RANIA HO

rania@dancingtoasters.com

www.dancingtoasters.com

 

Born 1968 in San Francisco, California

Currently lives and works in Beijing, China

 

Education

 

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

Interactive Telecommunications Program,

Masters Degree in Interactive Art

University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Theater, Film and Television, Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts

 

Selected Exhibitions/Performances

 

Solo Exhibitions

2006

Timestamp                                                Long March Space Project, Beijing, China

 

 

Group Exhibitions

2009

ZAIM Festa                                    Yokohama, Japan   

Just Around the Corner                  Arrow Factory, Beijing, China

 

2008

Obvious/Subtle                              Paper, Beijing, China

Slice                                              Arrow Factory, Beijing, China

Building Code Violations               Long March Space, Beijing, China

9th Open Studio Exhibition                       SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea

 

2007

Borderline Moving Image Festival Beijing, China

China International Gallery Expo  Beijing, China

 

2006

ISEA Zero One Festival                 San Jose, California

 

2005

Guangzhou Triennial                    Guangzhou, China

Playgrounds of Authorship             Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, NY

10 Years After                                Daejeon Museum of Science and Technology, Korea

24Hours                                         Beijing Film Studio, Beijing China

Hella Chihuahuas                          Platform China, Beijing, China

Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP) Ewha University, Seoul, Korea

Incest                                             Platform China, Beijing, China

 

2004

Shanghai Biennale                                   Water Theater, Shanghai, China

The Location You @ Now             25000 Cultural Transmission Center, Beijing, China

Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

 

2003

Post-Sensibility: Inside Story          Beijing, China

 

2002

Close Calls                                                 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Art That Moves                              Cellspace, San Francisco, CA

 

2001

NewFangle GenArts                       San Francisco, CA

Site Exhibitions                             ArtMuseum.net

Digital Arts Conference (DAC)        Brown University, Providence, RI

 

2000

SIGGRAPH 2000                           New Orleans, LA

Prix Ars Electronica                       Linz, Austria

Doors of Perception                       Amsterdam, Netherlands

ArtFuture 2000                               Taipei, Taiwan

ISEA 2000                                                 Paris, France

Canalogy                                       Brooklyn, NY 

Bard College                                 Annadale-on-Hudson, NY 

Life Culture                                                Beijing, China

Rising Tide Summit                                   New York, New York 

 

Awards

 

Rockefeller New Media Fellowship Nominee 2003, 2004

Prix Ars Electronica 2000 Honorable Mention

ArtFuture 2000 Honorable Mention

 

Fellowships / Residencies

Yokohama-Beijing Artist Residency 2009

Yokohama, Japan

 

Ssamzie Space Studio Program 2007

Seoul, South Korea

 

Visiting Scholar 2004

Microsoft Research Asia Center for Interaction Design

Beijing, China

 

Research Fellow 1999-2000

Interval Research Corporation

Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University

 

Teaching

 

Visiting Professor, 2006, 2007

Graduate School of Culture Technology

Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

 

Lectures

Media Arting for the S(e)oul: My Phone Only Speaks Korean, Hongik University New Media Department, Seoul, Korea (2007)

Lunches Tender: Frenz4eva and Live Media Manipulation, ISEA 2002

The Feeling Machine: Introduction to Physical Computing  (2000)

The Loft New Media Centre, Beijing, China

Ubiquitous Computing Conference: Anthropomorphism and Toaster Ovens

SIGGRAPH NY (2000)

 

 

Other

Co-founder of the Arrow Factory, a storefront for art in the center of Beijing.