Yi Yen

SAIC SHOWS 2025 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

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SAIC SHOWS 2025 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Art and Technology Studies

yyen0628.github.io/creative_coding_personal_home_page

Eric (Yi) Yen (b. 2000) is an interdisciplinary artist from Taiwan, whose work includes interactive media, game engines, creative code and biological materials. He first encountered bio-art in college and was intrigued by the diversity it presented. His first work depicts an imaginary plastic island to reflect the serious plastic crisis that the whole world is facing. Also, through interactive systems, he is trying to create opportunities for interesting biological phenomena in an effort to explore environmental issues or human behavior. In the future, Eric will continue to explore some more interesting biological phenomena, and hopes to discover more possibilities for combining bio-art with interactive art.

Yi Yen - The Evolution of the Plastic Island

The Evolution of the Plastic Island, 2021, multi materials, photo by Yi Yen

"The Evolution of the Plastic Island" describes an expedition 50 years later. The goal is to find a plastic island that mysteriously appeared in the Pacific Ocean. The environment produces strangely evolved creatures, and he also writes these researches and descriptions of the creatures in his diary. Thousands of years later, it was discovered by future humans who moved to the space station due to the complete collapse of the earth's environment during an earth exploration, and brought it back to the space residence for future humans to watch.

Barrier&Barrier
2022, 9 channels 3 : 4 video, 2 channels 16 : 9 video, Coke Cola
“Screen” is a way of seeing. When we use our daily experience to watch, we often expect that the world surrounded by this “frame” will operate according to the plan of the watched part in places we cannot see. This is really the case ? By presenting connections and disconnections between worlds of frames, this work attempts to discuss these possibilities. Frames are just windows through which we view a world? Is what we see also what we think? The appearance and non-appearance of Coke is not the solution, but the problem itself.

Dynamic beauty of badminton, 2023, Video, 1: 22

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