Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang is a <a href="/facts/Taiwanese_Americans/Uz72685l">Taiwanese-American</a> artist and filmmaker who lived and worked in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, until relocating to Europe in 2000. Since the 1980s, as a <a href="/facts/Multimedia/PtJteq27">multimedia</a> and <a href="/facts/New_media_art/8zcSxbot">new-media</a> artist, she has navigated topics of <a href="/facts/Ethnic_stereotype/gRhbghH6">ethnic stereotyping</a>, sexual politics, and <a href="/facts/Institutional_oppression/7Mp3lUwq">institutional oppression</a> with her radical experimentations in digital realms. 
Over the past decade, she has emerged as a prominent figure in new media art. Cheang is one of the leading multimedia artists dealing with multidisciplinary topics. She is regarded as a pioneering figure in internet-based art, with her multimedia approach at the interface between film, video, internet-based installation, software interaction and durational performance. Her work is often interactive. She is most noted for her individual approach in the realm of art and technology, creatively intermingling social issues with artistic methods.
Cheang's work employs film, video, net-based installation, and interface to explore "...ethnic stereotyping, the nature and excesses of popular media, institutional – and especially governmental – power, race relations, and sexual politics." Cheang has also written and directed the feature films <a href="/facts/I.K.U./XAmD2VGR">I.K.U.</a> and <a href="/facts/Fluid%C3%B8/7RQ0gbHv">Fluidø</a>, and directed <a href="/facts/Fresh_Kill/JDoegyXd">Fresh Kill</a>.

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Shu Lea Cheang