Luca E. Lum  

is an artist, writer, and interdisciplinary researcher fascinated by post-hauntological time. Sensitive to felt dispositions and atmospheres, her work negotiates entanglements between the animal and the machine, anticipation and catastrophe, working across moving image, drawing, writing (poetry and prose), collaborative formats, and histories of science and technology. She approaches the technological, semiotic, and informational as material, relation, and predicament. 

Her projects have been supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Delfina Foundation (London), and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore. Her writing has appeared in Asian Film Archive, Nang Magazine, and Cthulhu Books.

From 2016–2021, she co-founded and co-directed soft/WALL/studs, an artist-run collaborative project and space in Geylang, Singapore, exploring renewed situations of discursivity, agency, autonomy, and communality.

She holds an SM in Art, Culture, and Technology from MIT and a BA in English Literature from the National University of Singapore. She is based between Singapore, New York City, and Cambridge, MA.

Open for commissions, editorial work, collaboration, teaching, and speaking engagements. She has also worked as a technical draftsperson on a study of material heritage in tsunami-prone Aceh, Indonesia, and is open to commissions for scientific and architectural illustrations. 

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