Xin Liu

Xin is an artist and engineer. Xin received her BE in Measurement, Control Technology and Instrument from Tsinghua University in 2013, a MFA in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design in 2015 and her Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab in 2017. Xin’s thesis in MIT, Inwards to Outwards: altering the perception of self, taps into state-of-the-art technologies that reshape our abilities to sense and connect with ourselves and the world around us.

Xin examines the discourse-power nexus as an active practitioner, an experimenter, and a performer. She is the Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative in MIT Media Lab. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including Karman Fellowship 2022, Porches Chinese Young Artist of the Year 2021, Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, X Museum Triennial Award, the Van Lier Fellowship from Museum of Arts and Design, Sundance New Frontier Story Lab, inaugural Europe ARTificial Intelligence Lab residency with Ars Electronica, SXSW Interactive Innovation Award, Core 77 Interaction Design Award, Fast Company Innovation by Design Award, Huayu Youth Award Finalist and Creative Capital On Our Radar. She has been commissioned by institutions including M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Ars Electronica (Austria), Rhizome (USA), Media Art Xploration Festival (USA), Onassis Foundation (US & Europe) and Abandon Normal Devices Festival (UK). She has joined several residency programs including Queens Museum Artist Studio program, New INC, Watermill Center and Pioneer Works. She is an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab and a faculty member at The Terraforming, a new research program at Strelka Institute in 2020-2021.

As a researcher, Xin has worked in institutions including Microsoft Research NYC, Microsoft Research Asia, Google ATAP and presented her research at international conferences including UIST, UbiComp, TEI, DIS and Augmented Human.