6:30 for 7:00 Monday 10 July 2006

Speaker: Lin Hsin Hsin

System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers
The Piazza
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 8HA

Tel: 020 7836 7406

Synopsis

The combination of digital technology and the easy accessibility of drag and drop, cut and paste, morph and tween, music samplers and computers, networks and downloads have irrevocably changed the way art, sound, music and animation are produced and perceived. As digital art, music and animation spawn to become a profound means of expression in their own right, a new breed of technology must be forged to set new directions of creating and generating different genres of art, music and animation. However, the interest and assimilation of new and untried technologies is not based on a sure wager on notions of the "borrowed", nor it is based on converting the "analog world" to the digital, or even the digitally recorded sources. As such, the speaker attempts to reload the fundamental of zeros and ones, formulating and formatting the simplicity (or complexity) of the basics to generate art, sound, music and animation.

Duration: 1 hour, Q&A c15 mins

Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum: www.lhham.com.sg/

Biography

Lin Hsin Hsin is an artist, poet and composer from Singapore, deeply rooted in information technology. She was born in Singapore. She graduated in mathematics from the University of Singapore and received a postgraduate degree in computer science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She studied music and art in Singapore, printmaking at the University of Ulster, papermaking in Ogawamachi, Japan and paper conservation at the University of Melbourne Conservation Services.

Hsin Hsin has held solo exhibitions in Singapore, Amsterdam and San Jose, California, USA. She has participated in exhibitions across Asia, Europe, North America and South America. In 1985, she was awarded a silver medal by the SociÈtÈ des Artistes FranÁais, Paris. In 1987, she received the IBM Singapore Art Award. Her artworks are in private, public and museum collections in Asia, Europe and North America.

Lin Hsin Hsin is a digital media pioneer. She has created the 1st digital music in 1985, 1st 3D digital art in 1987, 1st digital animation in 1989 in Singapore. In 1994, she set up one of the earliest virtual museums in the world, the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum. Lin Hsin Hsin created Web art and Net art in 1995, and she has developed interactive Web art since 1997. She pioneered virtual sculpting in 1999 in Singapore; it was exhibited in Paris, France.

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