HSURAE is an artist and educator based in New York. Their practice embraces the concept of latency within nature and its artifice. Instead of working to reveal or accelerate, they find small pleasures in the indeterminacy that latent space and latent knowledge offers. A sort of photogrammetry of the universe from inside Plato’s cave. Their artistic medium, like their self, is never pure object, never pure subject; ranging from hot glass to fibroblasts, passports to fecal sports. Their research often converges in metaphysics, science and technology studies, nonhuman intelligence, food, fibers, critical race studies, interplanetary justice, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. They hold a Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology from MIT, and currently teaches at The New School and NYU.
Their work has appeared at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, MAXXI Rome, European Cultural Center, TORN theater space, Dubai BAIT15, Taipei Digital Art festival, Medialab Prado, Weisner gallery, Sakiya Palestine, Grand Siecle gallery, Yiri Art Gallery, Olfactory Keller NY amongst others. Artist residencies they’ve taken part in include SymbioticA, hangar.org, MedialabPrado, _V2 institute for the unstable media, Coalesce bioart lab and Urbanglass.
Education
2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Masters of Science in Art, Culture and Technology (SMACT)
2017
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Masters of Fine Art in Digital+media (MFA)
2011
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Bachelors of Science in Occupational therapy (BS)
Awards & Grants
2023
Pilot grant, “Stories written in the sky”, NCAF Taiwan.
2022
BioArt and Design Award Nominee
2022
NASA Waste to Base material challenge, ‘Biota Chamber: Fecal Waste Converter‘ fecal waste category, Herox
2022
NYU Redburns fellow 2022-2023
2021
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art award, selected mixed media
2021
Ministry of Culture Latin America-Taiwan cultural exchange grant
"plastic soup"
2020
MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative fellow
2020
Schnitzer Award, 2nd prize
"yellowsoup"
2020
Enterprise Poets Prize, 1st place for writing
"In Between Empathy and Wonder lies the Contamination that makes us Human"
2020
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts grant recipient
Project “Microgravity Holobionts”
2020
Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation grant recipient
Project “3000 years among microbes”
2020
Council of the Arts at MIT grant recipient
Projects “Fermentatrix” “A commoning commotion”
2019
ACT Pilot Grant recipient
Project “Living archive”
2019
MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative(SEI)
Project "Panspermia"
2019
Full tuition scholarship
Art, Culture, Technology, MIT
2018
Department of Architecture Graduate Fellowship
School of Architectue and Planning, MIT
2018
Kaoshiung Awards first prize
“Prosthesis” series
2016
Taipei Digital Art Award selected
“Cloud in the shape of you leaving”
2016
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art award,
New media art, for “Zaira”
2015
Taipei Art Awards selected,
Installation “Karaoke duet”
2015
Taiwan Ministry of Culture exhibition grant recipient
Solo show “The body thing”
2015
Department of Digital+media Graduate Fellowship
Rhode Island School of Design
2015
Ministry of Education study abroad grant recipient
2015
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art award second prize
Sculpture “Sisyphus”
Exhibitions
2024
YES, Microscope gallery, NYC.
2023
Aging: A life Montage, Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan.
2023
Time, seeds, permafrost, Rescaling the world, C-lab, Taiwan.
2022
Spacesuits, MAXXI, Rome, IT.
2022
Ancestral Echoes: A Decade of Bio Art, SVA, NY.
2022
Water/soil discontent, performance, TORN space, Buffalo, NY.
2022
“Feline Intelligence” in Personal structures, ECC, Venice
2022
"Euglossini Cologne" in New York New Scents, Olfactory Art Keller, NY
2022
3000 Years Among Microbes, New Taipei Gallery
2021
"Plastic Soup" Taipei Treasure Hill artist village
2021
"UNBOUNDED" Weisner gallery, Boston, MA.
2021
"The world began without the human race and it will end without it" 2021 International Techno Art Exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan.
2021
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Award show, Taichung, Taiwan.
2021
"Is it a good time?" group show
Mana Contemporary
2020
Grand siecle gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
Solo show Scoby skin, Yellow soup.
2020
Proteo Media Post/Future performance festival, online
https://www.proteomedia.com/empathy
2020
BAIT15, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Sculpture “Phantom limbs” in Currency
2020
Shelter in place gallery
Project "Containmination"
2019
Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Mixed media solo exhibition The longing grew as this body waxed
2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US.
