Teddy Lo

Teddy Lo (born 1974 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-based artist known for his work with the medium and technology of light, especially LED light.[1][2] His work explores neo-transcendental ideas in the physical-scientific world.

Teddy Lo
Traditional Chinese	羅揚文
Simplified Chinese	罗扬文
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Luó Yángwén Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Lo^4 Joeng^4-man^4

Early life and education

Teddy Lo was born and raised in Hong Kong with a background on his father's side in technological manufacturing and his mother being an artist out of a family of farmers and hunters in the deep mountains of Taiwan. While growing up, Lo thus divided his time between big metropolitan cities and rural areas. He belongs to the third generation of a family involved with the invention, production and business of light (from the incandescent light bulb to LEDs).[3] Besides making art, Lo currently works as the Director of Innovation at the lighting manufacturer Light Engine Limited in developing leading edge industrial LED product designs for his family group.

Lo gained his master's degree in Lighting from Queensland University of Technology in 2012. He later enrolled at the ArtCenter College of Design in California to complete a BFA degree in Art Direction. After graduation, he moved to NYC where he developed his interest in conceptual and artistic depths of both advertising and contemporary arts and continued his artistic journey. He had his first art exhibition at the Arturo Dimodica Gallery, NYC, and since then began working on lighting design projects.

Artistic career

At the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, he explored the use of light-emitting diodes in art. After graduating in 2001 he relocated to New York City and began his career in the advertising industry while at the same time making art with LEDs as his medium.[4] In 2007, he moved back to Hong Kong where he founded the LED experience design company LEDARTIST and evolved his career in light art and design. He was named in Lighting magazine's "Who's Who of Lighting 2004" for his contribution to the lighting industry.[1]

Lo has held exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 2003 he held his first solo art exhibition, Morphology, in New York City.[5][6] Since then he has held solo exhibitions in various locations, including Russell Simmons' Art for Life in NYC, Luminale in Frankfurt, the 2006 National Day Singapore Expo at The Esplanade and Microwave's "A-Glow-Glow" outdoor Media Art Exhibition at Hong Kong Museum of Art,[7] Miami Art Basel, and Burniningman Festival in Nevada. In addition to commissioned work for the tallest building in China, The Shanghai Tower, he created digital media infrastructure designs for the new World Trade Center in NYC. [REF] His work is also featured in “Legacy and Creations – Ink Art vs Ink Art and Art vs Art” at Hong Kong Museum of Art[8] I Light Marina Bay[9] in Singapore and “Transmutation” in New York.[10] In 2018 he was the winnder of A' Design Award, Italy.[11]

In addition to continuing his artistic pursuits, Lo is the founder and chief vision officer of LEDARTIST,[12] a LED experience design company in Hong Kong and New York. In 2009 he founded Input Output Gallery, a new media art gallery in Central, Hong Kong.[13]

