In the case of Lin Hsin Hsin, the new future involves new interactions of digital and analogue -- new interactions of the mathematical and the material; new interactions of the virtual and the physical.

"Lin Hsin Hsin is an information technologist, artist and poet basd in Singapore. Hsin Hsin grew up with numbers, bits and bytes as well as brushes and paints. She has created new type of paper, and penned more than one hundred articles in computer newspaper, international proceedings amd journals. She has had countless exhibitions all over the world. moreover, thanks to the wonders of technology, her works are permanently exhibited everywhere.

How? Simple. The Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum (www.lhham.com.sg) is a complex beast which boasts all the usual trappings of museums (galleries, sculpture garden, cafeteria, bookstore and toilet) whilst guaranteeing that none of the all-too-common discomforts (noisy crowds, depressing guards and sore feet) will mar the appreciation of art. As you can see by looking at the works featured here, her work is characterized by purity of form and a somewhat ic bent. The highlights of the museum tour is probably digi-salon a surprising animated excursionn through the depths of Hsin Hsin's inner mind. Naturally LIEN conducted the following interview via e-mail.

I have spent many hours in her Virtual Art Museum and I know that I will return many more times to find out if there is anything happening because if anything new is happening in the world of digital art, it is happening in Hsin Hsin's space. The visitor is always made welcome at the Museum, and not just computer geeks, nerds or other computer lovers - all are welcome and as Hsin Hsin says "from occasional to serious geeks in virtual space they cohabit.

The Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum displays her works in an elaborate metaphorical museum, which includes a cafe, a bar and something you will not find in any of the other online museum sites mentioned in this article: a multimedia-enhanced toilet.

The book features 200 of the most compelling photographs culled from 200,000 images taken by the top 150 photojournalists from around the world on February 8, 1996. These photos aimed to focus on the human face behind this new frontier called cyberspace which has and will continue to captivate and impact our lives from pole to pole.

Through the lens of the award-winning photographer Ian Lloyd, this book, amongst its colorful renditions, captures and portrays Singapore's very own Web personality whose Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum has been visited by more than 215,000 visitors from 76 countries!

"Picasso rearranged women's faces and invented cubism. When O'Keeffe painted bones in the sky, America discovered the desert. Warhol elevated the mundane and achieved more than his own 15 minutes of fame. Lin Hsin Hsin, painter and poet, opened a museum on the Internet and gave the arts community yet another reason to turn to cyberspace."

The Lin Hsin Hsin Museum is entirely devoted to her creations, which are mainly oil paintings, works on paper, and poetry. Visitors can also hyperlink to the artist's views on "man & woman," take in a video at "Theatrette," check out the gift shop, and even become a friend of the museum. More adventurous visitors can head straight for "The Toilet," a multimedia exhibit that inspired one visitor to write, "I saw the toilet and I've decided to stay there for the rest of my life.

The Lin Hsin Hsin Museum is a friendly, casual cyberartspace, but its creator is a serious artist and information technologist."

"I liked her choice and use of colors. Her art is sophistcated but accessible, and the poems are funny. She is a serious artist, but the site, and the poems are whimsical and entertaining. The site is also nicely designed and easy to navigate. After looking through dozens of staid and sober museums on that page (of the cyberzine), hers was a refreshing break".

"Lin Hsin Hsin is a wizard of textures, be it material, virtual or linguistic. She paints with words, shapes verses with colors and molds pulp into sculptures. She weaves pixels into virtual fabrics one would love to wear, and turns papaya leave into paper.

Accessibility and Sharing are keywords of her Art which stands at the eye-level of her readers/viewers, not above. Sit down your mind in one of her chairs. Dip your eyes into Lin Hsin Hsin so distinctive blue spreaded in totally controlled brush strokes. Smile at her frogs of Asian tradition. Feel the wind in her green paper pasture. Enter her Computer Graphics pictures, unfaked, because freed - for once - from the remnants of the psychadelic 60's that saturates today's boring techno-art. You will then discover how Lin Hsin Hsin's Art is empowering, by giving through a dynamic motion to and through pictures and words a seminal feeling of Being, here and now. And where does this happen, you ask? San Francisco, Paris or Barcelona? No, Singapour! The shopping-city-center that one would hardly associate with cultural activity. In the Garden-City of Eternal Summer, the cosmopolitan Lin Hsin Hsin - Spirit of Spring - is broadcasting Art to the world and cyberspace.

"Slick visuals, deep content, and the wonderful attitude that makes for a great experience. Point makes no distinction between commerical, private or student pages. Excellence is the only standard. All these sites do share a single trait: a strong distictive flavor of their own. That's the mark of a good creative effort in any field."

"Peruse the works of celebrated Singaporean artist, poet, and computer consultant Lin Hsin Hsin at this charming virtual museum. Hsin Hsin exhibits more than 800 pieces of her abstract art here, like Life in the Fast Lane, an oil and text piece addressing the paradox of low-tech art in a high-tech medium. The site is full of nifty interactive surprises: start by hopping on the tour bus bound for "cyberspace, Singapore," then relax and enjoy the scenery as the Museum Guide shows you the world's first acid-free papaya paper. The not-so-virtual telephone booth lets you fax or leave a phonemail message for the artist, though more conventional surfers can send feedback via e-mail. And if you think you've seen everything a Web museum has to offer, you haven't visited Hsin Hsin's cyber toilet."

"While equations and logic have always intrigued her, art has occupied a special place in her heart since childhood. In Ms Lin's mind, a Beethoven sonata can inspire new software, just as water in its various forms can inspire an exhaustive series of poems and paintings. But lately, her fondness for equations and her weakness in creative interpretations have formed the perfect marriage in image-editing software. By arranging and rearranging pixels, she has created literally thousands of designs for everything."

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