Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang claims a digital drifter living style while working as a media artist and filmmaker.

Her Net installation works were commissioned and permanently collected by Walker Art Center (Bowling Alley, 1995), NTT [ICC], Tokyo (Buy One Get One, 1997) and Guggenheim Museum (Brandon, 1998-1999). Her first feature film "Fresh Kill" (35 mm, 80:00) was premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 1994. Her recent feature I.K.U., a Japanese Scifi porn digimovie (2000, 90:00) produced by Uplink Co. Tokyo, was premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2000. Herrecent net installation "Baby Play" was commissioned by NTT[ICC] in Tokyo (exhibition, June 2001). Her gallery exhibitions include Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo, The Project in New York and Julia Friedman Gallery in Chicago. She is part of Shopping Window net art exhibition on Telepolis.de net culture magazine. Currently she is developing "Everyone is an Expert" as public interface for "Make World" festival in Munich this October. Her next scifi porn feature "FLUID" is in development with Innocent Pictures/Zentropa in Denmark for year 2002 production.

Work slides (1995-1999) can be viewed at http://brandon.guggenheim.org/shuleaWORKS

Baby Play (2001) can be viewed at http://babyplay.ntticc.or.jp

Expand (2001) is at http://www.telepolis.de/english/kunst/nk/shopping.default.html

Color Schemes
A film by Shu Lea Cheang, 1989, 28 min., Color
An upbeat, ironic look at America’s multicultural society, COLOR SCHEMES uses the metaphor of “color wash” to tackle conceptions of racial assimilatio...

Sex Fish/Sex Bowl Collection
films by Shu Lea Cheang, 1994, 13 min., 4 in series, Color
From the E.T. Baby Maniac production collective come four of the smartest and sexiest videos to emerge in a long time. SEX FISH is a furious montage ...