Qingyi Ren (they/them) is a non-binary digital artist, queer feminist technoscience researcher at Critical Media Lab Basel, and Lecturer in MA Interaction Design at UAL London College of Communication. Their work critically engages with the material-discursive entanglements of technology, gender, and power within Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Qingyi’s practice combines speculative design, algorithmic critique, and feminist epistemology to interrogate machine learning’s colonial and cisheteronormative infrastructures. Through computational art, pedagogical interventions, and STS research, they expose how technical systems reproduce violence—and imagine queerer, embodied alternatives.
Their PhD project “Queerness as Gap” is funded by The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) from 2024 to 2028.
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ABOUT ME
Happening/Happened:
25-03-2025
GenTec: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Series on Gender and Technology. talk
ETH zürich
27-02-2025
Encoding Realities, Decoding Power
Exploring New Formations of Gender, Race, and Sexuality within Artificial Identities
paper
Computational Media Lab
16-07-2024
Panel 155: Global socio-technical imaginaries of AI
Unmasking the queer in machine translation:
a socio-technical inquiry into Chinese-English ai translation, with a DeepL case study
paper
EASST-4S 2024
03-01-2024
Feminist AI lecture seriestalk
Kunstuniversität Linz
01-10-2023
Queering Digital Space：
How queer bodies disturb the gender binary in facial recognition.paper
Anthway Vol.3 – Queering Anthropology
06-09-2023
“The Digital Others” : Research poster presentationtalk
ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2023-Poster Session
01-09-2023
Activating Queer Bodies in the Digital Lifeworldspaper
STS-CH 2023 Conference
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