Tainan City, Tainan City, Taiwan
Dr Ming Turner received her PhD in Art History and Theory at Loughborough University in 2008, and currently Assistant Professorship at the Institute of Creative Industries Design of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. Dr Turner is also Head of Visual Arts at the NCKU Art Centre. She has delivered research papers to many international conferences, and publishes widely internationally, including Women’s Studies in the West (Beijing: China Renmin University Press, 2011), Gender and Women’s Leadership (London: Sage, 2010), n.paradoxa (2010 and 2012) and The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009). She is also an international curator, and her previous curatorial projects include Taiwan Digital Art Pulse Stream Plan: Body, Gender, Technology (2010-11, Digital Art Center Taipei), 0&1: Cyberspace and the Myth of Gender (2010, 501 Contemporary Art Centre, Chongqing, China), Simply Screen: Inbetweeners of Asia (2009, Tranzfabrik, Berlin and The Bhavan, London). She completed an international touring exhibition, Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia, held in South Hill Park, UK (2011), Creative Hinckley Gallery, UK (2011-12) and The Pier-2 Art Centre, Taiwan (2012). She is currently curating the show, Post-humanist Desire, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei in Taiwan. http://www.icid.ncku.edu.tw/t22.html
I teach modules on 'Cultural Studies', 'Contemporary Curation and Art Management', 'History and Discourses of Material Culture', and 'Introduction to New Media and Digital Arts'. I also supervise PhD and MA students on their research projects.
I taught Critical and Contextual Studies to both undergraduate and postgraduate students at Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities at De Montfort University.
I taught a course on contemporary East Asian art to MA students and also supervised MA research and dissertations.