Name: Lily & Honglei
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Date of birth: 1973-01-01
discrict: Queens
City: New York
Website: lilyhonglei.com
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Lily Xiying Yang and Honglei Li (杨熙瑛, 李宏磊) are new media artists from Beijing, currently based in New York City. Since 2005, they have been working under a collective name Lily & Honglei. Their creativity aims to develop new artistic expressions through integrating traditional art forms such as painting and Chinese folk art with digital language. By utilizing online virtual world and digital animations, Lily & Honglei's work are devoted to the reinterpretation of Chinese folklore traditions that remain highly relevant in reflecting on the current globalized culture and society.
Lily & Honglei actively engage in a wide range of new media art events, including FILE - Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil; 404 international festival of electronic art at Florence, Italy; Boston Cyberarts 10th Festival; Eyebeam Art + Technology Center at Chelsea, New York; "Art & Communication" in Museum of Ara Pacis at Rome, Italy; "@" exhibition curated by Ars Virtua and New Media Caucus at the National CAA 2009; Athens Video Art Festival; ImageRadio 2008 New Media Festival in Netherlands; FAD Festival de Arte Digital in Brazil; SIGGRAPH Slow Art Gallery in LA; ElectroFringe Festival of Electronic Arts & Culture in Australia; Rencontres Internationales in France; Digital Arts + New Media exhibition at Emergence Gallery of Duo Multicultural Art Center at East Village NYC; "Virtual Art" exhibition invited by NY Arts Magazine at Broadway Gallery NYC, among many others.
Lily & Honglei also present their work in a series of lectures, penal discussions and conferences, including "Navigating Cyberworlds: Creative Practice in Virtual Reality" panel discussion hosted by Boston Cyberarts 2009 at Boston University, presentation at "Upgrade! Boston" curated by Turbulence.org at CAVS in MIT, lecture "DSL Collection + DSL Cyber MoCA" at Steinhardt School in New York University, presentation of "Learning Objects and Media Education in the 21st Century" at UMass Instructional Technology Conference in MA, lecture "Fine Arts Films" at CVPA in University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, presentation "Experimental New Media" at Axiom Gallery in Boston. Their artworks and articles have been published on many art magazines in both print and online versions, those include a monograph "Fine Art Film" published by Lambert Academic Publishing in Germany; "Foreignness and Translation in New Media" in Media-N Spring Edition 2009 by New Media Caucus, IL; "TransForm" International New Media Art Exhibition Catalog; "Friction Research - Investigating Ruptures in the Art Political Grid" in Nictoglobe 2009 Spring issue in Amsterdam, Netherlands; “Traversing Sweet Illusions” in HyperArtSpace published by Boston Cyberarts Festival; "Forbidden City" in ACM magazine, New York, NY.
Their media solo exhibitions include, "Wall & City- Virtual World Performance and Multimedia" Exhibition at Monash University in Australia; "Land of Illusion - Chinese Folklore and Digital Media" Exhibition at American Library Association in New York; "Forbidden City - Digital Multimedia" Installation Exhibition at University Gallery at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; "Prosperity - Experimental Animation" Exhibition at Artworks! Gallery in City of New Bedford, Massachusetts; "When the Fiction Becomes True - Experimental Video" Exhibition at College of Visual & Performing Arts Gallery, Massachusetts Dartmouth. Lily & Honglei held their solo painting exhibitions at Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA), China; "Emerging" painting and mixed media exhibition in Kiel, Germany. Their paintings and new media artworks are collected by galleries and individuals internationally.
Lily & Honglei both studied fine arts in China and continued their education in art in America. Lily Xiying Yang received her MFA in Digital Media in College of Visual and Performing Arts in UMass Dartmouth in 2008, while Honglei Li received MFA in Painting in CVPA Massachusetts Dartmouth. Lily taught digital art and design in Emerson College and UMass Dartmouth, Honglei teaches traditional Chinese painting in Massachusetts College of Art and Design, previously taught drawing courses in UMass Dartmouth. Lily & Honglei also work as cultural activists, bloggers and curators dedicated to enhancing new media art exchanges Chinese and international artist communities. They founded "Land of Illusion" project in Second Life in 2007, a platform generating virtual-world performance and exhibitions for contemporary art and cultural studies through cross-continent collaborations on the Internet. In 2008, Lily & Honglei launched NY Arts New Media & Net-Art platform affiliated with NY Arts Magazine. In 2009, Lily & Honglei collaborate with DSL Collection of Chinese contemporary art to launch DSL Cyber MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Arts) in Second Life virtual environment. Since 2007, Lily & Honglei have curated several new media art exhibitions and screening series focusing on globalization's impact on culture and society.(see Media Gallery for more details)
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