Miki Lin

About

Miki Lin is a digital craftsman, visual effects artist, and material storyteller who explores the realm of phygital technology. She explores combining XR, wearable technologies, and textiles craftsmanship to explore sustainable approaches for digital fashion. She delves into immersive interactions, pushing the boundaries of digital arts and fashion.

Her mission is to use digital technologies to develop means including fashion film, fashion gamification to reveal the stories behind how a raw material becomes a finished product, thereby delivering fashion sustainability values in an immersive, engaging way. 

Drawing from her background in fashion textiles design, Miki combines computational arts to create speculative materialism and technological nature within the digital arts landscape. Blurring the lines between art and design, her works employ immersive storytelling and digital pedagogy to foster sustainability in the context of web 3.0.



RECENT ACTIVITIES

London Craft Week 2022 exhibit: 'A Whole Life of Bamboo' for the Future of Craft, OXO Tower

2023 ‘Micropolis’, moving images, documentary of bacterial art, exhibit in Poly Art Museum, programme founded by Beijing Culture and Arts Fund (BCAF)

Edinburgh Science Festival 2023 exhibit bacterial screenprint collection: ' Interlinked ', Summerhall Gallery.

Milan Design Week 2023 exhibit: 'Augmented Bamboo' for Circolare, Isola District.


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Degree Details

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Digital Craftsman - Augmented Bamboo

Medium: Fashion Film, VR immersive mixed reality


The work is an innovative VR fashion film project that embodies the concept of Speculative Materialism within the textile and fashion industry. The phygital showcase delves into the transformative power of bamboo textiles, envisioning a future where sustainability and creativity intersect harmoniously.

With a focus on bamboo as a regenerative material, which is a highly potential sustainable material carrying lots of stories of my cultural identity, the project aims to shed light on the immense possibilities of this versatile resource by speculative design in the digital realm.

Digital Craftsman - Augmented Bamboo explores three dimensions: city-nature, bamboo-human, and real-surreal. The project seeks to inspire a symbiotic relationship between humans and the environment, challenging the conventional boundaries of fashion and textiles.

From Physical to Digital

Digital Craftsmanship-VFX Creation Process
Digital Craftsmanship-VFX Creation Process — How to develop sustainable fashion communication by immersive storytelling and phygital technology?
Augmented Bamboo
Augmented Bamboo — This showcase immerses the audience in a digital embodiment experience of bamboo couture generated and created by algorithms and digital craftsmanship. The couture is constantly evolving by the visualisation of bamboo music. This segment invites viewers to reimagine their connection with bamboo, forging an emotional bond with the material and its regenerative potential.

Medium: Fashion Film

Dematerialisation

From Physical to Digital Workflow
From Physical to Digital Workflow
How to Speculate Digital Materialism of Bamboo Textiles and Craftsmanship?
How to Speculate Digital Materialism of Bamboo Textiles and Craftsmanship? — The work explores the imaginative possibilities of bamboo textiles through a speculative lens. By blurring the lines between the real and surreal, the film challenges traditional notions of materiality and craftsmanship, encouraging viewers to contemplate the regenerative future of fashion.
Borderlands, Interactive Music Visualized Materialism

Medium: Virtual Reality, Sound

Digital Pedagogy

Communicate Bamboo Knowledge in Digital by Immersive Storytelling
Communicate Bamboo Knowledge in Digital by Immersive Storytelling

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