Artist Bio
Mengyu Chen is a creative developer, designer and artist whose work examines how issues of computational infrastructure, massively distributed system, virtual and artificial environment can affect our behaviors and perceptions of ourselves and society. Mengyu designs and builds his own interactive systems, audio-visual narratives, VR worlds, and robotic devices to delineate the complex intra-active relationships that are shaping our perceived reality. After completing his Master’s degree in Digital + Media at RISD, he is now a PhD student at UCSB Media Arts and Technology program and his research includes affective computing, social VR, machine learning and procedural worldmaking.