Jing Yan is a media artist and the lead user experience designer at D2 Nova. She is working in the fields of human-computer interaction, user experience and product design, virtual reality, and data visualization.
Her art practices seek, present and argue for the essential qualities of materials, life beings, and hybrid entities through computational virtual and physical environments.
She holds a master of science degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Media Arts and Technology and a bachelor of arts degree from Shanghai Tongji University in Advertising.
Her works and publications are featured at worldwide conferences and art festivals, including SIGGRAPH 2019 (Los Angeles), CURRENTS New Media (Santa Fe), International Symposium on Electronic Art (Gwangju, Korea), Geneva International Film Festival, etc.
Publications
“Reincarnation: Virtual Reality Recreation of Surrealist Paintings”
Jing Yan, Mengyu Chen - SIGGRAPH 2019, Los Angeles, CA, USA
“Biometric Visceral Interface: A Soft Robotic Immersive System for Extended Perception”
Mengyu Chen, Jing Yan, Yin Yu - ISEA 2019, Gwangju, South Korea
“Biometric Perception Interface: A Multisensory Soft Robotic Agent for Affective Social Interaction”
Mengyu Chen, Jing Yan, Yin Yu - HAID 2019, Lille, France
Talks
“Reincarnation: Virtual Reality Recreation of Surrealist Paintings”
SIGGRAPH 2019, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Exhibitions & Conferences
2020 —
Reincarnation, BAM Teknopolis, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2019 —
Reincarnation, Geneva International Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
Reincarnation, SIGGRAPH 2019 Immersive Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Biometric Visceral Interface, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Gwangju, South Korea
Reincarnation, CURRENTS New Media, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Biometric Visceral Interface, MADE, California NanoSystems Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
Biometric Perception Interface, Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, Lille, France
2016 — 2018
Biometric Perception Interface, Invisible Machine, California NanoSystems Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
OpenPOT, Re-habituation, California NanoSystems Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
Inner, White Noise, California NanoSystems Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
Black Star, Computation & Expression, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA