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Akibo LEE biography | artworks | events

The man who rides the whirlwind in pop music field, Akibo Lee, in twelve years ago developed a series of robot family quite lovely. These cool robots are expansions of the intimate stories and secrets between Akibo and his two sons. With a touched heart, Akibo transformed the cool and metallic robots of technology into an expression of the warmness in humankind. As a visual designer, art creator, computer animator, as well as curator, he said, “creating is in the way it is, to represent your own feeling through the artwork, no matter regarding art or design. It is a need like hunger. When you are very hungry, you could then make very good works.” Because of his love to electronic music, Akibo made two dancing robots called “DING” and ”LULUBO”. “DING” is an octopus-like monster with eight legs, while “LULUBO” is a female robot with a pretty body shape. These two robots used to be the visual effect in dancing halls, performing Hip-Hop with live electronic music, and also cooperated with Wind Dance Theatre to perform modern dances. Using Animamix, Akibo Lee built a miniature but complete virtual world, and this virtuality is alternating with the reality…

 

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