Research - INA CHEN

The historical divide compresses what would be 4 centuries of European upheaval into a mere 40 years for the Chinese, splitting our generation into disparate eras.

3 books, 3 eras, 1 family. Follow the eyes of a former Chinese Nuclear Research facility worker; a romantic medical student; a Los Angeles based Chinese immigrant. "From Mao to Me" is currently in proposal phase.

From Mao to Me

The "Other" is constructed as a reflection of dominant powers, reduced to a simplified and knowable form.

Investigating the "Othering" of immigrant identities through an experimental game-based documentary. The project examines how immigrants are displaced, simplified, and reduced by dominant systems of power. These identities, stripped of nuance, are shaped by historical, political, and cultural contexts, a phenomenon that has intensified in recent years.

Becoming Seen

Exploring the difference of Informational Processing and Attention Mechanism between Human and AI through Collaboration, Constrast and Co-Authorship.

In his publications, Yuval Noah Harari discussed a speculative future that “our” society is moving towards a Data-ism collective network, where the concept of individualism weaken, the Hive mind of collectiveness emerges. “How do we understand ourselves better as a information process system?” Subsequently lead to a larger question on what kind of information are we sharing and teaching to AI? The paths from AI to AGI requires more attention and conversations on ETHICAL AI and AI ANTHROPOLOGY.

Take Me To Your Window

An Introduction to Cultural-based Computer Games

Take a look at the series focusing on the derivative of video game industry and culture, through research on both AAA titles as well as indie games as examples. Also in the discussion are broader context of game policies, gun violence, cyberbully, careers and so on.

What Game Are You Playing?

Getting to know a sequence of Accident, Limbo and Unknown through a VR Interactive Satire experience that reconstructs the event of BP Deepwater Horizon.

What we have in common as humans collectively is the unknown. And in order to get closer to knowing the unknown, we need to think non-human. Moments and fragments of memories became the sources of the tales being rold by 5 different marine species, illustrating the accident, the lost and teh aftermath. We decided to let the ocean and marine life to tell the story and invite the audience to embrace a multispecies perspective.

4993 FEET UNDER

Presenting our new pet, we want to talk about Kinship, Ecology, Multispecies co-existence and diversity.

The studies of unknown species are a big part of zoology. While they have been discovering species that are relatively in small scale and has rarely being portrayed in mythical stories, Cryptozoology's focus on the other hand is gigantic mythical creatures. Regardless of discovery, only the animals that have names and known to society receive legal protections.

Mythical Pet

A new race has unraveled before our very eyes since the arrival of Metaverse. Is it just another beautiful distant Nebular, or a Blackhole?

A race heightened by the UK high court overturning a ruling by a local court, now in favor of the US to extradite Julian Assange. Responding to Aiweiwei's online #RunForOurRights: Journalism plays a role of protection/promotion of human rights. Without an adequate platform of circulation, the Metaverse is just another beautiful distant nebula, or worse yet a blackhole where nothing sees the light of day.

The Race: to the New Home of Mind