Vivian Wenli Lin

VOW Directors: Vivian (left) and Pooja (right)
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Vivian Wenli Lin

Vivian Wenli Lin is a Taiwanese-American media educator, video artist, and documentary filmmaker.But above all, she is an advocate of the advancement of women in all aspects of society around the world.She has devoted many years as a certified domestic violence counselor for the Asian Women's Shelter in San Francisco where she worked with women and children to transition into a violence free life.As an artist, women's stories and issues are ongoing themes in her own work.She has screened in various festivals worldwide and has been featured in several feminist video activism exhibitions and panels in San Francisco, New York, Bucharest, and Rome.Her works can be seen at: www.vivianwenlilin.com Vivian is a recipient of the 2004 Nia Initiative Award from New York University for increasing Asian American profiles in the New York City community for Fortunes for Cookies - a 10-week video workshop for seven young Asian women in New York City.

Vivian Wenli Lin is a Taiwanese-American video artist, documentary filmmaker, and media educator who was born and raised in San Francisco. At 12, she began creating video portraits with her father's VHS camera, using the lens as a means to deconstruct the feminine myth. A UC Berkeley graduate in psychology and Asian American studies, she has also studied interactive installations and video art at NYU. In 2008, Vivian earned an MFA from the Sandberg Instituut in The Netherlands. Her documentary film Loving Work is about the working and personal life of an Asian couple based in Amsterdam whose careers are in the internet fetish porn industry.

Vivian Wenli Lin
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Vivian Wenli Lin Patching Zone - Cultuur Lokaal
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Vivian Wenli Lin

Vivian Wenli Lin, 25, a video artist in New York, browses through second-hand clothing stores because she loves a bargain and doesn't want to follow mainstream trends.

"I get a kick when people ask me, `Where did you get that?' I say, `I got it used and you can't have it,"' Lin said.

• Vivian Wenli Lin

Video Artist

- Vivian Wenli Lin

Video Artist

Vivian Wenli Lin is a Taiwanese-American video artist who focuses on creating portraits of women and using media as an educational tool to give voices to marginalized communities. She founded and directed video workshops for Asian teenagers in NYC and undocumented, migrant women in The Netherlands. In addition, she taught video to youth in Africa in collaboration with The One Minutes Foundation and UNICEF.

She was born and raised in San Francisco, California where she started creating videos at the tender age of 12 with a stop-animation using a VHS camera. At Lowell High School, she continued using videos for school projects as a way to rid herself of performance anxiety. From 1997-2001, she attended the University of California at Berkeley where she received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Asian American Studies. She created videos exposing herself, her family and friends before moving into a feminist focus after attending Loni Ding's Ethnic Studies social documentary class. After working with Loni on her Ancestors in the Americas series, Vivian moved to New York to attend the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.