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Serena Lin has been working in digital and time-based media for the last five years, investigating the role of alternate "realities" in enhancing interpersonal communication and expression. After earning her BFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis in 1992, she continued on to obtain an MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1997. She joined the AlienNation Company in February 1999. Her recent work has been exhibited in gallery installations as well as various film festivals, including: image|architettura in movimento (Florence, Italy), a conference on the relationship between video and architecture; the New York Digital Salon; NO-TV '97 (Rochester, NY), and ISEA '97, the 8th International Symposium on Electronic Art (Chicago, IL). She is also a recipient of an 1998 Individual Artist Award in New Genre from the Maryland State Arts Council. From January 22 through February 12, 2000, she was one of the three featured artists in the exhibition "Visible Traces" (Winter Street Art Center). where she showed three new video installations. In 2001, she continued to exhibit original works at galleries in Texas. |
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My personal body of work examines the relationship between emotional conditions and their subsequent articulation as physical response. In heightened emotional states, the body impulsively reacts to its mental climate - such as chills with fear, nausea with disgust, and tingling with elation. This bodily "understanding" is also exhibited in our use of language to describe these emotional states. We constantly use descriptions of physical feeling or physical metaphors to convey to others how we mentally "feel"; for instance, claiming to be "under stress" or "between a rock and a hard place." The physical world, therefore, has a inextricable role in how we understand and process our own emotions. These physical intuitions, however, are things that are never seen, but invisibly experienced and felt. Through the combining of video image, sculpture, and sound, my work brings these intuitions into visible form via small video installations. In some cases, the viewer may be compelled to experience a piece in a physically awkward position, increasing the viewer's awareness of their own body in looking at the work. By assembling disparate yet individually familiar objects, images, and ambient sounds, I work to create encapsulated moments of emotion, which capture the fleeting cause and effect of this mental/physical relationship. Together, the new experiential "hybrids" assume a totally new definition, creating a synesthetic emotional resonance in the viewer. |
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2003 Tremors, and Other Minor Disturbances. Video installation. Lawndale Art Center, Houston. 2002 finally a place...;
Video installation, with AlienNation Co., Trans-Site Studio, Houston,
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