About 簡介

Mingxuan Xie is an indie developer and architectural designer, founder of mixed-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 to explore architecture as a new form of Gesamtkunstwerk in the post-human and post-digital contexts.

Experience:

• 2019-PR Founder and 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:

• 2020
  • University of Greenwich Generator Bursary
• 2019
  • Wikitopia International Competition Phase 2 Finalist
  • CiGA Game Jam Shanghai Minhang Finalist
• 2018
  • Digital Earth Fellowship

Events & Exhibitions:

• 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

Residencies

• 2019
  • I: project space, Beijing, China
  • Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, China
• 2018
  • Paradise AIR, Matsudo, Japan

Talks & Presentations:

• 2021
  • 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:

• 2016-18 Master of Architecture, RIBA Part II, University of Greenwich, UK

• 2010-14 BA in Architecture, RIBA Part I, 1st Class Honors, University of Liverpool, UK

• 2010-12 BEng in Architecture, 1st Class Honors, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China