1.Meta Eye Festival – MC2 Pre-launch Poster, 2024, Visual Design

Visual design for MC2 Pre-launch Screening Woven Unseen: AI and Visual Narratives at Meta Eye Festival.

We present the eye as a multi-layered spacial model, a three-dimensional visual symbol, to metaphorically represent Meta Eye as a canvas, container, and interface for the focus and expression of visual art.

2.The Larva of Time, 2024, Visual Design

The Larva of Time is an interdisciplinary exhibition, invited two artists and two scientists to investigate unnoticed temporal imprints in the processes of artistic and scientific research.

In the visual design of the exhibition, we use eye tracking technology to capture the gaze trajectory, using our eyes to depict an imaginary butterfly. The design process is more of an experiment or creation, weaving the visual image of the exhibition into the overall narrative of observation and metamorphosis, time and trace, science and art.

3.SCRY POP-UP SHANGHAI, 2024, Exhibition Design, Visual Design, Installation

Exhibition and visual design for SCRY POP-UP SHANGHAI 2024.

SCRY is a pioneering footwear laboratory. We metaphorically presented SCRY's integrated additive manufacturing technology and it’s rapid design and manufacturing iteration capability in the form of spacial installation, giving birth to SCRY Print Lab, a "liminal space" that integrates avant-garde aesthetics with everyday space.

The scanner on the top of the printer installation automatically scans at a certain frequency, continuously capturing and recording the time and space in flux as image data. The moving light belt of the scanner provides a changing light effect, cast through the blinds, together with the rhythm of machines' operating echoing in the space, creating a subtle yet rich audio-visual experience.

(All the visual materials come from the printer installation in use in the space.)

4.14th Shanghai Biennale “Cosmos Cinema”, 2023, Visual Design

The theme of the 14th Shanghai Biennale consists of two words: "Cosmos" and "Cinema". In the visual system, the core elements are composed of a rotating black cube; a light screen projected on the black cube; and a series of text information that follows the movement of the cube and light screen. The three elements respectively metaphorize the cosmos, the cinema, and the information and civilization within. The three create an ever-changing superimposed connection reflecting the process of continuous exploration, contemplations, interpretations, and representation of us human beings of the cosmos.

5.Cloud Atlas, 2023, Interactive Installation

A screen leaning against the ground, covered with transparent cloud layer reliefs. As the viewer's distance changes, the images on the screen circulate layer by layer from the clouds to the skin. An inhomogeneous, unfocusable, real-time generated, ever-changing transparent medium squeezes images of different time and space into our present perception.

The word "medium" originated from Latin, meaning "in the middle". In this era of optoelectronics, the space between the sensory skin, physical clouds, and digital clouds is filled with various media that constantly cause information to mutate. which is the "ether" of this era. Like slicing through the "ether" of the media age, the installation separates the eyes from the skin, and rubs the images into the folds of the screen.

6.Sunset Blvd, 2023, Interactive Installation

A setting sun projected on the wall, as the viewer walks in and away, sometimes zooms in to a luminous spot on the wall, and sometimes zooms out until it covers the entire space – but maintains the same size in the viewer's field of vision.

7.Word World, 2023, VR experience

A huge comma settles in the exhibition hall, where the reading of the space pauses briefly and a new space expands: the player will enter a world constructed by words and languages. In here, the scale between the player and the text is exchanged – the text is set to be 1.7 meters high, while the height of the player's sight is only 24 points (about 5 mm). The sequential text constitutes the towering skyscrapers in this world. Starting from a comma, the player wanders, explores or stays in this maze of language world. Link to the game: wordworld.games

8.Trash Can, 2021, Website

trash-can.site is an online shared trash can. You can drag and drop any file into the trash can when it’s empty, and your ‘trash’ will be uploaded to the server. When you see it’s full, which means someone else’s ‘trash’ is in it, you will have to empty it before you can drop anything into it. When you empty it, upon a click, you’ll be deleting someone else’s ‘trash’ from the server – by downloading it onto your computer.

