I have been working on my PhD dissertation project with a provisional title: Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism.
Dissertation
A digital asset library that represents the Asian community’s everyday experiences. As a research assistant, I conducted an environmental scan, conceptualized the Assetory framework, collaborated with designers and programmers to develop the website, and facilitatedworkshops with other team members to engage local communities.
Virtual Reality
An asymmetric VR installation to re-enact a story of a building in Shanghai, China.
Video
A short AI film reimaging the scratches of 16mm films
Interactive Video Installation
An Interactive video Installation with body-tracking sensors to reveal the stories of a building in Shanghai, China.
Video
A short video piece adapted from the VR installation.
AR Game
An augmented reality game workshop to invite players to re-map their personal experiences within physical environments
Board Game
A site-specific board game for a local city festival in my hometown Changsha, China. In this game, players can reimagine the stories of one of the oldest district in the city collectively.
Aone-month virtual exhibition at a blockchain “metaverse” Cryptovoxels
Projects: Fire
(2017-2021)
Projects: Fire (2017-2021)
Hymn to the Fallen (2018- 2019)
Untitled (Disappearing) VR (2019)
Moooore Mall 1.0 (2019)
VR Performance
Multimedia Exhibition
Virtually Real Bodies (2018)
Exhibition
Realities (2018)
VR Exhibition
Multisensory VR Installation
A multi-sensory VR installation to use an uncanny and surreal Virtual Reality fire therapy to criticize this conflict between Chinese tradition and capitalism based on a real pyramid scheme company claiming to modernize Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Documentary
A short documentary about my grandfather who recalls his memories of his father and his father’s houses which were burned down during WWII.
Virtual Reality Installation
Virtual Reality Installation
Chameleon Gallery (2018 - 2021) - MR in Collective
Chameleon Gallery (2018 - 2021) - MR in Collective
I founded Chameleon Gallery, a Mixed Reality collective, at the end of 2017. During the active period from 2018 to 2021, we organized three physical exhibitions, two virtual exhibitions, and published two titles on Steam.
VR Game
I curated a multiplayer VR work by Jonathan Turner and published on Steam
Older Projects (2017 - 2021) - Fire
From 2017 to 2021, my practice focused on exploring the element of fire: physical or virtual, destructive or protective, internal or external, and fire as a symbol of desire, civilization, or a form of technics.
Body Fire
From 2018 - 2020, I worked on a project named. This project is
In 2020, I worked with Yidong and created a multiplayer game prototype, Looking in an Immersive World, to imagine the gay gaze in the future VR world.
Wenxi Fire
From 2016 - 2022, I made a series of works, including documentary, VR, digital prints, and 3D prints to retell a historic fire happened in my hometown in 1938, named Wenxi Fire:
I made a short documentary, Cao’s House, which is
I made a VR installation, Hymn to the Fallen, which includes a VR and a video to re-enact the historic fire in the current cityscape.
I created a project, Untitled Disappearing, to parallel this historic fire and ongoing gentrification in the city.
During the 2020 pandemic, I was evacuated from my apartment because of the forest fire in Santa Cruz, California. At that moment, I felt my practice of imagining the fire came to life. I wrote a small piece in Chinese when I stayed in my professor’s house temporarily. This experience still lingering around as a “perfect” summary of my experience in practicing Fire.