MENGYING DAI


Mengying employs experimental video and print matter as her primary mediums, through which she explores and expresses complex narratives. Her videos often feature a mesmerizing blend of natural landscapes and urban details, capturing the fleeting interactions between man-made and natural worlds. 

These works are characterized by their ability to blur the lines between reality and abstraction, inviting viewers to step into liminal spaces where time seems to stand still and rush forward simultaneously.


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MODERN ISOLATION


INTERACTIVE WEBPAGE

My project is an interactive webpage. Through visuals and storytelling, I want to express the alienation, loneliness, and loss between people under the influence of the Internet and social atomization.


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07/2024




PLANT REFUGEES


INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
EXPERIMENTAL BOOKS

I extracted the vegetation species defined as plant refugees based on preliminary research, and adjusted the overall visual to a faded, layered ambiguity based on the changing distribution and current images of the species under the influence.

The book is designed as a loose leaf, with different sized pages to represent the different but equally migratory situation of the plant refugees.


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02/2023



WHOSE SKIN ARE YOU IN


EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO
As I walked, I kept observing these natural veins, these textures, these veins on another level exposed under the surface of the concrete. 

Whose skin is this? The meridians of the leaves are twitching, and they carry all the information flowing. These are his skin and our skin, the tactile extension of our perception of the world.


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09/2023



NEAR FUTURE AGING SMART NANNIES


VIDEO INSTALLATION
Smart nannies meet some of the needs of older people that would otherwise require the help of others to meet them, and the possibility and necessity for older people to interact with others is eroded, leading to a significant contraction of both their family and friend networks. 

This leads to a significant shrinkage of their social networks and social isolation. 


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06/2022




ARTIFICIAL GARDEN


EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO
Artificial gardens are the result of humans modifying the natural environment, but are artificially cultivated plants a form of natural evolution? Where is the limit?


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10/2023



VIRTUAL SEXUAL HARASSMENT


INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

Through the interactive video format, the viewer is placed in a virtual reality and the sense of violation caused by sexual harassment is visualised in a virtual context, aiming to remind people of the dangers of sexual harassment in the future virtual network and to be aware of the lagging nature of the law. 


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05/2023



REPETITIVE ARM


EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO
Ritualistic behavior is formed when humans pray for a good result through every repetitive behavior. This is like a performance more than doing really useful things and research.  


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03/2024



AFFINITIES BOOK


PROCESS BOOK

Is what you see the truth? Why do you believe this truth? Can we find our own truth? How do you feel in the post-truth era? Are you lost in the flood of information? 

Has anything changed about Relationships with others? Can we see the authority and mainstream thought behind this?  


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04/2024



TRUTH FACTORY


EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO
Fake news broadcast and analysis video generated based on real news pictures. Expose the media operation process and Fragments of truth in the post-truth era. 


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03/2024



SOCIAL ATOMIZATION MODEL


3D MODEL
In the post-truth era, society is atomized, and atomized individuals form social groups. 


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04/2024



PICKING FRUITS


EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO
1. Social expectations influence our behavior. 2. Human influenced by cultural and social norms inherited from before generations.
3. Third, we always want self-recognition and self-value.  


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05/2024

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