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Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales
More information TBA June 2025.
About Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales.
Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales is a major public commission by YEN TING CHO Studio for the new Terminal 3 building at Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan. The new terminal features architecture by ARUP, and partners/collaborators Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners / CECI Engineering Consultants Inc., Taiwan / Fei & Cheng Associates. Apart from stunning, flowing architecture, the project has a strong focus on visitor experience.
Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales is scheduled to be completed autumn 2025. It features seven monumental parts with a total length of over 300 meters. Each work depicts different narratives and aspects of Taiwanese history and culture, showing lead artist Yen-Ting Cho's reflections on the culture and natural and urban landscapes of contemporary Taiwan, crafted with an understanding of airport space, art experience, and materiality.
With its significant location, an international airport which is the eleventh busiest in the world, Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales emphasises the value of communicating Taiwan to the world. Known for hi-tech, engineering and innovation, the seven artworks show Taiwan's creativity through weaving together technology, culture and heritage. The semi-abstract visuals encourage viewers from all backgrounds to engage with the works.
YEN TING CHO Studio, Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales - T3 Rendering No. 4 Mountain Melodies, Heavenly Light. © YEN TING CHO Studio 2025
Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales - Mountain Melodies, Heavenly Light honors Taiwan's unique mountains and lush forests, infused with the rhythm of indigenous cultures and music.
Using data visualization techniques of human-computer co-creation art, it incorporates the rhythms of indigenous music to depict the undulating landscape. The colour palette features deep greens and dark purples, representing the rhythms of light and shadow in the forest. As soft sunlight pours into the departure hall, travelers seem to walk through Taiwan’s golden mountains.
“It’s not just architecture. It’s not just landscape. It’s not just urban design. It’s everything everywhere.”
YEN TING CHO Studio, Gateway To Taiwan: Island Tales, 2025, N0.4 Mountain Melodies, Heavenly Light. T3 Rendering. © YEN TING CHO Studio
Yen-Ting Cho Profile Photo. © Han Yueh Liang
YEN TING CHO Studio, Future Matsu Wave Song / Traces, 2024, installation, National Science and Technology Council, Taipei. © YEN TING CHO Studio
Yen-Ting Cho Profile Photo. © Han Yueh Liang
YEN TING CHO Studio, Gateway To Taiwan: Island Tales, 2025, N0.4 Mountain Melodies, Heavenly Light. T3 Rendering. © YEN TING CHO Studio
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Media opportunities.
July 19-28 - August 6-9 - Interview opportunities in London
July 28- August 6 - Interview opportunities in New York
September /October- Installation and inauguration (TBC)
About YEN TING CHO Studio
Founded in London in 2016, YEN TING CHO Studio produces unique artworks, installations and contemporary design. In 2025, the Studio installs its largest ever public commission, Gateway to Taiwan: Island Tales at the new Terminal 3 building at Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan. Recent major commissions and installations include A Surge: Digital Art Facade, 2025, public art installation for Ally Logistic Property (ALP), Taoyuan Meishi (Red Dot 2025 Design Concept Winner); Future Matsu Wave Song / Traces, 2024, installation, National Science and Technology Council, Taipei; Dancing Wunsian's History, Culture and Landscape, 2023, public art installation for Wunsian Elementary School, Tainan City; Dancing Door Gods, 2021, video and performance, National Universiade, Tainan City.
The Studio creates innovative and dynamic art and design through human-computer co-creation that pays homage to place and to local heritage. The distinct patterns of installations and design are crafted using bespoke digital technology pioneered by company founder and lead designer, Yen-Ting Cho. Using the 'mov.i.see’ original software, the cross-disciplinary team in the Studio manipulates curated data (photos, videos) into original patterns, and radically plays with their structure and colour to create a signature aesthetic that transcends the boundaries between art and design.
Apart from art installations and public art, editions and design products by YEN TING CHO Studio are sold in galleries, boutiques, concept stores, museum shops and design outlets around the world. The studio has won many prestigious international art and design awards. YEN TING CHO Studio is based in Taipei, Taiwan (with a studio and public gallery) and in London, UK (studio). www.yentingchostudio.com
About mov.i.see.
‘mov.i.see’ is a digital interactive software combined with a Kinect sensor to capture and process human body movement. After inputting visual information into the software, the digital framework is manipulated and interrupted by a moving body to produce unique patterns which are radically altered by hand to harmonise structure and colour.
‘mov.i.see’ is an original software developed exclusively by YEN TING CHO Studio. It is a unique creation that reflects the Studio’s innovative and distinctive approach to art and design.
YEN TING CHO Studio, Future Matsu Wave Song / Traces, 2024, installation, National Science and Technology Council, Taipei. © YEN TING CHO Studio. Short version of the film. ©YEN TING CHO Studio
YEN TING CHO Studio, Dancing Door Gods, 2021, performance. National Universiade, Tainan, TW. ©YEN TING CHO Studio
About Yen-Ting Cho
Yen-Ting Cho is a designer, artist, educator and researcher. He directs YEN TING CHO Studio (London and Taipei), a digital design studio and consultancy, and is also Professor in the Institute of Creative Industries Design, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He is an expert in cross-disciplinary research, focusing on architecture, interactive and media design, and animation. He has a PhD in Innovative Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art, London, and a MDes from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD).
Yen-Ting Cho has designed interactions for Microsoft Surface, GSD and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Exhibitions include Camden Art Centre, Manchester Science Festival, Siggraph Asia, ACMM, Taiwan Design Expo 2022, and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. His designs have won numerous international awards, including 2022 Muse Design Platinum and 2020 IDA Design Gold. His work is regularly featured in international art-design press, including Design Magazine, Mot Times, Taipei Times, DFUN, 90+10.
Yen-Ting Cho. ©Han Yueh Liang
“We’ve been experimenting with countless print samples to find the ideal tone and texture of gold for our Taoyuan Airport public art project. Every variation is tested side by side—meticulously compared, adjusted, and fine-tuned. It‘s an ongoing journey to strike the perfect balance between shimmer and subtlety, ensuring the final artwork looks perfect in the airport environment.”
Yen-Ting Cho in the studio. ©YENG TING CHO Studio. @yentingcho, Instagram post for April 9, 2025
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