The 6th VH AWARD: Lena Bui, dream(machine, human)
The 6th VH AWARD: Lena Bui, dream(machine, human)
The 6th VH AWARD: Lena Bui, dream(machine, human)
The 6th VH AWARD: Lena Bui, dream(machine, human)
About the Video
Lêna Bùi (born in 1985, Da Nang) makes works responding to nature and people's relationship with their surroundings. Using primarily painting and video, she reflects on the ways in which tradition, faith, death, and dreams influence our behavior and perception, weaving together stories of human resilience and worldviews that are not entirely human-centric. dream(machine, human) can be interpreted as a machine dreaming of a human, a machine and a human dreaming together, a machine trying to understand or predict human actions, or any other variation of the three words. The story takes place in an ambiguous time, unfolding as machine-salvaged fragments of human memories or a mythology of human demise and metamorphosis.
Still Image: Lena Bui, dream(machine, human) (2025)
About the Program
The VH AWARD supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned artworks across various global platforms. Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating promising artists to share their artistic experiments and amplify their voices on diverse issues. The award encourages artists who push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to reflect on how we understand ourselves and one another in relation to the past, present and future. To amplify and share their voices with broader communities, the artworks commissioned by the VH AWARD have been exhibited in partnership with various art institutions and platforms, including the Vision Hall of Hyundai Motor Group in Yongin, South Korea; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia; the National Arts Council in Singapore; the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland; and the Elektra Virtual Museum.