XINYAN
Xinyan XU is a visual artist and spatial designer based in Ningbo and Shanghai. Her artistic focus is on supermodernity, contemporary culture, and metropolitan experiences. She uses spaces, places, and computational techniques to create visuals, spatial experiences, soundwalks, and art installations.
创作者及设计师，现居宁波和上海。她通过空间、地点及数字媒介来探索城市超现代化背景下的人际关系、都市体验和网络文化。


Spatial works at naynix
Contact xinyan at xuxinyan_at_yahoo_dot_com
ME AND MY ROOM ｜ 我和我的房间 



Desktop-Based
Live Performance

In the live performances, I invited viewers into my digital realm by organizing my 'room' in the first part and doing a 'room tour' in the second part. 


THROUGH LIVE PERFORMANCES,
I AM TRYING TO HIGHLIGHT THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MY IDENTITY AND DIGITAL EXPRESSION IN THE CYBER AGE.


Playing with spatial tricks of three-dimensional perspective and two-dimensional flat surfaces, I arranged folders, icons, images, and application icons, transforming the screen to represent my personalized room online. 

As I clicked, dragged, opened, and closed items, I shared anecdotes and insights, offering a glimpse into my lifestyle, the significance of digital spaces in my life, and how digital spaces reflect and represent my digital consumption and physical life.



Part 1 changed the icons of the folders to object graphics. They could overlap with each other to create an interior perspective without the folder name tag.


Part 2 brought in many patterns to create a collage of backgrounds for the black and white icons, representing light, shadows, ambient color, and interior finishes.


Part 3, thought it could be challenging yet fun to make the folders functional, so I found a bunch of GIFs online to represent the little cute things I collect in real life, which my mom would call useless tho. ;(


Part 4, did a room tour based on the rooms I organized and expanded the room to my whole desktop. I walked the audience through several desktops designed to mimic different room environments in my home, introducing them in a tone similar to YouTube room tour videos.

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