Yufan Xie

■Architecture ■Computation ■Interactive Media ■Sound Synthesis

Yufan Xie, multi-disciplinary designer and artist practicing at the intersection of architecture, computational design and audio-visual performances, focusing on the politics behind decision-making process and behavioral function in multi-sensory narratives. Btween concepts of sonification, visualization and materialization, technologies such as 3D printing, spatial audio and mixed reality are involved to create real-scale and real-time installations.

Under a mixed background of visual and acoustic, Yufan argues sensory bias in current cultures, as well as unique understanding of spatial and temporal narratives. Boundaries and limitations are set in space, to create inversed or imbalanced sensory experience on purpose, as a reflection of existing culture and technologies. Natural phenomenon and patterns of time and space are usually explored, as a means to skeptical perspectives upon new technologies and artifacts. Topics such as – How do we recognize ourselves in surroundings? How does technologies change the pattern of message both temporally and spatially? How do such patterns functions differently in our brains? – are generally involved in the explorations.

Projects including The Unknown Cities, GAP+, Acoustic Garden, Maelstrom have been featured at UABB (Shenzhen Bi-City Binnale), BMAB (Beijing Media Art Binnale), Shenzhen MoCAUP, SUSAS(Shanghai Urban Space Art Season), A+D Museum LA, Shanghai Digital Futures(CDRF). Since 2019, Yufan focuses on audience-oriented performance narrative and spatialized musical system, to enable potential scenes driven by spatial audio and new forms of interactive music.

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].