Born in Hong Kong and migrated to Australia via Britain, Jo is interested in creative practice’s relationship with changing sociocultural and political environments. Her research masters investigates Hong Kong cultural politics through film media while her doctoral dissertation premised on art as the technical organisation of experience extends the philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno to critique materialist aesthetics and processes.
Jo’s award-winning works have been screened nationally and internationally including No References: A Revisit of Hong Kong Video and Media Art from 1985 in Videotage, Hong Kong. Her artworks have participated in exhibitions such as A Working Model of the World at The Parsons School of Design in New York and Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art at Sydney’s Performance Space.
Previously, Jo lectured in multimedia design at Curtin University of Technology, where she drew on her professional experience as a multimedia developer and screen producer to contribute to curriculum development. Jo continues to advocate for an interdisciplinary approach to creative media practice in her teaching. She teaches a range of media that include experimental film and video, creative coding, interactive electronic arts and fine arts animation.
Jo holds an MFA (by Research) from the University of Western Australia that focuses on Hong Kong cinema in relation to the cultural politics of disappearance. She was awarded a PhD for her thesis ‘Constellations: Walter Benjamin’s Allegories and Montage, and the Contingent Assemblies of Fragments in Art Practice’ by Murdoch University.
Working at the interface of art, science, craft, design, and technology, her research ranges from traditional publications, research and development projects, artworks and public exhibitions. Jo co-leads the Global Challenges Project ‘Next Generation Sustainable Crafting’ and recently joins the ‘Future Makers’ keystone project.
Jo’s critical writings have been published in 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (Open Humanities Press, 2019), Craft Economies, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), and Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity (re.press, 2009). Her artworks haven exhibited both nationally in Australia and internationally at venues including the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney, Sheila C Johnson Design Centre, New York, and the Life Space Science Art Research Gallery, Dundee.
Degree | Research Title | Advisee | |
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Doctor of Philosophy | Immersion, Affect and Memorability: Theorising Sound Design in Locative Audio for Transformative Experiences | ||
Doctor of Creative Arts | Beyond Diasporic Trauma: Opening up an Intersection between Contemporary Art and Folkloric Practices in Vietnam | Long, Mai Nguyen-Long | |
Doctor of Philosophy | Remote Sensing : Scenes from a Vertical Geography | Harris, John | |
Doctor of Philosophy | Art and Life: Personal Revolution in Contemporary Society | Richardson, Mark | |
Doctor of Philosophy | Superfictions: Practices of Voyeurism and Surveillance and Notions of Art in the Everyday | Mcleish, Jackie | |
Master of Philosophy -LHA | Feminist Surrealist Pornography: Constructing the Relationship Between the Female Body and the Gaze in Contemporary Film. | Balabay, Deniz | |
Doctor of Creative Arts | Time of Objects: Haptic perception and embodied film practice | Crowe, Rowena | |
Master of Philosophy -LHA | Exploring Intercultural Experiences and Contemporary Geopolitics in Digital Media Arts | De Filippo, Daniel |
Jo holds an MFA (by Research) from the University of Western Australia that focuses on Hong Kong cinema in relation to the cultural politics of disappearance. She was awarded a PhD for her thesis ‘Constellations: Walter Benjamin’s Allegories and Montage, and the Contingent Assemblies of Fragments in Art Practice’ by Murdoch University.
Working at the interface of art, science, craft, design, and technology, her research ranges from traditional publications, research and development projects, artworks and public exhibitions. Jo co-leads the Global Challenges Project ‘Next Generation Sustainable Crafting’ and recently joins the ‘Future Makers’ keystone project.
Jo’s critical writings have been published in 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (Open Humanities Press, 2019), Craft Economies, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), and Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity (re.press, 2009). Her artworks haven exhibited both nationally in Australia and internationally at venues including the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney, Sheila C Johnson Design Centre, New York, and the Life Space Science Art Research Gallery, Dundee.
Degree | Research Title | Advisee | |
---|---|---|---|
Doctor of Philosophy | Immersion, Affect and Memorability: Theorising Sound Design in Locative Audio for Transformative Experiences | ||
Doctor of Creative Arts | Beyond Diasporic Trauma: Opening up an Intersection between Contemporary Art and Folkloric Practices in Vietnam | Long, Mai Nguyen-Long | |
Doctor of Philosophy | Remote Sensing : Scenes from a Vertical Geography | Harris, John | |
Doctor of Philosophy | Art and Life: Personal Revolution in Contemporary Society | Richardson, Mark | |
Doctor of Philosophy | Superfictions: Practices of Voyeurism and Surveillance and Notions of Art in the Everyday | Mcleish, Jackie | |
Master of Philosophy -LHA | Feminist Surrealist Pornography: Constructing the Relationship Between the Female Body and the Gaze in Contemporary Film. | Balabay, Deniz | |
Doctor of Creative Arts | Time of Objects: Haptic perception and embodied film practice | Crowe, Rowena | |
Master of Philosophy -LHA | Exploring Intercultural Experiences and Contemporary Geopolitics in Digital Media Arts | De Filippo, Daniel |