Since 2010, Lin Ke has positioned himself as an experimental subject, engaging in performative practices within the computational era. His work takes place within interfaces, screens, and the flux of data, bypassing default system logics to intervene in non-standardized ways. Through these interventions, he disrupts expected functions, generating unpredictable deviations in images, sound, text, and computational processes.
His concept of "ghostivity" is both a playful subversion and a critical interrogation of computational structures—algorithms are not fixed entities but sites of misuse, disruption, and intervention. His practice challenges the predetermined relationship between tool and operator, probing the porous boundaries of supposedly closed systems to uncover new languages and modes of experience.
Lin Ke’s practice encompasses installation, digital imagery, sound, text, video, and computational painting. He was awarded the 2014 OCAT–Pierre Huber Art Prize and the 2015 AAC Art China Award for Young Artist of the Year. His works have been exhibited at leading institutions, including OCAT Contemporary Art Center, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Folkwang Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Minsheng Art Museum, Power Station of Art, He Xiangning Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (Manchester), and Ikon Gallery (Birmingham). His works are also part of the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), KADIST, the New Century Art Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MoCA), M+ Museum, and the K11 Art Foundation.
Lin Ke is also a member of the art collective Double Fly Art Center.