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Issue 5: Dispersion

What Are We Waiting For?

What are we waiting for? And why do we keep going? Through conversation and artworks this video podcast explores how promises of a better future shape our choices, our efforts and our experience of the present.

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Issue 5: Dispersion

Data laundry day stream

A doll came to life. She participates in a government breathing campaign, but more importantly reacts to a “well-made” video essay on AI video model data operations.

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Issue 5: Dispersion

A Critique of the Attention Economy in Contemporary Art

This essay explores how contemporary artistic practices critically reflect on the attention economy.

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Issue 5: Dispersion

From Fire and Dust to Water: Materiality, Temporality and the Transformation of Perception in Digital Media

This essay examines how fire, dust and water mediate human perceptions of time, memory and embodiment, exploring their symbolic and material significance in art and how digital technologies transform sensory experience through simulation, interaction and computational control.

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Issue 5: Dispersion

The Angel in the House

Exploring how patriarchal ideals of femininity are constructed, internalised, and challenged through literature and cinema.

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Issue 5: Dispersion

Why do I remember the sky being a little more blue?

An essay discussing the nostalgia of early technology, the anxieties of surveillance capitalism, and hope in creativity.

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Absurdity as Artistic Strategy: Re-activating Bodily Perception

An essay examining how absurdity, as an artistic strategy, reawakens perception and reframes seeing and being seen in overlooked everyday actions.

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Interfacial Ecologies: On Bark, Bodies, and Bandwidth

The essay explores how natural and digital “skins” act as responsive surfaces that store memory and shape interaction. Through installations that merge bark, skin and glitching textures, my practice explores slower, attentive forms of touch and the ethical relationships that arise when organic and technological rhythms meet.

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Issue 3: Unresolve

Exchange Dialogues: Navigating Cross-Cultural Spiritual Pathways in Art

This essay reflects on my interview with artist Yin-Ju Chen, exploring the topics of cross-cultural art practice, shamanism, identity and AI, and the role of spirituality in contemporary contexts.

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Issue 3: Unresolve

Interactive Narrativity in The Context of Participatory Arts and Power 

This thesis investigates how interactive narrativity within participatory arts can challenge societal power structures and foster social change, drawing upon both theoretical insights and my own practice-based research.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

Harmony of Verse and Mind

The study explores into the collaboration between humans and machines, exploring how they creativity come together to make interactive art in the fields of poetry language and neuroscience. By connecting these different areas, the goal is to discover new ways of artistic expression.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

Split Bodies: The Construction of Women’s Character in Otaku Culture

This paper describes contemporary subcultural traits and reflects on the impact of East Asian otaku culture’s stereotypical construction of the female figure in online animation on the virtual body and the real physical body.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

The Transfer of “Self-Consciousness”

This paper focuses on the flow of people’s selves into digital space as the times have moved on, and reflects on the implications of this for millennials’ self-understanding as well as suggesting new ways of thinking about it.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

TADO Art Center – London Short Film Festival

TLSFF is an online community platform for young creators to show their talents, advance their careers, find partners to share their lives and gather their ideas.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Happy Death Day: Revisiting Feminism in Abortion in the Chinese Context 

The artist seeks to explore a new perspective on abortion based on feminism. By making it possible for a wider audience to participate in the search for a new perspective on abortion, the patriarchy’s devaluation and natural stigmatisation of women who have had abortions can be dismantled.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

The possibility of Software as life in Capitalist Ruins

Myths in digital practice: the art of self-presentation under digitalized society and the possibility of software as a kind of memory of human symbiosis.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Feminist Art in Digital Space

A talk and an essay about my research about re-architecting female‘s daily life in the digital space through performance, and using 3D cyborg to perform instead of live-action performance.