MYStudio

Cambridge, MA

Anna Borou Yu and Jiajian Min are the founders and directors of MYStudio (https://mystudio.design/), a design studio in NYC engaging in interdisciplinary research and multimedia design, including architecture, theatre, film, exhibition, dance, music, etc. We are currently collaborating with Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab as curators and project managers. MYStudio has won numerous awards including Arte Laguna Prize, The YET TO .COM(E) Virtual Residency, KUART Outstanding Overseas Young Artist Nomination Award (China), American Filmatic Arts Award and Cinema Box Competition in Abu Dhabi, etc. Our artworks have been featured at Ars Electronica Festival, ACM Siggraph Asia Art Gallery, Lisbon Film Rendezvous, Indie Short Fest, Luleå International Film Festival, YanJiao Biennial, Tsinghua University, Yale School of Architecture, Yale Peabody Museum as well as Dunhuang Academy and Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group. Our research has been published by ACM Digital Library, Beijing Dance Academy Conference, China Academy of Art Youth Scholars Forum, 20th Animation Academy Award of Beijing Film Academy and Blink Art Magazine.

Invisibody

Category: Electronic Media / Social Media / Interactive Media | Video Creativity | 186. Virtual, Augmented or Mixed Reality

MYStudio_Invisibody.mp4

About Project

Featured in RECONNECT Online Performance Festival, 2021 Asia Digital Art Exhibition

Is any “body” here?!?

We want to invite you to unite with us in the virtual space, wander through a series of embodied cyber existence, and mediate the poetic experience of the virtual world through our physical bodies.

“A body's material. It's dense. It's impenetrable. Penetrate it, and you break it, puncture it, tear it...A body's immaterial. It's a drawing, a contour, an idea…”[1] Voice, segment, silhouette, skeleton, avatar, emoji… We are real, and constructed. We are here, and there. We are different, and identical. Every “body” we meet in this virtual togetherness, is an invisible face of the real body from each of us. A body can speak, think, dream, imagine… The INVISIBODY is free to sense and flow, beyond time and space.

[1] Jean-Luc Nancy, Indices 1&5, Excerpted from ‘Fifty-eight Indices on the Body’

Credits

Borou Yu
Jiajian Min
Irina Demina