CONCEPTUALISER
PAUL GONG
Paul Gong (TW/US), born in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1988.
He holds a BA in Industrial Design from the Chang
Gung University in Taipei, Taiwan, and an MA in Design
Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London,
United Kingdom. He was awarded the Next Art Tainan
Awards in 2018. He sees design is a research method
and thinking tool to explore different possibilities, to
criticise the past and the present, and to speculate the
future. Design should stimulate debate, imagination,
and reflection for people. It is also interesting for
him to explore the aesthetics of the representation
for possible futures. He attempts to use installation,
text and image, conceptual objects, and exhibition to
create a kind of scenario for people to imagine and
explore. His work has been exhibited at MAS, Museum
aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Museum für Kunst und
Gewerbe Hamburg, Taiwan Design Museum and Yiri
Arts in Taipei, USC 5D Institute in Los Angeles, Future
Gallery in Palo Alto, London, and Guangzhou.
He currently works as an independent designer, artist,
and curator. As well as being an independent designer
and artist of Ouroboros - Organic Organism of O
(Artist Collective), a part-time tutor of the Department
of Industrial Design at Chang Gung University, and a
lecturer of the Xue Xue Institute.