STATEMENT OF WORK

My work explores the evolving relationship between the real and the virtual, human experience and AI, personal identity and data commodification. As an interdisciplinary artist working across web-based media, VR/AR, WebXR, AI-generated imagery, 3D environments, projection mapping, and interactive installations, I examine how technology reshapes memory, identity, and cultural narratives in digital spaces.

Born and raised in China and now based in New York City, my practice is informed by migration, displacement, and the fractured nature of digital identity. I see the internet as both an archive and an arena, a space where personal histories are documented, distorted, and repurposed by algorithms. My recent work, Aliens of Me, reconstructs my identity through personal data extracted from my smartwatch and online media, reinterpreted into virtual avatars and narratives. This work questions how our digital traces shape self-perception and how we navigate a world where personal data is simultaneously intimate and commodified.

Currently, my research extends into hometown memories in digital spaces, extracting and visualizing collective and individual recollections from open datasets. This project reflects my ongoing interest in the fluidity of memory in an era of data-driven storytelling, creating immersive WebXR and projection-mapped experiences that bridge human recollection and machine-generated interpretation.

Through my work, I challenge the ways in which technology archives and mediates personal experience, asking: What happens when AI becomes the storyteller of our lives? Can digital landscapes become homes for lost or fragmented memories? By blending human narratives with computational systems, I aim to reclaim personal data as a site for self-reflection, artistic expression, and collective storytelling, rather than a commodity to be extracted.