Luca E. Lum

Luca is a graduate student in the Art Culture + Technology program (SMACT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Attuned to arrhythmias of time, memory, body, and affect, she considers the technological, semiotic and informational as material, relation, and predicament. Her ongoing interests include misrecognition, extended and distributed agencies, fraught mediations, and structures of feeling and affinity that organise life and meaning.

In 2016, she co-founded soft/WALL/studs (2016-2021), a collaboratively held space, shared library, and series of actions located in Geylang, Singapore, that experimented with renewed situations of discursivity, agency, autonomy, and communality.

Prior to her studies at MIT, she was an artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation (UK), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (SG), A. Farm Saigon (VT), and the Cemeti Institute for Art and Society (ID). She is also an alumni of Triple Canopy's (US) Publication Intensive. She holds a First-Class Honors degree in English Literature from the National University of Singapore.