Olivia Ting
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Olivia Ting is a deaf visual artist whose work explores the liminal space between hearing and silence. Her work spans installations projections, short films, graphic design, and recently, haptics. After receiving degrees for pre-med Studio Art from Pomona College and for Graphic Design from Art Center College of Design, Olivia Ting worked as a graphic designer in New York City for five years for branding firms such as Ogilvy Mathers, Rockwell, and in-house for Johnson & Johnson. Returning to San Francisco, in the last fifteen years her work expanded to video projection design for dance productions in the Bay Area, for which she had been nominated four times for Isadora Duncan Awards. She has designed permanent exhibit museum experiences for Oakland Museum of California and San Jose Children’s Museum. Her recent audiovisual short film “Into Beethoven’s Soundbox” has been screened internationally in San Francisco and Seoul, Korea. She has held art residencies in South Korea, Taiwan, and most recently, with Leonardo's CripTech Incubator, Thoughtworks Art, and U.C.Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. She received her MFA Art Practice from U.C. Berkeley.