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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  • Plates

    Plates

    A while ago, I was in an eatery in Uoft. I got agitated after a bunch of people harassed me with their makeup, clothes and talks. However a waiter or security came called Alex of which a name I just gave to a stranger I saw. He told me to eat outside. I was angry… Read more

  • Oil, Indigenous People

    Oil, Indigenous People

    The indigenous collection on the first floor of Rom shows a country that’s resilient under duress. It showcases a range of tools and clothes of indigenous people in Canada. It tells the story of getting by and survival. The delicate patterns on their clothes reveal a deeply entrenched mentality about money, working hard is what… Read more

  • Resilience, Game of Thrones

    Resilience, Game of Thrones

    I remember a scene in the game of thrones. Danaerys was in fire. And it didn’t harm her. The dragons were born from the eggs. I was wondering ever since whether it was a scene of showing her magic ability or a scene of showing her resilience. During the pandemic, around 2020 or 2021, I… Read more

  • Blood

    Blood

    A few months ago I talked about women or people out for blood everywhere. And recently I just learned about films about Elizabeth Holmes; one of them is called out for blood as well. Blood has become a precious possession of the rich. The environmental journalist and one of Kennedy scion, Tatianna Schlossberg, had an… Read more

  • George Floyd, Justin Trudeau, Katy Perry

    George Floyd, Justin Trudeau, Katy Perry

    Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry’s union has a clear undertone of racism. People look at them and wonder what the years of financial deprivation in Canada has done to their life choices. It reminds people of George Floyd and all the other people who have died and got killed. The pairing just seemed ingenious. Etc.  Read more

  • 9/11

    9/11

    When 9/11 happened in 2001, I was at home in Haikou, China. It was on tv. I saw the plane and the smoke on screen. In 2025 or 2026 I went to the 9/11 memorial and museum. The exhibitions show a world of collective grief. It has made me conscious of people who lost their… Read more

  • Imagine

    Imagine

    I finished my applications. It was relieving. Imagine what people do to accomplish the same thing. Etc.  Read more

  • Mind Space

    Mind Space

    I’m currently living with my mother in Markham. The thought of the past relationships and things in 2020 and 2019 made me feel sad, wanting to throw up and having anxiety attacks. I checked on google. It talked about how these types of emotional wounds often got reopened if you talked to the past people.… Read more

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial Intelligence

    Does language model know things we don’t know? Read more

  • Life of N, McDonald’s. – Creative Writing

    Life of N, McDonald’s. – Creative Writing

    In the winter sun, we deluded that people were prone to anxiety because they saw cars. I walked amongst them pretending I was just steps away from an encounter, a meeting or a meetup. The museums looked beautiful. Or it had to. Unlike the ugliness of the streets surrounding it, the museum looked majestic. the… Read more