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'''Winnie Soon''' is an artist-researcher whose works intersect art, cultural studies and programming practice. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies in Aarhus University, teaching Aesthetic Programming and Digital Culture. She resides in [[Aarhus]] and [[Hong Kong]].  
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'''Winnie Soon''' (she/they, b. Hong Kong) has a background in Information Systems and Computing (City University of Hong Kong), Media Cultures (School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong), Digital Art and Technology (University of Plymouth), and has a PhD in Software (Art) Practice (Aarhus University). Her research and practice intersect media/computational art, software studies, cultural studies and code practice, specifically concerning automated censorship, data politics, real-time processing/liveness, invisible infrastructure and the aesthetics of code.
  
Winnie Soon has a MA from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (2008) and a MSc from Institute of Digital Art and Technology, Plymouth University in UK (2009). She has completed a PhD at the Center for Participatory IT (School of Communication and Culture), Aarhus University with the topic titled ''[http://siusoon.net/home/me/doc/soon_PhD_FINAL.pdf Executing Liveness: An examination of code inter-actions in software (art) practice]'' (2017).  
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Her projects have been presented and exhibited internationally at museums, art festivals, libraries, universities and conferences, including but not limited to ZKM, RMIT Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery, Transmediale, Electronic Literature Festival, ISEA, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, WRO Media Art Biennale, Roskilde Library, Image Galleri, Si Shang Art Museum, Pulse Art + Technology Festival, FutureEverything Art Exhibition, Ars Electronica, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale, Hong Kong Microwave International Media Arts Festival, and among others. Her current research focuses on critical technical-art practice, working on two books titled ''[https://gitlab.com/siusoon/Aesthetic_Programming_Book Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies]'' (with [[Geoff Cox]]) and ''[https://eeclectic.de/produkt/fix-my-code/ Fix My Code]'' (with [[Cornelia Sollfrank]]). Recent contributions to publications include "Execution" in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19957 Posthuman Glossary]'' (with Critical Software Thing), [http://computationalculture.net/throbber-executing-micro-temporal-streams/ "Throbber: Executing Micro-temporal Streams"] in ''Computational Culture Journal'' and [https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i2.9553 "API Practices and Paradigms"] in ''First Monday'' (with Eric Snodgrass).
  
Informed by the cultural, social and political context of technology, Winnie Soon’s work approach spans the fields of artistic practice, media art, software studies, cultural studies and computer science, examining the materiality of computational processes that underwrite our experiences and realities in digital culture via artistic and/or coding practice. Her works explore themes/concepts around digital culture, specifically concerning internet censorship, data circulation, real-time processing/liveness, infrastructure, the culture of code practice, etc. Her projects and lectures have been presented internationally at museums, art festivals, universities and conferences, including but not limited to ZKM, The Photographer’s Gallery, Transmediale2015/2017 (Berlin), Electronic Literature Festival2018, ISEA2015/2016 (Vancouver, Hong Kong), V&A Museum (London), ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (Aarhus, Denmark), Si Shang Art Museum (Beijing), Pulse Art + Technology Festival (Savannah, USA), FutureEverything Art Exhibition (Manchester), The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale, Hong Kong Microwave International Media Arts Festival, Taipei National University of Arts, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and The University of Hong Kong.
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Winnie has been awarded the Top-Ranked LABS Abstracts 2017 by Leonardo and the Winner of The 2018 Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD award with the thesis titled ''[[Media:Soon_Winnie_Executing_Liveness_An_Examination_of_the_Live_Dimension_of_Code_Inter-actions_in_Software_Art_Practice_2016.pdf|Executing Liveness: An Examination of Code Inter-actions in Software (Art) Practice]]''. She received the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture at Stuttgarter Filmwinter — Festival for Expanded Media, WRO 2019 Media Art Biennale Award and Public Library Prize for Electronic Literature (short-listed), Literature in Digital Transformation in 2019. Currently, she is Associate Professor in the Department of Digital Design at Aarhus University, and actively providing and maintaining two ongoing software art services: ''net art generator'' (w/ [[Cornelia Sollfrank]] and Gerrit Ché Boelz) and ''Queer Motto API'' (w/ Helen Pritchard). [http://siusoon.net/about/ (2020)]
 
 
Winnie Soon’s current research focuses on [http://aestheticprogramming.siusoon.net/ Exploratory and Aesthetic Programming] for arts and humanities, working on two books titled ''Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies, or Software Studies for Dummies'' (with Geoff Cox) and ''Fix My Code'' (with Cornelia Sollfrank).
 
  
 
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* [http://www.siusoon.com Personal website]
 
* [https://github.com/siusoon Github]
 
* [https://github.com/siusoon Github]
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* [https://gitlab.com/siusoon GitLab]
 
* [https://au.academia.edu/winniesoon Academia.edu]
 
* [https://au.academia.edu/winniesoon Academia.edu]
 
* [https://twitter.com/siusoon Twitter]
 
* [https://twitter.com/siusoon Twitter]

Revision as of 14:05, 25 November 2020

Winnie Soon (she/they, b. Hong Kong) has a background in Information Systems and Computing (City University of Hong Kong), Media Cultures (School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong), Digital Art and Technology (University of Plymouth), and has a PhD in Software (Art) Practice (Aarhus University). Her research and practice intersect media/computational art, software studies, cultural studies and code practice, specifically concerning automated censorship, data politics, real-time processing/liveness, invisible infrastructure and the aesthetics of code.

Her projects have been presented and exhibited internationally at museums, art festivals, libraries, universities and conferences, including but not limited to ZKM, RMIT Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery, Transmediale, Electronic Literature Festival, ISEA, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, WRO Media Art Biennale, Roskilde Library, Image Galleri, Si Shang Art Museum, Pulse Art + Technology Festival, FutureEverything Art Exhibition, Ars Electronica, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale, Hong Kong Microwave International Media Arts Festival, and among others. Her current research focuses on critical technical-art practice, working on two books titled Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (with Geoff Cox) and Fix My Code (with Cornelia Sollfrank). Recent contributions to publications include "Execution" in Posthuman Glossary (with Critical Software Thing), "Throbber: Executing Micro-temporal Streams" in Computational Culture Journal and "API Practices and Paradigms" in First Monday (with Eric Snodgrass).

Winnie has been awarded the Top-Ranked LABS Abstracts 2017 by Leonardo and the Winner of The 2018 Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD award with the thesis titled Executing Liveness: An Examination of Code Inter-actions in Software (Art) Practice. She received the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture at Stuttgarter Filmwinter — Festival for Expanded Media, WRO 2019 Media Art Biennale Award and Public Library Prize for Electronic Literature (short-listed), Literature in Digital Transformation in 2019. Currently, she is Associate Professor in the Department of Digital Design at Aarhus University, and actively providing and maintaining two ongoing software art services: net art generator (w/ Cornelia Sollfrank and Gerrit Ché Boelz) and Queer Motto API (w/ Helen Pritchard). (2020)

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