Installation

INTERVIEW | Qinru Zhang

INTERVIEW | Qinru Zhang

New York City-based multimedia artist Qinru Zhang has been exploring identity, femininity, and uncanniness using digital mediums, including 3D animation and mixed reality. Through observing society's sexualization of femininity, Zhang appropriates, détourns, and normalizes feminine stereotypes to challenge existing gender norms. She advocates for freedom of choice in identity representations and calls for female empowerment.

INTERVIEW | Carolina Amaya

INTERVIEW | Carolina Amaya

Carolina Amaya is a Colombian artist, based in Berlin. She explores the concept of eroticism through the lenses of pleasure, consent, self-love, fears, and sensuality. Her work aims to provoke introspection and evoke emotions through a range of media, a variety of hairy objects, solid colors and extremely black lines - with her own body as the main object of the image.

INTERVIEW | Tianyi Sun

INTERVIEW | Tianyi Sun

Tianyi Sun is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based between New York and Beijing. She uses a diverse range of strategies, including installation, film, sculpture, painting, and physical computation. Her latest project, Disposable Utensils, is an interactive installation that incorporates focused and ambient sound, multi-channel projection mapping, motion sensors, along with sculptural assemblages.

INTERVIEW | Hailing Liu

INTERVIEW | Hailing Liu

Hailing Liu is a mixed-media artist, animator, and motion graphic designer working and living in Chicago. They employ diverse media in their art practice: 2D and 3D animation, video composition, writing, sculpture, printing, Augmented Reality, physical and virtual installation. Focusing on digital culture, images, and media representations in contemporary life, Liu researches images produced as visual communication in capital systems.

INTERVIEW | Jing Zhao

INTERVIEW | Jing Zhao

Jing Zhao is Chinese artist, born in Shanghai and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. explores ideological transformations in this time of accelerated information circulation and cultural diaspora. Zhao was trained as a photographer, and her research-based practice is rooted in the tradition of conceptual art. As a result, she works across a broad range of mediums.

INTERVIEW | Jia Jia

INTERVIEW | Jia Jia

Jia Jia is a multi-media artist. She works primarily in installation, incorporating sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice uses satire and humor to imagine everyday objects anew. The work questions how globalization and a technologically saturated society influence the ideology of the individual and how the individual behaves in a society filled with contradiction and stimulation.

INTERVIEW | Qiao Ban

INTERVIEW | Qiao Ban

Qiao Ban is a Chinese artist currently based in Germany. Her work primarily focuses on social issues in China and Germany, especially through her perspective of a foreigner, her sense of belonging, and her perspectives on life in a familiar and unfamiliar country. She hopes her work is open and interactive, without a definite answer. The result is a visual reflection of images, text, and materials and an art exhibition.

INTERVIEW | Seph Li

INTERVIEW | Seph Li

Seph Li is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist, currently based in London, UK. His interactive works vary in many different forms, but they are all self-contained systems that run on computational rules. Seph searches for dynamic equilibriums in nature and re-imagines them into interactive systems through digital technology. His works are now focusing on dynamic fluids, accumulative interaction, and physics hypotheses.

INTERVIEW | Alina Orlov

INTERVIEW | Alina Orlov

Alina Orlov's work is characterized by her focus on the inner world of the individual and the unconscious mind. She explored themes of identity, memory, and perception through her use of non-linear narratives, symbolism, and surreal imagery. In her work, she explores themes of love, and loss, seeking to capture the complexities and contradictions of human experience.

INTERVIEW | Hanyue Song

INTERVIEW | Hanyue Song

Hanyue Song is a designer of visual communications from Shanghai who currently resides in California. Her work examines the confluence of several disciplines, including visual design, branding & marketing design, user experience, and project planning in kid education. Her work styles are wide and varied due to her multidisciplinary background, which extends beyond her use of commercial or spontaneous artistic creations.

INTERVIEW | Sarvesh Singh

INTERVIEW | Sarvesh Singh

Sarvesh is an architect, writer, and multi-disciplinary designer based in India. His inspiration stems from the emergent antithesis of a definitive style and spills over from environmental design to cartography, storytelling, media, sculpture, installation, film, interactive world-building, and more. He has contributed so far to diverse project scales and typologies in parts of India, Africa, and America.

INTERVIEW | Chaney Manshu Diao

INTERVIEW | Chaney Manshu Diao

Chaney Manshu Diao is an artist and poet whose practice explores the concept of identity from the lens of trans* (-gender, -human, -bodies) and queer studies through body, linguistics, and movement. By considering the body as a mobilised site entering in and out of geographical boundaries, Chaney explores the meaning of being inter/national, multi/cultural; community, and otherness; as well as the construction of Asianness.

INTERVIEW | Maya Smira

INTERVIEW | Maya Smira

Maya Smira is a multidisciplinary artist using video, photography, dance, performance & installation. She explores global and interpersonal issues and is interested in land changes, geographic, social and psychological processes. As a traveling artist, the physical space allows her to express new aspects of herself, while also talking about questions in society and the environment.

INTERVIEW | Wenhui Jiang

INTERVIEW | Wenhui Jiang

Wenhui Jiang is a Chinese designer and artist, now based in London. Sensory experiences in everyday life are central to her practice. Wenhui explores how senses other than sight affect the viewer's experience in space. Her work aims to locate the subtle bonds between people, objects, and the surrounding environment. Her most recent project project is The Soul of Breath.

INTERVIEW | Yu Yan

INTERVIEW | Yu Yan

Yu Yan is a visual artist based in New York, United States. Primarily working with researched-based projects and site-specific installations, she follows intuitive research pursuits across a variety of disciplines and disparate systems of knowledge. She is interested in the connectedness between personal memory and collective urban scenes, addressing issues around immigration and the diaspora community.

INTERVIEW | Jiayu Liu

INTERVIEW | Jiayu Liu

Known for her immersive and evocative media installations, Jiayu Liu is a media artist based in Beijing. Jiayu's artwork often recreates and augments the natural world and focuses on relationships between humans, nature, and the lived environment, exploring human behavior and response. Her latest project, Streaming Stillness, has been presented at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 for the China Pavilion.

INTERVIEW | Yalan Wen

INTERVIEW | Yalan Wen

Yalan Wen is an artist based in New York City who works on computational images, new media installations, and motion graphics. Born and raised in Taiwan, she developed her curiosity about art and science. Her work explores the subtle events that happen beyond the surface, finding the balance between simplicity and nuanced philosophical interpretations.

INTERVIEW | Pavlina Vagioni

INTERVIEW | Pavlina Vagioni

Pavlina Vagioni’s art is all about alchemy, re-enchanting the contemporary world through the timelessness of the myths and legends of her Hellenic heritage. She renders the symbols and archetypes behind them to reveal their relevance and aliveness and bridge the chasm between Cartesian rationalism and the spirituality of human beings, nature, and the cosmos.

INTERVIEW | Sümer Sayın

INTERVIEW | Sümer Sayın

Sümer Sayın is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily with sculpture and installation. She makes interventions into found objects, using geometric elements, reflections, repetitions, and loops, altering their composition and function. By re-constructing some of the elements they are composed of, she assigns them new contexts and layers of meanings.

INTERVIEW | Yuguang Zhang

INTERVIEW | Yuguang Zhang

Yuguang (YG) Zhang is a New York-based new media / AI artist. His current practice, which incorporates interactive media, installation, and live performance, explores the connections we make with the ubiquitous AI systems embedded around us, the surprises and struggles we have when we (partially) surrender our authorship to intelligent algorithms, and the cultural & ethical shifts that come along in our society.