Jiawen is a multimedia artist study at New York University.
Working across 3D animation, video art, analog visuals, projection mapping, and interactive installations,
she creates dynamic works that challenge traditional boundaries of digital media.
Her practice emphasizes real-time audiovisual performance, synthesizing these diverse mediums to craft
immersive experiences.
Her current works explore themes of distorted reality and urban isolation in our digital age.
Through manipulated imagery and interactive elements,
she visualizes how our identities and perceptions fragment under constant information streams,
while examining the paradox of disconnection in an interconnected world.
Her pieces invite viewers to confront how their own experiences and sense of self transform through digital mediation.
Working across 3D animation, video art, analog visuals, projection mapping, and interactive installations,
she creates dynamic works that challenge traditional boundaries of digital media.
Her practice emphasizes real-time audiovisual performance, synthesizing these diverse mediums to craft
immersive experiences.
Her current works explore themes of distorted reality and urban isolation in our digital age.
Through manipulated imagery and interactive elements,
she visualizes how our identities and perceptions fragment under constant information streams,
while examining the paradox of disconnection in an interconnected world.
Her pieces invite viewers to confront how their own experiences and sense of self transform through digital mediation.
Reality Glitch.V0 (2024) is an interactive audiovisual installation where viewers control the manipulation of their own live image through a gamepad, creating a feedback loop of digital distortion and identity fragmentation.
Digital Anomalies (2024) is a video artwork that investigates the unpredictable nature of artificial intelligence through glitch art techniques. By deliberately corrupting AI-generated imagery, the work reveals the surreal and uncanny results that emerge when neural networks are pushed beyond their intended boundaries. The piece visualizes the hidden processes and unexpected behaviors of AI systems, exposing the strange beauty in their failures.
Get Out! (2023) is a 3D animation short film that discusses our current dilemma in the cybernetic environment. Get Out! features a transparent figure trapped in streams of data-carrying light, examining our inability to escape the cybernetic systems of surveillance that simultaneously illuminate and expose us in the digital age.
Reborn (2024) is a real-time audiovisual performance that unfolds across a three-act journey, each named after Tarot cards—The Death, The Wheel of Fortune, and The Magician. Through abstract visual storytelling, the piece chronicles a personal journey of artistic transformation, using video collage and real-time manipulation to explore themes of endings, change, and rebirth.
Control (2024) is a video artwork that employs glitch art and visual distortion to expose the hidden systems of algorithmic influence that imperceptibly shape our behavior in the digital age.
City Surf (2023) is an immersive installation that follows a surreal night journey through city streets, where illuminated windows reveal hidden stories of urban life, exploring themes of isolation within collective spaces.
Epochs (2024) is an AI generative film experiment. It charts the epic journey of existence, visualizing key evolutionary moments from the universe's birth through Earth's formation to humanity's dawn, exploring the critical transitions that shaped our world.
Remembrance and Forgotten (2024) stages portraits of solitary encounters with vintage objects in abandoned spaces, examining how we seek comfort in obsolete distractions while surrounded by decay.
Word (2025) captures the continuous translation between digital precision and analog messiness through layered visual feedback beneath unchanging Lorem Ipsum text, revealing how meaning emerges not from either realm alone but from their ongoing conversation.
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- How our identities are broken down, processed, and redistributed through media channels;
- How information gets corrupted, misinterpreted, or deliberately manipulated as it passes through media channels;
- How we are both consumers and producers of distorted information;
- How entertainment and reality manipulation have become intertwined.
This is a first version of this series. In the future I plan to do multi-surface projection where the projected content will be on some semi-tranparent screen or a mist system with laser.
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This video artwork explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and digital aesthetics through the use of glitch art techniques. By feeding images into a neural network and then intentionally corrupting the output, the piece aims to visualize the uncanny and often surreal results produced by AI when pushed beyond its expected boundaries.