Ever since I was a child, I've had an interest in storytelling, film and animation, as I use to draw storyboard, make flip book animation and compose music. Before completing my higher education, I had already been a freelance filmmaker and I had run my own puppet theatre company for a few years-as an artistic director, scriptwriter, stage designer and composer.
In 2007, I obtained my BFA from the University of Victoria, where I greatly expanded my knowledge of narrative techniques and languages and video editing. I produced many of the pieces that an be seen here. This is when video art and digitally augmented theatre became important areas of specialization for me.
Two years later, I earned my master's degree from CITY University in Hong Kong where I focused on delineating new research trajectories in the areas of interactive and computational art. While there, I was a teaching assistant for the Music Technology and Sound Basics and Design courses and later worked as a senior research assistant in documenting the life of the Dong Chinese cultural minority.
The documentary The Voices of Guizhou: