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Chong Li-Chuan (Chu'an) is a musician by training, composer by choice, an academic at large, and a consultant in user experience and strategic design.

Chuan lived in the UK for 15 years prior to his return to the island city-state, Singapore, in 2006.

He received his formal education at Goldsmiths College, University of London, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1999 and a Master of Music (Composition) in 2000. Between 2001 and 2005, Chuan was a post-graduate researcher in electroacoustic composition at the Stanley Glasser Electronic Music Studios (EMS) in Goldsmiths College.

His research interest includes, but is not limited to, acoustic ecology, aurality, listening, sound and semblance, the aesthetics of noise and silence, musicking, identity formation, gender, performativity, embodiment, and post-structuralism.

Chuan is currently the Programme Chair for the Diploma in New Media (DNM), under the School of Technology for the Arts, Republic Polytechnic (RP). Previously, he was looking after the Diploma in Design for Interactivity (DDI).

Over the past five years at RP, Chuan had developed and shaped the curriculum and delivery of DDI, focusing on Interaction Design, User Experience Design, and Design Thinking.

Location:
Singapore, Woodlands
Current organization:
School of Technology for the Arts, Republic Polytechnic
Past organizations:
LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Current role:
Program Chair
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Composition (Music), Sonic Arts, Design Education, Design Thinking, Strategic Design, User Experience Design
I am:
Artist, Connector, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Musician, Parent, Performer, Producer, Public servant
Associations:
Sonic Arts Network, Interaction Design Association
Languages:
English, Chinese, Cantonese
My website links:
Sonic Journey, Diploma in Design for Interactivity
Universities:
Goldsmiths College
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  • A comment on Conversation: What is art?

    Jun 28 2011: In my practice / approach, art is provocation, and design is intention / purposefulness. This often results in questioning conditions of necessity, and conditions of possibility.

    I'd suggest thinking along the lines of ontology, and epistemology, e.g. "art is...", "art as..."

    And I'd also like to recommend a few books:
    "The Principles of Art" by Robin George Collingwood (Oxford University Press, 1958)
    "But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory" by Cynthia A. Freeland (Oxford University Press, 2002)
    "Art as Experience" by John Dewey - originally a series of lectures on aesthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932 (Perigee Trade, 2005)

  • A comment on Conversation: Name inspiring people who are not with us anymore, whom you think will swept the TED stage and transform the world.

    Jun 28 2011: "War doesn’t decide who is right, war decides who is left." — Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

  • A comment on Conversation: What book would you recommend to your fellow TEDsters?

    Jun 28 2011: "The Blue and Brown Books" by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1965, Harper Torchbooks)
    "Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates" by Slavoj Žižek (2002, Verso)
    "Possible Worlds" by Rod Girle (2003, McGill-Queen's University Press)
    "Undoing Gender" by Judith Butler (2004, Routledge)
    "Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens" by Simon Critchley (2005, Routledge)
    "Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder" by David Weinberger (2007, Times Books)
    "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations" by Clay Shirky (2009, Penguin)

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