The work and research of Man Tin are situated on the borderline between the human and machine. He creates digital art with the main focus on digitalised replication, expanded images, evolutionary aesthetics and machine-made art.
Offering a new critical approach and methodology to integrate aesthetics, media and technology, Man Tin's work and research concerns topics of digital replication, evolutionary aesthetics, phenomenology of intelligence via imaging technologies such as 3D scanning, machine learning, computational and digital art.
Man Tin graduated from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and possessed a correspondence Master’s Degree in Media Cultures. He is a media artist, art consultant, curator and educator. His works have been exhibited at various events and venues, including the SidewalkCINEMA Festival, Kino Art Festival, FMT Festival, Prototype Festival, HK ARTcomics, 798 Art Zone, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the USA. Man is also the founder of PRÉCÉDÉE, a unique art space exploring the possibilities of facilitating dialogues with the community through round-the-clock exhibitions.
Man Tin is currently a senior lecturer at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He is a full member and former executive committee member of the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA), a committee member of the Young Artists Development Foundation (YADF), a member of the Chinese Digital Games Research Association (Chinese DiGRA), Sweden's Föreningen Musikspektra T Society (FMT), and the Center for Artificial Art Research (CAAR).