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Xin Liu is an artist and engineer. Her practice examines the entropic process of technological and scientific aspiration, focusing on exhaust as the generative state: rocket fragments falling back to Earth, cryogenic vessels suspending organic matter, genomic code rendered as unreadable scripture, plastics dissolving under enzymatic digestion, satellites logging their own obsolescence.
Taken together, Liu’s works form a constellation of metabolic worlds — a research trajectory she calls Cosmic Metabolism.
Liu is an artist-in-residence at SETI Institute, a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech (2024-25) and the founding Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative at MIT Media Lab. She is an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab. Her institutional solo exhibitions include Seedings and Offspring at Pioneer Works, New York, and At the End of Everything at ARTPACE, San Antonio. In 2024, she participated in Rhizome’s flagship program, 7x7 and joined the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University as the first artist in residence for the Houston Asian American Archive.
Liu has been commissioned by institutions including Hyundai Artlab, Moody Center for the Arts, Artnet, BMW Culture Group, M+ Museum, Aranya Art Center, Ars Electronica, Rhizome, Media Art Xploration Festival, and Onassis Foundation. Her works have been exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale, Thailand Biennale, Hammer Museum, National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, MoMA PS1, Sundance Film Festival among others.
Liu is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including the inaugural K11 Artist Prize, Porches Chinese Young Artist of the Year 2021, Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, X Museum Triennial Award, the Van Lier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts and Design, Sundance New Frontier Story Lab, Europe ARTificial Intelligence Lab residency with Ars Electronica, SXSW Interactive Innovation Award, Core 77 Interaction Design Award, Fast Company Innovation by Design Award and residencies at New INC, Silver Arts Projects, Queens Museum, Watermill Center, Pioneer Works, Somerset House and Delfina Foundation.
Liu has led and successfully launched two International Space Station payloads and one sub-orbital flight payload onboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard system, and flown three parabolic flights.
Liu graduated from MIT Media Lab with a master's in Media Arts and Sciences after her M.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design and a B.E from Tsinghua University in Beijing (Measurement, Control Technology, and Instrument).
For Xin Liu’s design and creative technology practice, please go to
https://slowimmediate.com/
Full CV available upon request.
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