About 簡介

Mingxuan Xie is an architectural designer, digital artist and indie developer. He is the founder of mix-reality studio Vrch and co-founder of Hyperbation Art Duo. Having been trained as an architect and worked for world-leading architectural firms, he is now a cyberspatial architect who experiments with mixed-reality technologies (AR & VR) to remix, recreate and rediscover architectural spaces and explore architecture as a new form of Gesamtkunstwerk in the post-human and post-digital contexts.

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Experience:

• 2019-PR Founding Director of Vrch
• 2018-19 Research Fellow at Digital Earth Fellowship
• 2017-19 Co-founder of Hyperbation
• 2015-16 Architectural Assistant at UNStudio
• 2014-15 Architectural Assistant at Sheppard Robson Architects

Awards & Fellowships:

• 2022
  • MiraclePlus (former YCombinator China) Alumni
• 2021
  • The “Chunhui Cup” Oversea Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Finalist
• 2020
  • University of Greenwich Generator Bursary
• 2019
  • Wikitopia International Competition Phase 2 Finalist
• 2018
  • Digital Earth Fellowship

Events & Exhibitions:

• 2022
  • Urbanism/Architecture Bi-city Biennale (UABB), Shenzhen, China
  • Not About Money: Landing Meta, UCCN Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, China
• 2021
  • Orange-Red Variable, Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, China
  • The Law of Alchemy: Philosopher’s Stone And The Four Elements, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
  • FREQS Event 2, Tri Space, Shanghai, China
  • Process of Entropy Growth, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • Now Showing 2021 Before Rejuvenation, CouttsArt Center, Shanghai, China
• 2020
  • London Design Festival, London, UK
  • Hyper Corona Virus, Un-contagious Museum, online
• 2019
  • Club All Hyperreality & Maximalism in Modern Day China, Jerusalem Design Week, Israel
  • HyperGameFest, Wikitopia Visions, Ginza Sony Park, Japan
  • NPCplay, Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival, Hangzhou, China
  • HyperBody IV: The HyperRave of Queer Maximalism, I: project space, Beijing, China
  • Hyperbody: HyperFeast of Chungking Cannibalism Hotpot, Dimension Art Centre, Chongqing, China
• 2018
  • Hyperbody: Hyper-Religious Body, Minority Space, Beijing, China
  • Hyperbation: Pachinko!, Paradise AIR, Matsudo, Japan
  • Hyperbation: CAVE, Zero to One, London, UK
  • Hyperbation: AA Zoo School, Architecture Association, London, UK
  • HyperFest of Britain: The Virtual Dome of Rediscovery, University of Greenwich, London, UK

Talks & Presentations:

• 2022
  • Metaverse: why should we care?, Roca Gallery Shanghai, China
• 2021
  • Archverse: Restructuring China Country at Metaverse, The Sixth Annual Conference of Network Society, China Academy of Art, China
  • VRCHITECT! Xinchejian Open night, Shanghai, China
• 2019
  • Breaking Dimensional Boundaries - Hyperbody Game Demo，China Academy of Art, China
  • Hyperlocal and Digital Nomad Art Practice，Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China

Education:

• Master of Architecture, RIBA Part II, University of Greenwich, UK
• BA in Architecture, RIBA Part I, 1st Class Honors, University of Liverpool, UK
• BEng in Architecture, 1st Class Honors, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China