Lin Zhou
About
Lin Zhou is an interdisciplinary interactive artist whose practice explores the entanglement of psychological states, emotional experience, and behavioural conditioning within technologically mediated environments. Working across installation, web-based interaction, XR and AI-assisted drawing analysis, her work reflects a sustained interest in how constructs such as “focus” and “flow” are shaped, instrumentalised, and commodified within systems of productivity and control.
Her project Equiflow employs immersive digital healing, behavioural tracking, and algorithmic image generation to examine how the flow state — once associated with intrinsic motivation — is increasingly repurposed as a tool for self-optimisation. By adopting the language of “solutions” and performance enhancement, she paid attention to the blurred boundaries between care and compliance, therapy and discipline.
Currently, she is focusing on building a psychological healing experience mediated by XR space, serving ordinary workers and anxious groups plagued by high-pressure work systems, and trying to reconstruct an accessible “non-utilitarian” flow space on a digital platform.
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