👋 Hi, I’m Viv

I am an artist & art organizer based in the Bay Area, co-parented by Chinese immigrants and the internet. I am a zealot for the sentimental, the speculative, and the absurd. Seeking palliatives for the passage of time, I draw from my work as a researcher, curator, and creative technologist to complicate the shape of memory and the ways it is revisited.

My focus lies in projects that center access and archival. Compelled by nostalgia, my work plays with the technological, aesthetic, philosophical notions of remembering and forgetting. Working with new and old media, I interrogate concerns around permanence, rigor, and subsumption relevant to culture work. I hold absurdity and levity close to heart as an oppositional force against institutional tenets inflicted upon arts and archival.


Currently, I split my time between collecting digital trash, tattooing, training as a death doula, stewarding a meme-page, and running Output Field (an art organization gathering a database of people, collectives, & projects in experimental arts & research).

[Projects, Exhibitions, Showcases]

º dump.site, a virtual landfill (((Artist, coming soon)))

º ZK/U Residency, multimedia family history (((Residency, coming soon)))

º 覺 Jué @ B4B3L4B, with MaggZ, a live showcase of artists of queer sino-diaspora (((Event Producer, Curator, 2023)))

º Skin Garden @ New Art City, virtual exhibition artworks discussing bodies: through movement, space, sound, self, and fellow bodies. Skin Garden is body language (((Curator, 2021)))

º New Art City: Accessibility Audit (((Futuring, 2022)))

[Talks, Lectures]

º Panel Discussion with Mindy Seu, Chia Amisola, Molly Turner @ The Lab (((Panelist, 2023)))

º Perhaps the Real Avant Garde is the Friends We Made Along the Way @ BAMPFA (((Lecturer, 2022)))

º Discussing Chaos & Corporeal Art with Arder @ Lower Grand Radio (((Guest Speaker, 2022)))

º Skin Garden curator tour @ Gray Area (((Guest Speaker, 2022)))

º Critical Meme-Thinking @ CCA (((Guest Lecturer, 2022)))

[Publications/Press]

º TTTISM feature: “Blastover, I Love You” (((Writer, 2022)))

º Collide24 feature: "Output Field presents Skin Garden, a virtual exhibition about bodies positioned against the current landscape of CG art” (((Featured Curator, 2021)))

º Clot Mag feature: "Output Field's Debut Showcase 'Skin Garden,' virtual musings in flesh” (((Featured Curator, 2021)))

[Organizations]

º Output Field, a directory of artists and researchers (((Founder, 2020-Present)))

º New Art City Accessibility Panel (((Panel member, 2022-Present)))

[Creative Strategy, Professional Work]

º Zeus Jones, creative strategy consulting agency (((Creative Futurist, 2021)))

º designaffairs GmbH, design consulting agency (((Design Strategist, 2018-2019)))

º Reimagine End of Life, end-of-life festival (((Experience Designer, 2018)))

[Services]

º Futuring/Ideation

º Design Research

º Strategic Consulting

º Creative Direction

º Artist & Repertoir

[Languages]

º English (((fluent)))

º Mandarin (((fluent)))

º Cantonese (((moderate)))

[Education/Training]

º Death Doula Training @ Going with Grace (((in progress)))

º Trauma Stewardship training at CUAV (((2022)))

º Carnegie Mellon University BFA in Industrial Design, minor in Intelligent Environments (((2013-2017)))