About

Ting-Chun Liu (Taipei, Taiwan) is a research-based media artist working with critical AI. His practice and research operate at the intersections of critical artificial intelligence, audiovisual media, and network practice. Through dissecting technological systems with feedback-driven interventions, he examines how perception, aesthetics, and power dynamics propagate through computational processes.

Emailting-chun.liu@uni-weimar.de

I host workshops about local AI usage, embedding practice, and understanding biases in AI models. Workshop and lecture requests: please get in touch by email.

Topics Critical AI, generative art, artistic research, cybernetics, internet art, audio-visual performance

Teaching

2025–Lecturer and Artistic Associate (Künstlerischer Mitarbeiter), Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar

2026Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching, Digital Art, Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna

2024Guest Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Chair of Media Environments, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar

2022–2024Student Assistant, Experimental Informatics, Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Education

2020–2025Postgraduate Diploma, Media and Fine Art (with Distinction), Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM)

2014–2018B.F.A. in New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA)

Awards & Fellowships

2026Fellowship für Innovationen in der digitalen Hochschullehre Thüringen, Stifterverband. Project “Lokale KI-Anwendung im Bewegtbild-Studio” (Local AI Application in the Moving-Image Studio), until 2027

2025Weizenbaum-Studienpreis, FIfF e.V. (Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung). Postgraduate thesis: Heat as Generative Image Making

Lectures, Talks & Workshops

2026Steering Through the Inner Residue: Feedback as an Artistic Strategy against Generative Images, Expanded 2026 (Art Track), Linz, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2026Condition for Emotions, DFG network “Das Wissen der digitalen Literatur”

2026Animism Revisited, Digital Arts Community, ACM SIGGRAPH, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2026mtrail Ausbildungscamp, Lindau, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2026KISDtalk: Paranoia De-Prompting, KISD Köln International School of Design, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2026Latenz, Storage Museum Düsseldorf, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr, Dominik Bönisch-Alpári, Prof. Dr. Ludger Schwarte

2025Stereotype Encoding, Latent Space Symposium, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2025Generating for the Archive, Storage Museum Düsseldorf, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

202551 Ways to Spell the Image Giraffe: The Hidden Politics of Token Languages in Generative AI, 39th Chaos Communication Congress, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2025Reverberation of the Blackbox Image, Auditory Aesthetics Series, National Tsing Hua University

2025Bauhaus Master Lecture, Bauhaus University Weimar

2025Artistic Experiments on AI Image, Taipei National University of the Arts

2025Feedback in AI, Screen Walks, London, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2025Feedback in Generative Art, Café Nimmersatt, Wolfhagen

2024arafed futures – An Artist Dialogue on Chip Storage and AI Accelerationism, 38th Chaos Communication Congress, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2024On the Materiality of Artificial Intelligence, Correlations – Forum für KI in Kunst und Design, HfG Offenbach

2024Künstliche Intelligenz – Heilsbringer oder Apokalypse, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, Siggen, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2024Artistic Research on Recursive Dynamics in Generative Image Models, TEDA’24: The Magic Machine, University of Cambridge, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2024Chip Shortage, Acceleration and Taiwan’s Dilemma, Magic Wand, [ ] ground zero, Cologne

2024Fotografie in der KI-Krise? Lecture Series Photographic Studies, Fachhochschule Dortmund

2024Kulturelle Bildung in postdigitalen Lebenswelten, jfc Medienzentrum, Cologne, w/ Benita Martis

2023Self-cannibalizing AI – Artistic Strategies to Expose Generative Text-to-Image Models, 37th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2023Aesthetic Approaches to Cyber Peace Work, FIfFKon 2023, Berlin, w/ Christian Heck, Benita Martis, Anton Linus Jehle, Lisa Reutelsterz, Naoto Hieda, Bidisha Das, Kjell Wistoff, Conrad Weise, Pedro A. Ramirez, Leon-Etienne Kühr

Publications & Writing

2026Steering Through the Inner Residue: Feedback as an Artistic Strategy against Generative Images, Expanded 2026: Conference on Animation and Interactive Art, ACM, forthcoming (DOI 10.1145/3840416.3840463), w/ Leon-Etienne Kühr

2026Heat as (Generative) Image Making, FIfF-Kommunikation 1/26, p. 64, FIfF e.V. Essay for the Weizenbaum-Studienpreis 2025

2025Stereotype Encoding: How AI Images Learn Cultural Bias, Latent Space, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

2025On the Materiality of Artificial Intelligence, in: un/learn ai – integrating AI in aesthetic practices, Vol. 3, pp. 218–223, Forschungsprojekt KITeGG

2024Hello, hello, hello, hello? Hello? Hello! Human! Exhibition catalogue “Hello, Human!”, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (Mandarin/English)

2024Positioning – A Prerequisite for Immersion, Digiarts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

2022Poetic Materialization – Regarding Midjourney, [ ] ground zero – poetics of technics and cognition

2021The Rule Becomes the Author!, [ ] ground zero – poetics of technics and cognition