Yuanyuan Hu
Yuanyuan Hu is a new media artist and multimedia designer.
Born in Wenzhou,China, she graduated from the Digital Media Art of Shanghai Theatre Academy, and then studied Interaction Design at the University of the Arts London for her master's degree.
She focuses on the intrinsic sensory mechanisms of human beings in different time latitudes, as well as the combination of ecology, philosophy of technology, classical culture and future narratives. Her work includes interactive installations, multimedia projections, VR, Audiovisual, and Artificial Intelligence art.
Her works have been exhibited at renowned festivals and galleries in China and abroad, such as the Linz Electronic Arts Festival, London Design Festival, METAXIS Budapest New Media Arts Festival, Peckham Festival of Creative Computing, Science Gallery London, Yu Teck Yiu Art Museum, Oil Can Art Centre, Bowron Art Museum, etc.
Exhibition
Solo Exhibition
Feast Without Fish, Arts SU Gallery Space, London College of Communication，London
Group Exhibition
2024
London Design Festival: Innovating Sustainability, Redefining Green, Blackdot Gallery, London
London Design Festival: ‘The Future to See Future’ UK - China Youth Digital Creative Cultural International Exhibition, Royal Mint Court, London
Linz Electronic Art Festival, Postcity Linz, Linz
METAXIS Budapest New Media Art Festival, Lumiere Hall, Budapest
Peckham Digital Festival of Creative Computing, The Hub at Eagle Wharf, London
Ethereal Maison: Eden Transcends Reality, Pushkin House, London
2024 Now-Showing Exhibition "Migrations - Crossing the Border", The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London
"I Watch Time in Speed", Shanghai Auto Culture Festival, Huatai Top Art Community, Tai Art Centre, Shanghai, China
The First China Digital Art Exhibition, Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Hong Museum Invited Exhibition｜Line Planning: Xinru Gong, Bo Wu, Yu Jing, Yuanyuan Hu, Hong Museum, Shanghai
Making-with, Science Gallery, London
"Between One and Twenty" Digital Art Group Exhibition, Shanghai Digital Automobile Industrial Park Centre , Shanghai, China
2023
Winning Works of the Eighth International New Media Art Competition, Shenzhen Lan AI Space / Non-existent Space / Atomic Space, Beijing/Shanghai/Hangzhou
Folk Poetry: Sustainable Design and Public Participation, The Mountains and Seas of Poetry · Land Continent, Zhengzhou
Zhujiajiao Super Immersion Art Season, Zhujiajiao Ancient Town, Shanghai
Do you believe in Ai?, M50 Small Art Museum, Shanghai 2023: Youth Artists Exhibition: Fast Forward "?" Playback, YOUNG SPACE, Chongqing
"Surrounding" Art Festival, SYSTEM System, Shanghai
Spring Eye Project: Observing and Creating Life, Heart Metaverse Gallery, Online DESE APP
Peanut Music Fans Party, ThreeLive, Wuhan
Spring Eye Project: A Beautiful Non Human World, Heart Metaverse Gallery, Online DESE APP
Why Creation Festival, Chengdu Impression City, Chengdu
2022
Levi's 501 Factory Music Season, Yuyuan Department Store, Shanghai
PLM Public Education | Nightlight Project Vol.1: "Tracing, Dancing with Moonlight", Baolong Art Museum, Shanghai
2021
Shifo Art Commune Annual Exhibition "The Boundary Without Existence", ZERO Contemporary Art Center, Zhengzhou
First Shanghai Art Museum/Gallery Staff Biennale: Beware of Platform Gaps, Arkila Art Center, Shanghai
The First Shanghai Art Museum/Gallery Staff Biennale: An Afterparty, SS GALLERY, Shanghai
Summer Festival 2.0, No2A Gallery, Shanghai 2021: Digital Art Festival, Yuz Art Museum, Shanghai
2021
White T Plan, Kutz Art Center, Shanghai 2021: Everything can be romantic, Why Art Space, Chengdu
Good! Art Festival, Nottingham Art Center, Hangzhou
Spring Shouting Art Festival, Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai
Picnic Art Festival, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai
Millennial to present | The 'Great Artists' of the 2000s, Why Art Space, Chengdu
The Art of Anning, Tianwu Art Center, Shanghai
EXIT, FANG ARTE, Turin
2020
New Media Digital Art Exhibition "Future Light Year: Wormhole Crossing", Future Stone Shopping Center, Handan
TODTIME Public Art Exhibition Season 6, Shanghai Xinzhuang Square Bus Hub, Shanghai
Project
2024
Cambridge University x Shanghai Theatre Academy Educational Theatre "iHuman" Multimedia Execution,Cambridge
Chinese Musical "Inaccessible"Multimedia Design, Shanghai
2023
SMG LIVE X Zhujiajiao Ancient Town Super Immersion Art Season Collaborating Artist, Shanghai
Creative Planning of the Metaverse Digital Exhibition Hall in the Tourism Scenic Area of Yumen City, Yumen
