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
Qingyi Ren is an artist, visual designer, and doctoral candidate of the Make/Sense PhD Programme.
Broadly, they are interested in gender identity theory, AI ethics, and digital identity. They explore the real-world implications of machine learning for those with historically marginalized identities, and committed to being exposed the existing bias is still expanded under the guise of technology-neutral.
■ Based Basel/Linz
SELECTED EXHIBITION & TALK
Art In Metaverse-ARTSCLOUD, Seoul, Republic of Korea - from October 2022.
“Welcome to planet B” - Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University: Festival University, Linz, Austria- August 18th,2022.
Queer Chinese Arts Festival 2022 - University of Nottingham& Queer China UK - Nottingham, UK - 25th June 2022
“Feeding The Queer Archive”- The Queer Archive, Athens, Greece-From May 12, 2022 to May 22, 2022.
“BBC online showcase - Tell a better story of AI “-Oliver Smith and BBC, London, UK -Coming soon
“IN BETWEEN“- Artscloud Digital Art Fair Top 100 Artist,
Seoul, Republic of Korea - January 21, 2022-May 31 2022.
“See my gender“- Queer Chinese Art Festival, London, UK – August 28th – September 6th, 2021.
"The view from somewhere-I'm not a virus" - Ars Electronica -Linz, Austria- September 10th,2021.
Safe Distance Artist talk - Gay Liberation Front & Queer China UK, London, UK- October 4th, 2021.
Festival University: “Transform your World” - Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University- Linz, Austria-August 30th- September 19th, 2021.
EDUCATION
Joint PhD program of FHNW Academy of Art and Design & University of Art and Design in Linz - Basel from 09/2022
University of the Arts London - London 01/2022
Master of Arts: Interaction design
Zhejiang University - Hangzhou 07/2020
Bachelor of Arts: Art and Technology