Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
I am an interdisciplinary artist working on new media, focusing on self-identity amidst the evolving realms of the internet and technology, with a further specific focus on data/personal data.
My current work is a self-exploration in the field of the internet and technology, with the media of the web, coding, physical computing, video, virtual reality experience, and interactive sculpture/installation. Based on my personal data, using keywords from my memories and the numbers from my health data, I am reconstructing virtual avatars, a story of my growth, and the bodies that hold these stories and memories. It also reflects my identity as a newcomer from China, migrating to a blended analog and digital new world. We are now generating more and more virtual data, and virtual life is becoming more and more dominant. Personal identities are becoming interchangeable and indistinguishable between the virtual and real worlds. Through this work, I explore the inter-transformative relationship between the physical and the virtual, the tangible and the intangible, the material and the immaterial, and the thing and the non-thing.
In our current era, technology is extending its tendrils into the most personal spheres of humans, commoditizing personal data as a lucrative venture. I aim to critically engage in the reclaiming of sovereignty over our personal data, creating a space where personal data transcends commercial value and morphs into a playground for introspection, artistic expression, creativity, and exploration.