Lian Loke is an artist, designer 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 a lecturer and researcher. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Design Lab, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney and Director of the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts program. She is co-founder of the Pork Collective, a group of artists working in performance installation in festival environments. She is currently training in the Bodyweather system of dance with De Quincey Co and has performed in Platform 1 (2010), Platform 3 (2011), 6 Women Dance (2013), Box of Birds (2013) and Inner Garden (2014).
Current design research projects include:
Other collaborations include:
Email: drlianloke@gmail.com | lian.loke@sydney.edu.au
Current design research projects include:
- Designing a City for Dancing - an interdisciplinary project between dance, architecture, technology and interaction design to activate a city with dancing bodies.
- Integrating a Somatic Approach in User Experience Design of Wearable Technologies (with Thecla Schiphorst) - funded by the International Program Development Fund, University of Sydney, 2015.
- Sustainable Bodies (with Thecla Schiphorst, Frank Feltham, Oliver Bown, Dagmar Reinhardt and Emmanuel Stamatakis) - creative strategies for physical health activities in public and private space. Seed funding from PLANET and the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney 2014.
- Complex Bodies and Distributed Choreographies (with Dagmar Reinhardt) – a cross-disciplinary exploration of interactive kinetic structures and choreography of computationally enhanced spatial environments.
Other collaborations include:
- The Conductors, a group of artists producing hybrid works combining dance, film and installation. Recent projects include A Carriage(Work), Expanded Architecture 2011 and Nullaqaeria, SEAM 2013. Collaborators: Tom Rivard, Michael Lewarne, Paul Warren, Linda Luke, Francesca Veronesi.
- Thinking Through The Body, exploring aesthetic experience, interactive art and somatic bodywork. ArtLab 2008/2009. Led by Dr George Khut and Dr Lizzie Muller (UTS). http://thinkingthroughthebody.net
Email: drlianloke@gmail.com | lian.loke@sydney.edu.au
