Lin Hsin Hsin
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Lin Hsin Hsin is an IT inventor, artist
, poet
and composer
from Singapore
, deeply rooted in mathematics
and information technology
.
She established the early virtual museum
website, the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum
, in 1994.
. She graduated in mathematics from the University of Singapore and received a postgraduate degree in computer science
from Newcastle University, 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.
.
She builds and pens her IT vision in computing, poems and paintings.
Ten years before Hsin Hsin created the 1st 3D digital art in Singapore, she has never
seen nor used a CAD system. However, she has envisaged the use of computer for
architecture, hence the title of the 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 sculptures.
, Amsterdam
, and San Jose, California
, United States
. She has participated in more than 220 exhibitions in 60 cities, 26 countries across Asia
, Europe
, North America
and South America
.
. In 1985, she was awarded a silver medal by the Société des Artistes Française, 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.
, collograph and monoprints, Hsin Hsin handmade acid-free paper
. She has pioneered acid-free papaya
paper and umbrella plant
paper in 1992
.
She has created digital music in 1985, 3D digital art
in 1987, and 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 stylus
in such creation. More than 250 digitally created artworks were exhibited in 1997 in her 15th solo exhibition in Singapore.,
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.
, 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.
(Water Music
), Mozart (Jupiter Symphony), Franz Liszt
(Rhapsodies dan l’espace), Vivaldi (The 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.
2005, Hsin Hsin built wearables and lights that response to music.
2006, Hsin Hsin built paradigm shift interactive digital real-world musical instruments—I-Musika
audible in nature, such as rain forest, insects, water
and wind
.
, technology
, art
and music
, Hsin Hsin pursues interdisciplinary studies.
, English
, Japanese
and French
. She writes poems in these languages
Her poetry books have been cataloged in major libraries in the world:
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
from Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, deeply rooted in mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
.
She established the early virtual museum
Virtual museum
A virtual museum is a museum that exists only online. A virtual museum is also known as an online museum, electronic museum, hypermuseum, digital museum, cybermuseum or Web museum...
website, the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum
Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum
The Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum is notable as a very early example of a virtual museum.This online art gallery website was originally established by the digital artist and poet Lin Hsin Hsin from Singapore in 1994 during the initial expansion of the World Wide Web. The site presents Lin Hsin Hsin's...
, in 1994.
Background
Hsin Hsin was born in SingaporeSingapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
. She graduated in mathematics from the University of Singapore and received a postgraduate degree in computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
from Newcastle University, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. She studied music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
and art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
in Singapore, printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
at the University of Ulster
University of Ulster
The University of Ulster is a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Northern Ireland. It is the largest single university in Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland...
, papermaking
Papermaking
Papermaking is the process of making paper, a substance which is used universally today for writing and packaging.In papermaking a dilute suspension of fibres in water is drained through a screen, so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibres is laid down. Water is removed from this mat of fibres by...
in Ogawamachi, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and paper conservation at the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
Conservation Services.
IT Visionary
Lin Hsin Hsin is a digital nativeDigital native
A digital native is a person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technology, and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts...
.
She builds and pens her IT vision in computing, poems and paintings.
- 1999 February 1, poem titled "Mobility" on mobilityMobilityMobility may refer to:* Mobility * "Mobiliy" , a song by Moby* Mobility * Mobility , the ability of military units or weapon systems to move to an objective-See also:* Academic mobility* Apprentices mobility...
, p. 20, "Between the Lines" - 1995 September 9, poem titled "The Day Will Come..." on smsSMSSMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...
, using fingers to type on screen, p. 181, "In Bytes we Travel" - 1994 Designed and built first virtual museum in the world,
- 1994 May, painted “Voices of the Future” -- oil painting depicted the wirelessWirelessWireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
and mobile entertainment future lifestyle, p. 32, "Lin Hsin Hsin: Works from Art, Science & Technology Series" - 1993 August 23, poem titled "Till Bankrupt Do Us Part", on online shopping & e-commerce, p. 241, "Sunny Side Up"
- 1993 February, predicted the Y2K bug while building a ten year forecasting model on an IBM i486 PC, Journal of thye Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC), 1999
- 1992 May, use the @ symbol in a book title, book front cover & title page, "Love @ 1st Byte"
- 1992 wanted to build a multimedia museum (letter to National Computer Board, Singapore)
- 1977 painted "The Computer as Architect" -- oil painting depicted the vision of the power of computer in architecture.
Ten years before Hsin Hsin created the 1st 3D digital art in Singapore, she has never
seen nor used a CAD system. However, she has envisaged the use of computer for
architecture, hence the title of the painting.
