Since 2010, artist Lin Ke has turned his attention to the behavioral science of the computer age by making himself his own guinea pig. Converting his laptop into a studio, Ke extracts material from computer software and the internet as the fodder and form for his art. The mundane act of exploring the vicissitudes of the world wide web and various applications becomes the catalyst for art making and self-portraiture. He records operational behavior and conceptual images by using screenshots and screen recording software. His work takes the form of installation, image, sound, text, video, and computer painting.
In his work, Lin Ke uses software to set its various functions free from their original purpose in the same way that language is liberated from its communicative functions when it becomes poetic. If poetry expresses the joy of language, Lin Ke’s work brings out the pleasure of the graphical user interface.
Lin Ke has gained major critical acclaim for his work by winning the OCAT - Pierre Huber Art Prize in 2014, and the Chinese Youth Artist Award of the 9th AAC Art in 2015. His work has been shown at ZKM, Karlsruhe; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo; Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. His work is featured in the collections of M+ Museum, Hong Kong, The New Century Art Foundation, Beijing; and K11 Art Foundation, among others.
从2010年开始, 林科将自己变成自己的实验对象，投身于计算机时代的行为艺术之中。林科将笔记本电脑作为其艺术工作室，从计算机软件和互联网中提取素材作为其艺术作品的素材与形式。日常互联网的探索和对应用软件的操作催生出他的艺术创作和自画像。他使用屏幕截图和 屏幕录制软件记录操作行为和概念图像。他主要的作品形式为装置、图像、声音、文字、视频和 电脑绘画。
在他的作品中，林科以非常规的方式使用电脑软件，在软件原本设计的意图之外寻找新的功能，从而使的语言从基本的交流功能中得以解放而获得诗性。如果诗歌表达了语言的乐趣,那么林科的作品则呈现了软件用户图像界面的愉悦。
林科的创作实践为他赢得了2014年OCAT-皮埃尔·于贝尔奖与2015第九届AAC艺术中国年度 青年艺术家大奖。他的作品曾在，OCAT当代艺术中心，ZKM媒体艺术中心，Folkwang博物馆， 东京都现代美术馆，民生美术馆, 上海当代艺术博物馆，何香凝美术馆，克利夫兰当代艺术博物 馆，曼切斯特华人当代艺术中心,伯明翰 Ikon Gallery等艺术机构展出。他的作品亦被广泛收藏， 香港M+视觉文化博物馆，北京新世纪基金会，及K11美术馆馆藏。
