Lian Loke


Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • University of Sydney, Associate Professor

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  • ISEA2022

    reinhardtloke are Lian Loke and Dagmar Reinhardt: they develop projects at the intersection of art, design, architecture, choreography and human-machine interaction since 2012. Loke is an artist, dancer and interaction design researcher. Her practice questions the role of the body in contemporary society, and how our notions of self are open to transformation through inter-cultural, inter-species and inter-media relations and rituals. Reinhardt is an architect, designer and researcher and extends design research for architectural performance at the intersection of architecture, acoustics, structure, robotics, fabrication, material and construction constraints into multi-disciplinary collaborations. Their work is a critical speculation on the future of human versus machine agency, combined with a creative experimental approach to materiality through digital fabrication, software programming and robotics. They explore new modes of non/human performativity and human experience through prototypes, installation, exhibition and performance.

    ISEA2020

    Dr Lian Loke is an artist, designer and researcher, with the body as the central focus of her interdisciplinary practice. She is interested in exploring how new technologies are impacting on the lived body and its possibilities for expression, transformation and transcendence. Her work explores the creation of body-centred artistic works and human-centred design approaches to interactive technologies and spaces. She combines dance, design, human computer interaction and the aesthetics of interaction to critique and produce concepts, systems and performances. She has a background in design, human-computer interaction and software engineering, with extensive experience as a lecturer and researcher. She is an Associate Professor in the Design Lab, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, Australia, and Director of the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts program.

    ISEA2017

    Lian Loke, Design Lab, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pursues an interdisciplinary creative practice across performance, installation and technology, with the body as a constant theme. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, and co-founder of the Pork Collective, a group of artists working in performance installation in festival environments. Recent projects investigating creative agency and bodily experience in technology-mediated contexts include Distributed Choreographies and Sensate Machines with Dagmar Reinhardt, a 2012 Critical Path residency for the My Mind Y/Our Body project with Michaela Davies, and 2010 Australia Council Inter-Arts Project grant for Luscious Apparatus.

    ISEA2015

    Lian Loke, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. She pursues an interdisciplinary creative practice across performance, installation and technology, with the body as a constant theme. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, and co-founder of the Pork Collective, a group of artists working in performance installation in festival environments. Recent projects investigating creative agency and bodily experience in technology-mediated contexts include Distributed Choreographies and Sensate Machines with Dagmar Reinhardt, a 2012 Critical Path residency for the My Mind Y/Our Body project with Michaela Davies, and 2010 Australia Council Inter-Arts Project grant for Luscious Apparatus.

    ISEA2013

    Lian Loke pursues an interdisciplinary creative practice across performance, installation and technology, with the body as a constant theme. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney and co-founder of the Pork Collective, a group of artists working in performance installation in festival environments. She is currently training in the Bodyweather system of dance with De Quincey Co and has performed solo works in Platform 1 (2010), Platform 3 (2011) and 6 Women Dance (2013). Recent creative research collaborations include The Black Project and Gold with Dagmar Reinhardt, a series of works exploring new choreographic approaches to the intersection of bodies, computational materials and interactive, spatial environments.

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  • NSW, Australia

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