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Fong Wah Phoebe Hui

Country(activity based):
China / United States
Genre:
Visual Art

Profile

Born in Hong Kong and graduated from M.F.A., Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2006.  Recent main activities are solo exhibition "Granular Graph" (Watermans Art Center, London, UK), group exhibition "UCLA Game Art Festival"(Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, 2012), JCCAC Festival "Yes, the door is open"(Jockey Club Creative Art Center, Hong Kong, China, 2011), "New Media Archeology"(Videotage, Hong Kong, China, 2011), "End to End" Media Art Exhibition(Harvestwork, New York, USA, 2011).

Hui received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong. She has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally. She is also the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2011 Award for Young Artist (Media Arts), Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellow, Asian Cultural Council United States-Japan Arts Program Research Fellowship, Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award, Hong Kong Art Development Council Art Scholarship, and Hong Kong Design Association Design Student Scholarship. 

In addition to being an independent artist, she is interested in art education and conducted workshops in various organizations. She was invited to share her research-based art practice in ISEA 2009 and present a paper on digital media pedagogy at MIT Media Lab in 2008.  She is currently doing her MFA at Design Media Art in UCLA.

About works / performance

Hui is a digital artist and researcher mainly working in the relationship between art, technology, and language. Most of my works defamiliarize, and experiment with, text, image, and sound, to discover new possibilities and to transgress ordinary boundaries. Her early pieces worked with the transformation of text into image and played with the heterogeneous written forms of different languages. Her recent projects have increasingly relied on interdisciplinary ideas drawn from literary theory, art history, quantitative research, electronics, computer science, and interface design.
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