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The Australian National University

National Institute of the Arts

School of Art

Visual Arts Graduate Program

MASTER OF VISUAL ARTS

Galen Chien-Chang Hsieh

REPORT

PRESENTED IN FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE

MASTER OF VISUAL ARTS

2002


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Research into aspects of the presentation and documentation of an Australian city / cultureCODE LIGHT & MAGIC: A Virtual Canberran a body of studio work including both digital

and traditional generated still images, web design and multimedia. These postgraduate studies

take the form of two semesters of Photomedia studies and nal digital works at the Canberra

School of Art Gallery from February 22 to March 1, 2002. The pieces in the exhibition are the

outcome of the studio practice project together with the report that documents the nature of

course of the study undertaken presents the outcome of my research.

ABSTRACT

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Over the course of the year there have come to be many people to whom I owe a great dealof thanks for so many reasons, especially to my supervisor, Denise Ferris. I think she is a real

superwoman that I never ever met in Australia. Another special thanks for my lovely parents

and my sister beside me in Canberra.

Deputy Director & Postgraduate Convenor: Nigel Lendon

Photomedia Workshop

Acting Head: Denise Ferris

Lecturer: Peter FitzpatrickTechnical Ofcer: Jason OBrien

IT Services

John Mills

Library Art

All of the staff

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT


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Abstract

Acknowledgements Introduction 5

Working Program 6

Process

The Challenge 7

Start of year / Semester Two 8New Parts 9

Final Works 10

Method 14

Conclusion 18

AppendicesFootnotes 19

Study Program 20

Curriculum Vitae 22

Bibliography 26

Project Art Works 31

CONTENT


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This report discusses my studio practice with reference to my graduate project researchand what I have come to refer to as my graduate level professional practice. This refers to

several incredible opportunities offered by the Photomedia workshop during the year and my

involvement with them.

I have chosen to work with digital photography and multimedia as the best way for my

understanding of VIRTUAL. I am interested in what digital technology can do, but more in

how I can get it to work for me and express my thoughts that I have chosen to elucidate.

INTRODUCTION


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In the past years, there were many friends who askedme to build a website to introduce Canberra to people

in Taiwan. Even through I come from Taiwan, I call

Canberra home. I arrived in Canberra on 2 January

1994. I have been home twice since I arrived, the

last time on 25 June 1997. As a photography lover,

I always travel around Canberra to take images. In

addition, I care about this city much more than

my hometown, Taipei. I have taken 64 weeks to

study English and Australian slang only. Ever since

I arrived in Canberra, I started to do something

that I called more than a degree. I am not only

undertaking academic studies, I use most of my free

time for photography and understanding Canberra

and Australia history.

After the third year, I have the knowledge to educate

new students about the history of Canberra, political

activities, story of ANZAC biscuits and Australia

festival. It does not matter which institute (I hadbeen studying the Certicate at the Canberra Institute

of Technology and ANUTECH, Bachelor at the

University of Canberra and Graduate Diploma at The

Australian National University), I always volunteer to

be an orientation week leader.

I do not know when I started to love this city. Then,

I met William Hall, the ACT Portrait Photographer

WORKING PROGRAM

of the year 1996-1999. We discussed a fantasy thatcould make this project come true. William visited

Taiwan for many times and has many Asian clients.

His wife is Australian, Chinese, and Singaporean. The

plan was similar to this. We were trying to view each

others national capital city and set up an exhibition

in Australian and Taiwan. The plan was called off for

reasons of sponsorship and family purposes. However,

this fantasy stayed in my mind since that moment.

That was 1997. I enrolled the rst multimedia unit

that University of Canberra could offer. The project

of New Media was to introduce any suburbs of

Canberra. Students can choose any suburbs, at rst

by taking images there. The following project is using

this photographic material to develop a CD-ROM.

It was the rst time I had knowledge and developed

skills of CD-ROM production and web design.

In fact, I had many opportunities to create a website

like this one. However, I never have enough timeto process this idea and further realise the project.

The second time I planned a similar project was last

July, when undertaking a Graduate Diploma at the

Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology. I had

only three months from taking images to build a

website and put it online. Therefore, I changed the

topic soon after analysing that the project was not

possible in the timeframe.

