
                           Tutor

2014/11/14        Bio-fiction of Electrophysiology - Bioart Workshop
~2014/11/19      Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan 
                           Tutor, with Pei-Ying Lin, Cheng Guo and Yi-Ling Wu                     


2014/04/23     Dildomancy - Sexology workshop
                           
Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
                           Tutor, with Pechblenda and Cindy Lin

2013/10/11       “Living, Food, and Its Extend”  - Bioart Workshop
~ 2013/10/12      National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
                             Tutor, with Pei-Ying Lin


Talks

2020/12/20      #Food Design After Graduation, talk #108
                            online talk, Zuibishe, China
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2020/11/30      Art, Design, Science, Future - Unbore's Pecha Kucha,
                           online event

2020/11/28      Science and Art Talk Screening - "Gene Noah's Ark"
                           National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan                  


2020/11/05     Five-fold Path, IAA Seminar on Arts and Design Post-Biological Culture
                          Forum Lecture Series

                          Institute of Applied Art National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2020/10/31      Artist Talk (Taiwan Biennial)
                           VT Art Salon, Taipei, Taiwan


2020/10/26      What’s New Media Art?
                            National Taichung theater, Taiwan


2020/09/12      Genetic Biotech through the eyes of artists
                            Are Electronica Garden, Brussels, Belgium


2020/04/19      PANT Public #2 : What Now? Foreign Artists in the Netherlands
                           Online Event

2020/02/29      Uncertainty Seminars
                             Stroom, Den Haag, Netherlands


2019/11/27      BAU Lab “BioArt Meets Performance”
                          Waag Society + BAU Dance & Performance, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2019/10/26     TV program "De toekomstbouwers (The Future Builder)"  made by VPRO
                          Dutch National TV “NPO2”, Netherlands

2019/05/23    Challenging medical paradigms through art and design
                          University of the Underground, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2018/12/13      Gogbot Café XL 
                          Design lab, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

2017/11/10        Challenging medical paradigms through art and design

                           TEDxEindhoven. Philips Hall, Evoluon, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2017/03/22     Expanding the Body, Exploring Desire: Queer Research in Japanese and     
                           Taiwanese Contexts
                           Queer Asia, SOAS, University of London, London, UK


2016/11/02        The Fellatio Modification Project
                            Guy’s Campus, King’s College London, London, UK


2016/04/20      When Science Meets Art 
                            UCA Farnham - University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK


2016/03/28      Embrace Art and Science
                            Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
                            With Pei-Ying Lin

2016/03/21      The Fellatio Modification Project
                            National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

2016/02/22     Transdisciplinary Practice of Art and Medicine
                           Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

2016/02/20     Art in Production Series
                           No Man’s Land, Taipei, Taiwan
                           With Bo-Wu Chen 

2014/10/26      Transdisciplinary Practice of Art and Medicine
                           Changee, Taipei, Taiwan

2014/06/27     Fab Meetup - Food Fab - TW BioArt 
                           Fabcafe Taipei
                           With Pei-Ying Lin

2014/05/20     BioArt in Asia - An Observation 
                           Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan. 
                           With Pei-Ying Lin

2013/11/29      Artists in Labcoats - BioArt 
                          Makerbar, Taipei, Taiwan. 
                          With Pei-Ying Lin


Conferences & Art Festivals

2019/11/04      “Brave New World” conference
                          Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
                          Speaker

2019/09/07    Gogbot conference
                          Wilminktheater en Muziekcentrum, Enschede, Netherlands
                          Speaker

2019/07/06    Public event of Placebo effect conference
                          Rijksmuseum Boerhaave/Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
                          Attending presenter


2018/08/29~    4S Sydney - TRANSnational STS, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual     
2018/09/01       Conference

                             Sydney International Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia
                             Attending presenter


2015/10/01      Neolife -The Inaugural Rest of the World Meeting of the Society for       
                          Literature, Science and The Arts
                          The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
                          Attending presenter 

2014/10/02     Arse Elektronika - Conference of Sex and Technology 
~2014/10/05   Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, US  
                          Attending presenter                   

2014/08/04    TransHACKfeminist! - Conference of Feminism
~2014/08/11    Ca La Fou, Barcelona, Spain     
                          Attending presenter                                

​2014/04/13     Hackterialab 2014
~2014/04/25  Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
                           Attending artist


