Artists Ray Chang
SUMMER 2024 RESIDENT · JUN – SEP
Ray Chang
Animation, sculpture, installation · Los Angeles, CA
Ray Chang is a Taiwanese-American artist and animator based in Los Angeles, California, whose work spans animation, kinetic sculpture, mechanical design, lighting, sound and installation, what he calls expanded cinema. He joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Summer 2024 session.
Background
Chang earned his BFA in Film Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder and his MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
About the work
Chang’s work investigates automation, visual perception and feelings of alienation. His installation Automated is a kinetic sculpture of a fictional city, made from many small sculpture-machines that echo early animation devices such as the zoetrope and mutoscope. Viewers peer into windows and buildings to find looping cinematic scenes and secret discoveries. Chang describes his practice as one built on trial and error, and on the belief that it is always okay to keep learning.
Selected highlights
Princess Grace Award, Stephen Hillenburg Animation Scholarship
Automated, exhibited at Automata, Los Angeles (2023), following an artist residency there in 2020
Automated presented in the CalArts Experimental Animation Showcase (2021)
MFA in Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts
