Lin Hsin Hsin () is an IT inventor, artist, poet and composer from Singapore, deeply rooted in mathematics and information technology.
Early life and education
Lin was born in Singapore. She graduated in mathematics from the
University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...
and received a postgraduate degree in
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
from
Newcastle University
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...
, England. She studied music and art in Singapore,
printmaking
Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techniq ...
at the
University of Ulster
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papermaking
Papermaking is the manufacture of paper and cardboard, which are used widely for printing, writing, and packaging, among many other purposes. Today almost all paper is made using industrial machinery, while handmade paper survives as a speciali ...
in
Ogawamachi, Japan and
paper conservation
The conservation and restoration of books, manuscripts, documents, and ephemera is an activity dedicated to extending the life of items of historical and personal value made primarily from paper, parchment, and leather. When applied to cultural ...
at the
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...
Conservation Services.
Career
Lin is a
digital native
The term digital native describes a person who has grown up in the information age. Often grouped into Millennials, Generation Z, and Generation Alpha, these individuals can consume digital information and stimuli quickly and comfortably through ...
. Lin builds paradigm shift & patent-grade
invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an i ...
s.She is an IT visionary some 20 years ahead of time, who pens her IT vision in computing, poems, and paintings.
In 1976, Lin painted "Distillation of an Apple", an oil painting claimed to visualised the construction and usage of
Apple computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company b ...
7 days before the birth of Apple computer.
In 1977, she painted "The Computer as Architect", an oil painting depicting the vision of the power of computer in architecture. Lin claimed she has never seen nor used a
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve c ...
(CAD) system prior to her painting while commercial CAD systems are available since early 1970s.
* 1988 March organized 1st
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
conference in Singapore
* 1991 February 1 poem titled "Cellular Phone Galore" predicted
mobile phone
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whil ...
, &
cellular network
A cellular network or mobile network is a communication network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless. The network is distributed over land areas called "cells", each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver (typically thre ...
BEFORE 2G
GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as ...
launch, 27 March 1991, p. 54,55, "from time to time"
* 1992 wanted to build a multimedia museum (letter to National Computer Board, Singapore)
* 1993 February, predicted the
Y2K bug
The year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, Y2K scare, millennium bug, Y2K bug, Y2K glitch, Y2K error, or simply Y2K refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after ...
while building a ten-year forecasting model on an IBM
i486
The Intel 486, officially named i486 and also known as 80486, is a microprocessor. It is a higher-performance follow-up to the Intel 386. The i486 was introduced in 1989. It represents the fourth generation of binary compatible CPUs following the ...
PC, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (
APEC
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC ) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region. ), 1999
*1993 August 21, poem title "Online Intimacy" on
Online dating service
Online dating, also known as Internet dating, Virtual dating, or Mobile app dating, is a relatively recent method used by people with a goal of searching for and interacting with potential romantic or sexual partners, via the internet. An onlin ...
, p. 235, "Sunny Side Up"
*1993 August 23, poem titled "Till Bankrupt Do Us Part", on
online shopping
Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the website of the r ...
&
e-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain manageme ...
, p. 241, "Sunny Side Up"
* 1994 May, painted "Voices of the Future" – oil painting depicted the
wireless
Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most ...
and mobile entertainment future lifestyle, p. 32, "Lin Hsin Hsin: Works from Art, Science & Technology Series"
* 1994 Designed and built a
virtual museum
A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as t ...
in the world,
* 1995 September 9, poem titled "Virtual Offices" predicted
virtual office
A virtual office is part of the flexible workspace industry that provides businesses with any combination of services, space and/or technology, without those businesses bearing the capital expenses of owning or leasing a traditional office.
Virtu ...
as the concept of businesses, p. 20, "In Bytes We Travel"
* 1995 September 9, poem titled "The Day Will Come..." on SMS, using fingers to type on screen, p. 181, "In Bytes We Travel"
* 1996 October, predicted
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...
, tweeting as a way of life. in a
diptych
A diptych (; from the Greek δίπτυχον, ''di'' "two" + '' ptychē'' "fold") is any object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by hinge. For example, the standard notebook and school exercise book of the ancient world w ...
titled "twigee-tweedee",
digital art
Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media.
Since the 1960s, various names ...
in private collection,
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
,
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
* 1996 October 1, poem titled "e-money" on
digital currency
Digital currency (digital money, electronic money or electronic currency) is any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on digital computer systems, especially over the internet. Types of digital cu ...
&
Cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It i ...
p. 58, "In Bytes We Travel"
* 1999 February 1, poem titled "Mobility" on
mobility
Mobility may refer to:
Social sciences and humanities
* Economic mobility, ability of individuals or families to improve their economic status
* Geographic mobility, the measure of how populations and goods move over time
* Mobilities, a contemp ...
, p. 20, "Between the Lines"
IT Inventions
* 2018 May 19 Next Generation 100%
Directed Acyclic Graph
In mathematics, particularly graph theory, and computer science, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is a directed graph with no directed cycles. That is, it consists of vertices and edges (also called ''arcs''), with each edge directed from one ve ...
DAG-based
blockchain
A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that consists of growing lists of records, called ''blocks'', that are securely linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a ...
protocol
* 2017 Nov 11
Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding information. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext. Ideally, only authorized parties can decip ...
Algorithm
* 2017 FACT Finger on Android Circling Techniques—A Finger Intelligence Technology (FIT 3.0) on
Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
* 2016
-- A Visual Language on Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
* 2016 4 new mathematical theorem
In mathematics, a theorem is a statement that has been proved, or can be proved. The ''proof'' of a theorem is a logical argument that uses the inference rules of a deductive system to establish that the theorem is a logical consequence of th ...
s, launched in London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, June 2016
* 2016 STEP Sustainable Time-motion Enabled Power—A Finger Intelligence Technology (FIT 3.0) on Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
* 2015 FAME Finger/Fist Accelerated Mathematical Engine—A Finger Intelligence Technology (FIT 3.0) on Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
* 2013 TANGO Touch ANd GO—A Finger Intelligence Technology (FIT 3.0) on Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
* 2007 MedTECH 20/20 visions
Vision, Visions, or The Vision may refer to:
Perception Optical perception
* Visual perception, the sense of sight
* Visual system, the physical mechanism of eyesight
* Computer vision, a field dealing with how computers can be made to gain un ...
for all ages—POC done
* 2007 Super Image File Shrinkage for JPEG
JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...
files
Startup
* 2018 SpaceGraph™ founder
* 2014 Founder Lin Hsin Hsin Intelligence Center
** 2017 Blockchain
A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that consists of growing lists of records, called ''blocks'', that are securely linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a ...
Threats Intelligence
** 2016 Biometrics
Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify in ...
Threats Intelligence
* 2016 Data Science
Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...
* 2006 IoT
The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...
*
Contemporary Art
Paintings and sculptures
Lin Hsin Hsin specialises in oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...
, she has transformed the opaque properties of oil paint
Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varn ...
to make it translucent
In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions a ...
in 1988. As such, she has made oil paint to look like watercolor
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...
, Chinese ink as well as pastel
A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...
, pencil
A pencil () is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage, and keeps it from marking the user's hand.
Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail ...
or charcoal
Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, cal ...
, as demonstrated in the Aqua Series of paintings. Besides oil paintings, she makes acrylic
Acrylic may refer to:
Chemicals and materials
* Acrylic acid, the simplest acrylic compound
* Acrylate polymer, a group of polymers (plastics) noted for transparency and elasticity
* Acrylic resin, a group of related thermoplastic or thermosett ...
sculptures.
Art Exhibitions
Lin Hsin Hsin has held 15 solo exhibitions in Singapore, Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
, and San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popul ...
, 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
The Société des Artistes Français (, meaning "Society of French Artists") is the association of French painters and sculptors established in 1881. Its annual exhibition is called the "Salon des artistes français" (not to be confused with the ...
, Paris. In 1987, Lin received the IBM Singapore Art Award, she has received Visiting Fellowship to Germany in 1988 and Japan Foundation
The was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry o ...
Fellowship in 1991 Her artworks are in private, public and museum collections in Asia, Europe and North America.
Paper
Besides paper sculptures, papier collé
Papier may refer to :
*paper in French, Dutch, Afrikaans, Polish or German, word that can be found in the following expressions:
**Papier-mâché, a construction material made of pieces of paper stuck together using a wet paste
**Papier collé, a p ...
, collograph
Collagraphy (sometimes spelled collography) is a printmaking process introduced in 1955 by Glen Alps in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or wood). The word is derived from the Greek word ''koll'' or ''kolla'', m ...
and monoprints, Lin handmade acid-free paper
Acid-free paper is paper that, if infused in water, yields a neutral or basic (chemistry), basic pH (7 or slightly greater). It can be made from any cellulose fiber as long as the active acid pulp is eliminated during processing. It is also lign ...
. She has pioneered acid-free papaya
The papaya (, ), papaw, () or pawpaw () is the plant species ''Carica papaya'', one of the 21 accepted species in the genus ''Carica'' of the family Caricaceae. It was first domesticated in Mesoamerica, within modern-day southern Mexico and ...
paper and umbrella plant paper in 1992.
Digital Media
Digital Media Pioneer
Lin is a digital media pioneer,
She has created digital music
Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form. In digital audio, the sound wave of the audio signal is typically encoded as numerical samples in a continuous sequence. For example, in CD audio, samp ...
in 1985, 3D digital art
Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media.
Since the 1960s, various names ...
in 1987, and digital animation in 1989 in Singapore. Since 1993 to date, Lin has pioneered the use of a two-button mechanical PC Mouse to draw
Draw, drawing, draws, or drawn may refer to:
Common uses
* Draw (terrain), a terrain feature formed by two parallel ridges or spurs with low ground in between them
* Drawing (manufacturing), a process where metal, glass, or plastic or anything ...
and paint
Paint is any pigmented liquid, liquefiable, or solid mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture. Paint can be made in many ...
Western and Chinese paintings
Chinese painting () is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as ''guó huà'' (), meaning "national painting" or "native painting", as opposed to Western style ...
. She has created digital oil paintings
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...
, watercolors
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...
, Chinese ink
Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, reed pen, or quill. Thi ...
paintings and calligraphy. She also digitally sketches with this mouse. Hsin Hsin has never and does not use any tablet PC
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being comput ...
and stylus
A stylus (plural styli or styluses) is a writing utensil or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example, in pottery. It can also be a computer accessory that is used to assist in navigating or providing more precision w ...
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 a virtual museum
A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as t ...
the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum The Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum is notable as the first virtual museum completely metaphor after a real-world museum. It has a live cyber graffiti wall and a search engine.
This online art museum website was originally established by the IT Inventor, ...
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
Lin Hsin Hsin created Web art
file:Simple Net Art Diagram.svg, upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden
Internet art (also known as net art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the t ...
and Net art
upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden
Internet art (also known as net art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance of the phys ...
in 1995, HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...
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.
ISM
Lin believes in Mathematical & Computing fundamentals, she anchors on science to create art. She
* forbids drag & drop, scan & morph, cut & paste processes to create digital art.
* established Eco-computing initiatives for digital media in 2007.
* algorithm driven & equation-based
* Linux platform
Genres
Lin initiates, establishes and creates different genres of digital art:
* Non-Photorealistic Rendering Images (NPR) by a hand held device (mouse
A mouse ( : mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (''Mus musculus' ...
)
** Images include digital oil paintings, digital watercolor, digital cartoons, digital Chinese ink, digital crayons, digital pencils, etc.
* Photorealistic Images by a hand held device (mouse
A mouse ( : mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (''Mus musculus' ...
)
** Images include digital oil paintings, digital watercolor, digital Chinese ink, digital crayons, digital pencils, etc.
* Mathematical art
** 2D – still images include: 253 categories of digital fabrics
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not the ...
, digital coin
A coin is a small, flat (usually depending on the country or value), round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order t ...
** 3D – still and animated. Computation-based digital voyages; 3D modelling digital sculptures, 3D modelling digital objects
* Grid Geometry art
** 2D Grid Geometry art
** 2D Interactive Grid Geometry Art
** 2D Perception-Based Art
** 3D Perception-Based Art
*** lenticular
Lenticular is an adjective often relating to lenses. It may refer to:
* A term used with two meanings in botany: see
* Lenticular cloud, a lens-shaped cloud
* Lenticular galaxy, a lens-shaped galaxy
* Lenticular (geology), adjective describing a ...
, ''coleuraille''
*** Stereoscopic 3D
* Equation-based art
** 2D – still and animated. Images include digital oil and digital watercolor.
** 3D – still and animated digital sculptures, digital jewelry digital objects. digital furnitures,
** All 2D and 3D equation-based art can be realised and fabricated into real-world entities.
* Web-based art
** 2D – still, animated and interactive.
** 3D – still, animated and interactive.
* ICP (In-Camera Painting)
* Literary Art
** Art based on a word meaning, as it is, homograph
A homograph (from the el, ὁμός, ''homós'', "same" and γράφω, ''gráphō'', "write") is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. However, some dictionaries insist that the words must also ...
, homonym
In linguistics, homonyms are words which are homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of pronunciation), or homophones (equivocal words, that share the same pronunciation, regardless of spelling), or both. Using this definition, ...
or heteronym, usually pun
A pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic ...
included.
