Yiner Xu
MFA ’24 DMI
Visiting Lecturer
In my artistic practice, I explore the theme of nature in my illustrations; the intersection of sound, color, and immersive experience in my new media works, particularly through the lens of synesthesia. I created visual textures as forms to musical pieces, natural rhythms from my sensory experiences. Beyond the Human explores the shared memories and interactions with organic forms, technology, and multi-species memories through speculative landscapes. The “border thinking” resources inspire the possibility of making spaces where plants, animals, humans, and machine algorithms can engage as equal interlocutors across past memories and future speculations. It invites the audience to contemplate the coexistence of humans, nature, and machines as part of the entangled network that sustains life across the limits of visible and invisible borders.
Yiner Xu is a visual designer, illustrator, and creative technologist based in Boston. Her illustration explores the theme of nature in bright colors and rich textures. Her new media practice lies in the intersection of sound, color, and immersive media through the lens of synesthesia. Her work has been exhibited at Boston Cyberarts Gallery, MassArt Tower West Gallery, Frances Euphemia Thompson Gallery, Brookline Public Library, Harvard Art Museum, MIT Chapel, and has been selected in MassArt Auction. She has been a recipient of the Handel and Haydn Society award. Her work is held in the collections of “Handel: The Creation” in Symphony Hall. She also contributed visual projection, media design, and lighting design to performances at MIT Theater Arts.
