Hello, my name is Zix Chen

XuanWu the Creature

A mechanical, sound-engineered creature with a heartbeat, made with Arduino and Teensy components, and metalwork.

Imagined Sewer World

A sound piece that illustrates an imagined underground world of sewege, like the one found in TMNT

Immersive Window To A Dream V2

A sculptural projection that mimics a window by detecting the viewer position and showing the correct perspective

Sanxingdui Guardian

A whimsical Arduino project who guards a pearl

Eve the Rat

A fuzzy French-speaking animatronic friend.

Megalophilia

(Love of large objects) Plays with scale by manipulating filming angles and utilizing specific filming techniques

A Dream Made For Tiktok

A dream-like experience, in the medium of an obscure TikTok Art Video

An Imagined Rusty Dream

A VR experience that takes the viewer through a dream landscape, while listening to a monologue that talks about the philosophical concept of Qualia

Assassins Barcart

A barcart made for hypothetical assassination purposes; inspired by The Gates Of Hell by Auguste Rodin. Designed with a maximalist mindset, seeking to revert minimalism. Incorporated Gothic architectural elements.

Childhood Collage

A collage that seeks to capture the essence of my childhood experiences that contains what continues to inspire me in art-making

Kinetic Type

An interpretation of Coyote Sees Himself In Water, a poem by Tacey M. Atsitty

ROBO492

3D model of a character concept of a robot cat

Thumbnails Of Imagined Dreams

Attempts to capture the multitude of dream experiences. As a Congressional Art Award Winning piece, it was temporarily displayed in the White House in Washington DC.

Still Hear Seagulls

Explores the effect of the simultaneity and juxtaposition of image and sound, and how they change the perception of one and another

Magic Lense

Explores the automatic narrative effect of placing a certain visual filter over a piece of media

Light Object For Desktop

Designed with the concept of containing and distributing light in a highly controlled manner.

Laboring Coathook

Stylized representation of “hand” in a flexed gesture of servitude alludes to the physical “labor” placed on the coathook in daily use.

Frankenstein TV Monster

Appears to have a Frankenstein-like consciousness, created through the juxtaposition of three pieces of media with individual contexts and stylizations.

Fountain

A sculptural exploration of the material quality of concrete, metal and their atmosphere and energy.

GTA Style Self Portrait

Graffiti Wukong

My take on the famous character of Chinese lore.

Graffiti Glowing Monkeys

Made through Virtual Reality spray painting.

Drawing Of An Imagined Janitor

Drawing of an imagined personhood, life and scenery.

Graffiti Yeti

A creature who embodies the idea of audacious subversion.

Anatomy Exercise

Analog Environment Creator

The first iteration in a series of future work that would result in a mini-version of the Las Vegas Sphere, recreating VR technology while giving back the viewers their bodies.