Yaloo
Individual
Roles
Artist, EducatorBiography
Yaloo earned BFA and MFA in video art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been selected for fully funded international residencies such as Zer01ne and Asia Culture Center in Korea, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, Western Front and La Bande Video in Canada, the Headlands Art Center and Bemis Studio Art Center in USA. She was also awarded a Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Scholarship by Video Data Bank and won a Gold Prize in visual arts from the AHL Foundation in New York. Last year, she was part of a duo show at FACT Liverpool, UK.Through her work, she attempts to take a post-colonial, post-Western-centric, and post-human-centric approach to new media art by imparting on DIY production pipeline for immersive storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration. There are rich creative potentials to be appreciated in DIY computer graphics productions and immersive storytelling, especially when independent artists coming from different cultural, political, social backgrounds take control of their creative agency. In the mainstream commercial production of digital media, individual artists perform tasks in a hyper-modernized fordist process—in which a thousand people divide their roles into small pieces. As many independent media artists, Yaloo attempts to explore radically different visual possibilities through experimental problem-solving and to build her own production pipeline. Ultimately, Yaloo hopes to contribute to the diversity of the media languages of our everyday life. Yaloo is currently a professor at Experimental Animation department in California Institute of Arts.
Adapted from Yaloo, 2024