* Android Smartphone Platform—FIT (Finger Intelligence Technologies)
** 2D: finger digital painting without image editing software
*** animated and/performance, interactive
** 2D: interactive finger Shimmering Pixels Assimilated Resistive Touchscreen Kindle ILuminated Emissions (SPARKLE) on Android, in Real Time.
** abstract
*** calligraphic
*** photorealistic
** 3D: finger digital sculptures
** 4D: finger gestures and finger choreography enabled live 3D performance
** 4D: live 3D performance
EMOJI CITY
Lin initiates and creates different genres of emoji
An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversat ...
, still and animated. She built and launched an Emoji City, 12 September 2016.
BLOCKMOJI
Lin initiates and creates different genres of blockmoji—An emoji genre for blockchain
A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that consists of growing lists of records, called ''blocks'', that are securely linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a ...
, both still and animated. She launched Blockmoji, 8 August 2018.
Music
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
The didgeridoo (; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by ...
, a berimbau
The berimbau () is a single-string percussion instrument, a musical bow, originally from Africa, that is now commonly used in Brazil.
The berimbau would eventually be incorporated into the practice of the Afro-Brazilian martial art ''capoeira'' ...
used by the Brazilian aborigines. In 2006, Lin has realised the sonification
Sonification is the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data. Auditory perception has advantages in temporal, spatial, amplitude, and frequency resolution that open possibilities as an alternative or complement to visual ...
of nature, including a rainforest
Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainfores ...
, waterfalls
A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...
and wind by an interactive virtual sound board she has created. Hsin Hsin's music has been performed in Vienna
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, Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
in 2002, Bourges
Bourges () is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre. It is the capital of the department of Cher, and also was the capital city of the former province of Berry.
History
The name of the commune derives either from the Bituriges, t ...
, France in 2003, 2004 and Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...
, 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
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training i ...
(Water Music
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), Mozart
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(Jupiter Symphony
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), Franz Liszt
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(Rhapsodies dan l'espace), Vivaldi
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( The Four Seasons), Debussy
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( 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
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, Appoggiatura
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and Turn (Staccato
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) and sound in the universe like Woodpecker
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.
Lin has conceptualised and written about the art in music and music in art. Since 2002, Hsin Hsin has digitally created visual music
Visual music, sometimes called colour music, refers to the creation of a visual analogue to musical form by adapting musical structures for visual composition, which can also include silent films or silent Lumia work. It also refers to methods o ...
, 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[IV '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference Information Visualization,]
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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
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, insects, water, and wind.
Bibliography
Lin is an author of 75 books, including ten poetry books.
Poetry Books
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* "To The Point", 2010
* "iWrite", 2011,
Contemporary art books
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Digital media
* "Perception-based Art" 2011,
* "The Art of Mondriaan by Lin Hsin Hsin", 2011,
* "A New Paradigm for Visualization and Generating Grid Geometry Art and Beyond" 2010,
* "bel canto, Volume VIII: leaves n petals", 2010,
* "bel canto, Volume VII: blobs n spots", 2010,
* "bel canto, Volume VI: blue n white", 2010,
* "bel canto, Volume V: the fabric of vision", 2010,
* "bel canto, Volume IV: in focus", 2010,
* "bel canto, Volume III: between the lines", 2010,
* "bel canto, Volume II: when black meets white", 2010,
* "bel canto, Volume I: bird entering the teatro", 2010,
* "Voice Over Intellectual Properties By Lin Hsin Hsin Volume III: Classic", 2010,
* "Voice Over Intellectual Properties by Lin Hsin Hsin, Volume II: Paper As A Medium", 2010,
* "Voice Over Intellectual Properties by Lin Hsin Hsin, Volume I: Digital Media", 2010,
* "Painterly Yours", 2009,
* "The Art of i,j,k", 2010,
* "The A – Z of Visualization", 2010,
* "What is in a Brush", 2008,
* "The Automorphism of Amalgamation Polytopes and Tessellation", 2008,
* "A New Paradigm for Visualization and Generating Grid Geometry Art", 2007,
* "When Equations Paints", 2007,
* "Every Pixel Counts", 2003,
* "@art : A Cyberart show by Lin Hsin Hsin", 1997,
Digital music
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References
External links
RADIOTOPIA :: persons :: Lin Hsin Hsin :: [Artist] :
''Museums and the Web
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'' conference, 1998.
Lin Hsin Hsin: An Overview
from the National University of Singapore
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University Scholars Programme website.
The intellectual properties of Lin Hsin Hsin
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