
How do I define myself
I am a multifaceted media artist and technology developer currently based in Los Angeles, California. With my unique combination of a full-time position as a software engineer at a leading technology company and my thriving art practice, I see myself as a pioneer in bridging the gap between these two fields. I earned my MFA in Art and Technology/Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2021, where I honed my skills in interactive installations, sound-visual experiences, software systems, and artificial intelligence art. My works have been exhibited in renowned events such as Ars electronica, re: connections, JACCC Release: Heard in LA Exhibition, Digital Future, and Coaxialarts Art + Technology.

What does art mean to technology in my artworks
I am currently working at a giant tech company as a software engineer, mainly responsible for front-end development. My experience in the computer software industry has given me valuable insight into user interaction, front-end, software architecture, and data. I am not mystified by technology because I find its actual and potential influences interesting. I’m intrigued by the ways in which technology secretly changes our environment, thereby shaping our concepts and behavior. As a professional in both computer science and multi-media art, I can better understand the perplexing relationships between these two fields, that is, I’m well positioned to make sense of how they can be disentangled and how their hidden networks can be revealed. Technology has always existed in art, from painting to photography, film to digital art, and generative art. Technology has always been the tool of art, and, reflexively, art has always been reshaping the use of technology as well as our understanding of the human experience.
Driven by my full and unconditional embrace of the present moment as an artist and software engineer, I create art that purposefully raises questions about the ways in which technology currently and potentially affects our relationship with the world as well as the ways in which the intertwining of art and technology can become more relevant and socially responsible. Obviously, technology is extremely dominant, aggressive, cold, and confining, which is precisely why I believe that artists need to foster a more thoughtful and intentional balance between invasive technological innovations and the struggle for human dignity, particularly in relation to marginalized groups who already suffer more from inequality, isolation, and injustice. The philosopher Heidegger reminds all of us, especially those of us who are artists working in the technology industry, that “art holds power that could save humans from the danger of being consumed by technology.” As someone deeply and restlessly immersed in this dual frame, I derive understanding and hope from art’s humane, poetic, and liberating potential to offer a therapeutic remedy to technology’s lifeless, narrow, and confining trajectory.