- 1976 painted "Distillation of an Apple" -- oil painting visualizing the construction and usage of Apple computer 7 days before the birth of Apple computer.
Paintings and sculptures
Lin Hsin Hsin specializes in oil paintingOil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...
, she has transformed the opaque properties of oil paint
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 varnish may be added to increase the glossiness of the...
to make it translucent in 1988. As such, she has made oil paint to look like watercolor, Chinese ink as well as pastel
Pastel
Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation....
, pencil
Pencil
A pencil is a writing implement or art medium usually constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core inside a protective casing. The case prevents the core from breaking, and also from marking the user’s hand during use....
or charcoal
Charcoal
Charcoal is the dark grey residue consisting of carbon, and any remaining ash, obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood or other substances in the absence of oxygen...
, as demonstrated in the Aqua Series of paintings. Besides oil paintings, she makes acrylic sculptures.
Art Exhibitions
Lin Hsin Hsin has held 15 solo exhibitions in SingaporeSingapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, and San Jose, California
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. She has participated in more than 220 exhibitions in 60 cities, 26 countries across Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
.
Art Collectors
Hsin Hsin's art can be seen in private, public and museum collections in 32 cities across Asia, Europe, North America and AustraliaAustralia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. In 1985, she was awarded a silver medal by the Société des Artistes Française, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. In 1987, she received the IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
Singapore Art Award, she has received Visiting Fellowship to Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
in 1988 and Japan Foundation
Japan Foundation
The was established in 1972 by an Act of the Japanese Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an independent administrative institution under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Ministry of Japan on 1 October 2003 under the "Independent...
Fellowship in 1991 Her artworks are in private, public and museum collections in Asia, Europe and North America.
Paper
Besides paper sculptures, papier colléPapier collé
Papier collé is a painting technique and type of collage. With papier collé the artist pastes pieces of flat material into a painting in much in the same way as a collage, except the shape of the pasted pieces are objects themselves...
, collograph and monoprints, Hsin Hsin handmade acid-free paper
Acid-free paper
Acid-free paper is paper that has a neutral or basic pH . It can be made from any cellulose fiber as long as the active acid pulp is eliminated during processing. It is also lignin and sulfur free...
. She has pioneered acid-free papaya
Papaya
The papaya , papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae...
paper and umbrella plant
Umbrella Plant
The common name Umbrella Plant can refer to several unrelated species:* Cyperus alternifolius * Darmera peltata * Eriogonum longifolium var. harperi...
paper in 1992
.
Digital Media Pioneer
Hsin Hsin is a digital media pioneer,She has created digital music in 1985, 3D digital art
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
in 1987, and digital animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
in 1989 in Singapore. Since 1993 todate, Hsin Hsin has pioneered the use of a two-button mechanical PC Mouse to draw
Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
and paint
Paint
Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film. One may also consider the digital mimicry thereof...
Western and Chinese paintings. She has created digital oil paintings, watercolors, Chinese ink
Ink
Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments and/or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing and/or writing with a pen, brush, or quill...
paintings and calligraphy. She also digitally sketches with this mouse. Hsin Hsin has never and does not use any tablet PC
Tablet computer
A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...
and stylus
Stylus
A stylus is a writing utensil, or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example in pottery. The word is also used for a computer accessory . It usually refers to a narrow elongated staff, similar to a modern ballpoint pen. Many styli are heavily curved to be held more easily...
in such creation. More than 250 digitally created artworks were exhibited in 1997 in her 15th solo exhibition in Singapore.,
Virtual Museum
In 1994, she set up the first virtual museumVirtual museum
A virtual museum is a museum that exists only online. A virtual museum is also known as an online museum, electronic museum, hypermuseum, digital museum, cybermuseum or Web museum...
in the world, the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum
Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum
The Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum is notable as a very early example of a virtual museum.This online art gallery website was originally established by the digital artist and poet Lin Hsin Hsin from Singapore in 1994 during the initial expansion of the World Wide Web. The site presents Lin Hsin Hsin's...
Lin Hsin Hsin created Web art and Net art in 1995, HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
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
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in 1999, 2001 and 2003.
Digital Art
Lin Hsin Hsin Started from the real-world, in 1985, she moved into the digital world.
However, she has, since 1994, began with the digital, and fabricated the digital into the real
ISM
Hsin Hsin 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
Hsin Hsin initiates, establishes and 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.
- Photorealistic Images by a hand held device (mouse)
- 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, digital coinCoinA coin is a piece of hard material that is standardized in weight, is produced in large quantities in order to facilitate trade, and primarily can be used as a legal tender token for commerce in the designated country, region, or territory....
