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Yo-Yo Lin
Yo-Yo Lin is a new media artist working with primarily film, animation, and digital arts. She works also with varieties of installations.

Education
In 2013 she went to Pacific Northwest College of Art for an installation intensive. Starting in 2013 she went to the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy. From 2011 to 2015 she acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California in Cinematic Arts, Animation, and Digital Studios.

Career
Yo-Yo worked as a freelance graphic designer for two years before being hired at The Family in 2014. She is currently working as an Art Director and Experience Designer for The Family. She directs and designs short films, music videos, installation works, and stage designs for different music and film festivals. Some examples of these festivals include Coachella, Panorama, and South by Southwest. Lin also was working with Nuclear Creative in 2015-2016 doing more director work and creating ideas to pitch to clients. She coordinated music videos and stage designs and designed projections for shows. During 2013 she worked with VT Production Design as an animator for festival stages and other large events. Her large-scale designs were used by many music festivals and musicians in music videos with over 2 million views.

2015
School of Cinematic Arts Gallery in University of Southern California’s Thesis Screenings

2016
Film Society of Lincoln Center

New York Film Festival in New York City

South by Southwest

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2018
Blue Tears installation in Matsu, Taiwan

2013
Roski School of Fine Arts Lindhurst Gallery, “A Second Glance” – Los Angeles, CA

La Corte Contemporanea, “Territori Instabili” – Florence, Italy

Pacific Northwest College of Art, “Boundary Crossings” – Portland, OR

University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, “Rhythms and Visions II” – Los Angeles, CA

2014
LA Mother “All Your Friends Fest” – Los Angeles, CA

Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, “Hair and Art”

Art Share LA, “Sokamba presents: Echo” – Los Angeles, CA

2016
Human Resources, “FEMMEBIT” – Los Angeles, CA

MotherboardBK, “Being with Dreams” New York, NY

AR Mobile application “States of Mind” – New York, NY

Pasadena Public Library, “RotoPasadena” – Los Angeles, CA

2017
Founders Lab NYC “Manifest 1.0” - New York, NY

2015
National Endowment for the Arts, grant for community initiative “My Pasadena” Discovery Scholarship Prize for “Ricera”

2012
Nocturne III (oil painting, projection, animation)

2013
Sokamba: Echo (photography, photo manipulation, projection, animation, brand design)

Taking a Bath - hand-drawn projection for group art show “A Second Glance” (animation, two channel projection, speakers, sculpture, water pump)

Territori Instabili: Faces - experimental video on identity (film, compositing, editing) Samsara- rear-projection public installation (window, animation, paper, wheatpaste)

2014
Salon Make-Me-Over - interactive salon installation for LA Art Walk (Xbox kinect, projection)

Laundry Day - guerilla sculpture projection (laundry, text animation, projection)

2015
Ricerca - cinematic installation (5 channel projection, customized 5.1 surround sound, animation, film, stop-motion, photography, ink, rear-projection screens)


 * Ricera (2016)  Lin wanted to showcase the aspect of life that people are constantly looking for signs and patterns to wake up something inside of us to bring meanings to our lives. This piece is 5 screens of different videos being projected within a gallery space. This was specifically for people to interact with their own, like a large virtual reality space that swallows the audience. Yo-Yo directed and animated all of the projections for this piece.   -       I am thinking that this piece was to bring people together in an escape from the modern world. The projections were all about mainly happy subjects, sunshine/flowers/cartoons, and the point of the piece is to bring meaning to our lives. I think that the artist was trying to get the audience enveloped in the new reality like a virtual reality headgear piece, but while being able to experience it with people around you. We can see connections to other artists like Char Davies. This is because you can explore many different realms and regulate your position by breathing, so you still have control, where here in Lin’s piece you have control over the world based on which screen you are looking at, or how zoned into the world that she created you let yourself get.

2016
RotoPasadena - city-wide projection mapping with community (animation, rotoscoping workshops, film, poetry, projection w/ Lisa Mann)


 * RotoPasadena (2016)  Animations projected on Pasadena’s City Hall, Police Station, and Library. This community projected funded by National Endowments of the Arts was to connect the city officials and decision makers and the public, also to bridge the generations, cultures, and races. The art was helped to be designed by two different youth groups in the city, and together they made video poems for the projections. Yo-Yo animated the projections.   -       Pieces with politically charged meanings are always the move in the art world. This specific piece was sent to help mend the gap between different parties in the Pasadena community. This work is important to Pasadena but also the art world because through projected animations it actually repairs the damage done in the community. This piece is reminiscent of Carolee Schneeman’s Snows. This, while they are different types of pieces, both use media to bring attention to relevant issues in the community.

