Born in China, raised in Australia, and based in the Netherlands, Amy Suo Wu is an artist and designer. Her practice is an exploration into how to (re)activate, amplify, and preserve erased or obscured histories in critical and playful ways. In Rotterdam, she teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academy and Experimental Publishing Masters at The Piet Zwart Institute. She co-organizes Zine Camp, an annual zine-making festival in Rotterdam. Since 2014, she has been immersed in the techniques, aesthetics, histories and politics of steganography—a form of secret writing that disguises secret information within public information. Tactics and Poetics of Invisibility is the title for this ongoing artistic research project that resuscitates obsolete, low-tech, and analogue steganography. Its aim is to subvert digital surveillance, bypass censorship, and make visible the struggles of minorities and other marginalized cultures. Through workshops, lectures, exhibitions and publications the project also aims to inspire communities to develop their own poetic and playful forms of communication as a way of nurturing social bonds. In 2019, this research will be published under the title A Cookbook of Invisible Writing through Onomatopee.
