Born in Taipei ,1971 ,Lin Chi-Wei is an intermedia artist who has received academic training in french literature, cultural anthropology as well as specializing in new media art (Fujen Catholic University,French Litterature dep. / TNUA,Graduate Institute of Traditional Art / Le Fresnoy,Studio National des Arts Comtemporains) He is a founding member of “Zero & Sound Liberation Organization”–the pioneering group of noise experiments in Taiwan, and the one who resiponsible for the 90s taipei alternative art venues“Sickly Sweet Cafe”and festivals ( Industrial Arts festival /Taiwan International Electronic Music Phenomena). Lin is current researcher fellow in CAA, School of Intermedia Art. In 2012 he published his first book’Beyond Sound Art: The Avant Garde, Sound Machine and the Modernity of Hearing’, in which he analyzes the aesthetic condition of sound and art in a post-colonial east asian context.
Lin’s art work has been showed in Taipei Fine Arts Museum,Shanghai Biennale,New York Electronic Art Festival,GRAME Lyon,Shenzheng Architecture Biennale,Han Art TZ gallery . And his performance art pieces were shown in Tate Modern Museum,Venice Biennale, La Nuit Blanche. While his“synchronisation models”were played in primary schools,private residences,local communities ,factories,temples,churchs,folk music groups ,bars and live houses.
Since the early 1990s, Lin has been exploring the realms of folk culture , his experiences in the field research on the subject of taiwanese shamanism and taoist rituals encourged him to developpe a critical point of view toward comtemporary cultures, Notably he doubts the representive models and the total absence of nature in modern contexts. He pursued this subject along the years and started to developpe the“weak”human synchronisation models with sound poetry since 2004 (Tape Music / Cellular Automata / Meta-Cyber Music / Balloon Music,etc) ,within the folk ceremony in mind, Lin image a kind of culture model that can be apply to different context beyond the western high culture constraints.