Tiffany Sum was born an interdisciplinary art monkey in Hong Kong, SAR China. Her work explores questions of intimacy between body and technology. Toasting bread with your palms, a finger-gun tracking your movement, compressing your body with movable pins to form temporal sculpture, distorting your peeping experience in scale — Tiffany challenges the audience to engage their bodies with the artwork. Sometimes palpable or at other times intangible, her work tends to station the audience in a situation where they can interchange their roles within these experimental fictional realities that derive from films, paintings, cultural gestures, current affairs and/or natural phenomena.
Tiffany obtained her BA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong and MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Sum’s works have been shown in United States, Europe, Japan, and China. She was awarded the Best Interactive Work at RE/ACT Festival in Germany (2006) and was finalist for the 13th Hong Kong iFVA Festival (2008). Her works were selected for ISEA and ZeroOne San Jose; eArts Festival in Shanghai. Tiffany was awarded residency at the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting (2007) and Art Omi International (2008). Her interactive video installation was in SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Japan. She showcased her Chimerical Toast in Luckman Gallery in Los Angeles. Tiffany’s first solo exhibition took place in O.WW Shanghai in 2011. Sum currently teaches digital art at California State University, Long Beach.
沈如茵是位跨媒體創作工作者。她的作品主要探討身體、城市空間與科技之間的緊密關係，以雕塑、攝影、錄像視頻、聲音、行為、互動裝置等不同形式的媒體，探索和擴大日常生活科技和產品功能的意義，創造虛擬情境，令觀眾參與其中。部分作品包括用手掌烤麵包、被視頻槍”手”追踪你的動作、被可移動的針體把人體結構壓出來，或以三頻視覺經驗窺看十九世紀俄國油畫研發展。沈如茵將其對電影、名畫、藝術史、當代本地及全球化文化、時事和自然現象的興趣，發展成以不同媒體來表達，使觀眾變為演員，產生不斷變化的社交、結構、活動與舞台。她的作品曾於美國、歐洲、日本和中國展覽。 </p>
<p> 沈如茵畢業於香港城市大學，取得創意媒體學士學位，另於卡內基梅隆大學完成碩士課程。2006年，她獲得德國”反/應”藝術節的最佳互動裝置，並入圍2008年第十三屆香港獨立短片及錄像比賽決賽。此外，她的作品曾入選伊斯坦布爾，土耳其ISIMD(2006)、美國ISEA和ZeroOne全球電子媒體藝術節(2006)、首屆上海電子藝術節(2008)及首屆香港戶外“雕塑於海”展覽(2009)。沈如茵被美國著名Skowhegan 藝術學院(2007)及藝術奧馬(2008)邀請成為駐場藝術家。2009年底，沈如茵於亞洲SIGGRAPH展示其最新互動視頻裝置。沈如茵現於美國加州州立大學‧長灘任數碼藝術助理教授。