I am a practising artist based in Singapore, working with a wide range of media. I am interested in the intersections of body with space, technology and culture, in particular with issues of embodiment. I hold an MA in Interactive Media from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a BFA from RMIT/Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts. I have been Artist-in-Residence with programmes such as the Cyberarts and Cyberculture Initiative, University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore and Artist-in-Labs Project (Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology, Alpnach), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich, Switzerland. My works have been showcased, both locally and internationally, in exhibitions such as the Nokia Singapore Art 2001, Singapore Art Museum; From My Fingers: Living in the Technological Age, Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Art, Taipei; and ISEA 2002 (Oria), Nagoya, Japan; among many others.

Dr. Ingrid Maria Hoofd and Associate Professor Ryan Bishop

Investigating the socio-cultural factors of wearable human-machine interfaces in the Asian context

My dissertation is interested in critically unpacking some of the visions for and desires generated as a result of the design and development of wearable computing, situating them culturally in the process. It is interested in asking what kinds of subjectivities and/or bodies are invoked in the visions and rhetoric underlying the development and design of wearable computing? How these are related to the larger context of the post-industrial economy/complex and why is this relationship significant? By deconstructing some of the visions and rhetoric that surround this technology, it hopes to surface the specific embedded qualities of the technology, to discuss not only the ideas that inform the technology and/or the specific cultural values underlying such ideas but also the desires that are constitutive of and constituted by the technology.

• Contemporary and New Media Art
• The philosophies and intersections of Art, Science and Technology
• Notions and theories of the body in relation to culture and technology

• Organising committee member, co-chair for Wiki Wiki symposium theme and panelist, "Locating Cyberfeminism" conference panel. 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008, Singapore. July 2008. More at www.isea2008.org
• Speaker, “Digital Media Technology and New Ways of Living and Communicating in Asia” NUS-Yonsei joint-conference, National University of Singapore. January-February 2007.
• Speaker, “Arts and Fashion: A Discourse.” Women in Leadership Series, Unifem Singapore. August 2005.
• Organiser and panelist, “Exchange 05: Enquiries in Art and Technology.” Art symposium jointly organized by WITA and p-10. July 2005. More at www.witas.org and www.p-10.org
• Speaker, “Symposium Fusion 04: Art in the Cultural Environment of Science.” Institute of Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design, University of Applied Arts Zurich (HGKZ), Switzerland. July 2004.
• Panelist, “Art in Conversation with Technology” (First Panel). Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore, September 2003.
• Panelist, “Version.03: Integrated Circuit? Embodiment, Difference, Resistance” panel. Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. March 2003.
• Panelist, “very Cyberfeminist International” Old Boys Network (OBN) conference, Hamburg, Germany. December 2001.
• Speaker, “Installation Art.” Contemporary Art and Culture Talk Series, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore. October 2001.
• Speaker, “Histories of Installation Art.” Faculty Talk, University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. October 2001.
• Panelist, “Women, Art & Community” (Third Session). The Substation – Guinness Theatre, Singapore. April 2001.
• Speaker, “Performance Art.” Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art Series, Singapore Art Museum. December 2000.
• Panelist, “A Self of One’s Own.” Feminist Art Workshop and Symposium, BA Gallery, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts. September 1999.

• Editorial team for Proceedings of ISEA2008: The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Singapore: SC International, 2008.
• “Smart Aprons in Singapore and Switzerland” in Artists in Labs: Processes of Inquiry, Jill Scott (ed.). Austria: SpringerWienNewYork, 2006, pp.122-125.
• “Re-presenting the Singapore Girl” in Singapore Women Re-Presented, Audrey Chin and Constance Singam (eds.). Singapore: Landmark Books, 2004, pp. 36-39.
• Contributer, Vehicle: Contemporary Visual Arts. Issue_10-2003. Singapore: Plastique Kinetic Worms, 2003.
• "Strategies and tactics for feminist/cyberfeminist collaborations, collective art practice, contestational culture work, and building networks of solidarity and action" in very cyberfeminist international Reader, Helen von Oldenburg and Claudia Reiche (eds.). Berlin: b-books, 2002, pp.66-69.