Yuxi is an interaction designer and researcher currently based in Beijing, Shenzhen, Berlin, Edinburgh, Shanghai, Copenhagen, Oslo and Munich.
Yuxi’s trajectory as a designer has been shaped by her fascination with emerging technologies and shifting social realities. She investigates critical affordances and implications of technologies, and creates artifacts, fictions, and experiences. She is passionate about the entanglement of humans and nonhumans, the more-than-human-centeredness to design, experimental design materials and approaches, as well as new and plural perspectives in knowing and doing.
Her recent work centers around designing for, with, and by machine intelligence. She experiments with data and algorithms, explores new modes of coexistence, and creates experiential narratives that ask questions, challenge perceptions, and invite discussions.
Yuxi’s work has been featured in Vice Motherboard, designboom, Core77, BBC Radio 4, IAM Weekend, Frame Magazine to name a few. Currently, Yuxi works at Designworks, BMW Group, where she speculates about anything around future mobility and translates novel imaginings into meaningful experiences.
Publication
Liu, Y. (2019) Exploring Alternative Narratives of Human-Machine Coevolution. 2019 Journal of Design and Creative Technologies.
Liu, Y., and Pschetz, L. (2018) Designing machines with autonomy: from independence to interdependence to solidarity. In Proceedings of DRS2018 Conference.
Selected Press
Frame Magazine (issue 128) For Infinite Nights Only
Core77 Five Machines Explore An Alternative Narrative of Human-Machine Relationship
BBC Radio 4 Data Stream Day
designboom the AI-robot by yuxi liu writes poems on the beach
Motherboard Watch This Adorable Robot Write Poems on the Beach
PSFK This Robot Was Made To Be A Poet By The Sea
DigitalTrends Tortured-artist robot trawls beaches, scrawling poems in the sand
Tabi Labo 「ラジオ」からFacebookへの挑戦状
Core77 Airo: “A Personal, Yet Not Personalized Radio”
Yanko Design A Radio for The Open-Minded!
Selected Exhibition
2020 October Dutch Design Week, Online, Serendipity Searcher
2020 September Ars Electronica .ART Global Gallery, Online, Serendipity Searcher
2020 August – 2020 November Das Kupferstich-Kabinett im Dialog mit dem Kunstgewerbemuseum und der Design Biennale Ljubljana, Dresden, Germany, Serendipity Searcher
2019 November – 2020 February 26th Biennial of Design Ljubljana, Slovenia, Serendipity Searcher
2019 November – 2020 February Reconstrained Futures at BIO26 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Alternative Friends
2018 September Biodesign Here Now London Design Festival, London, UK, Sharebiota
2017 August Future Play Festival Edinburgh, UK, AfterMoney
2017 May Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show Edinburgh, UK, Poet on the Shore
Friends
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