About
Edy Fung is a post-disciplinary artist, musician, researcher and occasionaly writer whose current focus responds to the technological conditions from post-cybernetic movement. With interest beyond the anthropocentric perspectives, she works with sound, text, documentation, archive, installation, sculpture, public intervention and transmission art.
Her research-based practice draws inspiration from the philosophy of information, history of science, and origin of machine electronics and automata, and reflects on the possibilities in the other human conditioning with alternative technologies, including non-binary computing and quantum computing. Together with her sonic project Quantum Foam//QNTMFM, her practice seeks to explore and address current technological paradigms and the resulting epistemic limitations.
Fung’s work has been presented at museums, art and music contexts internationally, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, CTM Berlin, FACT Liverpool, Fylkingen Stockholm, RHA Dublin, MUTEK, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Nobel Week Lights Stockholm, Somerset House Studios, London.
Picocosmos (2024), courtesy of Edy Fung.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 God is Meditating: Still, Golden Thread Gallery Belfast. Curated by Sarah McAvera, January-February 20222021 ABRIDGED 0 – 84: You Don’t Have to Be Loved, Derry~Londonderry
2020 Diaries. Monuments. Memory. Documentation. Event. Pandemic. Archive. Digital identity. Encoding. Decoding. Commemoration. Deja-vu. Always-already. Burying shame. Treehole. Winter counts. Presented by Art Arcadia and Liverpool Irish Festival, Saint Augustine’s Church Schoolhouse (Derry, NI)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Fertile Void, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin. Curated by Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss. Berlin Science Week 2024 (Berlin, DE)
2024 *-*, Catalyst Arts Gallery. Curated by Husk Bennett (Belfast, NI)
2024 How We Got To, Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast, NI)
2023 If You Only Walk Long Enough, Irish Arts Center, New York. Curated by Moran Been-noon. December 2022-July 2023 (New York, US)
2021-2022 The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now: Anthropocene, Irish Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Claire Walsh. July 30, 2021–July 2022 (Dublin, IE)
2021 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection Exhibition, Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich. December 2021-January 2022 (Belfast, NI)
2021 Anywhere Out of the World, QSS Gallery Belfast, Curated by Michelle Mckeown and Alan McMahon. August 2021 (Belfast, NI)
2021 Urgencies, CCA Derry~Londonderry. Curated by Catherine Hemelryk and Locky Morris. March-May 2021 (Derry, NI)
2020 Amplify-2020, Somerset House Studios (London, UK)
2020 Digital Arcade, MUTEK Montreal Edition 21 (Montreal, CA)
2020 +VE/-VE, ArtNext (Hong Kong SAR)
2020 All In!, Catalyst Arts (Belfast, NI)
2019 PXIX with Gerard Carson, Nathan Crothers, Dave Loder, Hannah McBride, et al., Platform Arts (Belfast, NI).
2019 DAS Annual Review, curated by Daria Jelonek and Simon Poulter, Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast, NI).
2018 Demolition Is Not A Means, with Aisling O'Beirn, Emily McFarland, et al., Array Studios (Belfast, NI).
2018 Kills 99.9% of Bacteria, curated by Alissa Kleist, CCA Derry (Derry, NI).
2017 Trans-Historical Railway: A Play Upon Lost Futures of Russia, with Derailed Lab, Institute of Light, Hackney (London, UK)
2016 Electron Salon, Los Angeles Centre of Digital Art (CA, US)
2015 Capital Futures, New London Architecture Award Exhibition, The Building Centre, Bloomsbury (London, UK)
SELECTED PERFORMANCE (Solo Unless Stated)
08/2024 Hjorted Art and Music (Småland, SE)
06/2024 Dear Quantum, Goethe Institut Irland (Dublin, IE) with Muiredach O’Riain
02/2024 Quantum Computing and Sound, CTM Festival (Berlin, DE) with Muiredach O’Riain
06/2023 Unit 44 (Dublin, IE)
06/2023 Echo Echo Dance Centre (Derry, NI)
06/2023 Accidental Theatre (Belfast, NI)
04/2023 Kulturnatt Stockholm, Fylkingen (Stockholm, SE)
08/2022 Grass Root, Muine Bheag Arts (Carlow, IE)
08/2022 The Anthropocene: More-than-Human Club, IMMA x Dublin Digital Radio (Dublin, IE)
08/2022 Nordic Lights, Monument (Oslo, NO)
07/2022 Feronia Wennborg & Adriana Minu / Quantum Foam / Malte Dahlberg, Fylkingen
(Stockholm, SE)
06/2022 Great Learning Orchestra, with Sound in Interaction Konstfack, Hägerstensåsen Medborgarehus (Stockholm, SE)
12/2021 mälar89sl, with Sound in Interaction Konstfack, Fylkingen (Stockholm, SE)
12/2021 Amazonia Mapping Festival (Belém, BR)
28/10/2021 Future Ages will Wonder performance, FACT (Liverpool, UK)
27/10/2021 Rhythm of Chance, Static Complex (Liverpool, UK)
25/9/2021 Liquid Soundscapes, visuals by Beatrice Alvestad Lopez, Tellusgången 16 / Galleri Konstfack (Stockholm, SE)
4/8/2021 Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA Gallery (Dublin, IE)
3-9/5/21 MUTEK ES+AR Hybrid Edition (Buenos Aires, AR)
8-13/9/2020 MUTEK Electronic music and Digital Art Festival (Montreal, CA)
1/3/2020 re:sonance 03: 220 volts, Northern Lights Project (Derry, NI)
SELECTED TALKS
2024 Artist Talk, Transmedia Research Institute
2023 Artist Talk, Irish Arts Center, New York
2022 “Framing Entanglement”, Panel Discussion with aemi at Galway International Art Festival
2021 “New Frontiers in Digital Art and Sound”, MUTEK Forum Édition 7, Montreal 2021
2020 “Turn It UP: The Amplify Digital Arts Initiative” MUTEK Forum Édition 6, Montreal 2020
RESIDENCY
2023-present Elektronmusikstudion
2023-2024 Studio Quantum Goethe Institut
2023 Djerassi Resident Artist Program
2023 Live Art Ireland
2020-2021 Flax Arts Studios
2018 Digital Artist Studio Belfast
AWARDS / GRANTS
Culture Moves Europe
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee - Konstnärsnamden Internationellt Utbyte Bidrag
British Council/ACNI AIDF Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Resilient Fund
a-n / Freelands Foundation
British Council AMPLIFY DAI Collaboration Grant
Arts Council of Northern Ireland ACES Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland SIAP Award
RCA / NLA New London Architecture Annual Award
EDUCATION
2021-Present
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Information and Communication Technology (TCOMK)
2019-2020
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
Visiting Research Associate
2013-2015
Royal College of Art, London
MA (RCA) Architecture, First Class Dissertation (ARB/RIBA II, NLA Year Award)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Golden Thread Gallery
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
DISTRIBUTION
Stiftelsen Filmform (The Art Film Archive)