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Lin-Chi-Wei
Biography(eng) /Biographie(fr)
Lin Chi-Wei is a Taiwan-born transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and curator whose work investigates sound as a medium of collective coordination, embodied knowledge and social organization.
Emerging from the underground cultural scene of Taipei in the early 1990s, he was a founding member of the noise group ZSLO and a co-organizer of alternative art events such as the Broken Life Festival. These early engagements with industrial culture, experimental music, and countercultural networks continue to inform his long-term interest in audience dynamics, collective behavior, and the political dimensions of sonic environments.
Trained initially in literature and anthropology, Lin later pursued advanced studies at Le Fresnoy (Studio national des arts contemporains), where he expanded his practice into installation, and research-based art. His work has since been presented across diverse contexts, including museums, performance spaces, public institutions, and site-specific environments spanning Europe and Asia. Alongside his artistic production, he has been active as a curator and writer, contributing to critical discourses on sound art ,media archaeology, and the cultural history of listening.
Since the early 2000s, Lin has developed an ongoing body of work under the framework of HDCM (Human Distributed Coordination Model). This artistic system redefines sound not as an autonomous aesthetic object, but as a distributed signal circulating within a network of human agents, facilitating the formation of an ephemeral community.
In HDCM, coordination emerges through serial transmission, delay, local interaction or cellular automata principle rather than centralized control. The system operates through minimal protocols—what Lin describes as “weak notation”—which constrain certain parameters while leaving timbre, duration, pitch, and interaction open to participant variation… Error, misreading, and latency are not treated as failures but as constitutive elements of the system’s generative capacity.
One of the most emblematic realizations of this model is the long-term project Tape Music (initiated in 2004). In this work, performers collectively “read” a physical ribbon or tape-like score, triggering phonetic utterances at regular spatial intervals. Although structurally simple—often based on linear pulse segmentation—the piece produces highly complex sonic textures through the accumulation of individual differences and temporal displacements. Tape Music has been performed in a wide range of settings, from concert halls and museums to temples, factories, schools, and urban public spaces, highlighting its adaptability both as an artistic and social tool.
Lin has collaborated with various ensembles and institutions internationally. Notably, he worked with the London-based experimental choir Musarc, which developed Tape for Musarc into a recurring repertoire performed at festivals and annual events. In addition to performances, Lin frequently conducts workshops that position HDCM as a platform for education, group training, and collective experimentation, engaging participants from artistic, academic, and non-specialist backgrounds.
Parallel to his artistic practice, Lin’s research engages deeply with the historical concept of Li-Yue (ritual and music) in early Chinese thought. He proposes to reinterpret Yue not as a collection of musical works but as a systemic device for regulating bodies, synchronizing action, and generating social order. Drawing on cybernetics, anthropology, and philosophy, his work articulates a comparative framework between ancient ritual systems and contemporary forms of mass coordination, from state ceremonies to participatory art practices.
Across both his writing and artistic production, Lin consistently challenges score/institution-centered paradigms in music and art. He shifts the locus of practice toward the intersection of art, theory, and social experimentation, advocating a protocol-driven, modular approach to collective creation. Within this framework, sound is positioned as a critical interface through which the aesthetic of decentralized coordination can be explored.
Lin Chi-Wei is the author of Beyond Sound Art: The Avant-Garde, Sound Machine and the Modernity of Hearing (2012, Artist Co.), in which he critically rejects the category of “sound art” and proposes a more integrated framework that dissolves boundaries between human culture, technology, and modes of perception.
Lin’s works have been presented internationally in major institutions and biennales, including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Shanghai PSA, as well as in non-art contexts such as social communities, private residences, schools, factories, churches, temples, bars, and live houses.
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CV
1971 Born in Taipei
1989-94 FuJen Catholic University, French literature department
1992-99 Founding of “Zero and Sound Liberation Organization”
1993-98 Programmer of Taipei Industrial Arts festival
1994-98 National Institute of the Arts ,Traditional Art department
2000-02 Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Le-Fresnoy)
2010-11 Invited professor of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