Exhibitions

Year	Period	Description	Location	References
2015	12/12 - 13/12	Dark Matter	Artistes à la une, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2015-16	11/13 – 01/03	Seven Keys	Supernova X'mas Luminastic, K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong
2015	11/27 – 11/29	Positive Void	Clockenflap 2015, Hong Kong
2014	08/27 – 09/03	Spectrum Manners	SCMP Charity Art Auction, Sotheby's Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2014	08/27 – 09/03	Bacillus	1st HK-SZ Design Biennale, OCT Art and Design Gallery, Shenzhen
2014	N.A.	Positive Void	"LOVE", Midtown, Hong Kong
2013	02/08 – 03/17	Alarm of Hue	Interact, K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong	[14]
2013	01/31 – 03/31	Bacillus	Imminent Domain, Asia Society, Hong Kong	[15]
2012	08/27 – 09/03	Gon Kirin	Burning Man 2012, Black Rock Desert, USA
2012	08/27 – 09/03	Gon Kirin	Maker Faire, New York, USA
2012	05/19 – 05/20	Gon Kirin	Maker's Faire, San Mateo	[16]
2012	03/08 – 03/15	Alarm of Hue, Shades Dynamicism, Waking Life, POV	Transmutation, New York	[17]
2012	03/09 – 04/01	Mega POV	i Light Marina Bay 2012, Singapore	[18]
2011	05/27 – 08/28	Text Me	Legacy and Creations — Ink Art vs Ink Art and Art vs Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2011	05/26 – 05/29	Spectrum Manners, Shades Dynamicism, Waking Life & Alarm of Hue	ART HK 11, Hong Kong
2011	02/05 – 05/11	Text Me	Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong: Creative Ecologies, Hong Kong
2010	10/15 – 11/12	Text Me & Theremin	Legacy and Creation – Art vs Art Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai
2010	09/17 – 09/19	POV Series – “Positive Void”	Beijing: The Creators Project, 798 Space,Beijing
2010	08/30 – 09/06	Gon Kirin	2010 Burning Man Event, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
2010	06/14 – ongoing	Phaeodaria	Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong
2010	05/15 – 10/31	POV Series – “Do you see me?”	Hong Kong: Creative Ecologies – Business, Living, Creativity Programme at Shanghai Expo, Shanghai
2010	05/27 – 05/30	POV Series – “Positive Void” & Theremin	ARTHK 2010, Hong Kong
2010	04/11 – 04/16	POV Series – “Positive Void”	Luminale 2010, Frankfurt
2009/10	12/04 – 02/27	The Stage	2009 HK & SZ Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture
2009	12/01 – 12/05	POV Series – “Do you see me?”	Art Basel 2009, Miami
2009/10	11/14 – 02/07	POV Series – “Positive Void”	“Fantastic Illusions – Chinese & Belgian Artists”, Arts Centre Buda Kortrijk, Belgium
2009	09/13 – 10/11	POV Series – “Positive Void”	“Shanghai eArts Festival 2009,Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai
2009	06/26 – 09/20	PROTOTYPE	I/O, Media Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2009	02/01 – 08/01	Constant Series	Ztampz Shop, Hong Kong
2008	04/11 - 04/20	Phaeodaria	Microwave A-Glow-Glow at Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong	[19][20]
2007	03/20 – ongoing	Stella	Via Technologies headquarter office building in Beijing, China
2006	10/16 - 10/24	International visual arts residency	An Tuireann Arts Centre, Isle of Skye, Scotland	[21]
2006	09/20 - ongoing	M.I.S.T.	Innocentre, Hong Kong	[22]
2006	07/12 - 09/10	Cing: Core 65	The Esplanade, for Singapore National Day
2006	04/23 - 04/27	Morphology 3.1	U.F.O. Building, Frankfurt, Germany
2006	04/24 - 04/27	M.I.S.T.	Traxon Technologies Showroom, Frankfurt, Germany
2006	04/04 - 04/07	M.I.S.T.	InterTraffic 2006 Expo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005	November 10 – November 30	Morphology 2.1	DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
2005	July 30	Featured artist	Russell Simmons' Art For Life in Hamptons, NY	[23]
2005	July 15 – November 30	Infinity Car "Study in Red" Campaign	Trinity Square
2004	11/01 - ongoing	Q	Chung King Building, Hong Kong
2004	10/29 - 11/28	Ledusoid @ Gonflables!	Tri postal, Lille, France
2004	09/01 - ongoing	LightRide	Cotco showroom in Science Park, Hong Kong	[5]
2004	08/07	Artery	M5 Seamless Fashion Show, Chicago
2004	07/01	Starfish	PSI at Volume, Brooklyn
2004	02/29 - 03/01	Traffika	The ArtExpo 2004 in Jarvis Center, NY
2004	01/15 - 12/05	Q	Photonics Center lobby in Science Park, Hong Kong
2003	11/22	Traffika	Boundless 2003, Queens, NYC
2003	09/20 - 10/19	(Debut) Morphology Solo Exhibit	Studio DiModica, Soho, NYC	[6]

Artwork

MEGA POV

This is an installation that utilizes the technique of persistence of vision to animate objects with motion and lights. This digital installation presents motion with digital programming and flickers of light through Light Emitting Diodes.[24] The artwork is a study of how digital information can be delivered to our human visual system through this reverse technique even within a limited projection area. This art piece is meant to remind you of the essence of life and that nothing is trivial in this world. Mega POV is exhibited as one of the installations in the Singaporean sustainable light art festival, I Light Marina Bay in 2012.[25]