- 3D — still and animated. Computation-based digital voyages; 3D modeling digital sculptures, 3D modeling digital objects
- 2D — still images include: 253 categories of digital fabrics, digital coin
- Grid Geometry art
- 2D Grid Geometry art
- 2D Interactive Grid Geometry Art
- 2D Perception-Based Art
- 3D Perception-Based Art
- lenticular, coleuraille
- stereoscopic
- Equation-based art
- 2D — still and animated. Images include digital oil and digital watercolor.
- 3D — still and animated digital sculptures, digital jewelries digital objects. digital furnitures,
- All 2D and 3D equation-based art can be realized and fabricated into real-world entities.
- Web-based art
- 2D — still, animated and interactive.
- 3D — still, animated and interactive.
- ICP
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 didgeridooDidgeridoo
The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe"...
, a berimbau
Berimbau
The berimbau is a single-string percussion instrument, a musical bow, from Brazil. The berimbau's origins are not entirely clear, but there is not much doubt about its African origin, as no Indigenous Brazilian or European people use musical bows, and very similar instruments are played in the...
used by the Brazilian aborigines. In 2006, Hsin Hsin has realized the sonification
Sonification
Sonification, a form of auditory display, is the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data. Auditory perception has high temporal and pressure resolution, which opens up possibilities for it as an alternative or complement to visualization techniques.For example, the...
of nature, including a rainforest
Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...
, waterfalls and wind
Wind
Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space...
by an interactive virtual sound board she has created. Hsin Hsin's music has been performed in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
in 2002, Bourges
Bourges
Bourges is a city in central France on the Yèvre river. It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital of the former province of Berry.-History:...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in 2003, 2004 and Pisa
Pisa
Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, 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 HandelHANDEL
HANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
(Water Music
Water Music
Water Music may refer to*Water Music , orchestral suites by George Frideric Handel*Water Music , an orchestral suite by Georg Philipp Telemann*Water Music , a novel by T.C...
), Mozart (Jupiter Symphony), Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
(Rhapsodies dan l’espace), Vivaldi (The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season...
), Debussy (La Mer
La Mer (Debussy)
La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre , or simply La mer , is an orchestral composition by the French composer Claude Debussy. It was started in 1903 in France and completed in 1905 on the English Channel coast in Eastbourne...
). 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
Trill
Trill may refer to:* Trill , a type of musical ornament* Trill consonant, a type of sound used in some languages*Trill, a type of bird food-Fiction:* Trill , two symbiotic races of aliens in the fictional Star Trek universe...
, Appoggiatura and Turn
Turn
Turn may refer to:In music:* Turn , a sequence of several notes next to each other in the scale* Turn , an Irish rock group* Turn LP, a 2005 rock album by Turn* Turn , a 2004 punk album by The Ex...
(Staccato
Staccato
Staccato is a form of musical articulation. In modern notation it signifies a note of shortened duration and separated from the note that may follow by silence...
) and sound in the universe like Woodpecker
Woodpecker
Woodpeckers are near passerine birds of the order Piciformes. They are one subfamily in the family Picidae, which also includes the piculets and wrynecks. They are found worldwide and include about 180 species....
.
Hsin Hsin has conceptualized and written about the art in music and music in art. Since 2002, Hsin Hsin has digitally created visual music
Visual music
Visual music, sometimes called "colour music," refers to the use of musical structures in visual imagery, which can also include silent films or silent Lumia work. It also refers to methods or devices which can translate sounds or music into a related visual presentation...
, or animated music, as she puts it.
2005, Hsin Hsin built wearables and lights that response to music.
2006, Hsin Hsin built paradigm shift interactive digital real-world musical instruments—I-Musika
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 soundSound
Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...
audible in nature, such as rain forest, insects, water
Water
Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...
and wind
Wind
Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space...
.
Intermedia
Combining mathematicsMathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
, art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
and music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, Hsin Hsin pursues interdisciplinary studies.
