Albert Cheng-Syun Tang

Albert Cheng-Syun Tang 湯承勳 is a designer, artisitc researcher and design educator based in Bergen, Norway. His research interests are centred around the intersection of design, technology and power.
Norway (residence), Taiwan (citizenship) °1979
research interests: Design, Critical practice, Critical speculative design, information technology, Human-machine-Interaction, creative computing, Politics of design, interaction design, graphic design, visual communication, philosophy, artificial intelligence, democracy
affiliation: Dept. of Design, Faculty of Fine Art, Music, Design, University of Bergen, Norway.
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Originally from Taiwan, Albert Cheng-Syun Tang 湯承勳 is a designer, artisitc researcher and currently an Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the Dept. of Design of the Faculty of Fine Art, Music, Design at University of Bergen, Norway.

 

His research interests are centred around the intersection of design, technology and power. This nexus has been the central context where he operates design as a medium to raise critical questions on the relationships among technological progression, surveillance capitalism and democracy.

 

Prior to his Doctoral degree in artistic research(2014-2018) at University of Bergen and MA Design study at Bergen Academy of Art and Design(2009-2011), he had practiced as a visual and industrial designer in Foxconn Technology Group in Taiwan and also engaged with cultural design projects in publishing sectors. His works have been featured in various international design publications. He has received some professional recognition including, among others, the Red Dot Design Concept Award, NEU/NOW Festival, Taiwan Visual Design Golden Award, Asia-Pacific Design, International Design Awards(IDA), K-Design Award, National Geographic Photography Award and so on.

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  • Reflective Roaming – Design, ubiquitous fantasy, everyday reality (last edited: 2023) author(s): Albert Cheng-Syun Tang connected to: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    We click, we swipe, we scroll, we look for. We follow, we register, we log in, we give away. We post, we like, we wait, we reload. We search, we stare, we roam, we place order. We are guided, we are informed, we are visualized. We are indexed, we are analyzed, we are regulated. We are fed, we are conditioned, we are informatized. Are we individualizing or being individualized? Are we consuming or being consumed? Are we controlling or being controlled? Are we working or being worked? Are we living or being lived? Are we feeling connected after all? The artistic research project Reflective Roaming — Design, ubiquitous fantasy, everyday reality is a critical inquiry into our conditions of living and being in the relationship between the “designing” and the “designed” in the contemporary informatized everyday. In this project, design is positioned as a means to question the status quo of the technocratic promises that fundamentally shapes personal, economical and socio-political dimensions in our everyday lives. What is the consequences of being fully engaged with the technological visions presented by tech corporate institutions? How is humanity positioned in the intersection of information technology and market? What does it mean to be human in the eyes of machines and, the ones behind? Through foregrounding the unseen technological operations by visualizing and revealing the invisible relationships between design, information economy and humanity, the research processes and the artistic outcome Human Conditions investigated our (un)willingness of being physically and emotionally digitized and informatized, the relationship between the mediated desires and the ones who drive them, and the contemporary conditions of being in the ever-expanding, networked fabrication of almost every aspect of everyday life.
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