Gon Kirin

Gon KiRin is an art project created by Teddy Lo in collaboration with Ryan Doyle.[26] This art car was designed using metal and LED fixtures to create a dragon onto a deconstructed 1963 Dodge dump truck with a 318 engine. It is an 8-ton beast, measuring approximately 69 feet long and 22.5 feet tall. The dragon is lit with 2,460 fFeet of linear RGB LED lighting fixtures and multiple Traxon wall-washer units.[27]

Gon KiRin has two levels of climbing space with seating for more than 20 people in the Dragon's mouth and on a party couch on its back where riders can move its tail back and forth. A 1,500-pound DJ booth mounted on a Marine Zodiac attack boat sits on the second story. The dragon features a hydraulic neck and a massive flamethrower in its mouth.[28]

Gon KiRin was built in five months by a dedicated 15-person team. It debuted at the 2010 Burning Man[29] as a Mutant Vehicle. It was also featured at the Maker Faire[27] and the New York Halloween Parade in 2011. GKR returned to Burning Man again in 2012.[30]

Creative contributions

• Media art consultant for Hong Kong Art Development Council
• Board of director of Microwave Media Art Group
• Board of director of Hong Kong Ambassador of Design
• Main organizer of This Happened Hong Kong

References

1. "冷門藝術家闖新路 設計交通燈　取國際專利 (Dark horse artist takes new road: Designs traffic light, gets international patent)", Sing Pao, 2006-04-18, archived from the original on 2006-04-23, retrieved 2007-02-07
2. "Teddy Lo". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
3. "BIOGRAPHY". Teddy Lo Studio - A LEDARTIST SUBSIDIARY. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
4. 蔡蔚骏 (2008-04-19), "FACES光的沉思 羅揚文", 明報周刊, 2058: 125
5. "LED艺术展"形态论二一"", Shanghai Online, 2005-11-03, archived from the original on 2007-08-12, retrieved 2007-02-07
6. Friedman, Roger (2003-10-17), "Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in Sequins", Fox News, retrieved 2008-04-25
7. "A Glow Glow \ Macro Interactive Media Arts Exhibition 2008". www.microwavefest.net. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
8. "Legacy and Creations – Ink Art vs Ink Art and Art vs Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art - artinasia.com". www.artinasia.com. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
9. http://www.ilightmarinabay.sg/home.html
10. http://www.ibtimes.com/teddy-lo-sachiko-kodama-and-ryota-kuwakubo-glow-transmutation-exhibition-new-york-photos-%5B%5D
11. Studios, OMC Design. "A' Design Award and Competition - Press Release: Teddy Lo secures the celebrated A' Design Award". competition.adesignaward.com. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
12. "Teddy Lo Studio - A LEDARTIST SUBSIDIARY". Teddy Lo Studio - A LEDARTIST SUBSIDIARY. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
13. "Input Output Gallery". inputoutput.tv. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
14. Interact, 2013, retrieved 2013-07-31
15. Imminent Domain, 2013, retrieved 2013-07-31
16. Maker Faire, 2012, retrieved 2013-07-31
17. Transmutation, 2012, retrieved 2013-07-31
18. i Light Marina Bay, 2012, retrieved 2013-07-31
19. Koo, Hong-ming (2008-04-04), "光影人互動", Ming Pao, retrieved 2008-04-25
20. Chung, Yan-kei (2008-04-13), "封面故事：互動新媒體藝術 打破隔閡與民同樂 (Cover story: new interactive media art breaks barriers and delights viewers)", Wen Wei Po, retrieved 2008-04-25
21. International residency: Keiko Mukade and Teddy Lo, An Tuireann Arts Centre, 2006, archived from the original on 2008-07-24, retrieved 2008-04-25
22. "inputouput.tv". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
23. Bernard, Audrey J. (2005-08-17), "Russell Simmons' Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation raises $1.35 million for underserved youth", The New York Beacon, archived from the original on 2012-10-19, retrieved 2008-04-25
24. I Light Marina Bay I Light Marina May 2012.
25. Singapore’s Festival of Lights Yahoo News 2012.
26. Gon KiRin Dragon Truck Travels to Maker Faire Make Magazine 2012.
27. Gon Kirin Maker Faire 2012.
28. Maker Faire 2012: Gon Kirin, a Fire-Breathing Dragon Made from Recycled Scraps Tree Hugger 2012.
29. Gon Kirin Led Artist 2010.
30. "Party Dragon". Burning Man Galleries. Retrieved 9 May 2019.

External links

• teddylo.tv
• ledartist.com