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©2024 Yiqing Chen

About Artist

Yiqing Chen is a London-based Chinese artist. His practice focus on technical infrastructure behind global virtual industry and indigenous culture in East Asia. His work spans documentary, CGI and game/XR immersive experiences, overlaping the virtual with material reality by infusing research on indigenous narratives into fictional media.

Yiqing's works screened and exhibited in “ICA X Conditions event”ICA London, UK (2024); “Augmented Europe 2nd final event”MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, Italy (2024); “Digital Lab exhibition”Conditions, London, UK (2024); “Operation RHo1”SYSTEM Shanghai, China (2024); “The Medium is Technology”Centre for Visual Arts, Wisconsin, US (2024); “Queer and Now 2023” TATE Britain, “New Horizon”Bilsar Building, Istanbul, Turkey (2023); “Immensiva residency exhibition”ESPRONCEDA, Barcelona, Spain (2023); “ReA Art Fair 2022”Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy (2022); “WDT2:4”Wetdovetail Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK (2022); “RCA Digital Direction Re-emergency”Cromwell Place, London, UK (2022). In 2024, he's "Gaming as Method of Sound Production" awarded winner of Artathon Gdańsk, LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art, as part of Augmented Europe 2nd funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission. He graduated from Internet of Things Engineering (2018) and awarded master degree of Digital Direction in Royal Collage of Art (2021).

Yiqing Chen travels from London, Europe to Guizhou (Southwest China) and others with a dispora identity as a digital nomad and artist