Poetry
Hsin Hsin speaks, reads and writes in ChineseChinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. She writes poems in these languages
- Poetry Books
- "iWrite", 2011, ISBN 978-981-08-9367-5, Dewey Decimal Class 821
- "To The Point", 2010, ISBN 978-981-06-6031-8
- "Between The Lines", 2004, Pro-Literature Verlag, ISBN 978-3-937034-51-5
- "Between The Lines", 2004, ISBN 978-981-04-9512-1, Dewey Decimal Class 821
- "In Bytes We Travel", 1997, ISBN 978-981-02-3359-4, Dewey Decimal Class 828, Library of CongressLibrary of CongressThe Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
PR9570.S53 L5644 1997 - "Sunny Side Up", 1994, ISBN 978-981-00-5840-1, Library of Congress PR9570.S53 L797 1994
- "Love @ 1st Byte", 1992, ISBN 978-981-02-1026-7, Dewey Decimal Class 821, Library of Congress PR9570.S53 L565 1992
- "From Time to Time", 1991, ISBN 978-981-00-2705-6, Library of Congress PR9570.S53 L794 1991
- "Take a Word for a Walk", 1989, ISBN 978-981-00-1085-0, Dewey Decimal Class 821, Library of Congress PR9570.S53 L57 1989
Her poetry books have been cataloged in major libraries in the world:
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- National Library of Canada, Canada
- The British LibraryBritish LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
, England - Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany
- Deutsche Bücherei, Germany
- Library of Congress, USA
- Libraries in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia
- University libraries in USA, Canada, England, Australia and Hong Kong
- Museum libraries in Germany and Canada
Contemporary art books
- "IT's Happening!". 1994, ISBN 978-981-005-852-4, Library of Congress MLCM 93/00203 (N)
- "Memoirs of Deutschland Series II", 1993, ISBN 978-981-00-1898-6, Library of Congress MLCSE 93/00319 (N)
- "Back to Nature", 1992, ISBN 978-981-00-3901-1, Library of Congress N7330.S522L56 1992
- "From Time to Time", 1991, ISBN 978-981-002-704-9
- "The Art of Reading", 1990, ISBN 978-981-00-1898-6
- "Where Water Flows", 1989, ISBN 978-981-00-1090-4
- "Music Observed", 1987, ISBN 978-9971-84-914-6
Selected articles
- "The man who made sculpture move" -- An Essay on Alexander CalderAlexander CalderAlexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.-Childhood:Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton,...
- "Picasso: painting life into objects"
- "Come aboard the 19th century" -- An Essay on a Visit to Musée d'OrsayMusée d'OrsayThe Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture,...
, Paris
Digital media
- "Perception-based Art" 2011, ISBN 978-981-07-0662-3
- "The Art of Mondriaan by Lin Hsin Hsin", 2011, ISBN 978-981-07-0141-3
- "A New Paradigm for Visualization and Generating Grid Geometry Art and Beyond" 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-3437-1
- "bel canto, Volume VIII: leaves n petals", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6987-8
- "bel canto, Volume VII: blobs n spots", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6986-1
- "bel canto, Volume VI: blue n white", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6985-4
- "bel canto, Volume V: the fabric of vision", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6984-7
- "bel canto, Volume IV: in focus", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6983-0
- "bel canto, Volume III: between the lines", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6982-3
- "bel canto, Volume II: when black meets white", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6981-6
- "bel canto, Volume I: bird entering the teatro", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6980-9
- "Voice Over Intellectual Properties By Lin Hsin Hsin Volume III: Classic", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6990-8
- "Voice Over Intellectual Properties by Lin Hsin Hsin, Volume II: Paper As A Medium", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6989-2
- "Voice Over Intellectual Properties by Lin Hsin Hsin, Volume I: Digital Media", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-6988-5
- "Painterly Yours", 2009, ISBN 978-981-08-9439-9
- "The Art of i,j,k", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-9410-8
- "The A - Z of Visualization", 2010, ISBN 978-981-08-9438-2
- "What is in a Brush", 2008, ISBN 978-981-08-9437-5
- "The Automorphism of Amalgamation Polytopes and Tessellation", 2008, ISBN 978-981-08-9411-5
- "A New Paradigm for Visualization and Generating Grid Geometry Art, 2007, ISBN 978-981-08-3437-1
- "When Equations Paints", 2007, ISBN 978-981-08-3383-1
- "Every Pixel Counts", 2003, ISBN 978-981-08-3423-4
- "@art : A Cyberart show by Lin Hsin Hsin", 1997, ISBN 978-981-00-9142-2
- A selection of recent publications available @ Computer Science Bibliographic Repository
Digital music
- "Rudiments Mapping — An Axiomatic Approach to Music Composition", International Computer Music Conference, 2003,
- "I1)-Musika:Mobile Interface Musical Expression (MIME)", IV '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference Information Visualization, ISBN 0-7695-2900-3
External links
- RADIOTOPIA :: persons :: Lin Hsin Hsin :: [Artist] :
- Lin Hsin Hsin biodata.
- Biography, Museums and the WebMuseums and the WebThe annual Museums and the Web conference is the leading international conference in the field of museums and their websites. It has been organized by Archives & Museum Informatics each Spring in North America since 1997.- Overview :...
conference, 1998. - Lin Hsin Hsin: An Overview from the National University of SingaporeNational University of SingaporeThe National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
University Scholars Programme website. - Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum website.
- The intellectual properties of Lin Hsin Hsin.