Artist, Scientist, Programmer or
Does it Matter ?
My Story
If you are interested in reading the whole story and looking at my artworks as a young teenager, follow this link
I found the following bio of mine on one of my published journal papers. In case you are interested in the paper, here is the [link]
Florence Y. Wang received the PhD degree from the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to joining CSIRO, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher for textual data visualization in the laboratory of informatics, robotics and microelectronics of Montpellier, France. She is a scientific visualization specialist with CSIRO, Australia. Her research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, virtual reality, and user interaction.
Just not long ago, when I needed to write an artist bio, I scratched my head and came up with the following.
Florence is a Melbourne based artist whose main art practice is in painting and drawing with traditional medium. Besides art, she is also an IT professional with a background in Data Science. Below is her first-person bio:
"I have been painting and drawing almost ever since I was born. Painting and art to me is something personal and extremely special in life. Academically, I have considered myself to be fortunate. In 2014, I earned my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sydney studying the intricacies of visual similarity that lies among different types of art imageries. I then continued my journey in science by working at CSIRO for another five years.
At the beginning of 2020, I was fortunate to have a small career change, hence had found myself start pursuing something I always had passion in. Beyond the visual qualities, I am a believer in arts with great emotional and psychological depth and their story telling power to the intended audience. And I hope to carry that belief into my day-to-day art practice."
I came to the conclusion "The definition does not matter !". If you are interested in my art or work in data science, please get in touch !