Exhibitions

2020 “CHRONIQUES - Biennale of Digital Imagination”, Marseille, France
2020 “Taiwan HYPE Exhibition”, Taipei. Taiwan
2020 “Sci-fi Prototype”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan
2020 "Embassy of Health" - World Design Embassies, virtual exhibition
2020 "Genetic (R)evolution: BioArt Exhibition" National Yangming University Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 “Taiwan Biennial”, VT Art Salon, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 "new now - critical, speculative and fictional​“, Sunsun Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 “Provocative Futures: Speculation, human body, and medical science - Paul Gong & Kuang-Yi Ku Double Solo Exhibition”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2020  Unpacking the 3Pckage Deal 2019/2020, VondelCS, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 Artificial Unit, TheCube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Uncertainty Seminars, Stroom Den Haag, Netherlands

2019 “State of Extremes",  Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel
2019 “Microwave International New Media Arts Festival E.A.T.”, Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
2019 “RTS: ReTranSens - 14th Digital Art Festival Taipei”, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
2019 “Inscience International Film Festival”, Mariënburgkapel, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2019 “Przemiany Festival”, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland
2019 “Embassy of Health”,klokgebouw, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2019 “City Flip-Flop”, C-Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 “Ars Electronica”, “Human Limitations – Limited Humanity”, POSTCITY Linz, Austria
2019 “Gogbot Festival”, “Bio The New Digital”, Grote Kerk, Enschede, Netherlands
2019 “Friday Late: Pick of the Litter”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

2019 “Farming the Future - Zoom in and Out”, TAC, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2019 “Beyond Species - The art exhibition”, FIT, New York, America
2019 “Creatures Made to Measure”, Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium
2019 “Milan re-used”, Yksi Expo, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2019 “Future (H)eart(H): 8 Dutch Design visions for a livable earth” Ventura Future, Base Milano, Milan, Italy
2019 “TEC ART” festival, Worm Slash Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018 “Tiger Penis Project Exhibition”, Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2018 “L.A.B: 2018 NCKU Bi²ennale – Technology and Art”, NCKU Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2018 “ReShape - Mutating Systems, Bodies and Perspectives”, MU artspace, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2018 “Embassy of Food - Edible Invisible”, De Witte Dame, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2018 “G18 - Graduation Show of Design Academy Eindhoven”, De Campina, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2018 “Embassy of Health - Chronic Health”, Innovation Powerhouse, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2017 “Designing Desire”, FACT, Liverpool, UK
2017 “Materialising the Internet”, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2017 “Atypical Human”, YIRI Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 “Future Lab”, Play Design Hotel, Taipei,Taiwan
​2017 “Satyricon”, Yiri Arts at Kaohsiung’s Pier-2 Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2017 “Alien Matter - Transmediale 2017”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2016 “Mouthy: Into The Orifice”, Science Gallery London, London, UK 
2016 “Animal and Us”, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 “Dutch Design Week”, Microlab, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2016 “Designer's Gaze”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 “Coexist Exhibition - Try me”, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 “Bio Apartment Vol.3-Succession”, Radicalsign, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 “Digital Art Festival Taipei - Digitopia”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 “Imaginary Body Boundary”, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 “Bio Apartment Vol. 2 - Colonization (Bio) ", h*ours cafe, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 “#HLab14:JOG”, Langgeng Art Foundation, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
2014 “Taxidermist’s Magical Play”, YIRI Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
2014 “Missing Words”, 182artspace, Tainan, Taiwan
2013 “ART KAOHSIUNG 2013”, Chateau de Chine Hotel Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2013 “YOUNG ART TAIPEI (YAT) Contemporary Hotel Art Fair”, Sheraton Grande Taipei Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 “The Incubator - Biology + Science + Art Interdisciplinary Exhibition ”, Freedom Men Art Apartments, Taichung,
Taiwan

2013 “The League of Creators”, Taichung City Cultural Center Wen Ying Hall, Taichung, Taiwan
2013 “Worlds Apart Fair”, Conrad Hotel, Singapore
2012“The Ambiguous Pink Project – Organic Mimicry of Prosthesis / Fred Ku Solo Exhibition”, Mon Espace D'Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “You Just Can’t Get What You Want”, A-7958 Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2012 “Both”, Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “Exhibition of the Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan 3D Creation Series”, Taichung City Seaport Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
2012 “There Is No Reason”, Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 "Asia Contemporary Art Show - Hong Kong", Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2012 “Party Is Over”, Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “Geisai Taiwan 3 Winners Exhibition”, Hidari Zingaro Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “Cos-Cosmos”, Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan
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​​2011 “Geisai Taiwan 3”, Huashan1914 Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
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