Wenjun Chen

Wenjun Chen (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist working on new media, focusing on exploring the mixed relationship between real and virtual. His work involves the fields of self-identity, internet and technology, data and personal data. Born in China, he is currently based in New York City. He was a self-taught photographer and received an MFA from the Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice Program at the City College of New York.

His current work is a self-exploration based on his personal data with internet-based technologies, utilizing the web, video, virtual reality, and installation. He is using keywords from his memories shared online and figures of his health data captured by his smartwatch to reconstruct himself through virtual avatars, a story of his growth, and new bodies in which to hold these avatars and stories. This also reflects his identity as a newcomer from China, migrating to an open new world that blends analog and digital.