RIXC Art Science Festival 2025
Chia-Yi Chen. Fissured Vision: The Collection and Translation of Memory Landscapes
Chen Chia-Yi’s creative core is a long-standing focus on the ambiguous “fissures” and “boundaries” between civilization and nature. She adopts Fieldwork as her methodology, utilizing AR (Augmented Reality) and image-based spatial installations as hybrid media. Through this, she explores “fragmented memory” and “co-existence” in landscapes across international sites, including Taipei, Tainan, Berlin, and Korea. Her work aims to prove that the relationship between artificial and natural environments is not oppositional, but one of continuous mutual penetration and reshaping amidst change.
The project aims to extend this “Fissure” concept to RIXC, Latvia. Chen will conduct on-site observation in Riga, treating the city as a site of history and transformation. Her focus will be on the “co-existence state” of nature and the urban environment, specifically seeking corresponding “natural fissure” symbols.
During the residency, she plans to utilize RIXC’s expertise in environmental data visualization to articulate and visualize this relationship. This plan includes: AR Natural Landscape Overlay.
This project seeks to initiate a profound dialogue through technology, aiming to construct a multi-dimensional “Fissured Vision” in the viewer’s perception.
Chia-Yi Chen is a New Media and installation artist based in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her Master’s degree in New Media Arts from the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2019.
Her practice is grounded in on-site environmental fieldwork, exploring the subtle relationship between human activity, the environment, and temporality. She specializes in combining AR, image-based spatial installations, and found objects to transform objectively collected images into narratives of subjective consciousness. Her work consistently seeks the fluid “boundary” between civilization and nature, using “fissures” as entry points for dialogue between personal emotion and social change.
Chen has an extensive international residency background, including the prestigious Künstlerhaus Bethanien Residency in Berlin (2024) and residency experiences in Korea and Tainan. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the “ART FUTURE PRIZE Asian New Star Award – First Prize.” Her works are held in the collection of the Taiwan Museum of Art.