Milton Lim (he/him, b. 1989) is an award-winning Canadian game designer, media artist, and performance creator based between Vancouver and Montréal.

As a technologist, programmer, writer, director, and performer, Milton’s research-based practice entwines public data, interactive digital media, and gameful performance to create speculative visions and candid articulations of social capital. This line of inquiry aims to reconsider our repertoires of knowledge aggregation and political intervention in the contemporary context of rampant gamification, big data, and algorithmic culture. Often cheeky and audience/participant driven, his work challenges standard performance traditions including duration, linearity, and repeatability.

Milton holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Concordia University in Montréal, researching the rampant gamification of civic life and the future of storytelling.

He has created works for and performed in various international festivals and venues including PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), CanAsian Dance Festival (Toronto), Festival TransAmériques (Montréal), Carrefour international de théâtre festival (Quebec City), Seattle International Dance Festival, Risk/Reward Festival (Portland), The Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boston), Festival Internacional de Teatro Universitario / FITU at Teatro UNAM (Mexico City), Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Mayfest (Bristol), artsdepot (London), Battersea Arts Centre (London), New Theatre Royal (Portsmouth), Strike a Light Festival (Gloucester), Teatre Lliure (Barcelona), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Humboldt Forum (Berlin), Inteatro (Ancona), Hong Kong Arts Festival, Seoul Performing Arts Festival,soft/WALL/studs (Singapore), Sydney Festival, and more.

Performance credits include The Arts Club’s The Great Leap, Gateway Theatre’s King of the Yees at Canada's National Arts Centre, and Theatre Conspiracy’s award-winning immersive show: Foreign Radical at CanadaHub (Edinburgh Fringe). Milton's media artworks have been presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, F-O-R-M, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and The New Gallery. In 2016, he was awarded the Ray Michal Prize for Outstanding Body of Work at the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.

He is a co-founder and a creative director of STUDIO FUNFUG, a co-founder and key archivist with the videocan national video archive of performing arts documentation, a co-artistic director of Hong Kong Exile, an artistic associate with Theatre Conspiracy, a recent artistic-leader-in-residence with the National Theatre School (Canada), one of the co-creators behind culturecapital: the performing arts economy trading card game, and one of the co-creators of asses.masses: the video game. In 2022, his work on asses.masses received the prestigious National Creation Fund from the National Arts Centre of Canada and it is currently touring internationally in 10 languages.

As a Creative Developer, Milton has joined the Innovation Team of Moment Factory: the globally-renowned multidisciplinary entertainment studio specializing in the creation, design, and production of immersive environments.