2012 Researcher fellow in China Academic of the Arts, School of Intermedia Art.
2012 Book release: ”Beyond Sound Art – The Avant Garde, Sound Machine and the Modernity of Hearing”
Solo Expositions
2006 Solo Expo-Karma in Pause Mode,Chiwen Gallery,Taipei
2008 Linchiwei’s Solo Exposition: Puli Sound Measurements, Ji-Nan University (Installation), Puli
2014.Tape Music (2004-2013),IT Park Gallery(Documentations/Tapes),Taipei
2016.Rotating Binary Forces,Hanart TZ Gallery(Paintings/Collages/Tapes),Hongkong
Group Expositions
1992 Zao-ai-sun-chen,Fujen University Gallery (painting),Taipei
1993 Miniature Arts,Elite Gallery (painting),Taipei
1995 Technology Arts festival,National Institute of the Arts (video),Taipei
1996 Taipei Art Fair,Taipei world trade center (video),Taipei
1997 Surprise Film Festival,SOGO (Video Installation),Taichung
2000 Hong Kong-Berlin,Haus der Kultur der welt (video),Berlin
2001 Panorama2,Le Fresnoy (video installation),Tourcoing
2002 .WAV(capital culturel d’europe2002) Minnewater park (sound Environment),Brugge
2002 Panorama3,Le Fresnoy(film/electronic music),Tourcoing
2003 Container Arts Festival,the star of sea (sound-light installation),Kaoshung
2004 Reading Labyrinth,Elite Bookstore (sound installation),Taipei
2004 Sweetest Taboo film festival (video),Leuven
2004 Radio MOCA,Museum of comtemporary art (sound installation),Taipei
2005 La Tour Eiffel n’a jamais ete aussi belle,Galerie Frederic Giroux (documentary of .wav installation),Paris
2006 Tape Actions,Nitrianska Gallery (video),Nitra
2006 Altered State,Taipei Fine Arts Museum (installation),Taipei
2007 Vision and Beyond,Kaoshung Fine Arts Museum (video installation),Kaoshung
2007 Life/Live,Cite International des Arts (Mix Media),Paris
2007 Vision and Beyond,National Taiwan Museum of contemporary arts (video installation),Taichung
2007 Make it Louder 2007,Beijing SOHO (sound Environment),Beijing
2007 Then The Silence Increased ,Chapman Gallery (documentation) Manchester
2007 Yi-Zai-Yen-Wai,Beijing SOCA gallery (video),Beijing
2008 SoundField, Sugar Jar (Video),Beijing
2009 Unsealed Files ,VT Artsalon (Painting),Taipei
2009 SWEETIES, IT Park (Painting),Taipei
2009 taiwan.doc, ENSBA gallery(Documentations),Paris
2009 Shenzhen-Hongkong Biennale(SZHKB), Shenzhen city hall (video installation),Shenzhen
2010 People Sights, Museum of Medical Humanities (painting),Taipei
2012 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum (installation),Shanghai
2012 ThaiTai-a measure of understanding,BACC,(documentation),Bangkok
2013 Auditions: Sound Residency, KHOJ (documentation),Delhi
2013 New York Electronic Art Festival – Lost in the Labyrinth: Sound Art in China (installation),Harvestworks,New York
2013 WestBund Biennial,WestBund (video),Shanghai
2013 Shamans and Dissent,Hanart TZ Gallery (painting),HongKong
2015 Shoot the Pianist,Peltz Gallery (documentation),London
2015 The Testimony of Food: Ideas and Food ,Taipei Fine Art Museum (painting),Taipei
2015 Body Art Stories – Marina Abramovic & the Others,Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (documentation),Kaohsiung2015 REWIND_ Video Art in Taiwan 1983-1999,Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (video),Taipei
2015 Alice’s Rabbit Hole –Everyday Life, Comprehensible and Incomprehensible,Taipei Fine Art Museum (installation),Taipei
2016 Chaostrophy- COIL Exhibition,Ludwig Gallery (painting),Berlin
2016 Rotating Binary Forces,Han-Art TZ Gallery(Painting/Collage),Hongkong
2016 China International Gallery Exhibition, NAEC (Collages),Beijing
2017 Guetteurs – Focus France-Taïwan ,ENSBA (installation),Lyon
2019 Cosmopolis#2, Centre Pompidou,(Installation) Paris
2020 Head With Many Thoughts,ＣＡＣ (Installation), Vilnius
2021 OVNi2021, Winsor Hotel (VideoInstallation),Nice
2022 Festival Minimal Input – Algorithmic Art Gathering, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB),(Video Projection), Taipei
2022 Papahood, Taoyuan Children's Art Center(Sound Installation), Taoyuan
2022 Mediating Asia, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Installation),Taichung
