Yufan Xie
■Architecture ■Computation ■Interactive Media ■Sound Synthesis
Yufan Xie is a multi-disciplinary designer and artist, who operates at the intersection of architecture, computational design, sound synthesis and audio-visual performances. Yufan’s research focuses on the decision-making process, the perceptual and behavioral processes within multi-sensory narratives, while offering skeptical perspectives upon the cultural nuances inherent to sensory experiences and sensory biases induced by prevailing ocular-centric culture.
Notable projects and studies have been showcased at Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale(UABB), Beijing Media Art Biennale(BMAB), Shenzhen MoCAUP, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season(SUSAS), Shanghai Digital Futures, Currents New Media Festival and ACM CHI. Awards winning projects GAP+, Acoustic Garden and Maelstrom are featured at Qianlixing Scholarship 2019, YTAA(Young-Talent Architect Awards Asia) 2020, A+D Design Awards 2021, Epic MegaGrants 2021 and SXSW Innovation Awards 2024.
Since 2019, Yufan has been working on audience-directed performance and spatial musical systems. Resonating with neuroscientific process of human brain on musical rewarding process and pattern prediction, the series of experiment brings new methodology and instructive philosophy on media art, music, and architectural practices, revoking discourses upon how formed habits fro our immediate past affect our present behaviors and decisions for our uncertain immediate future.
For professional consulting services(data visualization, geometry optimization, rendering, generative design, sound scoring in Rhino/Grasshopper, Unreal Engine, C#, MAX/MSP, Ableton Live and etc) please contact [email protected].
Education
2019 – 2021 SoA, University of Southern California, M.Arch , Los Angeles
2018 Exchange at SoA, West Minster University, London
2014 – 2019 SoA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, B.Arch, A9 Studio, Beijing
Work/Research
2021.7 – now Computational Designer at Refik Anadol Studio
2020 MADA s.p.a.m LA Internship
2020 Rhino Studio, Grasshopper Animation Tutorial
2020 USC ARCH 410 Class Assistant, Grasshopper Tutor with Erin Cuevas
2020 Usability Lead of USC AGP Game“Beat the Beat Up“
2017-2019 Member of Parametric Research Group Team CAFA
2017.9-11 Tuning Synesthesia Internship – 3D printing Researcher
Awards
2021 A+D Museum Design Award, Runner-Up
2021 Robert Bradford Newman Student Medal for Merit in Architectural Acoustics awarded by the Acoustical Society of America.
2021 Epic Megagrants Recipient- Acoustic Garden
2020 YTAA(Young Talent Architect Award) Shortlisted
2020 Gensler Diversity Scholarship
2019 1st Place Winner, CAFA Graduate Design
Exhibition
2023 Evolutionary Space – Berlin
2023 Evolutionary Space – Shanghai
2023 SUSAS (Shanghai Urban Space Art Season), Shanghai
2023 4C Gallery LA, AI & NI Group Exhibition, LA
2023 Beijing Media Arts Binnale
2023 Broken Spring 搞砸春天 Exhibition, TANKO, Beijing
2023 Spectra Studio, Audio-Visual Night, LA
2021 Sci-Ficene, Art and Science Concept Exhibition, The Unknown City, Beijing
2020 Breeze and the Man-made, Beijing
2020 Art NOVA 100 – The Unknown Cities, Beijing
2019 UABB Shenzhen Binnale Exhibition, The Unknown City
Lectures & Conferences
2022 Digital Futures, CDRF(The 5th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication) – A Slime old System Based on Skeletonization Errors
2021 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Shifting Computation – Tangible to Intangible
2021 Organizer of Acoustic Future forum
2020 Tsinghua Design Future – “Tangible vs Intangible”
2020 USCA Research Symposium, The Unknown City
Press
2024 2024 SXSW Innovation Awards Finalists Announced
2024 VISION青年视觉:在声音的世界里,我们在感知什么?
2024 双城策展 | “演化的空间” Vol.02/03 柏林 Evolutionary Space: De-Elemental (Visit Berlin, ArtRabbit, Foresight News )
2024 MANA: 跨时区数字空间艺术&沉浸式新媒体互动体验 全球巡展第二站
2023 数字艺术全球群展 |「演化的空间」上海站 Evolutionary Space Shanghai (Foresight News)
2023 空间视听装置《大漩涡》 – 在信息浪潮中重拾方向(雅昌,艺术中国,VOGUE)
2023 US Art News: Beyond the Visual: ‘Maelstrom’ Initiates a New Dialogue between Senses and Information
2020 《微风与人造之物》启幕,探讨自然与人造之物的有机互联(CAFA,雅昌)
2020 《九座城市,万种未来》专访系列之谢雨帆
2020 凤凰艺术 | 科幻是一种工作方式(上) :从深港双年展的 “九座城市,万种未来”出发
2020 UABB云观展 – 特别项目《九座城市·万种未来》
2020 world-architect.com: Yufan Xie – YTAA 2020 Asia Shortlist