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Maya Lin is a Chinese American, and was born in Athens, Ohio in 1959. She is married to Daniel Wolf; and he is a photography dealer in New York. They have two daughters. Lin was growing up with not many friends, because she likes to stay home most of her time. Lin studied at Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut. She received bachelor of Art degree in 1981 and after five years she got a Master of Architecture degree in 1986. She was trained as an artist and architect and her sculptures, parks, monuments, and architectural projects are supported by her ideal of making. Maya Lin’s vision and focus was on how the space needed to be in the future and what it meant to the people. Maya Lin is one of the most prominent architectural designers in the 21st century. She is best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Lin owns and operates Maya Lin Studio in New York City. In 2005, Lin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls In New York.

One of Lin’s artworks is the cone listening. The first of Lin’s sculptures for What’s Missing? was the listening cone. It was made in eastern California, specifically in the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The sculpture includes a bronze color, wooden cone lined with reclaimed redwood with a screen for a projected video at its base. It has a bronze and wood megaphone more than 19 feet long, 10 feet wide and 8 feet tall. It plays videos of roughly 50 endangered and extinct species attempts to elicit a positive response to conservation from its audience.

Figure. 1 ( The Listening Cone, Joe Zammit-Lucia, 2011)

The sculpture is part of Lin’s last memorial and it was installed September 17th, 2009. Lin worked with Cornell lab’s scientists for two years in order to develop this project. During the project, she received support and care from several countries around the world including, conservation international, the Cornell lab of Ornithology, National Geographic Society, and Arklye who contributed the audio and the video recordings. Lin proposed to bring “The Dark Room” to San Francisco, but she decided that it would be superfluous because of its content repeat that of “the listening cone”. The meaning of the “The Dark Room” is basically the empty room which is another project made by Maya Lin. Listening Cone is one of seven different displays that make up What’s Missing?.

The listening cone was multidisciplinary to try to put people in touch with sounds, images, facts, and experiences that give people feeling to natural or it draws them closer to natural. It sounds such as songbirds and rivers running freely to the sea. They used sounds and moving images of the ivory-billed woodpecker, humpback whales, sea turtles, pronghorns, prairie chicken, and common loons. This is what Lin wants to reach people in this vision. Lin used many of the sounds and video from renowned videographers.

Another artwork by Maya Lin is that The Empty Room exhibition was first on display in China at the Beijing Center for the Arts on September 19th, 2009 and then in New York on September 25th, 2009. The empty room is a dark room composed of tiny pinholes all over the floor that reflect short videos of extinct and endangered species toward the ceiling; visitors carry handheld screens in their hands that are illuminated with the videos as they walk across the room.

The Empty Room is a traveling connection, which lets visitors, to get and hold, projected images in their hands, each image tells something about endangered species and environmental degradation.  This allows them the opportunity to directly interact with endangered and extinct species directly in the palms of their hands. There were a series of four 3-5 minute videos that were created to be played on MTV’s video screen in Time Square at the top of the hour every hour for 15 days; these videos were responsible for depicting events of mass extinction throughout history but in particularly related to humans specifically.

Figure. 2 (The Empty Room, Ammanda reed, 2010)

This photo shows part of the "black box room" where projectors cast images that visitors catch on hand-held sheets of translucent plastic. The projections depict vanishing species. The videos on display in both the "Listening Cone" and "Empty Room" installations are the main content pieces for the memorial. The videos have stunning images from all over the world with text overlays describing the magnitude of the problems facing each video subject. “The current iteration of the online world map and videos are the first part of Lin's larger "Map of Memory" project within the “What is Missing? Memorial”.

Maya Lin’s vision focus was on how the space needed to be in the future and what it meant to the people. Maya Lin’s main focus in this project was to bring to light the issue of extinction, of places, and things. Lin is planning many projects using many different media in different locations and even virtual installations. In my opinion, it is a great work that Lin tries to make her projects by different media and different locations. I really think that Lin’s artworks deserves more than successful. She achieved a lot of her artworks with excellent works. The reason why I chose these two artworks of her is because that these artworks are really interesting to look at them and to see how and what they made by.