Yuqian Tu
About
Yuqian Tu is a Chinese digital media artist and storyteller. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing before earning a Master’s degree in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art in 2024.
With an interdisciplinary background, she brings a Theater Studies perspective to her design work, focusing on research areas such as digital existence, boundaries between Artificial Intelligence and uploading humans, and human stories, critically exploring the relationship between AI and humans in the present and the future.
Technological advances are pushing AI infinitely closer to humans, while at the same time, humans are getting infinitely closer to digitalization in the quest for immortality. The physical boundaries are blurring, while the belief in stories may be the new boundary between humans and AI.
Her recent series of works ‘Turing’, ‘Turing World’, and ‘Turing Avalon’, creates a space for audience conversation through a speculative scenario about the controversy over Sensorama company’s human uploading technology in the year 2095, reflecting on the question of “After separation from the physical body, where is the boundary between real human beings and Artificial Intelligence? And as humans, how do we deal with the blurring of the boundary?”
Instagram: violet_mcgonagall
Youtube: @yuqian_tu
Website: tuyuqian.com
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