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University of Washington THEATER Master of Human-Computer Design (MDes) Interaction PORTFOLIO Fall and 2021 Design (Fall 2021)

YA-TING CHIU THEATER LIGHTING DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Ya-Ting Chiu Ya-Ting Chiu After graduating Taipei National University of the Arts, I have worked as a

• Traveling artist as inavarious cabintheaters crewinin Emirates, freelance lighting designer Taiwan and China.U.A.E. (2016-present ) Education • Lighting designer in Taiwan, China and Australia.

(2011-2015) Bachelor of Fine Arts/ Major in Lighting Design Department of Theatrical Design and Technology Taipei National University of the Arts

Website: yatingchiu.weebly.com/

theater lighting projects 'Skyline III' (2013) zhao-chin, Uang Old'ASaybrook (2012) Poem Revolves the Universe' (2013) Yi-hsin, Lu Electronic City (2012) 'Old Saybrook' (2012) Men-Tang, Wu 'Electronic City' (2011) Jing-Zhe,Tang A Poem Revolves the Universe (2013)

Xiaman, China Chia-yi, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan

other related works Architecture Project : Invisible Eco Villige (2011) Architecture Project : Multifunctional Art Center (2013) Painting (2017-2020)

Sketches Stage models

THEATER LIGHTING DESIGN PROJECTS

'Writer’s Block: Old Saybrook' Men-Tang, Wu

Taipei National University of the Arts Spring Performance TNUA Experimental Theater March. 2012

Old Saybrook

Author/ Woody Allen

Woody explores relationshiphost, between a husband and a wife with living a dialogue of three at her grand suburban house.

This is a Allen comedy about the an orthodontist her sister, and gold-mad brother-in-law, a plastic surgeon, couples; investigates interaction abovestops the inner desire.

Useing the absurd sex and farce ironicthat language When a He couple who oncethe owned the building by, they spark an old-fashioned is full oftoverve and cunning. exaggerate the interpretation the real feelings are easy to ignorethat in daily Woody Allen uses absurd andofironic language to which exaggerate the feelings tend life. to be ignored in daily life.

Audiences witness marital problemsurface throughthrough debate among couples may be experienced in their own life.

We can witness thethe marital problems a lively three debate by thewhich discovery of the diary, which Exploring the inner desire of human nature by watching their interaction among characters. describes an affair between Shelia's husband and her sister. The story takes aturn when playwright Max

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This graph indicates the relationship between the audience and the couple who once owned the building.

The similarity is that both are watching a comedy that might be happening in their daily life.

The emotion feature in the sky The reference of natural light to design suitable lighting

Lighting logic

There are two factors I was concerning while designing the light.

The character's emotion (to highlight their mental states) and motives dominate lighting, theTwo environmental light (tothe indicate the time of the day) nature and emotion.

I corperated a story feels out through thesky and characters's face.

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Emotion

I use the different combinations of orange, purple,and blue to present the late evening.

To prevent the audience from noticing the change of light, I use 2 mins(considered as a slow change) to change from the left scene to the right.

theangle direction shadow depends on where I set I chose the of theoflight depending on the direction of the the sun. sun

the aend of the ending. show, everything returns to peace.

At the end of the show, the story comesAtwith peaceful I exaggerate this automosphere with a romantic At this moment, the environmental light is less important than the character's emotions.night, leaflighting including imaginary on the ground.

Therefore, I exaggerate the atmosphere with dramatic effects, including the strong leaf shadow on the floor, lowering the volume of surrounding light to highlight the main characters.

tryingtotopresent make all scences seemI use real.some special In order a realistic show.

The special Ithewas purpose wasreality. audience feel are part of the story. light to mimic For example, TV sense and the window shadow. lighting

I use the LED light ( the colors are closer to a real light the reference to watching TV from a TV) and irregularly change the colors between white, purple and blue to imitate the effect of people watching TV. (The picture only showed in the purple scene)

The reference of light on the face while watching TV.

the reference to window shadow

The reference of window shadow and how it reflects on an object.

First, I picture how the scene looks like with a simple sketch, then decide the suitable lighting equipment.

The position of lights, the angle, and the in working sketch the color is presented the sketch.

My process of planning lights on the sketch.

Light Plot

'Electronic City' Jing-Zhe,Tang The performance of the Director course TNUA T305 Experiment Theater June. 2012

Electronic City

by Falk Richter / Adopted by Jing-Zhe,Tang

Falk Richter's "Electronic City" is a fairytale set in the technology media era.Joy, Theastory in an electronic city, a global Tom and storytakes in theplace high-technological imaginary future,city, an electronic city. city is dominated by by robotics creatures. aThis city which is dominated an ubiquitous service sector. The electronic city needs people who can adapt to it and continue to live has lost his way, he has forgotten the access code, the floor, and the apartment inTom the hurries digital era. number, he doesn’t know where he is anymore. He ran into an unknown world and his only reference is the porn channel in his hotel room.

Joy, paralyzed with panic at her little cash desk in the airport at half-past one in the morning, twenty businessmen want to pay for their sandwiches and the scanner won’t work, the till is broken, the system is collapsing.

There are two atompsphere to represant the digital (bule and green) and real world (white).