The idea to view Canberra through a foreigners eyes has been waiting for

many years to come true.

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The ChallengeAt the beginning of this project is the

aim to introduce Canberra to Taiwan and

introduce Taipei to Australia. This had been

discussed with the graduate panel during the

Master course interview. After a few months

processing, I found it was hard for me to

do role-play and as foreigner watch

my hometown. Alternatively, to take

images and travel between Taiwan

and Australia it is easy to lose focus.

In addition, the timeframe and

budget are majority issues. Therefore,

in May I decided not to include

Taipei and Canberras surrounding

regions. The other big change is

to move focus from landscape and

the urban environment to people.

I accepted this challenge by my

supervisor Denise Ferris. Theoriginal plan in Canberra region that

I would like to introduce to Taiwan is more

landscape and urban aspect than people of

Canberra. The reason to choose landscape or

urban it was my favourite part of photography.

I have been interested in photography since

I nished year six. I have this habit from

my father. The year is marked 1980. Ever

since that time, I took more landscape

PROCESS

and urban images than any others. This

decision to concentrate on events and people

was been made sometime in April after a

postgraduate students group meeting. The

urban shoots without feature landmark as

Parliament House or National Museum of

Australia are no different as any parts of

Australia. An image that had been taken in

a farm in Cooma can pretend and look like

somewhere in Canberra.


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Start of Year

I attended many festivals in Canberra after

I arrived in 1994. I have to admit that I

had not concentrated on any public events

since 1996. The Centenary of Federation

in Canberra brought a great opportunity to

see how Australian celebrates the national

birthday. Additionally, because of this 100

years celebration, all events were bigger than

ever before.

I processed information and took images from

the beginning. As an active person, I always

go out with one of cameras on stand-by in my

bag. You never know what is going on whenyou leave home, the street photography genre

requires constant searching for images. The

summer and autumn in Canberra were very

busy. I attended many large public events and

performances during the time.

Semester Two

The review with postgraduate convenor Nigel

Lendon and supervisor Denise Ferris at therst time in half year helped me to consider

my work in progress. Furthermore, as the

course I do is a Master degree in one year,

the topic should not be too wide or collect

too many sub-topics. I was always planning to

do a huge project in a short time. The result

really turned me to very negative way. I have

been recommend by postgraduate convenor

to track a kid to capture a series of images

with different angles. When the target cannot

move, I should move camera target different

images.

I then went to the Australian Institute

of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Studies (AIATSIS) building ofcial opening

ceremony. I was using digital camera to shoot

close images and a new 75-300mm lens to

take Aboriginal cultural performances images.

I am trying to take same goal with many

different angles.

There were two family groups on both sides

when I was taking images at Aboriginaldancing performances. I was moving my

body all the time to track kids movements

changing places perspective. It was essential

to get a different view. The photographs I

took were no longer close-up portraits. The

image zoomed and out to include certain

kids relating and the prouder context of the

situation.

I had my third review in early October. The

result was positive with my new series in

sets. I was beginning to develop a formal

strategy for my images, to see how I may

connect them to communicate more fully

place and time. I used these new skills to

record Tracking Kultja, the rst inaugural

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

cultural Festival and the United Nation Day.


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New Parts

At the same time, I was trying to nd

suitable interface to t into this project. The

Director style of interactive multimedia had

been showing many times during group session

for postgraduate students. This project is moreconcerned about photography rather than

web graphics. Therefore, I changed focus on

Australia Photographer online.

Obversely, nearly 99% websites are

commercial. These commercial websites are

selling images or business promotion.

There are limited websites done by students

project or none commercial purposes.

The right-top image is the most popular web

interfaces online; about two third websites I

visited used frame design. The other popular

icon of online photography is using camera

on the front page. It makes browser to

think direct to either camera or photography

business.

The other interesting point of web design is

using dark colour background. The research

found nearly all sites are using black colour,

even it is showing black + white photograph

as the left image.

I nally decided the project interface would

have many space and white background. My

favourite web graphics in typography is moved

out from this project. There are two fonts

be used on website, CD-ROM and report tokeep them in series.

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FINAL WORKS

The nal artworks is creating to an interactive virtual

reality CD-ROM with QTVR movie format.


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The idea of contents page is copied from

SmithKline Beecham International Hepatits

B and Liver Cancer promotion campaign.

