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).

Email: drlianloke@gmail.com | lian.loke@sydney.edu.au