Qingyi Ren
任晴宜



Qingyi Ren (they/them) is a non-binary digital artist and researcher at Critical Media Lab Basel whose work delves into the intersection of art, technology, and social justice. With a passion for unravelling the complex web of gender theory, AI ethics, and digital identity. 
They Currently based in Basel and Linz, dedicate their artistic practice to unveiling the subtle biases ingrained within the realm of machine learning and its profound impact on marginalized identities. Through their thought-provoking artistry, they challenge the status quo and inspire critical conversations surrounding the ethics of artificial intelligence.

They are currently a PhD candidate in the collaborative MAKE/SENSE Program at The University of Arts Linz and The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.

Their PhD project is funded by The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) from 2024 to 2028.
 

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What I'm doing recently:


16-07-2025


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



Works



2023:
Edtion

2022:
IN BETWEEN

2021:
#I’m not a virus
“See my gender”