Leader & Artistic Director, Image in Motion Theater｜Yau CHEN

For more than twenty years she has worked in computer animation and digital film visual effects, taking part in and leading the design and production of more than a dozen Hollywood theatrical films and other large-scale projects as animation director, art director, digital-effects supervisor, project director and head of production.

To explore how imaging technology can be applied to artistic creation, and to develop storytelling that fully merges with its setting, she founded Image in Motion Theater (IMT) in Taipei in 2000. Gathering visual artists, animators, performing artists, stage designers and engineers, the team researches and examines the possible connections between multimedia imagery and the performing arts, and the development of related applications.

From 2009 to 2013 she served as Art Director at the Creativity Center of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), exploring how technology R&D and artistic expression can nourish and complement each other and drawing up a blueprint for experience design. She has been a visiting associate professor for courses on dance technology and audiovisual arts at the Graduate Institute of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts, and has repeatedly designed music and imagery for fashion designer Xu Yan-ling (許艷玲)'s fashion shows.

Major Theater Works:

• Stage play 《Love · Quarantine》 (《愛隔離》) — Video Designer
• Façade light-show theater piece 《Memories under the Banyan Trees》 at the Weiwuying National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts — Lead Designer
• Immersive musical fantasy 《Voyage Undersea》 — Artistic Director & Lyricist
• Shanghai World Expo thematic show 《Window of the City》 — Co-writer, Lyricist & Creative Director
• Fully improvisational multimedia dance theater 《Wind, Flower, Snow and Moon》 (《風花雪月》) — Director & Music Director
• Animated dance theater 《Not a Love Story》 — Director
• Virtual-reality animated dance theater 《@Dream》 — Director

Major Film Works:

• 《Mortal Kombat》
• 《Batman》 (Parts 1–5)
• 《Matilda》
• 《For Richer or Poorer》
• 《Embracing the Big White Bear》 (《擁抱大白熊》), a Taiwanese film

Producer & Director in Chief｜Serina CHEN

Upholding the ideal of “staying in step with the world, developing diverse cultural exchange, revealing the pulse of contemporary art, and bringing refined Chinese art to the international stage,” she has long devoted herself to curating performing arts, cross-disciplinary creation and international cultural exchange. In 1997 she founded the Taipei Arts International Association (TAIA), and as a professional curator she planned the first Taipei Arts Festival in 1998 and 1999. She later founded such international-scale festivals as the International City Arts Festival, the Taiwan International Dance Camp, the Taiwan World Music Festival and the National Performing Arts Expo, building an important platform that connects Taiwan's performing arts with the world.

Her creation and curation span theater, music, dance, multimedia performance and large-scale outdoor productions. In 2006 she led an international team in producing the arena-scale Mandarin musical 《In Love with Carmen》 starring A-Mei (Chang Hui-mei). In 2007 she planned and staged the immersive classical musical 《The Night Revels of Han Xizai》 on the plaza of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing's Forbidden City—the first private performing group in five hundred years to enter the inner gate of the Forbidden City. In 2010 she was invited to serve as executive producer and chief director of 《Window of the City》, the only thematic show hosted by the Shanghai World Expo; blending Chinese and Western perspectives with top-quality audiovisual technology, it ran more than 500 performances over 184 days, drew over 1.7 million visitors, and won Exhibitor Magazine's Best Presentation Award for Expo 2010.

In recent years she has continued to advance the cross-disciplinary integration of technology and theater. Major works include the interactive multimedia theater piece 《Fantasy Maze》, the large architectural projection light show 《The Story of Tainan—Giant Light, Wondrous Shadow》, the façade audiovisual light show 《Memories under the Banyan Trees》 at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), and, in 2016–2017, serving as general planner and artistic director of the cultural events of the Taipei Summer Universiade, successfully promoting the city's image. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2023–2024 she created the stage play 《Love · Quarantine》, responding to a shared global experience through theater and showing the healing and caring power of art. Besides creative practice, she has long researched the cultural and creative industries, the ecology of the performing arts in Greater China and cultural policy; she has led many cultural-industry research projects and took part in the planning of Huashan and Songshan Cultural and Creative Parks. She has taught arts management, marketing and non-profit management at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei National University of the Arts, Soochow University and Chinese Culture University. A co-founder of the Taiwan Performing Arts Alliance and a long-serving executive director, she actively promotes cultural forums, builds consensus across the arts community and works toward a healthy arts ecology.

She is currently Artistic Director of the Taipei Arts International Association, and head and chief director of the Spectacle Arts creative team (奇觀藝術創作團隊). She was nominated by the European Festivals Association as one of the “world's best curators,” and her cross-disciplinary work continues to open new possibilities for contemporary performing arts between art, technology and public culture.