Date of Award
Spring 5-31-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Digital Media
First Advisor
Mariela Yeregui
Second Advisor
Leah Beeferman
Third Advisor
Yiyun Chen
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Arts and Humanities: Fine Arts
Abstract
The text will consist of my self-introduction and short articles. Roughly speaking, the narrative is built upon my background and personal transformation. Geographically, I was born in Shenzhen (largest migrant city in China), lived in Shanghai (China’s largest economic center and a major international financial hub), and now reside on the East Coast of the United States, as a particle moving between different cultures, global commodities, and online media. I engage subjectively in these objective changes, with objects and events shaping who I am. I consider myself an outsider, an observer, an economic enthusiast, and a newspaper reader, participating in a globalized context. I also consume, while observing production, group changes, labor, and factory transitions. As a history enthusiast, I learn about economic changes throughout historical cycles from museum and gallery artifacts, which has become a leisure activity for me. In my work, I enjoy connecting objects—contemporary and ancient, Eastern elements within Western objects, or the influence of the West on the East, ancient intercontinental trade and today's global commodity trade, traditional marketplaces and modern shopping malls. These binary cultural relations uncover historical relevance and serve as the basis for my creative observations. Influenced by my undergraduate professor, Yiyun Chen, who introduced the topic of future body usage laws and encouraged us to imagine the future through speculative design, I gradually began observing the body as a daily practice. Moreover, phenomenology has expanded the way I observe. The body is open towards the world.
Recommended Citation
Lin, Yingwen, "Swing Landscape" (2025). Masters Theses. 1365.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1365
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