Artist Statement

Exhibition. Le Cube Garges, April 27 – May 18

2022
Interactive Installation

Artist and researcher Yu Yin is interested in how the contemporary world influences the development and evolution of current and future living species. The OctoAnemone is a speculative sea creature, the morphology of an as-yet-unknown artificial life form created by the Father of the post-Anthropocene.The encounter with this future being allows us to explore forms of future communications with beings endowed with an intelligence and a language that diverge from ours. https://w2.mat.ucsb.edu/yinyu/projects/OctoAnemone.html

• Yin Yu（于音）is a multi-disciplinary artist, engineer, and designer. She has a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering (China), a Master of Science in Information Technology (USA), and a Master of Science in Interior Architecture (USA). Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technologies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is interested in expanding the potential of interactive multimedia environments and the relationships between architecture and music in contemporary art and design practice. Her goal is to investigate the interactions between human beings and the built space by redesigning the environment through new media technologies. Applications include architecture, wearable design, and social interaction. https://w2.mat.ucsb.edu/yinyu/index.html