Lian Loke is an artist, designer, educator and researcher, with the body as the central focus of her interdisciplinary practice. She is interested in exploring how new technologies are impacting on the lived body and its possibilities for expression, transformation and transcendence. Her work explores the creation of body-centred artistic works and human-centred design approaches to interactive technologies and spaces. She combines dance, design, human-computer interaction and the aesthetics of interaction to critique and produce concepts, systems and performances. She has a background in design, human-computer interaction and software engineering, with extensive experience as an educator and researcher. She researches and teaches interaction design. She is Head of Design and an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney. She was Director of the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts program 2013-2020.
She is passionate about making our cities, streets and public spaces more creative, playable and liveable. Recent projects include ElectroSK8, adding playful interactive digital media triggered by movement to the Sydenham skatepark, in partnership with the Inner West Council. She is an active member of the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, Inner West Council.
Her enduring interest in dance and kinaesthetic imagination drives creative research into the kinetic expression of machines, with current projects exploring how human and robots can collaboratively interact through movement and gesture.
As a multi-disciplinary performance artist, she works across dance, durational and site-specific performance installation, costume, interactive digital media and mechatronics. Her practice questions the role of the body in contemporary society, and how our notions of self are open to transformation through inter-cultural, inter-species and inter-media relations and rituals.
Her performance works are physical explorations of different ideas and images of the body and self, informed by her decade of training in the Japanese Bodyweather dance methodology with de Quincey Co and earlier somatic-infused dance performance with American choreographer and teacher Annetta Luce. She is adept in performative modes of improvisation, inhabitation, ritual and spectacle. Her working processes are often bottom-up, generating actions, meanings and new movement languages from interactions with props and costume.
She is co-founder of the Pork Collective, a group of artists working in immersive performance installation in festival environments. She has performed with de Quincey Co and The Living Room Theatre. She has on-going collaborations with Elena Knox, Garth Knight, Maya Petrovna, Dagmar Reinhardt and Paul Warren. She is a member of The Conductors, Cathode Ray Trio and The Futile Research Lab.
Email: drlianloke@gmail.com | lian.loke@sydney.edu.au
She is passionate about making our cities, streets and public spaces more creative, playable and liveable. Recent projects include ElectroSK8, adding playful interactive digital media triggered by movement to the Sydenham skatepark, in partnership with the Inner West Council. She is an active member of the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, Inner West Council.
Her enduring interest in dance and kinaesthetic imagination drives creative research into the kinetic expression of machines, with current projects exploring how human and robots can collaboratively interact through movement and gesture.
As a multi-disciplinary performance artist, she works across dance, durational and site-specific performance installation, costume, interactive digital media and mechatronics. Her practice questions the role of the body in contemporary society, and how our notions of self are open to transformation through inter-cultural, inter-species and inter-media relations and rituals.
Her performance works are physical explorations of different ideas and images of the body and self, informed by her decade of training in the Japanese Bodyweather dance methodology with de Quincey Co and earlier somatic-infused dance performance with American choreographer and teacher Annetta Luce. She is adept in performative modes of improvisation, inhabitation, ritual and spectacle. Her working processes are often bottom-up, generating actions, meanings and new movement languages from interactions with props and costume.
She is co-founder of the Pork Collective, a group of artists working in immersive performance installation in festival environments. She has performed with de Quincey Co and The Living Room Theatre. She has on-going collaborations with Elena Knox, Garth Knight, Maya Petrovna, Dagmar Reinhardt and Paul Warren. She is a member of The Conductors, Cathode Ray Trio and The Futile Research Lab.
Email: drlianloke@gmail.com | lian.loke@sydney.edu.au