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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  • Chongqing

    Chongqing

    When I was a child my parents sent me away to Chongqing. I attended kindergarten there. Each week I had some money to buy myself a comic series called doraamon from Japan. I remember I was always uncomfortable. I ate food in the kindergarten and vomited when they had eggplants in the meal. I was… Read more

  • China

    China

    I thought about New York when I was writing about China. I remembered in 2012 or 2011 I started to read the New Yorker out loud at home to Alex Banman after we were married to practice English. I did a lot of entrepreneurship getting design contracts exploring my Chinese ancestry and background. I didn’t… Read more

  • Friends

    Friends

    Friends is a tv show worth rewatching. The show has a lot of stereotypical people. I found it quite funny. I first watched it when I was a kid living in China. It brought up certain impressions of foreign city and people to me. I was fascinated. I watched it episodes by episodes on tv,… Read more

  • Iran

    Iran

    Iran has become the US war’s casualties. A lot of people think Iran has jumped into a fight that’s not its own. People are contained. They cannot escape the powers of the war missiles. Iran has spent months trying to protect themselves. It is to no avail. No one understands why Iran war happened. It’s… Read more

  • World Economy

    World Economy

    China has an overall impact on the world economy. The association with Russia often makes people feel averse to China. In 2026 people are more inclined to like China than Russia. The experimental way people live has proved it brings more information. The lifestyle of urban people is often the subject of the news. China… Read more

  • AI

    AI

    China has made a lot of people change their careers. It celebrates AI and technology. Many people find it weird. It’s because nothing seems to compete with these two sectors. The reason AI rose is because people try to use this word to comment on unfeeling people in the world. They don’t see the calamity… Read more

  • China VS. Iran

    China VS. Iran

    I want to talk about China vs. Iran. This comparison is driving people mad. China has more power and money. Iran is really just a Middle East country with clerics in the government. The ideological aspect of these comparisons has set people in motions in search of meanings in today’s economy. China often wins big… Read more

  • Works

    Works

    China has created a great environment for people to make works. Since the pandemic a lot of people has gone back to China to find jobs and makes works about youth and young people. In today’s economy, people encourage each other. They often found similar interests and hobbies. Their lives become a part of their… Read more

  • Are Futures Important?

    Are Futures Important?

    I’m on my way home. I thought about China as a thoughtful country. It made me anxious thinking about places and futures. Etc. Read more

  • Schools

    Schools

    I have met a lot of people from China since I moved to Canada. I wonder how these people work in Canada. Many of them lived quite a discreet life. After I attended OCAD university, I have met many people who are extremely emotional, acting helpless and backstabbing. It’s a school which allows people to… Read more