Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker working with various art mediums and film formats, including installations, performances, net art, public art, video installations, feature-length films and mobile web serials and a net art pioneer whose project BRANDON (1998–1999) was the first web artwork commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Her film scenarios and artworks feature sci-fi narratives by which she has crafted her own “science” fiction genre of new queer cinema and which she has termed eco-cybernoia (FRESH KILL, 1994), sci-fi cyberpunk (I.K.U., 2000) and sci-fi cypherpunk (Fluidø, 2017). In the mid-90s, she declared that she was homesteading cyberspace. By 2002, she wrote a post-Net-crash synopsis for her artworks, then relocated to BioNet in 2009 to launch Viral Love Biohack as her current cycle of work, and represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale in 2019 with 3x3x6, a mixed-media installation. She is currently working on UKI, a sci-fi viral alt-reality feature.