|Who

Dr. Jia-Rey(Gary) Chang

was born in Taiwan. After completing his M.Arch degree in Architecture and Urban Design Department, UCLA, under the direction of Neil Denari in 2009, he came back to his Alma mater, the Architecture Department in TamKang University, Taiwan, researching interactive and parametric architecture. In 2010, he established “P&A LAB” (Programming and Architecture LAB, and lately integrated into archgary.com to continue) exploring the new possible relationship between the programming and architecture. Meanwhile, he also worked in the Architecture Department of the National Taipei University of Technology as an adjunct lecturer.

In 2011, he joined the Hyperbody LAB, Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology, TU Delft, for his Ph.D. research on Interactive Architecture. Cooperating with choreographers, visual artists, composers, and programmers, he has been involved in an EU project, MetaBody, during 2011-2014 to explore the pro-activeness and intra-action relationship between body movement and spatial quality. In early 2018, he finished his Ph.D. research with the dissertation titled as “HyperCell: A Bio-inspired Design Frameworks for Real-time Interactive Architectures”, proposing the idea of self-intelligent building components by exploring the fields of computation, embodiment, and biology in design. Meanwhile, he is also extremely interested in the transdisciplinary topics of interactive architecture, tangible interactive design/art, immersive sensory experience, bio-inspired design, AI (artificial intelligence), creative coding/generative art/visualization, 3D modeling, fashion design, wearable technology, and motion tracking technology, and has conducted numerous related workshops over the years. He was an assistant professor in the IXD Lab, Department of Art & Design, University of Delaware (USA, 2018-2022). Currently, he is a lecturer in the Medialab, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, investigating using Games and Emerging Technologies as creative concepts and mediums to create experimental interactive immersive sensory (audio/visual/VR/AR) spaces.

Jia-Rey Chang @ Articulaction Art Review Biennial Edition 2021-2022 Vol.3