Monica Lim speaking with a microphone during an in-conversation event

Photo credit - Justin Zaldarriaga

Hello! I am a composer, sound and new media artist. I work with installations, performance art, contemporary dance, screen, objects, code, bodies, insects, food and everything in between (yes, I am easily bored).

I love working in multi/cross/inter/intra/trans/disciplinary groups, and anything and anyone who makes me think of new ways to make music with tech. Sometimes I play the piano. Very rarely, I play an out-of-tune harpsichord. I've presented my work at Arts House, Science Gallery Melbourne, AsiaTOPA, White Night, Now or Never, Rising, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Fringe, Arts Centre Melbourne, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Salihara, Venice Biennale Architettura, Sydney Dance Company and WorldPride as well as international symposiums such as ISEA, SIGGRAPH Asia and NIME. I have a PhD at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne in movement-led composition and new technologies. Thanks to the great people I work with, my work has won awards such as the international Theatre NOW Award, Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, APRA AMCOS Art Music Award and Green Room awards.

I am co-founder of Project Eleven, a philanthropic initiative which supports the contemporary arts and also sit on the boards of the Melbourne Recital Centre and Liquid Architecture.