Dr Yen-Ting Cho (b. 1981, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese artist, designer, and educator based in Taipei and London. As the director of YEN TING CHO Studio, he bridges art and design through digital media and human-computer co-creation. His signature digital patterns, generated using his custom software, transform body movement into intricate designs. Holding a PhD from the Royal College of Art, Cho challenges traditional boundaries, fostering public interaction and reinterpretation in his creative practice.
Dr Yen-Ting Cho is a Taiwanese artist, designer and educator with studios in Taiwan and England. He directs YENTING CHO Studio, a digital art and design studio and consultancy, Taipei and London. He is also Professor of Media and Interaction Design at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan; and Co-Director of the art and design publisher, Rylett Press, London.
Cho's practice blurs the traditional boundaries between art and design and seeks to reach a wide public through human-computer co-creation. His use of digital media encompasses software development, information translation and digital creation, typically through participatory methods to co-create with other artists/designers and the public. He works across a variety of media, including video, animation, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and textiles. He produces unique works, editions, site-specific pieces and award-winning commercial products with his signature patterns which are created using 'mov.i.see', his own digital software which uses body movement to reconstruct inputted digital data (photos, videos) to reveal organic details not possible solely by programming; the designs are hand-finished by manipulating space and form and playing with colour, then digitally-printed onto a variety of surfaces, including textiles and ceramics.
Cho's practice-based research training (PhD, Royal College of Art) leads him to deeply research his media and subjects, which allows for a more liberated interpretation of them as he creates. His rebelliousness as a creative encourages him to challenge existing definitions and traditional boundaries. Cho deconstructs the familiar to understand their core elements and meanings, often providing opportunities for public participation in the creative process, reversing the passivity of the audience's experience and empowering the viewer to interpret the subject and engage with the work.
2023-5
Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales
Commissioned by Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. Major, large-scale public art installation forthe new third terminal comprising seven unique artworks by Yen-Ting Cho with a total length ofapprox. 300m that respond to themes including Taiwan’s history, culture and industry. Due forcompletion in
2025.2023-4
Dancing Wunsian’s Landscape
Commissioned by Wunsian School, Tainan City, Taiwan. A large-scale double-layered fabric curtain which uses generative patterns, shapes, colours and laser-cutting techniques to portray and celebrate local history and culture. The design was co-created by the children and their teachers through dance and play. It is on permanent display in the school-community hall. Featured in Non-Parallel exhibition, Tainan Art Museum (Oct. 2024 – Feb. 2025), and in a-tecmagazine, No. 24 (2024). See: https://yentingcho.com/pages/wunsian-art-installation
2020-1
Dancing Door Gods
Commissioned by Taiwan National Universiade Committee. A performance piece created for theUniversiade opening ceremony that took place in Tainan, Taiwan. Taking inspiration from the templesof Tainan, the work draws on the iconography of temple Door Gods. It combines parametricmodelling and interpreted images of Door Gods, as well as a professionally choreographedperformance, to generate an artwork that integrates local culture and expresses the beauty of sportsthrough tech and artistic experimentation. See: https://yentingcho.com/pages/dancing-door-gods
Work regularly featured in international art/design press, including Design Magazine, Mot Times, Taipei Times, DFUN, 90+10. Also, recently in Harvard GSD Alumni, Princeton Art Magazine, a+tec.
Cho, Y.-T., Kuo Y.-L., Yeh, Y.-T., Liang, H.-S. and Li, Y.-T. (2022) ‘Motion-centric Tools to Reflect on Digital Creative Experiences and Created Outputs’, in: 14th ACM International Conference on Creativity & Cognition, Venice, Italy
Cho, Y-T., Kuo, Y-L., Yeh, Y-T., Huang, Y-Y., & Huang, B-L. (2021) ‘IntuModels: Enabling Interactive Modeling for the Novice’, in: Proceedings of 13th ACM International Conference on Creativity &Cognition, No. 33, pp.1-10, Venice, Italy, available at:https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3450741.3465241
Cho, Y-T., Kuo, Y-L., Yeh, Y-T., & Lee, Y-C. (2019) ‘MovIPrint: Move, Explore and Fabricate’, in: Proceedings of 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’19) Art Gallery, pp.1151-1152, Nice, France, available at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3343031.3355707
Guo, F. S-L. & Cho, Y-T., (2019) ‘The Change of Reader Experience by Digitalizing a Picture Book: The Effect of Co-creation’, in: 10th International Conference of Planning and Design (ICPD 2019), Taiwan
Tu, T. Y., Cho, Y-T. & Lee, J. (2018) ‘An Adjustable Visual Effect Approach for Neural Stylized Images’, Chung Cheng Ling Hsueh Pao/Journal of Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp.37-46, Taiwan
Cho, Y.-T., Kuo Y.-L. and Yeh, Y.-T. (2016) ‘MovISee’, in: SA ’16 SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Art Gallery, Article No. 4, The 9th ACM SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques in Asia, Macau, China
Cho, Y.-T. (2013) ‘Texture and Relative Movement in Moving Image’, in: DUXU/HCII 2013 Paper, IV(8015), The 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp.478-486 (New York: Springer), Las Vegas, USA
Cho, Y.-T. (2012) ‘How Abstract Film Benefits from Transmedia Storytelling’, in: F. A. Schmidt (ed.), The Edge of Thinking: RCA Research, 2011, pp.90-97, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Edwards, H. and Cho, Y.-T. (2012) ‘Making Language: Impetus, Workshop and Visual Languages’,Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp.43-57, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
2022 – Present
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, London, UK
2004 – Present
Member, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of Taiwan
2011 – 2013
Ph.D. Study Abroad ScholarshipAwarded to four design students in Taiwan, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2008 – 2011
Fellow, Film Study Center Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA
