Dr. Linda Lai 黎肖嫻博士
Research-based Transdisciplinary Artist, Independent Scholar
Linda Chiu-han LAI, historian, writer and research-based interdisciplinary artist, devotes herself to intermedia arts, Critical Theory and media archaeology, as meaningful extension of her PhD training in Cinema Studies.
She persists in artistic creation as the practice of theory, rooted in a dynamic feminist sensibility. A critical researcher in the History of Everyday Life, she seeks organological views of art’s relation to other existential domains. The two-arm emphasis on theory and artistic experiments results in some inter-disciplinary courses she has designed in her teaching at the School of Creative Media (SCM 1998-2023): on the criticality of micro/meta narrativity, new materialism’s contribution to media archaeology, automatism and rule-based creativity in pre-digital and digital artmaking, visual ethnography, sound art, and generative art & literature. She has also designed, at SCM, Hong Kong’s first university-level courses in visual ethnography (2007 undergraduate, 2012 graduate level), sound art, and generative art & literature.
By 2021, she has completed two editions of her video Manifesto project, seeking a deeper view of HK’s media art practices. Floating Projects (FP, 2015- ) is her participatory art experiment on sustainability as “collectives.” Her concern for art-tech dialogues prompted her to found the Writing Machine Collective (2004- ), a research base new media art series evolving into educational programs, then epitomized in her curatorial experiment “Algorithmic Art: Shuffling Space and Time” (2018-19).
Her works have been acquired by M+ (2019), Video Bureau (2015), and the Power Station of Art. She was “Artist of the Year 2017 – Media Art” (ADC). In 2022, online video zine D-Normal/V-Essay was a winner of Ars Electronica’s “State of the ART(ists) Initiative (2022, Linz).
Full bio can be available at
https://www.floatingprojectscollective.net/collective/linda
