Tsao Yidi

TSAO Yidi is transdisciplinary artist, curator and writer who lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic and curatorial practice focuses on dissecting contemporary human mind and existence, exploring the boundary between fiction and reality, while contributing to the future of storytelling with art, emerging technologies and speculative narratives for community building and social innovation, working with a diverse range of media through texts, codes, photography, video, installation, performance and happening, etc.

Yidi is an advocate of free-culture movement and is involved in the hacker/maker scene for its technology-based innovation in a spirit of playfulness and exploration. Her curatorial project Wikitopia 2016 with Videotage, co-funded by Goethe Institut Hongkong, is documented in her essay "WIKITOPIA Hong Kong: Curating a Collaborative Urban Future", which will be published in Nov 2019 as a chapter in Art Hack Practice edited by Victoria Bradbury and Suzy O'Hara. At the moment, she is working on creating immersive environments that can be staged outside established art institutions to diversity and democratise participation in art.

Yidi received her BA in English Language and Literature with a minor in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University and MA in Creative Media with Distinction from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.