Artists

Sarah Song is a new media artist and techspressionist, currently pursuing her doctoral studies at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Her practice lies at the intersection of the natural world, sound, as well as visuals. She works in a variety of media and material in order to express her vivid imagination and interact with the audience. Most of her artworks aim to explore the creative relationships and possibilities between nature and digital technology, virtual and reality. 

Song completed her bachelor's degree in Film and Media Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she received the Young Media Artist Award Gold Prize. She later achieved her M.F.A. in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2016, her works have been showcased in various places, including Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Italy, Iceland, the United States, and Germany, among others.

Chi Po Hao is an interdisciplinary artist and a researcher. He has built a career at the intersection of music, technology, art, and culture, and holds a Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Music in Studio Composition from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Bachelor of Art in Economics from National Taiwan University.

Chi’s recent research explores “internetworked” systems, transforming everyday technology use into performative gestures. His goal is to examine social relations amidst surveillance, automation, and algorithmic life and to explore how artistic expression can enhance our coexistence with digitality. Po-Hao aims to create and provoke thought through his work, fostering a deeper engagement with the intertwined realms of art, technology, and music.

Chloe Yu Nong LIN is a Pipa musician and experimental composer from Taiwan. Her sound projects mainly focus on pipa improvisation and experimental composition. Lin’s live performance centers on the relationship of the performing body and the instrument. Through improvisation, Lin would like to discover a more innovative sound of pipa. To live out her various creativities, Lin is also interested in transforming any kind of sound material into an instrument for improvised performance.

Lin graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Sound. Since 2017, she has been playing with many sound artists and improvisors around Chicago. Lin’s debut pipa electroacoustic album was released by Chicago experimental label Monastral on March 1st, 2021.

suzueri (Elico Suzuki) is a Tokyo based sound and visual artist, improviser. She plays and exhibits circuitous and restless performances and installations using pianos and found objects combined with self-made instruments.Her recent interests have centred on the exploration of the gaps and narrative aspects between the communication and interaction of instruments and particular embodiments.

She graduated from Musashino Art University (B.F.A), and after 10 years of working in the field of games, she studied media/sound art at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). She has participated in several national and international projects and festivals, such as Tokyo Biennale (Tokyo, 2023), LUFF Festival (Switzerland, 2022), Tsonami Festival (Chile, 2019). And awarded several prizes including Asian Cultural Council NYC Fellowship (2023) and jury selection for the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division (2021). Currently She is working as an adjunct lecturer for Musashino Art University and the University of Tokyo.

Samuel Beilby is a contemporary artist and researcher based in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). His practice and research interests address the sentience, ephemeral qualities and turbulent nature of digital and mechanical new media technologies, materialism and labour. Through historical/theoretical research, speculative narratives and performative installations, his projects often operate to amplify tensions between late-capitalist endeavours and ecological systems. 

He currently occupies a committee member role at Cool Change Contemporary, a casual teaching position at the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) School of Design’ Fine Art Department. Samuel recently completed his Master of Fine Arts (Research) candidature at UWA which consisted of a thesis entitled “Swarmic Trajectories: Mapping the Symbiosis of Social Insects and Biomimetic Automation at Fulfillment Centre Worksites” (2022) and a creative body of work, Workwelt Logistics (2022). As of 2023, he has completed exhibitions, residencies, performances and artist talks in Taiwan, France, Japan, Singapore and Australia.

Shih Ya Tien is an independent curator and editor based in Taipei. Her research focuses on revealing the intertwined relationship between the external environment and exhibition space within curatorial practice. Through transferring discursive power, she intends to examine how curating, as a mechanism, a proposition, or a platform can contribute to discourse among fields of culture, art and the environment. 

She holds an MFA degree in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA degree in Chinese Literature from National Tsing Hua University. She works between institutions, studios, and artists, presenting projects in varied medium internationally. Her recent granted curatorial project includes Treasure Hill History and Culture Permanent Exhibition“Resonating Sound”(2021), Latin America X Taiwan Exchange Program “A Game between Borders”(2021), TheCube Project Space “Eavesdropping on the Wind and Cloud” Broadcast(2020).