DA+C Festival 2011: Kok Siew Wai

Kok Siew Wai works with video art, sound and voice improvisation. She gained her BA in Media Study at SUNY Buffalo, New York; and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University, USA. During her 8-year stay in the States, she had studied with art luminaries such as Pauline Oliveros and Tony Conrad, who had introduced her to a whole "new world" in the arts.

Siew-wai has participated in festivals and programs such as EX!T 2010 Taiwan Experimental Media Art Festival 2010 (Taiwan), Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival 2009, Malaysia-Japan Video Art Exchange 2009/2010 (Japan), Iskandar Malaysia Contemporary Art Show 2009, Choppa Eclectic Improvised Music Festival 2008 (Singapore), International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007 (Netherland), Les Rencontres Internationales 2007 (France), Beyond/In Western New York Biennial 2005 (USA) and more.

Siew-wai is the co-founder of alternative artists collective Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (SiCKL), co-director of the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival, and co-director of the Sama-sama Guesthouse Mini Alternative Art Festival. Siew-wai is currently teaching at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Malaysia.

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