Shu Lea Cheang, a mobilized digital artist working in the field of net-based installation, social interface and film production. Her Net installation works were commissioned and permanently collected by Walker Art Center (Bowling Alley, 1995), NTT[ICC], Tokyo (Buy One Get One, 1997) and the Guggenheim Museum (Brandon, 1998-1999). Since 2001, she has been created a series of dated 2030 fictional installation Baby Play (NTT[ICC], Tokyo 2001), Garlic=Rich Air (Creative Time, New York 2002), Drive by Dining (Browserday, Amsterdam 2003), Fluid (Detox, Norway 2004). She was presented at Zone of Urgency and Limbo Zone exhibitions at Venice Biennale and artport at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2003. In 2004, she co-founded a London based collective TAKE2030 and toured a wifi performance RICHAIR2030 in UK and European cities. Currently she traverses in Eurozone with a new series of work LOVEME2030. Her wifi mobile installation BabyLove is on view at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (December 8, 2005 - January 8, 2005).
As a "digital drifter", she is always on her way, from commissioned work to commissioned work, from Okinawa to Amsterdam, from Tokyo to London, plugs in her notebook into ethernets whenever possible and sends her latest files to the servers of institutions that host her works. After having studied Film at New York University, she worked as member of the production team for Paper Tiger TV und Deep Dish TV together with Dee Dee Halleck. Simultaneously she became a video artist and with the end of the 80ies, she showed works at New York galleries and museums. In 1994, she directed her first film, Fresh Kills, which she considers an "ecologic cyberparanoia and hacking-drama" (awarded at Filmfestival Berlin 1994). After more than two decades in New York, she gave up her loft in the East Village and became a cyber nomad. Between 1998 and 1999, she created the first work the Guggenheim Museums commissioned in the field of net art, the project Brandon. After that she directed I.K.U, a japanese science fiction digital porn movie, produced by Uplink Co., Tokyo, which ran for the first time and was awarded a prize for at the Sundance Film Festival 2000.
Cheang created her online-works under commission and for the collections of the Walker Art Center (Bowling Alley, 1995), the NTT (NTT/ICC) Intercommunication Center in Tokyo (Buy One Get One, 1997) and the Guggenheim Museum NYC (Brandon, 1998-1999). She participated in the 'Shopping Window net art exhibition' by Telepolis.de, realized an interface-installation for the project "Everyone is an Expert" at the "Make World" festival, Munich. Further gallery exhibitions at Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo, 'The Project' in New York and at the Julia Friedman Galerie in Chicago. 2002 : she is co-curator of the project Kingdom of Piracy for the Acer Digital Art Center, Taiwan, and developes a 'digi porn' together with Innocent Pictures/Zentropa in Denmark. She has been working on "HUMANMATERIALMACHINEFACTOR" at the DasArts in Amsterdam. (from: shrink to fit - xcult).
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