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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  • Sex and the City, Following

    Sex and the City, Following

    The hbo show sex and the city is so old and unrealistic I found it shocking there are people who would worship it hoping it happens in real life. People like Carrie Bradshaw would never exist in the first place. New York is so expensive and the thing is no one wanted to portray black… Read more

  • AR

    AR

    In 2018, the digital trends have made VR and AR the most advanced technology in people’s lives. The augmented reality asked for a philosophical consideration of people’s interactions with digital technology. But from my research what’s actually trending is the technology that has an analogue tinge, like artificial intelligence, Polaroid and digital scanners. It bridges… Read more

  • Location, Friends

    Location, Friends

    Friends is a tv show that makes me think a lot. Many people find it racist. I happen to find it fun. There are a lot of scenes dealing with emotional traumas. It’s about a New York City style sisterhood. It’s making many people hopeful in their lives. It turns out location is not all… Read more

  • Friendship

    Friendship

    I have thought about it again. I’m pretty sure it was qirou yang who walked past me. I think she purposefully pretended she didn’t see me. She had her hair different too. This type of encounter wasn’t rare. What was she doing at grange? Buying coffee? I got a feeling they were all stalking me.… Read more

  • Karaoke

    Karaoke

    Singing is mired in controversy. Taylor Swift works on songs that sound like auto tunes. Many people avoids going to karaoke. Is this normal? Read more

  • Relief

    Relief

    I just realized that woman I saw at the grange is probably not my friend qirou yang. What a relief. Read more

  • Conditioning

    Conditioning

    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… Read more

  • Natasha

    Natasha

    Why does people hate on Natasha in the Sex and the City? It’s probably because she was so fake. She was the opposite of Carrie Bradshaw. She was in the way of true love. But authenticity was weighing so much more on people’s minds. You can find 100 Natasha but only you can find 1… Read more

  • Emails

    Emails

    I saw my classmate and friend qirou yang today at grange. She dyed her hair yellow or blonde. It’s weird. She saw me and she walked right by pretending she didn’t. What’s she up to? Is she stalking me? Why wasn’t she replying to messages and emails? Read more

  • Protests

    Protests

    The exhibition, Melissa Auf der Maur, my 90s rock photographs, at ago shows women at different stage of undress. The pyramid and television stacking on top each other showing glitchy videos tell the story of unsustainable rock stardom. It connects the artist to a string of luxury experience and products playing music, opening a concert… Read more