Dao Thuy Linh

Dao Thuy Linh https://daotlinh.com Dao Thuy Linh Sun, 26 Nov 2023 07:47:30 +0000 https://daotlinh.com en Small Aspirations https://daotlinh.com/Small-Aspirations-1 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:31:10 +0000 Dao Thuy Linh https://daotlinh.com/Small-Aspirations-1 Small Aspirations2022-2023 Small Aspirations uses critical play theory to expose and subvert the contradicting perceptions and realities of immigration labor. I draw from both the traditional form of play (e.g., three object play) as well as video game play (e.g., puzzler) to inform the design of a virtual reality experience taking place in overlooked public, private, and domestic spaces: a restaurant, a construction site, a bathroom. I am fascinated by how a modern still-life painting can convey the ephemerality of dreams as well as the brevity of human life in the particular context of immigration and migration. I am inspired by the fortune-telling custom in which a baby is given three objects to choose from on their first birthday, each of which symbolizes a path the child aspires to follow when they become adults. It is a custom that is not American, but our culture deeply ingrains that labor defines a person's worth, especially if they are first-time immigrants. Read More ︎ <img width="1459" height="911" width_o="1459" height_o="911" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33e555860621d719a4be6e6a0072d4f28b0aa6712cf238ed10a11fa7048856b3/smallAspirations-1.png" data-mid="220235909" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33e555860621d719a4be6e6a0072d4f28b0aa6712cf238ed10a11fa7048856b3/smallAspirations-1.png" /> Amorphous https://daotlinh.com/Amorphous-1 Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:33:53 +0000 Dao Thuy Linh https://daotlinh.com/Amorphous-1 Augmented Reality Wayfinding And Identity System For Queer Art at the Museums 2023In collaboration with Elise Coatney & Chenin Rowe Through augmented reality typography, Amorphous bridges the gap between physical and digital spaces through a compact learning experience for queer art activists and enthusiasts, consisting of an identity and wayfinding system and a digital archive. The experience is designed to blend seamlessly into traditional as well as alternative and guerilla exhibitions, transforming the printed descriptions on the wall into a portal of sorts, leading visitors to a larger network of curated similar or related queer works. Using the portable and powerful mobile device, onsite wayfinding and offsite exploration are both possible. Amorphous is an 8-week project funded by an internal grant at California Polytechnic State University's College of Liberal Arts to hire and mentor undergraduate students on a creative and scholarly research project. Read More ︎ <img width="3102" height="1510" width_o="3102" height_o="1510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/368d90dfae6959d8fbd00cf369542e654126a80e44b5556ef8729e79b48945fa/Screenshot-2023-10-18-at-6.47.05-PM.png" data-mid="194157525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/368d90dfae6959d8fbd00cf369542e654126a80e44b5556ef8729e79b48945fa/Screenshot-2023-10-18-at-6.47.05-PM.png" /> Pre-Arrival https://daotlinh.com/Pre-Arrival-1 Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:33:53 +0000 Dao Thuy Linh https://daotlinh.com/Pre-Arrival-1 Pre-arrival 2021-2023 An Extended Reality (XR) immersive experience into a digital typography experimentation of the geometry of the lights and shadows. It depicts the journey of undocumented immigrants in a poetic spatiotemporal typographic landscape built on the words of the poem The New Colossus by American Poet Emma Lazarus. The experience is built using the Unity Engine. Read More ︎ <img width="2855" height="1730" width_o="2855" height_o="1730" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dc6216bba52b6d08eae991cf3c4b61bca3a2254f1a2a0e36bc775b768fbd5f3/pre-arrival-1.png" data-mid="210618689" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8dc6216bba52b6d08eae991cf3c4b61bca3a2254f1a2a0e36bc775b768fbd5f3/pre-arrival-1.png" /> Transitional Threads https://daotlinh.com/Transitional-Threads-1 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 07:47:30 +0000 Dao Thuy Linh https://daotlinh.com/Transitional-Threads-1 Transitional Threads 2023In collaboration with Amanda Stojanov (https://amandastojanov.com/) An immersive virtual reality experience about migration as a complex multigenerational process in which the player interacts with sculptural types that carry sentimental meanings. Each of these words that we wrote together is a word that tells our story in two parts: one of us leaving from elsewhere, and the other arriving from elsewhere, both wanting to be truly at home here in the United States. Read More ︎ <img width="3372" height="1498" width_o="3372" height_o="1498" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5acf240d4e8341bd9d56115b4e06888b2da1dd148e7d039b38549fc6782b19d/Screenshot-2024-08-15-at-3.43.06PM.png" data-mid="216486541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5acf240d4e8341bd9d56115b4e06888b2da1dd148e7d039b38549fc6782b19d/Screenshot-2024-08-15-at-3.43.06PM.png" /> <img width="3374" height="1488" width_o="3374" height_o="1488" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee7e7aeb97f007481297c5a7ca35b9434a2f36db9343434d63eceac0e73ce337/Screenshot-2024-08-15-at-3.42.07PM.png" data-mid="216486542" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee7e7aeb97f007481297c5a7ca35b9434a2f36db9343434d63eceac0e73ce337/Screenshot-2024-08-15-at-3.42.07PM.png" /> Immigration