In this green electronic and Joy collide according and break to down and heldand together, the beginning I use and city, blueTom to show the digital my intuition those it’s imagination . of a story that human are being controlled by the robotic creatures (represent the technology) white as human being, because the city people who are controlled by the same daily routine, which makes me think of prisons.

Lighting logic

Reference: http://www.falkrichter.com/

The reference to the digital world.

The opening scene, robotic creatures to take overstart the to real world into digitalworld. world The opening, robotsstart (digital world) swallow the awhole

The reference of the human The reference to the real human being being is being controlled, who is controlled. feeling of being trapped.

I use the purple theme to show the transition from the real world (white) into the the human being controlled technology. digital world (green).

As theby purple color is often associated with mystery and magic.

In the scene that Tom's behavior is controlled by the creatures.

The green color represents the digital world as the reference picture.

At the ending of the story, Tom and Joy are back in the real world, I use cold white color to represent it.

The director, Mr. Teng try to deliver the message that human feels helpless, the of the story, people in the same situation. not ending able to control their own willare andstill behavior, so I use the narrower light to isolate the space and show the feeling of being trapped.

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Ya-ting Chiu Lee-zen Chine

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'A Poem Revolves the Universe' Yi-hsin, Lu

Cihayi Performing Center March. 2013

A Poem Revolves the Universe beautiful thing could be transformed a peom, dependsaonscript.

"A Every poem revolves the universe" isinto a play without you thinkof of it.

Thispoems poem is combined withwritten many trueby stories Ithow consists five that were fiveform different artists. each actors. Just like there are so many different life stories exist in this The poetries: 2.Awhy dream world,title eachof one connected 1.Connection to the other, so, that's we call comes "revolves true the 3.Remember me 4.the universe". 5. the Jutise Fishman

Each poem represents the artist’s period of life, and the director Lu visualizes the poems into a play.

Connecting these five pieces to the One, " A Poem revolves the Lighting logic universe".

I was trying to build the realistic scene for each space (poem), according to the story teller and my imagination. Moreover, I used the UV-light to represent the hidden meaning of the numerous stories.

Connection

By turning those squares on and off with different speed to metaphorize the process of exchanging messages

The two pictures of reference on the left inspired me to highlight the actress in a square shape light.

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Using the effect of Japanese cartoons as a reference It'sand in thesharp character's dream, battling. (strong side light) It makes me think of Japanese cartoon's effect. to emphasize the scene that the artist image himself fights with his struggle.

A dream come ture

Remember me

The purpose of the red color on the scene is to emphasize the pain he is suffering.

Used very dim warm side light to mimic the candlelight.

Fishman

Imitated the light coming in from the windows to present this space on the boat.

the cabin in the ship. of actors walked in the corridor.

The reference

the light on a boat

The Justice Strong overhead light stress the nervous state

The reference of protester people protest against the goverment.

At the end, I turned off all the light , leaving only the UV-light on. The hidden pigment appear,

The final scene The five poems share the same scene with different lighting to present their respective poetic flavors.

To present the connection between the five poems, we used special fluorescent paint combine with U-V light at the final scene.

The final scene showed what was originally invisible under normal lighting. A hidden image represents the meaning of a poem that is sometimes hard to notice without a deeper understanding.

OTHER WORKS

Architecture Project

invisible

Gradually, people inhabit the mountain area, owing to the lack of spaces on plains and the better residential conditions. Ecologically, there are some principals concerned when planning and developing the mountain areas for dwelling, including the soil and water conservation, microclimate and residential pattern of human beings.

The IEV (Invisible Eco-Village) residential environment is designed not only for the area itself but also for the viewers from outside. It is invisible so that it maintains the original landscape of the site. Each building is a 20 floors apartment block spreading over the site, and between each other, the different heights exists according to the terrain. By principally designing the top parts of the buildings, that is to say arraying different functional elements, a superior living environment is created. wind passage

Structure, Relationship

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Competition 2011 "Array" Award: top13 Ya-ting, Chiu Shiu-pai, Su Ya-cheng, Lai

The model of theater Multifunctional Art Center Taipei, Taiwan

This theater is experimental one I tried to build in a uncompleted multi-functional arts center, which is an architecture student’s project. I want to create a new way An experimental theater is designed to emphasize the spatial aspect of the of viewing. In simple terms, people can watch the situation when they pass by the theater itself. This design allowed the whole process since entering the theater unintentionally. “watching a play”becomes another unconscious and real play theater to be part of the performance. simultaneously. Genuine actors on the stage of the theater are a conscious actor Using a transparent material to construct the wall along the walkway to also unconscious actor. The audience at this time is the audience of plays also a provide the space appear visually unrestricted. performer of this unconscious play. If it is feasible in technological technique, this will be a very interesting interaction.

The audience on the upper level can see the people on the lower level while walking in the theater, and vice versa. The theater itself was set up on the ground floor, but the movement of entry forced the audience to go up to the first floor before they could enter the seats.

The audience on the first floor (on the way entering seat) layer of audience thethe second

top view

The purpose is to give the audience the opportunity to enjoy a more complete picture of the stage from a higher viewpoint. In addition, the process that the audience entered and watched the play was part of the performance. Like people say “Drama is the presentation of life�, and the process of watching the drama is part of life.

Painting

CASTLE (2017) Watercolor 54x39 cm

Untitle (2017) Watercolor 39x14cm