BI Xin is a curator and writer based in Shanghai. As well as being the Executive Director of Chronus Art Center, she also leads the curatorial vision of public events at CAC. Her curatorial practices focus on the intersection of arts, decentralised technologies and contemporary social-culture/subculture.
DO TUONG LINH
DO Tuong Linh is a curator / art researcher in Hanoi, Vietnam. Do holds a BA in Art History and theoretical criticism from Vietnam University of Fine Arts and a MA in Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa at SOAS(University of London), UK.
She has engaged in various art exhibitions and projects in Asia, Europe and beyond since 2005. She is a fellow researcher for Site and Space in Southeast Asia – a research project run by the Power Institute, University of Sydney, Australia funded by Getty Image Foundation, USA. In 2022, Do is the one of curators from the artistic team of the 12th Berlin Biennale.
IRIS LONG
Iris LONG is an independent curator with a research focus on how art responds to computing. She was shortlisted for the first M21-IAAC Award (International Awards for Art Criticism). She has curated exhibitions around art and technology, such as “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa” (Hyundai Blue Prize), “Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse” and so on.
She is on the art jury of ISEA 2019, and the art jury of SIGGRAPH ASIA 2020. In 2021, she initialized “Port: Under the Cloud”, long-term research and curatorial project on the infrastructures of science and technology in China.
JE BAAK
Je BAAK graduated from Seoul National University and Royal College of Art in UK. He has held solo exhibitions in London and Seoul and participated in several group exhibitions such as “New Visions New Voices” (2013), “Samramansang” (2017) at MMCA Korea and “Korean Eye” (2012) at Saatchi Gallery, “THE FUTURE IS NOW!”(2014-2015) exhibition at MAXXI Art Museum in Italy, Media City Seoul 2016 at Seoul Museum of Art, Lux” in 180 Strand London, Seoulight in DDP, Seoul and at Ars Electronica exhibition in Austria.
Baak has received several prominent recognitions. He was awarded the Grand Prize of Joongang Fine Arts Prize in 2010 and won the Grand Prix of the VH AWARD in 2016 by Hyundai Motor Group. Baak’s works are in the collections held by MMCA, DDP, Kumho Museum, Museum of Art in Seoul National University and Joongang Ilbo and proceeding many projects with companies such as Hyundai Motor Company, LG and etc. He is currently educating art & technology and installation art as a professor of the department of sculpture, Seoul National University.
JOEL KWONG
Joel KWONG, an international media art curator, writer, producer and educator based in Hong Kong. She is currently the Programme Director for Microwave Festival, and the founder of SIBYLS. Over 15 years of experience, her most recent involved projects includes Future Media Art Festival in Taiwan, Microwave Festival, “Fireflies: The Glowing Dots”(2021) online exhibition, Connecting the Dots Media Art Archaeology Online Project etc. She has also given talks and lectures at many festivals and institutions, including Ars Electronica in Linz, Transmediale in Berlin, ACT Festival in South Korea; the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo etc.
JOSELINA CRUZ
Joselina CRUZ is currently Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Manila. Cruz has worked as a curator for the Lopez Memorial Museum in Manila and the Singapore Art Museum.
She was a curator for the 2nd Singapore Biennale in 2008 and curated the Philippine Pavilion for the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. She is a Fellow of the Nippon Foundation’s Asian Public Intellectuals, and the Asian Cultural Council. She studied art history at the University of the Philippines, and Curating Contemporary Art (MA, RCA) at the Royal College of Art, London. She writes essays, reviews, criticism and commentary on art and culture.
MANUPORN LUENGARAM
Manuporn LUENGARAM is a curator and researcher based in Bangkok, Thailand. She works primarily in the areas of art, digital media and social practice in the context of Thailand and Southeast Asia. She was also a former manager of Arts Network Asia (ANA), a regional arts network.