Levi's X Peanut Music Party Collaborating Artist and VJ, Wuhan
2022
Served as the planner and interactive multimedia designer for the immersive performance "Tracing" of the experimental project "Nightlight Project" at the Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
Creative planning for the project "Research on XR based Immersive Yue Opera Performance Art Creation" funded by the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, Shanghai
Creative Planning for the National Cultural Innovation Project "Research on XR Immersive Traditional Opera Innovation", Shanghai
Served as the interactive multimedia design and VJ for the opening of the "Non existent Boundary" art exhibition, "Wildfire Party", Zhengzhou
Conceptual design and production of multimedia large screen for the East Hall of Shanghai Library, Shanghai
Served as the multimedia designer for the Shanghai Academy of Drama's Art Season work "The Steel Qin", Shanghai
Served as the producer and stage multimedia designer of the public art project "Moon Shadow Theater" at the China Maritime Museum, Shanghai
2021
Served as the multimedia image design for the stage play "Hudec" in Shanghai's major literary and artistic creation project, Shanghai
Served as a visual artist for the M50 public art exhibition "Then We Love" exhibition planning and performance, Shanghai
Served as a multimedia image design for the drama "Fidella's Love", Shanghai
Served as the multimedia image design for the experimental body drama "Jing", Shanghai
3D design for the experimental art film "Pan", Shanghai
2020
Interactive Design for the New Media Art Exhibition "Wormhole Crossing", Handan
Served as Multimedia Design Assistant for Cadillac's Immersive Video Drama "On the Heart", Shanghai
Award
2024
Best Art Installation Award at the 4th MEGA International Creative Media Gala
2023
NewOne Awards Visual Communication Picasso Award for Excellence in New Media Track 2023
Graduate360 ° 2023 Graduation Design Yearbook Selected
Outstanding Graduates of Shanghai Theatre Academy
The second prize of the 8th "Huichuang Youth" Internet plus Cultural Creative Works Exhibition of Shanghai University Students
Excellent Award in the New Media Art Competition of the 8th "Huichuang Youth" Shanghai University Student Cultural and Creative Works Exhibition International Competition
Second Prize in Digital Animation for the 8th "Huichuang Youth" Shanghai University Student Cultural and Creative Works Exhibition
Best VR Finalist at the Third MEGA International Creative Media Festival
Best Works of the Sustainable Design Funding Program of the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation
2022
Silver Award at the UK Ecological Art Awards
BICC China UK International Creative Competition Silver Award
CADA Japan Concept Art Design Award Bronze Award
Silver Award in the 5th International Environmental Protection Public Welfare Design Competition
2021
Bronze Award at the Second International College Student Art Year Awards
CADA Japan Concept Art Design Award Bronze Award
G-CROSS Global College Student Creative Gold Star Bronze Award
Excellence Award at the 5th Macau International Contemporary Illustration Competition
2020
Silver Award at the Singapore Sands Art and Design Competition
Hong Kong Contemporary Design Award Bronze Award
Silver Award at the Second International College Student Art Year Awards
Forum&Lecture
2024The Collision of Chinese Narrative VR Project and UK Digital Creative Field, China-UK Digital Creative Industry-University Exchange, Royal Mint Court, London
"Post-Natural Landscape" Ai-based Audiovisual Performance, "Digital Muse Music & Technology Fusion Festival" Creative Presentation, Cadillac Music Hall, Shanghai, China
2023
Award winning artist in technology new media design, from space to place: Social Changes, Design, and Imagination under Globalization, Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Zone, Zhengzhou
VR Project "Fantasy Village 13 Dream", "Virtual Big Plan" Industry Exchange, Shanghai Shendi Cultural Center, Shanghai
2021
Cross Time and Space Metaverse Exchange Conference, the first event of MANA Global University Exchange Series (Tokyo University of Technology x Shanghai Academy of Drama), online
Press
VR project "Fantasy Village 13 Dream": Creating Art IP through Immersive Narration in Virtual Space, East West Entertainment, 2023
Best Work Interview: The New Ecosystem of Bacchus: The Integration of Machine and Life, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, 2023
PLM Public Education | Nightlight Project Vol.11: Tracing, Dancing with Moonlight, Baolong Art Museum, 2022
Brand
Levis