Yo-Yo Lin is a Taiwanese-American, interdisciplinary media artist who explores the possibilities of self-knowledge in the context of emerging, embodied technologies. She often uses generative animation, live performance, and lush sound design to create meditative ‘memoryscapes.’ Her current work reveals and re-values the complex realities of living with chronic illness. Through researching and developing methodologies in reclaiming chronic health trauma, she investigates the generative nature of the ill/ disabled bodymind and facilitates sites for community-centered abundance. She was a 2019 ‘Access’ Artist in Residence at Eyebeam and has shown her work at SXSW, NYFF, and the Allied Media Conference.
“Virtual space has long been a place of crip wisdom, joy, and community gathering. Audio stutters and video lag are love notes to being together. My collaborators and I hope to explore further the generative nature of the ill and disabled bodymind in the ways we connect through web technology. Disability justice culture embraces the lag as a natural part of living and inclusive organizing. At CultureHub, I hope to develop web-based performance tools and remote access nightlife parties that honor the glitch rituals, or ‘glitchuals’ of disability gathering as a form of embodied resistance.”
A virtual dance party centering disability nightlife and access magic that blurs the lines between URL/IRL, glitching endlessly.