Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo

International Center of Cultural Studies Postdoctoral Fellow(2021/1-)

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E-mail｜hsl2118@columbia.edu

Introduction

協助規劃國際會議，共同執行2023 ACS Institute；參與子計畫三，執行個人計畫：研究數位監控和審查，及其對身體意識和行為的影響—亞洲各地一連串抗議運動的語境為參照。

Degree title and the university

Columbia University

Doctoral dissertation

Crossing Rivers and Lakes: The Art of Everyday Life in Contemporary China

Brief work experience 

 

Research Fellow at the Contemporary Chinese Art Archive hosted by Peking University; Executive Curator of the travelling exhibition Linear

 

Research Interests

Visual Cultures; The Political; Media and Technologies; Storytelling; Performance

Research Project

Since completing her doctoral dissertation on the so-called “jianghu” culture and cynicism in contemporary China, Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo has been investigating digital surveillance and censorship and their effects on the bodily consciousness and performance in the context of—but not limited to—protest movements in Asia. Her recent preoccupations with artificial intelligence have resulted in several publications on the creative use of technologies and various “jianghu” tactics in Hong Kong’s “Be Water” movement as well as on new media art. Lo’s current work is concerned with fabrication and mimesis of “memes”—both online and offline—against the contemporary backdrop of heightened surveillance and censorship.

Personal research project

Ethnography of Meme Culture;  Participating Anthropologist/Artist in the international exhibition Fabulation for Future 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

2017 PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, USA(awarded in 2018)
2012 M. Phil in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University
2009-2011 Master of Arts in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University
2002-2005 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Melbourne, Australia Majors: Political Science/History

Research Appointments

2021-present Postdoctoral Fellow at International Center for Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2018-20 Postdoctoral Fellow at Peking University, PRC
2012-4 Research and Consultancy for Prof. Michael Dutton at Goldsmiths College, London, United Kingdom
2006-7 Researched and Co-authored book Beijing Time (Harvard University Press)
2004 Internship in the Parliament of Victoria, Australia
2003 Internship in the Museum of Victoria, Australia

Teaching Fellowships

Spring 2015 – Introduction to Twenty-first Century Archaeology
Fall 2014 – Film and Culture
Spring 2012 – Anthropology of Estrangement
Fall 2011 – Ancient Empires
Spring 2011 – Introduction to Twenty-first Century Archaeology
Fall 2010 – Film and Culture

Reviewer for International Journals

positions: asia critique
Theory, Culture & Society

Art Practice and Curation

2019 — present – Art collaboration with artist Li Zifeng
2019 — Anthropologist & Assistant Curator for Huang Yugang’s Solo Art Exhibition Notes
from the Field held in Minsheng Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 — Anthropologist-in-Residence at Spring 2014 Co-Art Festival, Lijiang, Yunnan
Province, People’s Republic of China

Seminar Series Organization

September - December 2016 – Taiwan Seminar Series at Columbia University

Honors and Awards

Autumn 2018 – International Exchange Scholars (Top 100) Fund Grant, PRC
Summer 2016 – Weatherhead East Asian Institute PhD Training Grant, USA
Summer 2015 – Weatherhead East Asian Institute PhD Training Grant, USA
Summer 2011 – Weatherhead East Asian Institute PhD Training Grant, USA
Summer 2010 – Daniel and Mariane Spiegel Fund Grant, USA
Summer 2010 – Sasakawa Young Leader Fellows Fund Grant, USA

Talks and Conferences

2021 - Presented a talk “Art in the age of big data: decoding the lines of Li Zi-Fong” at Rotary Club, Taiwan.
2019 – Presented a talk “Decoding Surveillance Assemblages: How to read Li Zi-Fong’s Lines and Hong Kong’s Eyes” at the Third International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE) at Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium.
2018 – Presented a talk “Crossing Rivers and Lakes: The Art of Everyday Life in Contemporary China” at a community organised event in Taranto, Italy.
2015 – Presented a talk “Crossing Rivers and Lakes: The Art of Everyday Life in Contemporary China” as part of the Sheldon Scheps Memorial Workshop Series at Columbia University, New York.
2014 – Presented a talk on Long Reading in Lijiang, China.
2014 – Discussed in a forum Anthropology, Art, Method in Lijiang, China.
2014 – Attended and addressed at press conference for Artist Residency at the Shuhe Art Festival in Lijiang, China.
2014 – Addressed in seminar Beyond Baimiao Project in Beijing, China.
2013 – Participated in the First International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference and Camp, Taipei.
2012 – Invited to present paper “Crossing Rivers and Lakes: Mimesis, Tactic, Flow” in Culture as Critical Theory conference in Academia Sinica, Taipei.
2010 – Participated in conference Anthropological Futures at Academia Sinica, Taipei.
2009 – Presented a talk on co-authored book Beijing Time at National Tsinghwa University, Taiwan.

Selected Publications and Translations

Forthcoming, 2021: Chapter “Assemblage Line and Tactical Fluidity” in edited book Schizoanalysis of Post-Media for the series Schizoanalytic Applications for London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2020: “ Decoding Surveillance Assemblages: How to read Li Zi-Fong’s Lines and Hong Kong’s Eyes” in Machinic Assemblages of Desire. Deleuze and Artistic Research 3. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
2020: “Linea di assemblaggio: Le linee di visione di Li Zi-Fong e Zhang Shiran” in il fico rosso numero zero, Italy, pp. 55-66.
2019: Translation (Chinese to English) of journal article “Friendly relations between China and Iran: A Historical Survey” in Lishi Yanjiu, no. 7 July Issue, pp. 72-82, 1978.
2019: Translation of Art Catalogue for Group Exhibition On Paperï Supreme curated by Chang Feng.
2016: Translation (Chinese to English) of Essay by renowned poet Yu Xinqiao “The Kind of Paintings In Need of Translation: An Essay on Zhu Weibin And His Paintings Based On The Phenomenon of Line Series in The Interwoven Jungle: Zhu Weibin’s The Phenomenon of Line Series. Beijing: Ning Space.
2012: Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo, “A Flight of Fancy” in journal Anthropology and Humanism vol. 37 no. 1 June Issue, pp. 100-104(5) (available online and in print).
2008: Michael Dutton, Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo & Dong Dong Wu. Beijing Time. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press