The SB campaign is using Immigration

Australia stamp to warn travellers. I used

the idea of stamp to complex with ACT

Reference map and features graphics that

related with this project.

The right image is nal artwork. The stamps

are scanned from my own passport on

purpose. The right-hand side dated 2 JAN

1994 was when I rst arrived Australia. The

left-hand side is the third time I travelled

overseas from Sydney Airport. The top one is

the arrive date, the bottom one is departure

date. The graphics on the left-top side is

an Internet cable that illustrated this webproject. The bottom graphics is Australias

power cable with code bar that started

with 9 3. This number is arranged by

international authority to represent Australia

products code bar.

The map guiding system is using digital

numbers plus English letters that come from

the reference map on ACT Yellow Page.

The area 145 on map is covered most CBD

suburbs, Capital Hill and surrounding area.

The letter A to R comes from horizontal

sides; number 1 to 20 comes from vertical

sides of map to guide users. For example,

the 145-BCD-11 is where National Museum

of Australia located. The 145-D-6 is meant

ANU that provide link to index/welcome

page. The reason to use this guiding system is

to imagine events in locations, giving context.

These guiding numbers are adding rollover

effectives to show users where they will

see. When mouse moved to 145-NPQ-56,

it would taking users to Australian War

Memorial (AWM).

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Top image: there are ten movies from severalevents at the Australian War Memorial

(AWM). Each movie is showing limited

part rather than whole thing to make users

to discover all the hidden parts of the

ceremony. The interface of each movie is same.

The movie (as the right-hand screen capture

images)is in the central and titled with the

event occurring there. The blue bar offers one

option - the


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The purposes to create QuickTime VirtualReality at the beginning are:

Trying to simulate elds of events that

happened

To display timing movement of

particular targets

To simulate sh-eye lens effectives in

digital darkroom

The feedback from the panel of assessmentand most friends are:

About two third of viewers interested

in QTVR more than panoramic

collage images (2D at).

The moving closer, twisting, up and

down effectives that QTVR offered

are interactive they could make the

nal exhibition attract particularly

with sound.

The QTVR allows the viewer to feel

immersed in the activity, it have a

sense of being in the action, inside

the sense.

To add music on QTVR movie needs to

through Director to produce. This method

had been tested successfully. There are three

ways to get royal-free music resource database.

To make sound effectives throughSoundEditor 16

To record music/audio from other

public events

To use royal-free music resources

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The methods used for creating the workoutlined in this report were largely digital

artworks. The equipment used included PC

and MAC computers, digital still camera,

35mm SLR cameras, negative scanner, at

scanner and various digital printers. The

software used for creating and manipulating

images is known as image manipulation

software. It allows the user to combine a

number of photographic images into one. The

software also allows the user to create surfaces

and provide textural and lighting qualities

for them. To produce a number of artworks

I photographed people in public events, and

manipulated them using this software. The

artworks printed on different materials: photo

glossy paper, and screen displaying based

exhibition.

This project is focusing on People of Canberrain public events. The photographs capture

events and people in observation. The

opportune time and location for many people

to get together is during the events named as

the Celebrate the Centenary of Federation.

To be an unseen observer recording people at

an event is difcult. I need all the skills for

portraiture like compositional awareness and

an understanding of lighting but also need

very quick reactions and excellent focusingskills.

Photo Equipment

The advantage of the digital still camera is

that allows review screen to let the user to

check competition. Moreover, if anything is

wrong with the image, the user can simply

delete and take another image. This option

a traditional lm camera cannot provide.

The most disadvantage point is this high

price product cannot satisfy professional

photographers. The digital camera that I

have is a Kodak DC4800. This model has

28-84mm zoom lens and 3.1 mega-pixels

resolution. The shape of camera is similar

to a 35mm SLR camera with changeable

lens aperture and shutter speeds. Hitherto,

I found traditional negative and positive

lms are offering better lighting and colourtemperature than digital camera. Eventually,

however, I did research a strategy to use

digital camera to match Nikon F50 to capture

best images.

I put either 70-210mm or 75-300mm zoom

lenses with F50 and carry the digital camera

on my shoulder. It is offers me the focal

distance from 28mm to 300mm. Therefore, I

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can always get close-up images using a digitalcamera and long-range images using F50.

