Yi-Tai Chung is an artist working with light. Chung’s creative and teaching practices include lighting design, installation, and photography. Chung’s lighting design for the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites was selected for WSD 2017 Exhibition. His project Visualizing Invisible Cities was selected for PQ 2019 Exhibition. The design process was shared at PQ Talk at the same time. His research Lighting Patterns, a long-term light documentary project, was established in 2021. Seeing Lighting Patterns in Everyday Life, a talk based on this research project, was presented at WSD 2022 Scenofest in Calgary, Canada.
Chung received his MFA in Design and Technology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2017. He later served as Instructional Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at the University of Mississippi for three years. After returning to his hometown Taiwan in 2021, he worked as a freelance lighting designer, a photographer, and an educator. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Practice at National Sun Yat-sen University and Vice-Chair at OISTAT Lighting Design Sub-commission.
鍾宜泰是一個燈光藝術家。他的創作、研究、教學實踐橫跨不同領域，包括燈光設計、裝置藝術、攝影。他的燈光設計作品〈斷頭台上的修女〉，入選2017年世界劇場設計展。裝置藝術作品〈再現看不見的城市〉入選2019年布拉格劇場設計四年展，同時在該研討會上發表作品的創作過程〈二創：設計思考和敘事〉。個人研究〈光影日常〉一個長期的光影紀實計畫創立於2021年，關於此計畫的演講〈看見日常生活中的光影形狀〉發表於2022年世界劇場設計展劇場藝術節。
鍾宜泰畢業於美國德州大學奧斯汀分校藝術碩士，主修劇場設計及技術。他曾任職於美國密西西比大學燈光設計助理教授三年。於2021年返台後從事燈光設計、教學及個人研究計畫。鍾宜泰現任國立中山大學助理教授級專業技術人員及國際劇場組織燈光工作小組副主席。