Faculty Members
Ms SO Wai Yi Zoie
Senior Lecturer / Programme Director, Interactive Media Publishing
| MFA in Studio Arts: Open Media (Concordia University, Canada) MSc in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology (CityU, HK) BACM (School of Creative Media, CityU, HK) |
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| (852) 3411-8341 | |
| zoieso@hkbu.edu.hk | |
| CVA Room 946 |
Zoie So is an artist specializing in materials engineering, innovative material applications, light art and photonic, electronic art, creating diverse sculptures, installations, performances and designs. Her work explores the transformative power of media to convey ideas and emotions, also the potentials of intelligent wearables, metamaterials, and mechanoluminescence.
With over twenty years of experience, Zoie's works have been exhibited in cities such as Hong Kong, Montreal, Ottawa, Milan, Ptuj, Geneva and Ålvik. Her projects include the patented City Fenestration and the commissioned public sculpture Photosynthesis in Motion at Tamar. Zoie taught at Lingnan University for twelve years before joining Hong Kong Baptist University in 2022.
Research interests
Digital Media and Narrativity, Location-based Storytelling and Games
Publishing, IP Development and Management
Transdisciplinary practices: Materials Science, Digital Technology, Media Art, Sustainable Design
Publications
So, Z. (2014). Affording Creativity and New Media Possibilities. In Design, User Experience, and Usability. Theories, Methods, and Tools for Designing the User Experience (pp. 675–685). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07668-3_65
Selected Art Presentations
City Fenestration (Soft-Views), Group Exhibition and Artist Talk, AiR Kunstnarhuset Messen, Norway, 2019.
Distortion, Group Exhibition, Hong Kong International Photo Festival, 2016.
Aqua Muse, Solo Exhibition and Artist Talk, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada, 2015.
Weather Forecasting, Group Exhibition, Tracing Data, Writing Machine Collectives, Connecting Spaces, Hong Kong, 2014.
Glimpses, Group Exhibition, This Slow – That Fast: Animamix Biennale 2013-14, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (vA!) and Oi! of the LCSD, 2014.
Mediated Landscape, Group Exhibition, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012, 2013.
Liquid Soap Display, Installation (Light Art), Group Exhibition, Maribor 2012, Art Stays 10 (Festival of Contemporary Art) Ptuj, Slovenia, 2012.
Photosynthesis in Motion, Public Art Project, Art Promotion Office, Tamar Park, Hong Kong, 2011.
Playing with Bubble Soap & New Media Experience, Artist Talk, This Happened... Interactive Design Seminar, Hong Kong, 2010.
Awards/Grants/Honors
Grants:
City Fenestration (Soft-Views), The Innovation and Impact Fund (IIF) Entrepreneurship Programme, Faculty Stream, LU Research Committee, Hong Kong (October 2019 – July 2021)
In Search of the Peachland- An Art Exchange Project between Kam Tin (Hong Kong) and Busan (Korea), Teaching Development Grants (TDG Code: 102440), University Grant, Hong Kong (February 2015 – November 2015)
Wood Digit, CIAM Art Grant, Centre interuniversite des arts médiatiques, Montreal, Canada (April 2008 – December 2008)
Selected Awards
Inventor, Hong Kong Short-Term Patent (App.No. 32020013512.9) (August 2020).