Chi Lin explores the relationship between the physical and the digital in the ‘phygital’ age through craft and computational media. This originates from a deep engagement with the history of classical sculpture, examining the philosophical logic of anthropocentric thought. Within the context of digitalisation, he articulates the phenomena produced through embodied experience, reflecting on the geopolitical relations between the self, body, society, and politics.
Influenced by the narrative traditions of classical sculpture, he employs 3D computational production and motion capture to foreground embodied thinking within the posthuman condition. Digital live image plays a crucial role in dialogue with his 3D-printed sculptures, extending their narratives to reflect the conditions and contradictions of the ‘pigital’ age. Consequently, presence and absence emerge as central conditions in the ongoing negotiation between materiality and virtuality. Chroma key green is a recurring element throughout his practice. Within his framework, it functions as a symbolic passage of a verb, marking the threshold where embodiment and reflexivity intersect.
Over the past year of research and practice, his work has focused on the inherent contradiction between technological advancement and the convenience of contemporary life. He argues that while the rapid evolution of neural networks over the last decade has fulfilled the digital era's promise of cleanliness and 'efficiency', hidden beneath this sugar-coated convenience lies the silent plunder of platform imperialism, where algorithmically driven commercial ecosystems have gradually become an accepted mode of everyday life. He poses a crucial question: as virtuality becomes an irreversible condition, how can we, within this matrix, identify and preserve our remaining self-awareness?
Influenced by the narrative traditions of classical sculpture, he employs 3D computational production and motion capture to foreground embodied thinking within the posthuman condition. Digital live image plays a crucial role in dialogue with his 3D-printed sculptures, extending their narratives to reflect the conditions and contradictions of the ‘pigital’ age. Consequently, presence and absence emerge as central conditions in the ongoing negotiation between materiality and virtuality. Chroma key green is a recurring element throughout his practice. Within his framework, it functions as a symbolic passage of a verb, marking the threshold where embodiment and reflexivity intersect.
Over the past year of research and practice, his work has focused on the inherent contradiction between technological advancement and the convenience of contemporary life. He argues that while the rapid evolution of neural networks over the last decade has fulfilled the digital era's promise of cleanliness and 'efficiency', hidden beneath this sugar-coated convenience lies the silent plunder of platform imperialism, where algorithmically driven commercial ecosystems have gradually become an accepted mode of everyday life. He poses a crucial question: as virtuality becomes an irreversible condition, how can we, within this matrix, identify and preserve our remaining self-awareness?
First edition; cotton, gelatine, 42 x 49 x 118 cm, 2026
Column: Rosco Chroma Key Green paint, dimension variable
Figure: body scan, 3D-printed glass-fibre-reinforced polymer, 63 x 59 x 207 cm, 2026
3D-printed thermoplastics, motion capture, Kinect V2 sensor, laptop, custom cabling, extension lead, Archival Windows 95 video, dimension variable, 2026
3D scanned by Oliver Laric from 'Shepherd's Boy', 3D-printed thermoplastics, 36 x 15 x 35 cm, 2025
I Love My Bike
Cotton, gelatine, glycerin 185 x 86 x 109cm, 2026
You Got a Message
3D-scanned by Oliver Laric from 'Mercury', 3D-printed thermoplastics, 150 x 82x 143 cm, 2026
C stand, Paper, Book, 3D-printed thermoplastics. 80 x 96 x 182 cm, 2026
Cage, wire mesh, tape, plaster, acrylic pigment, 155cm x 77cm x 160cm, 2025
Royal College of Art, London, UK
MA in Sculpture | 2026
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Graduate Diploma in Art & Design | 2025
Exhibition
RCA 2026 Sculpture
Group show, Battersea, London, UK, 2026
Existing In The Threshold
Group show, The Rose Battersea, London, 2026
Festus
Group show, Hangar Space, Battersea, London, UK, 2025
Residency
Argo, Athens, 2026
Email: lab.m.1202@gmail.com
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