Lin Hsin Hsin

Background

Lin was born in Singapore. She graduated in mathematics from the University of Singapore and received a postgraduate degree in computer science from Newcastle University, England. She studied music and art in Singapore, printmaking at the University of Ulster, papermaking in Ogawamachi, Japan and paper conservation at the University of Melbourne Conservation Services.

IT Invention

Lin Hsin Hsin is a digital native. Lin builds and pens her IT vision in computing, poems, and paintings.

Paintings and sculptures

Lin Hsin Hsin specialises in oil painting, she has transformed the opaque properties of oil paint to make it translucent in 1988. As such, she has made oil paint to look like watercolor, Chinese ink as well as pastel, pencil or charcoal, as demonstrated in the Aqua Series of paintings. Besides oil paintings, she makes acrylic sculptures.

Art Exhibitions

Lin Hsin Hsin has held 15 solo exhibitions in Singapore, Amsterdam, and San Jose, California, United States. She has participated in more than 220 exhibitions in 60 cities, 26 countries across Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

Art Collectors

Lin's art can be seen in private, public and museum collections in 32 cities across Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. In 1985, she was awarded a silver medal by the Société des Artistes Français, Paris. In 1987, Lin received the IBM Singapore Art Award, she has received Visiting Fellowship to Germany in 1988 and Japan Foundation Fellowship in 1991 Her artworks are in private, public and museum collections in Asia, Europe and North America.

Paper

Besides paper sculptures, papier collé, collograph and monoprints, Lin handmade acid-free paper. She has pioneered acid-free papaya paper and umbrella plant paper in 1992 .

Digital Media Pioneer

Lin is a digital media pioneer, She has created digital music in 1985, 3D digital art in 1987, and digital animation in 1989 in Singapore. Since 1993 todate, Lin has pioneered the use of a two-button mechanical PC Mouse to draw and paint Western and Chinese paintings. She has created digital oil paintings, watercolors, Chinese ink paintings and calligraphy. She also digitally sketches with this mouse. Hsin Hsin has never and does not use any tablet PC and stylus in such creation. More than 250 digitally created artworks were exhibited in 1997 in her 15th solo exhibition in Singapore.

Virtual Museum

In 1994, Lin set up the first virtual museum in the world, the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum

Lin Hsin Hsin created Web art and Net art in 1995, HTML art in 1996 and she has developed interactive Web art since 1997. Lin pioneered virtual sculpting in 1999 in Singapore; it was exhibited in Paris, France in 1999, 2001, and 2003.

Digital Art

Lin Hsin Hsin Started from the real-world, in 1985, she moved into the digital world.

However, Lin has, since 1994, began with the digital, and fabricated the digital into the real

ISM

Lin believes in Mathematical & Computing fundamentals, she anchors on science to create art. She

Genres

Lin initiates, establishes and creates different genres of digital art:

Digital music

From conceptualisation to composing, from sound calibration to mastering, Lin has produced music on a PC without a sound card and midi instruments. Lin creates virtual instruments including a virtual didgeridoo, a berimbau used by the Brazilian aborigines. In 2006, Lin has realised the sonification of nature, including a rainforest, waterfalls and wind by an interactive virtual sound board she has created. Hsin Hsin's music has been performed in Vienna, Austria in 2002, Bourges, France in 2003, 2004 and Pisa, Italy, 2005.

Music visualisation

Lin has composed music and painted music as an artist. The 45 paintings in the "Abstraction in Music" Series (1986–1987) is her interpretation of music on canvas, as she is moved by the music of great composers such as Handel (Water Music), Mozart (Jupiter Symphony), Franz Liszt (Rhapsodies dan l'espace), Vivaldi (The Four Seasons), Debussy (La Mer). In addition to the canvases, there are the paperworks subtitled "La Petite Séries" created with different techniques, an abstraction of audio visualisation—perceived images of the sound in music such as Musical Ornaments: Trill, Appoggiatura and Turn (Staccato) and sound in the universe like Woodpecker.

Lin has conceptualised and written about the art in music and music in art. Since 2002, Hsin Hsin has digitally created visual music, or animated music, as she puts it.

2005, Lin built wearables and lights that response to music.

2006, Lin built paradigm shift interactive digital real-world musical instruments—I-Musika

Interactive music

Lin developed an interactive Music Sound Board in 2006. The creation of this soft sound board enables real time creation of the sound of nature. Examples are elements of sound audible in nature, such as rain forest, insects, water, and wind.

Intermedia

Combining mathematics, technology, art and music, Hsin Hsin pursues interdisciplinary studies.

Poetry

Lin speaks, reads and writes in Chinese, English, Japanese and French. She writes poems in these languages

Her poetry books have been catalogued in major libraries in the world:

Publications

Lin is an author of 75 books, including ten poetry books.

Contemporary art books

Selected articles

Digital media

Digital music