2022 ART TAIPEI 2022, Taipei World Trade Center (Paintings), Taipei
2023 Sound Variation, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art (Video Installation),Chengdu
2023 Taipei Dangdai 2023, Taipei Nankang Exhibition Center (Paintings), Taipei
2023 Le Vent souffle où il veut,Espace-Temps(Installation/Documents),Paris
2023 Objet/Non-Objet , Novus Art (Installation),Paris
2024 Taipei Dangdai 2024, Taipei Nankang Exhibition Center (Collages), Taipei
2025 Of Anarchy in Music-More journey in Sound (Centre Pompidou hors les murs) ,National Taiwan Fine Art Museum (Installation),Taichung
2025 Relational Fields: Cultural Landscapes of New Taipei in the 1990s, New Taipei City Art Museum(installation documentation), Taipei
Performances
http://www.linchiwei.com/archives/53871992-2000 see "Zero & Sound Liberation Organization"
2000 La domestication des auteurs de bruit,Café Neruda,Taipei
2000 Linchiwei/Pollywoo show,Café Neruda,Taipei
2001 Serapuni(with Alex Geddie),Glashaus,Karlsruhe
2002 38eme Ruigissant,Grand Angle Voiron,Grenoble
2002 Taipei Electronic Arts Phenomena,Hwua-shan Art distinct,Taipei
2003 Chants Mecaniques-Capital culturel d'europe,Metalic,Lille
2003 PROBE,Casino,Rotterdam
2004 Taipei Sonar-International Festival of Art+Technology,Redhouse theater,Taipei
2004 Technology Music concert,N.U.U.Cinema,Miaoli
2004 Nuit Blanche,cite universitaire,Paris
2005 TIPAF,Taipei artist village,Taipei
2005 TIPAF,Police station theatre,Taipei
2005 Sarah Kane show,white water theatre,Taipei
2006 Dashanzi International Festival of the Arts 2006,798,Beijing
2007 Antenna,Les Voutes,Paris
2007 Konsthall C,Stockholm
2007 Our Voices,Fringe Club,Hongkong
2007 Tape Music,Cité International des Arts,Paris
2007 Make it Louder 07,Private House,Beijing
2007 Sui-Yuan Primary school,Taipei
2007 Puli sound mesurements,Puli
2008 Sugar Jar,Beijing
2008 Zendai Museum of Modern Art,Shanghai
2008 Shanghai Asahi culture,business training center,Shanghai
2008 Fractional Lot,Taipei
2008 809 International New Image Art Festival, 809 artist residency,Yi-Chang
2008 Sound Intestines ,Changsha performance art Festival,Changsha
2008 Changsha performance art Festival,freedom house,Changsha
2008 Enlighting ceremony,wan-so temple,Changchun
2008 Up-On International Live Arts Festival,Nonyuen,ChengDu
2008 Dadao Live Art Festival,Cube Space,Shanghai
2008 Memorial site of Wang-Chuang,Ju-Jia-Ko
2008 Dadao Live Art Festival,Rain Gallery,Beijing
2008 WK145,Two Kollegas,Beijing
2008 Plaza Performance Art Open Expo,Shaopu plaza,SongZhuang
2008 Poetry Actions,Wk147,Two Kollegas,Beijing
2008 Burning the Guqin Cooking the Crane,Pen-Hao Theatre,Beijing
2009 China Avant-Guard Music Festival,D22,Beijing
2009 WEAK!,Shenzhen Hongkong architecture biennale,Shenzhen
2010 TIPAF,Gu-Ling St. Avant-Guard Theatre,Taipei
2010 TIPAF, Kaoshung Normal University,Kaoshung
2011 THTP,Taoyuan
2011 CAA,Intermedia Art Department,Hangzhou
2011 Venice Biennale,Taiwan pavillon,Venice
2011 Quite Cue,Staalplaat,Berlin
2012 Inside/outside: Materialising the social,Tate Modern,London
2012 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum,Shanghai
2012 Asiatopia,BACC,Bangkok
2012 ThaiTai,OCAC,Bangkok
2012 ThaiTai,BACC,Bangkok
2013 Auditions,KHOJ,Delhi
2013 (con)temporary space-time TAIWAN/BERLIN,Berlin
2013 IntoAsia,Residence Unlimited,NewYork
2014 Tape Music,2003-2014,Etude 7 Tones,IT Park Gallery,Taipei
2015 Musarc folk meet on a midsummer day until dusk ,Tape for Musarc (Premiere), Round Chapel,London
2015 On Site Artfest,Treasure Hill Artist Village,Taipei
2015 Shoot the Pianist,Musarc play "Tape Music",Cafe OTO,London
2015 Couterflow,CCA,Glasgow
2015 LSF99,Yiri Arts,Taipei
2016 Musarc folk meet on a midsummer day until dusk ,Tape for Musarc, Old Truman Brewery,London
2016 Music for 6 singers, french ambassador residence,Taipei
2016 Musarc folk meet on a midsummer day until dusk II,The Old Truman Brewery,London
2016 Wysing Polyphonic,Musarc play "Tape for Musarc", Wysing Art Center,Cambridge
2016 Ting Shuo Has Performance Eight,Ting-Shuo,Tainan
