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Joel Ong
Joel Ong (PhD, MSc. Bioart) (@arkfrqs) is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment, developed from more than a decade of explorations in contemporary ecological thought expressed through sound, installation, and socially conscious art. His most recent works explore the visibility and audibility of ambient phenomena with a particular focus on elemental metaphors of the wind and the atmosphere. As an artist, Joel has presented work in places like the Gregg Museum of Art and Design (North Carolina, USA), Ectopia Gallery (Lisboa, Portugal), Stamps Gallery (Michigan, USA), El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA), Times Square (New York City), Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico), the Substation Gallery (Singapore), and at UCLA’s Art|Sci Centre as part of Getty’s PST Art: Art&Science Collide program. Joel is an alumnus of SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts in Perth, Western Australia, and holds a PhD from DXARTS at the University of Washington. He was a recipient of the Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award in 2020, and in 2021 he was awarded a residency with the Biofrictions Creative Europe research project and UCLA’s Atmospheres of Sound. Joel is Associate Professor in Computational Arts and Helen Carswell Chair in Community Engaged Research in the Arts at York University in Toronto, Canada. From 2018–23, he was the director of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology.
