Yufan is……

Yufan Xie is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work bridges computational design, electronic music and media art. Involving topics of human cognition, collective memories and technology criticism, Yufan’s art covers various types of work including short films, 3D printing, immersive installation and audio-visual performance, reflecting the dynamics of cultural subtleties and sensory hierarchies in various mediums. (Don’t take these seriously cause I’m not an “expert”.)

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, ACM CHI and SIGGRAPH. Awards winning projects GAP+, Acoustic Garden and Maelstrom are featured at Young-Talent Architect Awards, A+D Design Awards, Epic MegaGrants, SXSW Innovation Awards and International Sound Awards – but does any of these matters?

As the developer of DRAEM (Distance Related Audio Effect Modulation), they are inventor of and avant-garde of spatial music, while showing a pioneering vision on multi-sensory art and cognition science. Since 2019, Yufan has been working on audience-directed performance and spatial musical systems. Resonating with neuroscientific process of human brain on pattern recognition, the series of experiment brings new framework on media art, music, and architectural practices, revoking discourses upon mental health issue and decision making process in our current era of message. Proposing the concept of “Concurrent Art” in 2024, Yufan takes the inspiration from the structure of their music experiment into generative art experiments, exploring the distortion of figures, space, and self images, under the concept of “media implosion”.

For professional consulting services(data visualization, geometry optimization, rendering, generative design, sound scoring , tech consulting in Rhino/Grasshopper, Unreal Engine, C#, MAX/MSP, Ableton Live and etc) please contact [email protected] or see Portfolio.