The lms used are Kodak Elite Chrome 100

and E100 VS Ektachrome colour slide that to

record maximise detail. I had been thinking

for a long time whether to buy a digital still

camera. The advantage of a digital camera

is the image review and the save time in

developing, printing and scanning.

Web Design & Multimedia

The method to create screen display as website

and CD-ROM had been tested many times

with many different software applications. The

majority concern is to build a user-friendly

environment. It is not a commercial website.

Therefore, I do not need to make a marketing

campaign to attract a generation group. I have

to put forward this artwork should suitable forall ages and generation of Internet users.

Since cutting-edge web multimedia had been

created for all these different technologies,

users have paid the price. Every time users

stumbled across a new multimedia format,

more likely than not, they had to download

a new plug-in to see the thing. Consequently,

not only did they have to suffer through

the horrible download time, they also had tovisit another site, grab the plug-in, and often

refresh their browsers before they could do or

see anything. Therefore, the nal format of

this website is using universal code, HTML.

The plug-ins is reduced to two formats,

Shockwave and QuickTime. These two are

most popular plug-ins at this stage. The

QuickTime is one standard application that

included in Mac operation system. The Mac

computer will used for exhibition. There are

very limited number of pages will need to use

Shockwave player.

There are three steps to develop photography

based multimedia website. Firstly, place nal

image les to Adobe Illustrator 9 to add

graphics. To use Illustrator not Photoshop by

majority reason of bitmap image format that

Illustrator using. Bitmap images are made up

of pixels, which are tiny squares that combine

like the tiles of a mosaic to create an image.

An example of a bitmap image is a scan of

a colour photograph. In addition to vector

drawing and editing tools, Illustrator 9 offers

a wide range of tools for manipulating

bitmap images. The effectives are very

different to compare with Photoshop 6. (Insert

Screenshots samples) Secondly, to export nish

artworks to Macromedia Fireworks 4 for slice

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QTVR

managing. The slice tool can divide a sourceimage into functional areas. When the image

be exported as a web page, each slice is

saved as an independent le that contains its

own settings, colour palette, links, rollover

effectives, and animation. It can use slices

to achieve faster download speeds. (Insert

Screenshots samples)Thirdly, the slice arranged

web pages are re-editing in Macromedia

Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 for nal layout.

After that, the nal HTML les will test on

both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator

under Windows and Mac operation systems.

Panorama Collage Images

The second section of work detailed in this

report is a series of images in Panorama. The

images are intricate to make into a large size

horizontal image. These images are chosen

by reason of the same groups, same locationor similar background. The effectiveness of

these images is the presenting option of

multicultural society, family and community,

different generation, Aboriginal culture and

the move to reconciliation.

The Panorama images are produced through

the ArcSoft Panorama Maker 2000. That

comes with the Kodak DC4800 digital stillcamera package. This software application

can make perfect Panorama images by

clicking some buttons. The problems of

lighting, colour, space and unsuccessful

combinations will be xed through

Photoshop.

QuickTime Virtual Reality

The ArcSoft Panorama Maker 2000 can

make both panorama images and QuickTime

Virtual Reality (QTVR) at the same time.

The QTVR supports 360-degree views called

panoramic movies, as well as object movies

that allow users to view an object from all

sides. Both objects and panoramas can be

fully interactive, with zooming, animation,

and hot spots linked to other multimedia

objects.

Finished QTVR movies can be viewed on

computers running Mac OS or Windows

software through the QuickTime Plug-in for

web browsers or any application that can

play standard QuickTime movies. The

QuickTime Plug-in for web browsers makes

QTVR movies exciting additions to

educational, entertainment, and commercial

web sites. QTVR Authoring Studio is also ideal

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for producing large, complex interactive experiences for CD-ROMs.The following is a list of software application for the manipulative images and screen exhibit

artworks.

