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Assistant Professor, Film & Media Arts Department
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Associate Professor, Film & Media Arts Department
Creative Research
- Seeing Through the Eyes of Crocodiles, animated short screening in Midnight Rainbow: Chinese Queer Film, Bi’Bak, Berlin
Media Arts,
completed
2019.
- Seeing Through the Eyes of Crocodiles, animated short screening in The Boston LGBT Film Festival
Media Arts,
completed
2017.
- Seeing Through the Eyes of Crocodiles, animated short screening in TWIST Seattle Queer Film Festival
Media Arts,
completed
2016.
- Seeing Through the Eyes of Crocodiles, animated short screening in Shanghai Pride Film Festival, winner for the Best Editing Award (director and editor: Lien Fan Shen)
Media Arts,
completed
2016.
- Seeing Through the Eyes of Crocodiles, animated short screening in the Eighth Beijing Queer Film Festival, Beijing, China
Media Arts,
completed
2015.
- (Re)visualizing Femininity/Masculinity, manga exhibition and public lecture at Leiden’s Honours Academy, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Exhibition,
completed
2014.
- Animation-based Depression Evaluation (AIDE) Application on Touch Screen Devices: An instrument to evaluate depressive symptoms in persons with intellectual disability Media Arts
Media Arts,
in progress
2014.
- Hao: An Animated Documentary about Female Masculinity in Taiwan.
Media Arts,
in progress
2013.
- Stage animation for Green Map Project in Repertory Dance Theater.
Performance,
completed
2011.
- Ghost Interruption (revised), digital performing art, Art Access Gallery
Media Arts,
completed
2010.
- Ghost Interruption (revised), digital performing art, Art in Motion
Media Arts,
completed
2010.
- Ghost Interruption, an interdisciplinary digital media performance that combines real-time animated images and modern dance.
Media Arts,
in progress
2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZqhbr0vWFk
- Thaw, digital art performance, Performance Dance Company, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Media Arts,
completed
2008.
- Trilogy (destruction/reconstruction/documents), multimedia installation in C02 Taiwan Avant-Grade Documenta
Exhibition,
completed
2002.
- Reconstruction, multimedia installation in SIGGRAPH Art Gallery
Exhibition,
completed
2002.
- Reconstruction, digital video screened in New Jersey State Film Festival
Media Arts,
completed
2001.
Presentations
- “Animated discursive practices in Taiwan Bar and Year Hare Affair: A comparative study on online animations in Taiwan and China, Association for Chinese Animation Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Other, 2021.
- LIEN FAN SHEN (2014) Anime and Manga: A Cultural Perspective.
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Presented, 2014.
- “Collaborative and collective creativity in animation and videogame production,” Department of Art Industry at National Taitung University, Taiwan.
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Presented, 2013.
- LIEN FAN SHEN (2013) Collaborative and collective creativity in animation and videogame production.
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Presented, 2013.
- LIEN FAN SHEN (2013) The hysterical subject of shōjo: the dark, twisted heroines in Revolutionary Girl Utena and Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
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Presented, 2013.
- An artist perspective of queer manga in the 1990s Taiwan at University of Chicago.
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Presented, 2012.
- Animation aesthetics and criticism, invited talk/workshop in the Graduate Institute of Children's Literature at National Taitung University.
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Presented, 2011.
- Teaching computer animation in the context of postmodern condition, invited talk at The Graduate Institute of Art Education at National Changhua University.
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Presented, 2011.
- The origin of Japanese anime and Ozamu Tezuka: An introduction to Tezuka's Space Firebird, invited talk in the Museum of Art at Ball State University.
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Presented, 2006.
- “Bai-he-man-hwa, a juncture of queer identity politics and globalization,” In Queer Asia as Method: Roundtable and Townhall at King’s College London and online.
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Presented, 2021.
https://queerasia.com/qamethod2021/
- An expended dimension in 3D animation creative processes: New paradigm or paradox when utilizing 3D virtual painting and animating tools? in Conference of Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Denver.
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Presented, 2021.
- “Transnationality and Chinese Nationalism of Animation Signifiers in Year Hare Affair” in the panel Patriotism as a Business: The Production and Consumption of Nationalism in China at the Annual Conference of The Association for Asian Studies, Denver.
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Accepted, 2019.
- "Animating intertextuality of yuri in Yurikuma Arashi” in Kumoricon Anime and Manga Studies Conference.
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Presented, 2018.
- Yuri as a Brand to Sell Adorable Monsters and Cute Queer Girls?: Animating Sexy, Cool, and Pretty in Japanese Lesbian-themed Anime in the Conference Media Industries: Current Debates and Future Directions.
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Presented, 2018.
- "Animated questions for assessing depressive symptoms in people with intellectual disabilities," co-authored with Jia-Wen Guo, Deborah Bilder, Marge Pett, Erin Johnson, Beth Cardell, Matt Jameson ".
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Presented, 2017.
- “Queer otaku? Representation of female sexuality, bodies, and pleasure in Genshiken Nidaime,” in the Annual Conference of Association of Asian Studies, Seattle, WA.
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Presented, 2016.
- “The politics of animated bodies: Body, pleasure, and class struggles in Japanese anime Attack on Titan,” in Conference of Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, CA.
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Presented, 2015.
- “What is T? (Re)visualizing female masculinity in Taiwan,” in the Conference Representations and Self-Representation of Queers in East Asia, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Presented, 2015.
- “Otaku characters in anime: Representation of anime fans’ desire, fantasy, and self-commodification,” in Conference of Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle WA.