2017 Guetteurs-Focus France-Taïwan,Tape Music,ENSBA,Lyon
2017 Polyphonic Social,Abbotsford Convent,Melbourne
2017 Liquid Architecture,Pitt St.Uniting Church,Sydney
2017 The Yurting,Sydney
2017 Cochlea Experimental Music Festival,Lotus Art Gallery,Kaoshung
2017 Rolling Live Forever Foundation,National Taichung Theatre,Taichung
2018 Loud Bodies: Sonic performances,Tape for Musarc,CCA,Goldsmiths,London
2018 Artefact,Tape for Musarc,STUK,Leuven
2019 Artwave TPAM,Tape Music directed by Tomomi Adachi,Kosha33,Yokohama
2019 Le Marteau sans Maître,Musarc folk meet on a midsummer day until dusk III, Musarc play “Calligraphy”,Whitechapel Bell Foundry,London
2021 Volta Partie Commune,Fontainebleau
2021 Atelier Musique,Soundinitiative, Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental de Argenteuil,La Cave salle de musique actuelle ,Argenteuil
2021 Maltaverne in/and /at Abervilliers, Ygrec ENSAPC, Paris
2022 Soundinitiative（Interpreted by refugees from Afghanistan and other countries）, Centre Culturel Bain et Enghein, Enghien-les-Bains
2022 The End of the World Service. MUSARC in the Land of Remorse.Città Vecchia,Taranto
2022 Danae festival, Teatro Del Moire, Zonak Associazione, Milan
2023 Démondialiser,relocaliser:pour une nouvelle écologie des mondes de l’art co-création avec l'artiste Hsin-Yun TSAI Centre d'Art Contemporain de Malakoff,Paris
2023 Festival BDFIL, interpreted by members of l'Académie Vocale de Suisse Romande, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA)/Photo Elysée-MUDAC, Lausanne
2023 Festival Pote, Mediathèque Pierre Bayle/Kiosk Granvelle,Besançon
2023 Lacking Sound Festival(121),Air Force Headquarters,Taipei
2024 Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival,Civil Culture Village,Kanazawa
2024 Keiji Haino＋Musarc play Tape Music, Cafe OTO,London
2024 Festival d'eau,Athénor (Centre National de Creation Musicale),St Nazaire
2024 Les Nuits des Forêts-24H de fête pour la biodiversité,Fontainebleau
2024 Choir as Method-Musarc Folk Meet on a Midsummer Day,St Paul's Bow Common,London
2024 Radio Insomnia, Nuit5-6 Juillet,La Générale,Paris
2024 EN RÉSONNANCE ,Gallérie Odile Ouizeman,Paris
2025 SON:ORAS No39,Automatica,Barcelona
2025 Tenor Music Festival-Note Intelligence,Beijing Central Conservatory,Beijing
2025 DECLINATIONI CONTEMPORARY#3,Museo di Arte Orientale,Torino
2025 Field Research – A Choral Method, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent
2025 Studio Mixed Media, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent
2026 Counterflows Festival, Woodside Hall, Glasgow
Music for theatre
1993 Dance with Bryan,Sickly Sweet cafe (Music for dance theatre),Taipei
2001 SLAK,Gallerie public (Music for theatre),Paris
2001 Edith Room,Le Fresnoy (Music for real-time Film),Tourcoing
2005 A Solider’s Pay,National Theatre (Music for theatre),Taipei
Z.S.L.O. Discography
Personal Discography
2002 Erotische Reise nach Westen,CD album (Le Fresnoy)
2004 Bias04,CD Compilation (Etat Alternative)
2005 The Lake,CD Compilation (The Lake)
2009 An Anthrology to chinese electronic music (1992-2008),CD Compilation (Subrosa)
2025 Yue-Ji : On Grief, Memory and Transformation, Vinyl compilation (Museo di Arte Orientale)
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Beyond Sound Art – The Avant Garde, Sound Machines, and the Modernity of Hearing (Click for further imfor)
Artist Publishing Co,352p,520000 words,classic chinese
2013 The Body as Stake -Experiments in Chinese Contemporary Art and Theatre. Jörg Huber, Zhao Chuan (eds.) , transcript Verlag ,278P , english
“Edges of modernist framework and beyond: The life work of Hsieh Tehching,Hsieh Ying-Chun,Wu Chong-Wei,Graffitist Huang,
Dino ,and Tsai Show Zoo”
Artist Talk/Sound Work Shop：
2025
“Departing from Ritual Music and Modules: On Contemporary Art Issues”
Society for Art and Cultural Sociology, National Chengchi University, Taipei
“Counterculture, Sound, and the State Apparatus”
National Chengchi University, Taipei
“Artist Talk and Sound Workshop”
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design (Halle/Saale)
COLLECTTIONS