Yuling Chen is a Chinese Canadian new media artist. She is specialized in making works about beauty, labour and racial tensions using media archives exploring histories of new media art. She was born in 1990 on the southern small island of China, Hainan Island, in the city of Danzhou. When she was young she led a nomadic life moving from cities to cities, homes to homes and places to places. Thus, she had discovered her love in literature, obsession with identity, and eyes for design.


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I remembered I thought people were stalking my phones in 2020. I have claimed Donald J. Trump knew the New York Times. And the New York Times had things to do with the Tiananmen massacre and protests. These conspiracy theories espoused from my research and reading of the Wikipedia. Soon afterwards, my works have become different than the works I did in schools. I tried to get those works deleted. Then I regretted in 2023 or 2022. I talked with an OCAD University advisor. She told me I could be an art writer. I didn’t know what it meant. Why wasn’t she saying just writer? What about being an artist? Anyhow, I put together an initial pitch for C magazine wanting to write reviews or feature for them. Since then I have been trying nonstop to send them pitches and writing samples. Recently this year they had a funding freak out and their operation is in jeopardy due to the lack of fundings. I kept on emailing them my pitches. Throughout years, I realized you could write whatever you feel like. It’s just a good practice. I took creative writing courses. I’m well trained on my imagination and association. I also was traveling viewing new art and artworks, producing videos, and writing new different pitches. It could go somewhere honestly.  

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