Marc Lin was first inspired by digital art when he saw Golan Levin’s Audiovisual Environment Suite. He was impressed by the visual and sound effects as well as the interactive relationship between the audience and the art work. Beyond simplistic relationship that is limited to subject and object, Marc Lin has furthered his discussion on interaction by exploring into the realm of social observation and criticism, in line with event-based Fluxus art and artists in the likes of Name June Paik. Lin’s practice involves the continued discovery of evolving “computer-based cultural elements” which perpetually shape and define the digital aesthetic of new media, continuously sculpted by a new lifestyle emerged from the era of digital networking.
Marc Lin was born in Taiwan and currently resides and works in New York. He received his BA in industrial design from the National Chung Kung University in Taiwan and MA from Parsons School of Design in Design and Technology. At Parsons, he studied with artist and composer Golan Levin. His professional background is in product design, in particular bicycle and motorcycle design. Since 2000 he has been working in product design, graphics, and installation, as well as interactive and net-based technology and development. Lin’s work has been exhibited at the Arnold & Sheila Aronson Gallery in New York City, the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Beijing international new media arts exhibition and symposium, CO6 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta III and Outside In exhibition in New York 2008.
www.macaque.net for old Design works.
CyberLife 2008
motion + melody 2002
