SINGAPOUR

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Lin Hsin Hsin information technologist, artist, poet

Born in Singapore. Lin Hsin Hsin graduated in Mathematics from University of Singapore and postgraduated in Computer Science from University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Lin studied music and art in Singapore, printmaking from University of Ulster, paper making in Ogawamachi, Japan and Paper Conservation from University of Melbourne Conservation Services.

Todate, Lin held 15 solo exhibitions in Singapore, Amsterdam and San Jose. She has participated in more than 190 group exhibitions in 49 cities and 20 countries across Asia, Europe, North and South America. She has been awarded a silver medal from Sociètè des Artistes Français, Paris, 1985, IBM Singapore Art Award, 1987, visiting Fellowships from Germany, 1988 and Japan Foundation, 1990. Lin's artworks are in private, public and museum collections in Asia, Europe and North America.

As an artist, Lin specializes in oil besides making plexiglas sculptures and ceramics. In recent years, she has pioneered several methods and has created a répertoire of some 1,000 digital art, Web Art and Net Art as well as large scale Digital Installation Art. Her award-winning computer-animated Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum on Web was inaugurated on April 19, 1995. It was the first of its kind in Asia and has been visited by more than half a million visitors from 107 countries todate. The Museum has been awarded as the "Top 5% of All Web Sites" by Point Communication, U.S.A., September 1995 and became "Top 1000 Web Sites" subsequently. Other awards include "Virtuocity Award" by VXR Corporation, U.S.A., July 1996. Besides being nominated as the "PCNovice Guide to the Web: the 2500 Best Sites" in the Art Category by Sandhill Publishing, USA, July 1998, Lin was named one of the 200 cyber personalities in "24 hours in Cyberspace" on the Web Site as well as the book of the same title published by Simon & Schuster on February 8, 1996.

Lin has penned more than a hundred articles on Information Technology, besides having her poems published in USA, Singapore, Japan and Switzerland. As an author of 5 poetry books, her "Love @ 1st Byte", 1992 is the world's first collection of techno-poems on computers. In November 1997, the world's first collection of techno-poems about the Internet titled "In Bytes we Travel" was published. Lin has been awarded the Golden Poet Award in USA in 1989 and 1990.