Steez Day Festival - stage design for concert Steez Day (LED mapping, DMX control, w/ Melisa Dougherty and Steve Dabal)

Joey Bada$$ 2016 Tour (visuals for hip hop artist, animation, VJ, stage design w/ Josh Heineman and Steve Dabal)

BeingWith_Dreams (group guided meditation with live visuals, VJ, animation) The Family (multimedia art collective, art direction, animation, brand design) Ricerca VR (art installation ported into virtual reality, game engine, binaural sound)

2017
Kafnu (projection mapping visuals for Kafnu co-working space, animation w/ Poyen Wang)

Manifest 1.0 (multi-sensory music gallery installation, art direction, lighting + interactive, quadrophonic sound, brand design)


 * Manifest 1.0 (2017)   This piece is an installation of environment in the gallery. The goal of the piece was to bring the audience through a new world by reconfiguring time and space. The piece, inspired by sci-fi films, begins with the audience entering though an onboarding process, which involves a sensory deprivation tunnel that each person goes through alone. The space generates a color based on the emotional data translated from the text response to questions. The light in the tunnel shifts from complete blackness to the color based on the answer. The center tube is for the musician to perform. The music working with the acoustics of the round space alters the waves, allowing the audience to hear more intricately. Also the music changes the environment with the lights and colors being projected. This is a 45 minute performance, with the musician staying inside the lit up chamber for the whole time, in the center of the listening area.   -       Manifest is an extremely impressive piece. The entirety of the installation or performance space was thought out with every detail, and it sounds like it could be successful in any museum with any musician in the center performing. She successfully creates an environment for people to be alone or with others, and have a whole new experience, or at least experience normal things in new ways because of the architecture of the piece. This we can see, could be a reflection of artists such as Dan Flavin or James Turrell. These two light artists changed the spaces their work is in using just light, but Lin does this with light and sound. Ryoji Ikeda’s Datamatics can also be seen here in the sense that the sound is reconfigured and sent to infiltrate the person, but Ikeda’s is more of a dramatic, intense, uncomfortable way where Lin’s here is a relaxing, soothing environment.

MAIDN Visuals - (visuals and video-jockey for musician MAIDN (animation, projection) o	States of Mind - contributor to augmented reality app Refrakt (animation) Sokamba Vortex Dome – intro sequence to multimedia projection dome show

2018
Better People - multimedia visuals for musician David Britton’s EP (album art, music videos) BLOOM - conceptual multidisciplinary music label (radio, website w/ Chris Robinson)

Blue Tears - immersive cinematic installation of bioluminescent dinoflagellates (film, projection, generative animation, interactive surfaces, surround sound)


 * Blue Tears (2018)  This installation was a piece showcasing the bioluminescent life in Taiwan. The space to walk through is dimly lit and as you walk though, it starts to glow. There are traditional style Matsu Island boats in the space and you are welcome to sit inside of them. As the room slowly starts to glow and develop, the walls start to disappear and reveal the real life videos of the blue glows. Music plays through the space so does thunder and rain sounds. The floor projects the ocean as well, and it ripples because the floor is interactive. The piece was created for an Ecology Center in Matsu.   -       Lin helping to bring attention to this rare phenomenon is inspiring. She allows the audience to be a part of something so rare by recording the sounds and images along with the sensation as if you are experiencing it in person, even down to the small boats you are supposed to perch in. This piece was intricately thought out and the environmentally charged meaning allows the audience to sit there and realize that something so beautiful is only possible if the people take care of the world we live in. This unique piece seems to be one of a kind and it allows people to realize that even the smallest life forms need to be protected because they are some of the most beautiful too. I can see aspects of Susan Hiller’s Witness piece and also Ryoji Ikeda’s Datamatics. Both of these other pieces create a charged environment that envelope the audience with sound and/or visuals. I would also like to argue that this Blue Tears piece has a relationship to The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson because both of them create an environment with a cause. Eliasson’s Weather project was one that brought attention to the issues with the climate, similarly to Lin’s.

Reference Links

 * 1) https://www.yoyolin.com/
 * 2) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5473abb0e4b00af93820c6a0/t/5aca61f68a922dc773b9bca7/1523212791221/Lin_CV_2018-Apr.pdf
 * 3) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5473abb0e4b00af93820c6a0/t/5b8441f403ce64be4103e73b/1535394295720/yoyo_resume_0618.pdf
 * 4) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/manifest-10-a-new-sonic-and-sensory-immersion-experience_b_59ed1a7ce4b092f9f241934e
 * 5) https://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/new-york-film-festival-2016-convergence-vr-ar-interactive-1201732186/
 * 6) https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/sunni-colon-manifest-1-sound-exhibition/
 * 7) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yo-yo-lin-259a9843
 * 8) https://saci-florence.edu/yo-yo-lin-13
 * 9) https://www.eyebeam.org/artist-interview-yo-yo-lin/
 * 10) https://www.yoyolin.com/about-1
 * 11) https://www.yoyolin.com/ricerca
 * 12) https://www.yoyolin.com/manifest
 * 13) https://www.yoyolin.com/blue-tears
 * 14) https://www.yoyolin.com/rotopasadena-installation
 * 15) https://www.yoyolin.com/steez-day
 * 16) https://www.yoyolin.com/sokamba-water-1
 * 17) https://www.yoyolin.com/kafnu
 * 18) https://www.yoyolin.com/vicetone-musicvideo
 * 19) https://www.yoyolin.com/the-family-1