Chih-Hsuan Teng
Interaction Designer & Artist
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chihhsuan.teng@outlook.com
Chih-Hsuan Teng
Interaction Designer & Artist
Portfolio
About Me
chihhsuan.teng@outlook.com
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2026
This is an interactive video archive installation exploring how geopolitics shapes today's chip manufacturing industry. Audiences act the role of a 1980s semiconductor factory worker through a virtual microscope, performing wire bonding, the chip-packaging process.
By connecting different chips, audiences not only simulate the physical process of chip fabrication, but gradually uncover the socio-political substrate beneath these connections. Witnessing how Taiwan, under pressure from multiple directions at once, has built what is known as the 'Silicon Shield'. A form of protection granted precisely because all sides need it, yet one that is, within that same need, increasingly asked to surrender the very irreplaceability it depends on.
Exhibit at:
Postgraduate Design Shows 2026 | London College of Communication, UAL
July 2026 | London, UK
2026
By the mid-21st century, humanity's relentless pursuit of space exploration had given rise to an expansive infrastructure network in low Earth orbit (LEO). During this period, a corporation known as Everyone™ leveraged an accumulation of government contracts and strategic acquisitions to consolidate overwhelming bargaining power, ultimately monopolising over 90% of all LEO satellite maintenance operations. Drawn by the allure of space and the promise of exceptional remuneration, many individuals chose to take up contract-based satellite maintenance work aboard Everyone™'s orbital stations — until the day a solar storm struck…
Exhibit at:
Orbital Worlds - Design Fiction in The Age of Space Capitalism | IKLECTIK
June 2026 | London, UK
Collaborate with:
Benjamin Escobar Texeira, Ruba Krishnan Navaneethakrishnan, Yuqian Chen, Ying He
UAL MA Interaction Design & Autonomy Institute
2026
The semiconductor was once a creation fostered by an authoritarian government amid geopolitical crisis; today it is celebrated as the 'Taiwan Miracle', yet it shares its timeline with the unaddressed political oppression of the same era. By placing the judicial verdicts of the White Terror period into a chip architecture, Under the Si invites the audience to enter the system as 'operators' rather than viewers, adjudicating 6,285 verdicts one by one. To maintain, to erase, to conceal, to amend, to disclose...
Data source (Mandarin):
National Human Rights Museum (2024) Judicial Ruling Documents [Dataset]. Available at: https://hras.nhrm.gov.tw/ (Accessed: 20 April 2026).
2025
Cinema quietly rewrites collective memory — editing history into nostalgia, heroism and the American Dream. Shifted Gazes cuts back. In a walk-in, two-tiered space, a Hollywood blockbuster plays softly on a semi-transparent screen while archival footage of Vietnam, apartheid, Watergate and the Cold War projects behind it. What the audience hears is no longer triumph, but battlefield noise, protest chants and victims' testimonies — the concealed history hidden in plain sight.
Collaborate with:
Beatriz Ibáñez Martínez De Guereñu, Ruiqing Zhao, Yulin Sun
2026
If Google is a search engine, why does it develop smart home devices, communication software, and social platforms? If Amazon is an e-commerce platform, why does it launch e-readers, home digital assistants, and cloud computing services? If Facebook is a social platform, why does it invest in virtual reality, payment software, and even news content?
Tech giants today operate on a different logic—creating sophisticated platforms that collect user data and digital content, capturing attention and time, analyzing behaviors, and monetizing information for maximum profit.
This installation explores how algorithms systematically shape individual behavior through an interactive video installation. By experiencing the ‘collection-analysis-prediction-shaping’ process firsthand, viewers discover how powerful internet companies use algorithmic interventions to guide and manipulate user decisions in everyday life.
Exhibit at:
Graduation Show 2025, School of Fine Arts, NJNU | Modern Art Museum Jiangsu
June 2025 | Nanjing, China
2024
In today’s society, noise has become an invisible and pervasive threat. Yet, we remain unaware, allowing it to invade our bodies unchecked.
The concept of ‘Quiet Capital’ envisions an alternative reality where ‘hair cells’ become the standard for a revolutionary monetary system. In this speculative framework, the noise individuals encounter daily is transformed into currency, challenging traditional notions of value and redefining urban zoning. By juxtaposing physical health with labour, the project urges society to reconsider the balance between work, well-being, and the ethical implications of modern living conditions.
2024
In 2020, Taiwanese band GoodBand released The Useless Young Man, a catchy anthem that every Gen Z in Taiwan can sing along to. From high school on, students often play this song during end-of-term cleanups, using its melancholic melody to reflect on their grades and future prospects.
Many critics view The Useless Young Man as a form of self-mockery by a disillusioned youth. Gen Z is frequently labelled as the ‘Strawberry Generation,’ supposedly too fragile to handle pressure. Taking a sick day invites criticism from teachers for ‘avoiding problems’; a poor test score prompts family remarks like, ‘You’ll end up raising cattle in the countryside’; and a lack of dedication at work earns scorn from middle-aged managers as ‘useless to the country.’ Terms like ‘trash,’ ‘each generation worse than the last,’ and ‘lying flat’ have become everyday labels.
So, how do Gen Z respond to such criticism?
2024
The Legislative Yuan, as the parliament of Taiwan, represents the will of the 23.5 million people. However, in 1995, the Legislative Yuan was awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "it is more favourable for politicians to punch, kick and attack each other than to wage war against other countries". Nearly 30 years have passed, but sadly, the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan is still operating in this way even now.
In the face of such a chaotic government, focused solely on its own political interests, is our country still a nation of the people? Or have we merely become pawns in the elite games of these politicians?