Installation “FBS” in Put That There
2019
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, US.
Commoning begins in the gut
2019
Yiri Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.
Solo Show thebodything
2019
Sakiya, Ramallah, Palestine.
“Sakiya fractures” in Common Ground
2018
Kaohsiung Fine Art Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Sculpture “Phantom limbs series”
2017
ARTAIPEI international art expo, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ministry of culture selected emerging artist
2017
Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, US.
17' Grad Thesis show
2016
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
2016
Taipei Digital Art Fair, Taipei, Taiwan.
2015
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
2014
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art digArk, Taichung, Taiwan.
Your closed eyes my extinction, co-curator and exhibiting artist,
Artist Residencies
2024
JUNGE AKADEMIE, E-WERK Luckenwalde and E.ON Stiftung award Human Machine and Energy Fellowship, Luckenwalde, Germany.
2021-2022
Urban glass, Brooklyn, NY.
2021
Coalesce bioart lab, Buffalo, NY.
2019
Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain.
2018
hangar.org, Barcelona, Spain.
2017
SymbioticA-The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, Perth, Australia.
2017
V2- Institute for the unstable media, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
2023
Mapping the posthuman, Routledge
2021
Into the anthropocosmos, The MIT press
Talks/panels/Lectures
2023
Making Souls – Making Bodies: Amerindian Cosmologies, AI, and the Microbiome, Vienna art week.
2022
Bioart in the public sphere, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, NY.
2022
Yale School of Architecture
CCAM class “Panspermia suit”
2021
NTMOFA, Taiwan
“The World Began without the Human
Race and It Will End without It” Panel
2021
SVA Bioart Lab, NY
"What is empathy within othered agencies?"
2021
Tsinghua University Wednesday Salon
"Bioart and institutional navigations"
2021
China Central Academy of Fine Arts + MIT CSAP
"The pedagogical experiment and curation of design for ecology and crisis"
2021
Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan.
"Speculative bio-art and design"
2021
Grand Siecle gallery/Online
"Workshopping with bacteria and yeast"
2020
4.301 Intro to artistic experimentation, MIT, MA, US.
Invited Artist talk, “Fermentation as art”
2019
Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Residency Artist talk, “Holobiont tea ceremony”
2018
hangar.org, Barcelona, Spain.
Residency Artist talk, “Paratext"
2017
SymbioticA, Perth, Australia.
Invited Artist talk, “The human assemblage”
2017
Brown University BME department, Providence, US.
Invited Artist talk, “The body carrying its otherness”
Collections
“Phantom limbs series” Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
“Vice versa” VIS international school, Taipei, Taiwan.
“G54.6” Taipower, Taipei, Taiwan.
Work Experience
2022
NYU ITP part time faculty
2021
Parsons Design Technology MFA part time faculty
2021
School of Visual Arts BFA part time faculty
2021
MCAD MFA Mentor- Interdisciplinary
2021
Parsons Making Center, Digital tools technician
2020
Consultation for Urbonas Studio
Sympoiesis Seminar: Making-with and coming-together in a multispecies world.
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), Milan.
2020
RISD Glass seminar guest reviewer, Providence, US.
2020
Midterm guest reviewer
MIT CMS.S61/S97: Transmedia Art, Extraction, and Environmental Justice (TAEEJ)
2020
Teaching Assistant, MIT, Cambridge, US.
4.183 Hyperphysicality: Handwashing, Ritual, and Forms of Obsession
2019- 2020
Teaching Assistant, MIT, Cambridge, US.
4.301 Intro to artistic experimentation: Daemons
4.302 Intro to artistic experimentation: Bootlegs and Bastards
2019- 2020
ACT open house presenter, MIT, Cambridge, US.
2018- 2019
Invited reviewer, MIT, Cambridge, US.
"Culture Fabric: Art, Fashion, Identity", with Prof. Azra Aksamija
2018- 2019
Mars lab monitor, MIT, Cambridge, US.
2016- 2017
Technical Assistant RISD, Providence, US.
2013- 2014
Occupational Therapist, NTU hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
2012- 2013
Occupational Therapist, Yourchild Clinic, Taipei, Taiwan.
2011- 2012
Rehabilitation Internship, NTU hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.