Bio

Natalie Hou is a visual artist who was born in Taiwan and based in New York City. She received an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017.

Hou studies the cyber-social world of pictorial communication.  Many of her works reference the evolution of digital image transmission, including the 70s’ text based ASCII art where images are composed by encoded characters, the popular pixel art in the 80s that constructs pictures out of small digital computed color units, and the modern Unicode standard formatted graphic emoji arts. She analyzes how each method processes and transmits digital information from a techno-cultural angle.