About
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Hsiang Chin Moe is an artist and educator with experience in higher education, production, technology, and management. She began her career in advertising, VFX, and animation the further navigated her paths to education where she is now the inaugural BFA Animation Chair at School of Visual Arts in New York City. Hsiang is an active member of the global animation community. She organizes and moderates an annual talent panel at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival where she works with animation executives, recruiters, artists and educators to foster talents from all over the world.
She previously acted as Associate Director of the New York Digital Salon, working to create international dialogue and partnerships to celebrate animation, video, games, and interactive installations. In addition to making her own documentary, short and animated films, she also regularly represents and participates as a panelist, presenter, and organizer at major international conferences and festivals, including FMX Conference, VIEW Conference, SIGGRAPH, Ottawa Animation Festival, New York Comic Con and New York Foundation of the Arts. She has exhibited, performed, presented, lectured and participated in panels in the United States and abroad, including France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, and Thailand.
Hsiang now serves on the board of Women in Animation (WIA) organization as the Chair for Education program, where she works alongside the industry’s leading artists, filmmakers, recruiters as well as educators and students. WIA’s mission is to bring together the global animation community to empower and advocate for people of underrepresented gender identities in the art, technology, production, and business of animation, inspiring excellence and justice in all facets of the industry. WIA envisions a world in which people of all gender identities share fully in the creation, production, and rewards of animation, resulting in richer and more diverse entertainment and media that move our culture forward.