Lin Hsin Hsin

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Lin Hsin Hsin is an artist, poet and composer from Singapore, deeply rooted in mathematics,information technology. She established the early virtual museum website, the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum, in 1994.

Background

Hsin Hsin was born in Singapore. She graduated in mathematics from the University of Singapore and received a postgraduate degree in computer science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 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.

Art

Paintings and sculptures

Lin Hsin Hsin specializes 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 glass sculptures.

Lin Hsin Hsin has held 15 solo exhibitions in Singapore, Amsterdam and San Jose, California, United States. She has participated in more than 210 exhibitions across Asia, Europe, North America and South America. In 1985, she was awarded a silver medal by the Société des Artistes Français, Paris. In 1987, she 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, Hsin Hsin handmade acid-free paper. She has pioneered acid-free papaya paper and umbrella plant paper in 1992.

Digital media

Hsin Hsin is a digital media pioneer. She has created the 1st digital music in 1985, 1st 3D digital art in 1987, 1st digital animation in 1989 in Singapore. Since 1993 todate, Hsin Hsin 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 tablet pens in such creation. More than 250 digitally created artworks were exhibited in 1997 in her 15th solo exhibition in Singapore.

In 1994, she set up one of the earliest virtual museums 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. She pioneered virtual sculpting in 1999 in Singapore; it was exhibited in Paris, France in 1999, 2001 and 2003.

Digital art

Hsin Hsin creates different genres of digital art:

* Non-Photorealistic Rendering Images (NPR) by a hand held device (mouse)
** Images include digital oil paintings, digital watercolor, digital cartoons, digital Chinese ink, digital crayons, digital pencils, etc.
* Mathematical art
** 2D — still and animated. Images include: 235 categories of digital fabrics; digital coin.
** 3D — still and animated. Computation-based digital voyages; 3D modeling digital sculptures; 3D modeling digital objects; equation-based digital sculptures; equation-based sonic art.
* Web-based art
** 2D — still, animated and interactive.
** 3D — still, animated and interactive.

Music

Digital music

From conceptualization to composing, from sound calibration to mastering, Hsin Hsin has produced music on a PC without a sound card and midi instruments. She creates virtual instruments including a virtual didgeridoo, a berimbau used by the Brazilian aborigines. In 2006, Hsin Hsin has realized 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 visualization

Hsin Hsin 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 (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 visualization -- perceived images of the sound in music such as Musical Ornaments: Trill, Appoggiatura and Turn (Staccato) and sound in the universe like Woodpecker.

Hsin Hsin has conceptualized 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.

In 2005, she built wearbles and lights that response to music.

Interactive music

Hsin Hsin 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.

Poetry

Hsin Hsin is an author of six poetry books. The anthology titled "Love @ 1st Byte" written in 1992 is a collection of a hundred poems about computer. Her fifth book entitled "In Bytes we travel" (1997) is a collection of 100 poems about the Internet. Hsin Hsin has won poetry prizes in USA in 1990 and 1991.

Intermedia

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

External links

* [http://infopedia.nlb.gov.sg/articles/SIP_302_2005-01-07.html Singapore Infopedia biography] .
* [http://www.pimkey.com/~interscu/artistes/hsin/hsin.htm Lin Hsin Hsin biodata] .
* [http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/bios/lin.html Biography] , "Museums and the Web" conference, 1998.
* [http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/singapore/arts/painters/linhsinhsin/ Lin Hsin Hsin: An Overview] from the National University of Singapore University Scholars Programme website.
* [http://www.lhham.com.sg/ Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum] website.