Luca E. Lum  

is an artist and writer based between NYC, Singapore, and Cambridge (MA). She is interested in the architectures of time, grief, futurity, and affect - and piercing its emotional, political, and bodily cost. 

She approaches these questions by examining entanglements between the animal and the machine, and anticipation and catastrophe, working across moving image, drawing, cross-genre writing, collaborative formats, and histories of science and technology. For her, the technological, semiotic, and informational act as material, relation, and predicament. 

Her projects have been supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Delfina Foundation (London), and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore. Her writing has appeared in Asian Film Archive, Nang Magazine, and Cthulhu Books.

She was co-founder and co-director of soft/WALL/studs, an artist-run collaborative project and space in Geylang, Singapore, exploring renewed situations of discursivity, agency, autonomy, and communality, between 2016-2021.

Open for commissions, editorial work, collaboration, teaching, and speaking engagements. She has also worked as a technical draftsperson on a study of material heritage in tsunami-prone Aceh, Indonesia, and is open to commissions for scientific and architectural illustrations. 

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