Documentation https://daotlinh.com/Immigration-Documentation-1 Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:33:53 +0000 Dao Thuy Linh https://daotlinh.com/Immigration-Documentation-1 Immigration Documentation2019 How we treat each other is based on not only our social interactions, but on how political structures shape our perceptions of people. As technology takes on a greater role in that structure, I examine how it carries patterns of bias and discrimination that need to be interrupted. In addition to demonstrating the personal aspect of the legal immigration process, I also wanted to demonstrate how it is subtly dehumanizing at the same time. Mobile technology bridges the gap between abstract processes and petitioners, but it also reduces individuals to a few lines of legal fee receipts. With the help of a tracking system that compares "non-citizens" to consumer products, the entire person is distilled into data, barcodes, and numbers. I am interested in the larger picture of immigration being more than just physical borders. Human bravery will overcome obstacles to a better life for as long as poverty, inequality, war, and inaccessibility remain. Read More ︎ <img width="2400" height="1800" width_o="2400" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbfbe990be571988137647f53be66a557bbec0820ad2c7604821e94bdb930659/01.jpg" data-mid="144290661" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbfbe990be571988137647f53be66a557bbec0820ad2c7604821e94bdb930659/01.jpg" /> About https://daotlinh.com/About Sun, 23 Aug 2015 04:49:59 +0000 Dao Thuy Linh https://daotlinh.com/About ABOUT I am an interaction designer and educator whose creative and scholarly work explores the intersection between identity discourses and the development and implementation of creative and emerging technology. My research interests include emigration, immigration, and migration, as well as minority equality and accessibility. My work has been shown at Ars Electronica, the Institute for Art and Innovation in Berlin, The American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Conference, and the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College. My list of clients includes the American Cancer Society, Nonprofit New York, the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutger University, the New York Historic District Council, and the GLBT+ Historical Society Museum in San Francisco. I have been honored awards from UCDA, Indigo Design Award, Graphic Design USA, and Creative Quarterly Design. I also write and publish my work with the Design Research Society, International Association of Societies of Design Research, and The American Institute of Graphic Arts. I am currently an assistant professor at California Polytechnic State University. My curriculum vitae can be found here, and my artist statement can be found here. TEACHINGI enjoy helping my students win competitive industry awards, especially in interaction design and packaging design, two of my areas of interest. In turn, my students have responded enthusiastically and rewarded me with their excellent accomplishments year after year. Most recently, my students from ART 437 Graphic Design Studio III won the Second place and Third place award at the Paperboard Packaging Alliance’s 2025 National Student Design Competition, taken place in Vancouver last October.  All student projects presented above were produced in Graphic Design Studio III class. For a complete list of my student awards and works, please visist my teaching page.  WHERE ELSE <img width="1359" height="1352" width_o="1359" height_o="1352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73b4add0b2f2d66dc56315ec9f7c8db23618c39d46cc1f83e0cc0e060267a4ff/Screenshot-2024-12-31-at-6.46.13PM.png" data-mid="234419712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73b4add0b2f2d66dc56315ec9f7c8db23618c39d46cc1f83e0cc0e060267a4ff/Screenshot-2024-12-31-at-6.46.13PM.png" /> My recent solo show concurring with Amanda Stojanov’s at the Reese Bullen Gallery at California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt opened on November 7, 2024. Brittany Britton, the Director of the Gallery, graciously designed the promotional material below. It is my favorite poster that anyone has ever designed for me. <img width="3850" height="2897" width_o="3850" height_o="2897" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/258962ab4e48e45e63f6b353eb0598ad20afe42b4ebd2051bbee5271a7c662d3/2025-computala--display.JPG" data-mid="225188897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/258962ab4e48e45e63f6b353eb0598ad20afe42b4ebd2051bbee5271a7c662d3/2025-computala--display.JPG" /> My other new work on display as part of Computala group exhibition at LCB Depot made with Machine Learning, Susbtance 3D Sampler, all of the biometrics that I have taken, and maybe a few barcodes. You can my find me in my garden doing things to my succulents when it is warm outside. if it is cold, I am inside keeping my cat entertained or maybe I am playing video games. I also post fun things on Dribbble, Instagram, and LinkedIn.   Footer https://daotlinh.com/Footer Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:46:07 +0000 Dao Thuy Linh https://daotlinh.com/Footer Linh Dao Assistant ProfessorArt & Design Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California ︎ Discord ︎ Slack ︎ LinkedIn ︎ Instagram ︎ Email: lidao@calpoly.edu︎ Office: Dexter 34-164 ︎ Office Hours: 1:00 - 3:00 PM T/TH ︎ Phone: Unplugged. Don’t call. 