Milton Lim (he/him) is a digital media artist, game designer, and performance creator based in Vancouver, Canada: the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
His research-based practice entwines publicly available data, interactive digital media, and gameful performance to create speculative visions and candid articulations of social capital. This line of inquiry aims to reconsider our repertoires of knowledge aggregation and political intervention in the contemporary context of big data and algorithmic culture. Milton holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University.
A selection of works include a competitive arts economy trading card game, a video game about donkeys and labour played by audiences one person at a time, an interactive installation about phone books as archives of migration, and a reverse chromakey dance piece about digital marketing and the contemporary body.
His projects have been presented at various festivals, venues, and galleries in Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec City, Seattle, Portland, Buenos Aires, London, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Darwin. In 2016, he was awarded the Ray Michal Prize for Outstanding Body of Work at the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.
He is a co-artistic director of Hong Kong Exile, an artistic associate with Theatre Conspiracy, and a key archivist with videocan. He is an Artist-in-Residence with UKAI Projects studying Artificial Intelligence.
His research-based practice entwines publicly available data, interactive digital media, and gameful performance to create speculative visions and candid articulations of social capital. This line of inquiry aims to reconsider our repertoires of knowledge aggregation and political intervention in the contemporary context of big data and algorithmic culture. Milton holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University.
A selection of works include a competitive arts economy trading card game, a video game about donkeys and labour played by audiences one person at a time, an interactive installation about phone books as archives of migration, and a reverse chromakey dance piece about digital marketing and the contemporary body.
His projects have been presented at various festivals, venues, and galleries in Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec City, Seattle, Portland, Buenos Aires, London, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Darwin. In 2016, he was awarded the Ray Michal Prize for Outstanding Body of Work at the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.
He is a co-artistic director of Hong Kong Exile, an artistic associate with Theatre Conspiracy, and a key archivist with videocan. He is an Artist-in-Residence with UKAI Projects studying Artificial Intelligence.
