City & country
Vietnam & Malaysia
Affiliation
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Vietnam
Position
Editorial Board
Research interests
media arts
media philosophy
Aesthetics
locative media
digital-physical phenomenon
artistic research

Lim Kok Yoong is a Malaysian, Saigon-based media artist and educator. He is Associate Professor at the School of Communication & Design, RMIT Vietnam. His practice integrates media technology with philosophical inquiries, exploring new aesthetics, human existential conditions, and consciousness. Through his work, he critiques contemporary notions of existence, identity, and belonging in the Cybrid landscape, revealing and defining the dynamics of 'Here-ness' and 'There-ness.'

By manipulating perception, Lim addresses his ideas about a new space-time consciousness shaped by technologies that are transforming our very psychology of presence. He has exhibited across Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, and the UK. Recent exhibitions include fffluid apparatus: At the Intersection of the Human, the Natura and the Machine in Malaysia, Mediating Asia at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Phytopia at Science Gallery Bengaluru, andStories Across Rising Lands at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara. More of his work can be viewed at limkokyoong.com.