I-Chun Chen, Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Yuan Ze University. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Awards, the Best Experimental Film at the Golden Harvest Awards, the First Prize of the Taipei Digital Art Performance Award, etc. Her works have been featured in numerous biennials, electronic arts festivals, and film festivals around the world. CHEN ’s practice engages in experimental film, interdisciplinary new media, and contemporary painting. Her primary focus is on social issues and folk stories in industrious, marginalized areas, and among the lower middle class, through which she conveys personal experiences between reality and illusion. Utilizing a research and creative method of cross-comparison, including oral history, field research, solving historical mysteries, dream analysis, and techniques of the occult, she aims to solve puzzles related to the history of cosmos informed by unofficial Taiwanese perspectives.