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.


The Legend of Sword and Fairy

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My artistic sensibility comes from a treacly little video game from China called the legend of sword and fairy in 1990s. I played it day and night to experience the narrative flourish in particular scenes, snake woman, swords play in caves and falling towers. I see myself as an avatar traversing the grounds of mystic beauty. I imagined myself to be the main protagonist who had his swords about him rescuing maidens and challenging the bosses. Years later, I can see myself again embellish myself in the working realms of digital media, new media and computers. Knowing that it’s all developed from this childhood adventure, I have relished what it meant for my interests and careers: it is exciting to have a narrative that strives through the interactive narrative plots. Is coding and writing two different things in a complete integral project? 

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