In 2018, she joined the Jim Thompson Art Center’s curatorial team, overseeing artists’ commissions and projects. In 2020, she was an assistant curator of the 2nd Bangkok Art Biennale. In 2021, she was Director of Projects at 100 Tonson Foundation in Bangkok where she curated a new two-part video installation by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
In her art historical research, she is a co-editor of an anthology of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, a Thai version, published by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture (2015); a research assistant for “Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai, 1992-1998”, published by Afterall Books (2018). She has joined the editorial committee for Writing the Modern in Southeast Asian Art publication, which will be published by National Gallery Singapore (2022).
MICHELLE HO
As director of the ADM Gallery at the Nanyang Technological University, Michelle HO launched a new curatorial vision connecting contemporary art and new media with the university’s research fields. With more than 15 years curatorial experience in Southeast Asian art, some of her exhibitions include “Vertical Submarine and the Amusement of Knowledge and Illusion” (2022), “Reformations: Painting in post 2000 Singapore Art” (2019) and “Exceptions of Rule: Counterpoints to Truth” (2018). Formerly a curator at the Singapore Art Museum, she led the acquisition strategies of its contemporary art collection from 2013 to 2015, and co-curated exhibitions with museums like Queensland Art Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Kunsthaus Zurich. She was co-curator of the 2013 Singapore Biennale, and was curator for the Singapore Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
MIKI FUKUDA
Miki FUKUDA is a editor of a webzine and exhibition catalogues related contemporary arts, coordinator of exhibitions, talk events and workshops related to media art. In the early 1990s, participated in making the conceptual planning of NTT-InterCommunication Center[ICC], In the 2000s, has worked at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation as a curatorial staff, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) as a lecturer, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Since as a production manager. Director of Media Design Research Inc. since 2015.
RITIKA BISWAS
Ritika BISWAS grew up in Kolkata, India and holds a Liberal Arts degree from Yale-NUS College, Singapore, and an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge. She was a curator and special projects producer at New Art Exchange, UK, and Artistic Director for the 2021 Sea Art Festival: Non-/Human Assemblages, for the Busan Biennale. Currently working on experimental virtual art platforms and decolonial digital strategies, her practice exists at the nexus of deep research, eco-critical play, collaborative kinships, and justice, particularly within the Global South.
RIZKI LAZUARDI
Rizki LAZUARDI is an Indonesian artist and curator who works mainly with moving image and expanded cinema. He obtained his MA in film and media art at the Hochschule fur bildende Kunste Hamburg. Central to his practice is subjects related to institutionalized information. His works and programs have been presented in many festivals, exhibition, or institutions, among others IFFR Rotterdam, Jakarta Biennale, European Media Art Festival Osnabruck, Image Forum Tokyo, and Singapore Art Museum. In 2019, he was commissioned to conduct artistic research on the colonial-related film archives at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum. Lazuardi is a program consultant for Arsenal Berlin at the Berlinale Forum.
TAN HUI KOON
TAN Hui Koon (a.k.a. Koon) Diploma in Visual and Digital Art from Limkokwing University, BA (Hon) in Fine Art from University Science Malaysia (USM) at 2007. Her curatorial involvement included community art project: “Gerakan Seni” (2015), “National Collection: Mapping on Malaysia Modern Art History 1920-1970 permanent exhibition” (2016), “101: Malaysian Women Artists’ Exhibition” (2017), “The First KL Biennale – KL Beloved” (2017) and “Minta Perhatian: Media Baru” (2019), Artist’s solo exhibition: “Chang Yoong Chia: Second Life” (2018) and “Arang: Ronnie Mohammad” (2018), Curatorial team of Contemporary Forum (2017), Young Contemporary Award (2019) and and Ipoh International Art Festival (2019). She was a jury of UOB Painting of the Year 2020.
WU DAR-KUEN
WU Dar-Kuen is an artist, Curator, Currently working as the Director of Contemporary Art Platform at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), and has been a slashie across artist, curation, teaching, administration, writing. He was the former director of Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village, chairman of Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA), and a curator at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. Endeavoring to bridge art and social practices, He not only reflects on the social conditions of Asian countries with his unique artistic language, but also consider social and technological issues of the Anthropocene.
