ZISHI TU(Yuxi Chen)
Mix Media, Installation
3D Art
Zishi Tu(Yuxi Chen) is a London-based Installation Artist and 3D Artist. Her practice explores the construction of imaginary worlds through cuteness, mythology, play, and dark fantasy. Working across interactive installation, pen plotter painting, visual games, animation, and 3D digital media, she creates characters and environments that exist between tenderness and unease.
Her work centres on the idea of building a “Second world” through cute characters. These figures inhabit strange, playful, and sometimes unsettling spaces, inviting audiences to enter a world where softness becomes powerful, and cuteness becomes a language for storytelling, transformation, and resistance.
Her mechanical and digital works have been presented at the V&A Digital Design Weekend, the British Embassy in Paris, Strait Culture Art Center in Fuzhou.
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Psyche Wonderland 拾遗游乐园
Moving Image / XRThis is an interactive dreamcore digital playground constructed from dreamlike structures and fragmented childhood memories of the millennial generation.
Dec 2025
Unreal Engine, Blender
Artist:
Zishi Tu (Yuxi Chen), Xueyi Huang, Yanru Xu, Zidian Pan
Psyche Wonderland 2.0 is an interactive dreamcore digital playground constructed from dreamlike structures and fragmented childhood memories of the millennial generation. Abandoned amusement rides, cheap plastic color blocks, and overexposed lights are extracted and suspended in a space that seems forever unable to fully load, like a continuously computing slice of the mind. Audience enter as “Psyche,” an anthropomorphized digital life-form; their walking, pauses, and subtle bodily sways leave disturbances within the scene, allowing memories once flattened by pixels and compression algorithms to rise and fall again.
This is not only a search for digital recollection, but also a reflection on what “digital heritage” means. In an age of hyper-accelerated information, when data is forgotten, do we also lose a part of ourselves? Can machines dream of abandoned amusement parks? And how, in the end, do we grant our memories a place to return to?
我们在上海的观池展览中举办了一系列工作坊和交互活动。我们用 Unity 实现了摄像头动作捕捉技术。在“电音八段锦”活动中，我们邀请现场观众一起打了一段八段锦。八段锦是中国历史悠久的一项运动，也是我们这一代在学校课间运动中的必修课。在课间，每个班级列队在操场上跟随广播学习八段锦，是我们童年学校生活中的重要记忆。观众的动作被摄像头捕捉，并反映在屏幕中的小熊形象上，成为完成 Psyche Wonderland 的一部分。