9.All at Once, 2021, Exhibition, Website

All at Once brings together the work of 2021 Yale School of Art Graphic Design MFA graduating class through a unique merging of the physical and the virtual of our current environment. In the physical gallery space, dynamic color fields are projected onto the walls, meanwhile, in the virtual space, they are replaced by participants’ work using the chroma key technique. These color fields, together with the visitors' shadow, become the "stages" of participants’ work. From April 22 to April 28, a continuously evolving live feed of work was broadcasted 24/7 at allatonce.space—while the physical show was on view in person at Green Hall Gallery.

10.After Flash-Vase, 2022

A vase that leaves the after image of flowers in your eyes.

11.Refrigerator, 2020, Video Installation

The refrigerator’s white and clean exterior look is set over against its dark interior reality–the grim machine is changing the shape of food and our relationship to nature.
The video installation alters the refrigerator's claimed innocent narrative by changing its parameters. In the dark basement of the gallery space, as the refrigerator’s door opens, the inside of the refrigerator is projected on the wall. Between clips of the refrigerator’s door open and closed, the viewer saw a blank screen and heard only the sound of the humming machine echoing in the gallery space.

12.After Flash-Screen, 2022

A screen that leaves the after image of flowers in your eyes.

13.Fireworks, 2021, Virtual Sculpture

Set off a cluster of fireworks in the water standing on the sea.

14.Burning Crowds, 2019-2021, Video, Installation, Report

In Eastern folk religion, cremation is considered a gateway to deliver objects to the spiritual world. A cremation ceremony for abandoned deities exists in the folk culture of Taoyuan, Taiwan. The artists focused on the process of blurring the boundary between the physical and spiritual states in the ceremony, and explored the virtual characteristics of divinity by refining the moment of coexistence where the two intertwine. This project discussed whether the era dominated by technology sustains (embraces/realizes) the pursuit for divinity and how one can “return home” and resist accelerated splits caused by technological advancement.

15.RCA DD Final Show, 2020

Visual design for Graduation/WIP exhibition of Digital Direction, RCA, UK

16.Exit, 2020, Website

A journey of finding the exit, a constant searching for a way out, walking through the space in between the physical and the digital.

You will land on an image where you could find an exit sign by moving around on the page, your cursor will turn to a jump arrow when you get to the exit, click on it, you will exit the current image and enter the next place with another exit sign… over and over again, in a loop of exits. Information of where the exit signs existed in the world can be found on the bottom of the page. A click here will link you to Google Maps. The images come from my own collection and from other users all over the world. Location information was extracted from EXIF data embedded in the photos taken by any digital camera.

17.City of Order, 2020, Website

City of Order is a shelter for virtual citizens, or a digital cemetery.

18.1659times/min, 2017, Installation

The installation came from the research on a series of new re-designs for religious artifacts represented by “electric prayer wheel”. In order to quantify and emphasize the efficiency and the sense of absurdity of new ritual behaviour, the artist summarize six traditional religious and folk ritual behaviours with the "dispelling" effect and assign them on the device layer by layer. The work aims to discuss the tendency that the boundary between current technologies in the sci-tech world and the traditional ritual behaviour is becoming increasingly blurred, but the two sides are approaching to integrate with each other.

19.Love on the Cloud, 2020, Website

Love on the Cloud is a simulation of having an online crush. It is programmed as a bot named Mengyi that talks to anyone who connects, and pretends to be a lover on the other side of the world.

20.Readable Touches, 2020, Sculpture

The sculptures that translate how feeling a thing look like. View the video documentation here.

21.Pipeline, 2021, Website

As infrastructure of the city, pipelines are ubiquitous in urban areas. They are the blood vessels, intestines, or airways of the city machine, constantly running in a secret manner. This website collects sound samples from pipelines in the city of New Haven. Put on earphones to better experience the sound.

22.Noise, 2021, Website

A website that responds to your silence. The website recognizes your speech and detects the pauses in your speech – as gaps in between lines. As you pause for a longer time, the gap between words will grow bigger. Hover over the gap, it appears the words from my writing towards the silence that’s been pulled and inserted into the gaps – a conversation is revealed from the silence.

23.Dream, 2019, Installation, Video Documentation

Dreams are dreams because they are beautiful but unrealistic. So I tried to ‘make a dream’ in a most realistic way–I designed ‘dream’ into a glowing billboard, and document the process of which was manufactured, consumed and recycled to society through the process of industrial production. View the video documentation here.