Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang, once a New York based installation artist/filmmaker/media activist, is now a cyberhomesteader managing a digital existence. Her installation work is structured to activate cross-cultural collaboration. Color Schemes (1990) and Those Fluttering Objects of Desire (1993, Biennial Exhibition) were both presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In her work entitled Buy One Get One, Shu Lea "lived" in cyberspace for two months, traveling through Asia, while museum visitors (at the InterCommunication Center of Tokyo, Japan) communicated with her from a traditional Japanese lunch box (bento box) filled with high-tech telecommunications equipment. Like Shu Lea Cheang's previous work, Brandon, commissioned by the Guggenheim SOHO for the Web, focuses on gender related issues and displacement in cyberspace.