HsienYu Cheng constructs technological systems that act upon people, environments, and other systems.
Selected Works
Traced2025What it means to be seen, and what it means to let machines do the seeing for us.
There Will Be Works2024A promise of artworks that may never be found: presence, absence, and what can be considered a work of art.
Around 7 Meters is More Fun2023Seeing only through other people’s words: the distance between the seen and the unseen.
It Could Be You2022How readily we surrender our personal narratives to systems that can fabricate convincing identities from them.
Annoyanony2022Privacy, ethics and human subjectivity, once a machine starts performing everyday human acts such as making a phone call.
invariable variation2020Being watched changes behavior: a machine that varies only when no one is looking.
We are just saying what you are ruling2020The computer speaks as “I”: people and nations no longer control data but are controlled by it.
Discharge what you charged2019A brief, enforced separation from the device we can no longer put down.
Sandbox2016Things exist before we discover them, yet not before we imagine and define them.
Afterlife2011Life is simply life, whatever its size: lives traded between the physical world and a game.
portrait 20112011Certain emotions only show behind us.