Digital Darkroom / Photography: Adobe Photoshop 6.0 with KPT 3.2 / 6.0

Computer Graphics: Adobe Illustrator 9.0

Web Design: Macromedia Fireworks 4.0 / Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4.0

Web Animation: Macromedia Flash 5.0

Interactive Multimedia: Macromedia Director 8.0

Panorama & QTVR: ArcSoft Panorama Maker 2000

Image Format Convert: ACDSee 3.0 Report Layout: QuarkXPress 4.0 / Adobe InDesign 1.0

Computer Audio: Macromedia SoundEditor 16 (Mac) / MusicMatch Jukebox (PC) /

Shufer Music Converter (PC)

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This project is a sample of how art to

occupy technology. I am interested in what

digital technology can do as well as how

technology can support art project. On the

other hand, this project focused on

multicultural movements and Aboriginal

culture in the Australia national capital. Every

photo I took is a reaction to an entirely

different culture and society based on my

education, society, custom, culture background

and life experiences.

During the academic period I have produced

the Code Light & Magic: A Virtual

Canberra project. This project has undergone

some difcult times. The artwork I have

submitted has been reduced from three parts

to one part A series of QuickTime Virtual

Reality (QTVR) in people contents. The

outcome is changed from a website to

CD-ROM production. When I planned to

produce QTVR on my early proposal it was

a high-risk project - because of my poor

knowledge and no skills. I had no idea about

how to make it happen. Moreover, the School

of Arts and the whole university does not have

this application that I could use for free. A atimage is a noun. In the QTVR environment

images are no longer nouns but verbs. The

panoramic movies are dealing with a simulated

eld of events, which can view in 360-degree,

zooming in and out.

During the academic period I had taken

photos in public events. I had to investigate the

digital photography and interactive multimedia

CONCLUSION

production methods to nd a special way to perform

this project. Concerned about how much time and

amount to invest this project, the digital photography

(art) is not necessary cheaper than traditional means.

However, the exhibition work that I presented in

3D on screen cannot be done using traditional

photography.

New forms of creative arts provide new forms

of communication. Hypothetical shifts require a

rethinking of traditional denitions. This project

searched for an approach to converse on two areas.

The possible outcomes with multimedia and digital

photography and what I can make with these

technologies to present my ideas. As I mentioned, I

have had many probabilities to develop similar project

in early stage. However, time is always an important

issue that many people may not think about. If I

could develop it when I had the idea in 1997, it

would be a classical black and white photography.

The technology is update from time to time. As an

e-generation person I am always learning software

applications without the manuals in a short time and

picking up features from many different applications

to get best result. However I need time to be educated

and self-trained.

The year of 2001 is an election year in Australia, a

celebration year for the Centenary of Federation and

a new landmark launched in Canberra the National

Museum of Australia. Those opportunities polished

this project to a new interface. The supervisors I met

brought me new ideas about Australian and art. If

I missed these opportunities, I would not have spirit

to wait for next the celebration for the Centenary of

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Footnotes

1. Page 9, top image, screen capture at www.misamartin.com

2. Page 9, bottom image, screen capture at www.vrview.com

3. Page 12 - SmithKline Beecham International Advertising, RALPH, December 2000,

ACP, Australia, p168

4. Page 12 Map 145, Big Colour Pages, Canberra version 2001

5. Page 14 ACT Reference Map, Big Colour Pages, Canberra version 2001

APPENDICES


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The Project 292

Code Light & Magic: A Virtual

Canberra

This interactive multimedia web

project is a view of Canberra

through a foreigners eyes. The

title of project Code Light &

Magic is a combination three

features to create this website. The

CODE means the foundation of

the website as Hyper Text MediaLanguage (HTML). The LIGHT

refers to cameras that using optical

technology to develop images. The

MAGIC is a fantasy that created

by software applications. The code

name of project 292 is comes from

the number of the division, in

which I did service for two years.

I was a radioman in the 292nd

Division, Army, National Military Services,

Taiwan, 1991-1993.

Aim

The goal of this project is aimed to focus

on the People of Canberra and certain events

in I planned to take images at all public

events including multicultural, Aboriginal

culture and the celebration of the Centenary

of Federation. Additionally, some sub-topics

are targeting people contents in generation,

regions and occupations.

It is interesting to show the relationship

between kids with parents, grandparents

and other mature relatives. To stand as

an outsider, there are some topics as to

how parents treat children at public events.

This appears at odds with Taiwanese social

behaviours, customs, education, religions,

races and life methods. Those points are at

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the heart of this project and make the ultimate

power of images have a cultural meaning.

