Ling-lin Ku

Professor Ling-lin Ku is an artist and faculty member at Oberlin College & Conservatory, known for her solo exhibition Insight Outsight at the Cue Art Foundation in New York City (November 9–December 22, 2023). Her work interrogates the relationships between natural, built, and digital environments through the lens of insects, using digital fabrication to explore themes of scale, camouflage, and the tensions between human and insect ecologies and technologies. The exhibition questions anthropocentrism and reimagines societal structures by drawing parallels between human digital systems and insect behaviors such as calculation, optimization, and rationality.

Her research interests span interdisciplinary domains, including digital media art, installation and sculpture, and the intersection of ecology with technology. By blending entomology, anthropology, and media theory, Ku’s practice challenges viewers to reconsider their place within a macrocosm of biodiversity and technological systems. The exhibition’s catalog essay, written by Constanza Salazar, underscores her focus on destabilizing human-centric narratives through insect-inspired metaphors.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. Details about her education, advising roles, or lab affiliations are not available. The exhibition’s narrative emphasizes collaborative and conceptual frameworks rather than institutional grants or structured research teams.