Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee (b. 1979) is a visual artist working with video, photography, interactive installation and performance that combine social practice, institutional critique and activism together in an interdisciplinary practice. She is the founder of FIREWALL Internet Cafe[1] social software consisting of a Google and Baidu dual-search engine that garnered backlash from Chinese state authorities in 2016.[2]
Background
Lee was born in Richardson, Texas to Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants, James C. and Patty Lee. Her siblings are architect, Juliet Lee and Joshua Lee. Her cousin is jazz pianist, Helen Sung. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania in 2002 with a major in Communication and double minors in Psychology and Fine Art.
In 2010, Lee earned her Masters of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art from the Mount Royal School of Art (interdisciplinary graduate program).
Career
Lee was awarded a
Lee is currently Assistant Professor of Art & Digital Media at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
FIREWALL Internet Cafe
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee founded FIREWALL in 2016 as a not-for-profit socially engaged research and interactive art project about Internet censorship. The goal of FIREWALL is to investigate online censorship and foster public dialogue about Internet freedom. FIREWALL consists of a computer station with a dual-search engine that simultaneously shows image results of any queried term in both Google and Baidu, the primary search engine in China. The project website Firewallcafe.com contains an archive of search terms that participants have queried, image results of these searches, and user interaction to vote on whether these results are affected by censorship. FIREWALL has been exhibited at the following locations: Center for Community Cultural Development in Hong Kong (2019),[8] University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design (2019), Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City (2017), The Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway (2016 - 2017).
References
- ^ "About – FIREWALL - Internet Cafe". Retrieved 2019-11-27.
- ^ Denyer, Simon. "How a New York art show about Chinese online censorship found itself censored". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
- ^ "MARYLAND STATE ARTS COUNCIL FY 2013 INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARD RECIPIENTS" (PDF).
- ^ "FF Fund". franklinfurnace.org. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
- ^ "2015". Asian Women Giving Circle. 2017-02-05. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
- ^ "Surf China's Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York". Hyperallergic. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
- ^ Chan, Holmes (2019-01-20). "Two artists ask: what does it mean to live under the shadow of the Great Firewall?". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. Retrieved 2019-11-27.