Process of the Project

This project will include two parts:

Virtual Performance

Exhibition installation

Virtual Performance

This part will through a data projector to

present nished artworks with web projecton the wall. The artworks will include still

photography in multimedia format, panoramic

collage images and QuickTime Virtual Reality

(QTVR) movies. The rst two parts are 2D

at images and 3D movies in QuickTime

format.

Exhibition Installation

There is several Panoramic Collage images will

through colour laser printer to make large size

images to install for graduating exhibition.

Some images will selected to make a B5 size

(or less) photography book.

The Source of Software

There is several powerful software applications

will be used to create this unique project.

Applications are including Photoshop,

Illustrator, Director, Dreamweaver and

Fireworks. It may use SoundEditor 16, Flash

and 3D modelling developing softwarepackages.

In Conclusion

This project will illustrate my viewing of People

of Canberra in public events to perform the

different between a foreigner and local region.

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Galen C. HsiehBorn in Roster year & Scorpion month

17 November 1969 at Taipei / Taiwan

Arrived Canberra on 2 January 1994

Education

2001 Certicate IV in Assessment & Workplace Training (BSZ40198)

Vocational Education & Training Dept., ANUTECH (Registered Training Organisation No.

88020 with Australian National Training Authority)

2001-2001 Candidate for Master of visual Arts

School of Arts, National Institute of The Arts, The Australian National University

2000 Graduate Diploma in Electronic Arts (Interactive Multimedia)

Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology, National Institute of The Arts,

The Australian National University

1996-1999 Bachelor of Graphic Design

University of Canberra

1986-1991 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering

Szi-Hai College of Technology, Taiwan

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AwardFIRST 1999 Cover Image (black + white photography)

New writing by the students of the University of Canberra

Compaq International Advertising Award Competition 1999

Supporting Team in Web design & IT Assistant

Faculty of Communication, University of Canberra

Group Exhibition

2000 CSIRO Discovery Centre, ACAT Performance Night, Multimedia

1999 Checkout, University of Canberra Graphic Design Graduating Exhibition

1998 Art Show, University of Canberra, Black & White Photography

Professional Conference & Seminar

2001 IdN Fresh Conference, Sydney

2000 New Media World, Sydney & AGIdeas (Australia Graphic International design

conference), Melbourne

1999 AGIdeas, Melbourne

1997 New Media World, Sydney

1996 AGIdeas, Melbourne

Work Experience

Freelance Graphic Designer since 1996

Freelance Web Designer since 1998

Freelance CD-ROM developer since 2000

August November 1997

Chief Editor, Mercury Journal (3rd edition)

University of Canberra Overseas Students' Organisation, University of Canberra

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23 November 1998 - 12 February 1999 Web DesignerTaipei Economic and Cultural Ofce in Canberra, Australia

February - November 1998 Graphic Editor Curio Journal

University of Canberra Students' Association (UCSA), University of Canberra

1991 1993 Signal Ofcer (Corporal)

Army, National Military Services, Taiwan

1991 Assistant Editor Newsletter at Szi-Hai College of Technology

1990 Chief Editor (10th edition) Mechanical Engineering Students Association Journal Szi-

Hai College of Technology

1988 1993 Graphic Designer Test Arts Studio, Taiwan

Voluntary Experience

2001 Committee Member of the I-Ball

Designing all promotion kits

Organising events

Big Brother/Sister Welcome to new overseas students program with the International

Education Ofce (IEO), The Australian National University

1997 1999 O-Week Leader

Orientation Week Leader at University of Canberra (UC)

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1995 1996 Overseas Students Representative for Taiwan& Photographer

Canberra Council for International Students (CCIS)

1990-1991 Education & Students Services Ofcer

Mechanical Engineering Students Association

Szi-Hai College of Technology

1987 Assistant of Visual Communication

Students Association

Szi-Hai College of Technology

Industrial Membership

Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA)

Professional Skills

Qualied trainer recognised within the Australian Qualication Framework in National

Course Code: BSZ40198

Digital Photography, Graphic Design, Interactive Multimedia, CD-ROM production,Marketing Communication

Software Applications Skills

Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, InDesign, PageMaker, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Director

& Lingo, Poser, Language C and basic knowledge of UNIX code.

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