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Presented, 2014.
- "The hysterical subject of shōjo: the dark, twisted heroines in Revolutionary Girl Utena and Puella Magi Madoka Magica" in Academic Symposium in Anime Expo 2013, Los Angles.
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Presented, 2013.
- "The hysterical subject of shōjo: the dark, twisted heroines in Revolutionary Girl Utena and Puella Magi Madoka Magica" in A Comic of Her Own: Women Writing, Reading, and Embodying in Comic, the 10th Annual University of Florida Comic Conference in association with ImageText.
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Presented, 2013.
- “Otaku characters in anime: Representation of otaku’s desire, fantasy, and self-commodification” paper presentation in 3rd Mechademia Conference on Anime, Manga, and Media Theory from Japan, Seoul.
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Presented, 2012.
- "What anime is... and what anime can teach media educators about the politics of viewing?" in Japan Studies Association, Eighteenth Annual Conference.
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Presented, 2012.
- "Ghost Interruption: Collaborative problem solving" in Technical Sketches and Posters Program and Multimedia Program in SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010.
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Presented, 2010.
- Artist talk in Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 2,.
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Presented, 2010.
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/salt-lake-city/
- Reflection after ten years: An artist perspective on queer manga in Taiwan in San Diego Comic Con and San Francisco Wonder Con.
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Presented, 2010.
- “Reflections after ten years: An artist perspective on queer manga in Taiwan,” an artist workshop in Japanese Transnational Fandom Workshop at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
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Presented, 2008.
- “Beyond theory: Interdisciplinarity of job search and teaching practice in higher education,” paper presentation the conference of National Art Education Association, New Orleans, LA.
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Presented, 2008.
- “The survival kit of the first year teaching for international graduates: Some pitfalls and uphill strategies,” in the conference of National Art Education Association, New Orleans, LA.
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Presented, 2008.
- “Foucault‘s pleasure, transgression, and Revolutionary Girl Utena,” paper presentation in the conference of Popular Culture and American Culture Association, San Francisco, CA.
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Presented, 2008.
- Ghost Interruption in SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery, 2009.
Other,
Accepted, 2009.
Research Groups
- Consortium for Research on China and Asia, .
2012 - present.
Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts
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Faculty writing retreat.
PI:
- 2017.
Total project budget to date:
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The Floating Utah: Utilizing 3D technology to create ukiyo-e style prints of Utah polluted landscapes.
PI:
- 2018.
Total project budget to date:
Publications
- Shen, Lien Fan (date unknown). Clair de Lune (graphic novel, vol. 2). Tong-li Publishing Company.
Accepted, .
- Shen, Lien Fan (date unknown). Clair de Lune (graphic novel, vol. 1). Tong-li Publishing Company.
Accepted, .
- Shen, Lien Fan (date unknown). Let's fall in love. Tong-li Publishing Company.
Accepted, .
- Shen, Lien Fan (date unknown). I will be your paradise (graphic novel, vol. 2). Tong-li Publishing Company.
Accepted, .
- Shen, Lien Fan (date unknown). I will be your paradise (graphic novel, vol. 1). Tong-li Publishing Company.
Accepted, .
- Lien Fan Shen (date unknown). The 21st Century Girls and Their Romance (5-episode online graphic novel). Creative Comic Collection.
Accepted, .
- Lien Fan Shen (date unknown). I Will Be Your Paradise (14-episode online graphic novel). Creative Comic Collection.
Accepted, .
- Lien Fan Shen (date unknown). Gender and Sexuality in Taiwan Schools. Oxford University Press.
Accepted, .
- Steninberg, S., Parmar, P., and Richard, B. (date unknown). "Anime" in Contemporary Youth Culture.
Accepted, .
- Lien Fan Shen (date unknown). "Traversing Otaku Fantasy: Representation of the Otaku Subject, Gaze, and Fantasy in Otaku no Video,” in Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan. Galbraith, Patrick, Kam, Thiam Huat, Kamm, Bjorn-Ole (Eds.). Bloomsbury Academic..
Accepted, .
- Lien Fan Shen (date unknown). “The hysterical subject of shojo: The dark, twisted heroines in Revolutionary Girl Utena and Puella Magi Madoka Magica” in Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture. Jones, Norma, Bajac-Carter, Maja, and Batchelor, Bob (Eds.) Rowman and Littlefield Press..
Accepted, .
- Lien Fan Shen (date unknown). What is computer animation? Examining technological advancements and cultural aesthetics of Japanese animation, in ACM SIGGRAPH 2007.
Accepted, .
- (date unknown). What is computer animation? Aesthetics of computer animation in Japan.
Accepted, .
- (date unknown). Reflections after Ten Years: An Artist’s Perspective on Queer Manga in Taiwan,.
Accepted, .
- Lien Fan Shen (date unknown). Anime pleasure as a playground of sexuality, power, and resistance in Mit5.
Accepted, .
- (date unknown). Beyond theory: Interdisciplinarity of job search and teaching practice in higher education.
Accepted, .
- (date unknown). The survival kit of the first year teaching for international graduates: Some pitfalls and uphill strategies.
Accepted, .
- (date unknown). Foucault’s pleasure, transgression, and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Accepted, .
- (date unknown). Anime pleasure as a playground of sexuality, power, and resistance.
Accepted, .
- Shen, Lien Fan (date unknown). Taiwan Bar, a YouTube Animation Series About Taiwan’s Histories. Animation Studies 2.0.
Accepted, .