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.


Conditioning

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I found the people who experience digital environment through a tightly controlled environment often experience a phenomenon I called, “conditioning”. It makes everything on the web reflect the psychology of people who experience, actively participate in and engage in it. The often dark psychology of algorithm is being resuscitated as a reference point. People come out of this environment often become more irritable, less empathetic and less compassionate. The process of this aging backwards makes many people prefer their algorithms do its work for them. They don’t search. They just be in the environment letting it shape the persons that they are. Is it not a horror story? 

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