Vivian Wenli Lin is a media artist and educator with a background in psychology, documentary film, video art, and interactive installation.
Her research interests focus on issues of representation, gender, migration and the Asian diaspora.
Lin has been conducting participatory media workshops since 2004, with extensive experience in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. She is the co-founder of Voices of Women Media, an organization that utilizes visual participatory methods to facilitate communities of migrant women and allies in media literacy and authoring their own narratives. Lin’s work is grounded in partnerships and includes collaborations with educational, arts and community organizations such as Brock University, Everett Program for Technology and Social Change at UCSC, Tai Kwun Contemporary, The One Minutes Foundation, The Sidewalk Project, The Zubin Foundation, University of Hong Kong, USC Pacific Asia Museum, and UNICEF.
Lin prioritizes experiential learning in her Media Activism Through Participatory Video course. She has brought students to support her participatory video workshops in Nepal and most recently for the ASIANetwork’s AAPI Voices and Stories: Community-based Digital Storytelling initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. Lin collaborated with API RISE, a re-entry program supporting those formerly incarcerated or detained Asian immigrants/refugees, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
Lin has had teaching appointments at City University of Hong Kong, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and served as an Associate Professor at Tokyo Christian Woman’s University. Lin is currently Assistant Professor in Media for Social Change, Department of Media Arts and Culture at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA.
See Oxy Stories: Vivian Wenli Lin
See Student Voices: Pursuing Creative Projects in Nepal
Personal website: www.vivianwenlilin.com
Project: Visualizing the Voices of Migrant Women Workers