YIQING CHEN

About Artist

Yiqing Chen is an artist and digital director from Guihzhou, currently based in London. His works span multiple media from CG animated films, documentary to the game/XR. By employing own position as buoy, Yiqing’s practice float between fictionality hidden in reality and material foundations underlying computer-generated image, exploring global-local dynamics shaped by technology and infrastructure. His practice concentrate on infrastructure behind globalized virtual industry, energy politics and working class narratives and so on. 

Yiqing's works screened and exhibited at TATE Britain, ICA London, Cromwell Place Gallery (London), Conditions (London), Wetdovetail Gallery (Middlesbrough), MEET Digital Culture Centre (Milan), HIAP (Finland), ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture (Barcelona) and so on. In 2024, he's "Gaming as Method of Sound Production" awarded the winner of Artathon Gdańsk by LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art (Poland), as part of Augmented Europe 2nd funded the European Commission (EACEA). Yiqing graduated with master degree of Digital Direction from Royal Collage of Art (2021) and bachelor of Internet of Things engineering (2018).