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DDA Guest Lecture Series Fall 2025: Xin Liu

November 12, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

MH3E_02, Digital Arts Plaza, 3th floor. 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

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A woman stands in a modern studio workspace, leaning casually between a blue metal worktable and a gray chair. She is wearing a light pink sweater layered over a white turtleneck and light blue jeans, with a silver watch on her left wrist. Her expression is calm and focused, with a direct gaze toward the camera, conveying quiet confidence. The background features a clean, minimal workspace with white walls, scattered design tools, and a large abstract artwork on the wall behind her—pale beige with soft red and pink organic lines that resemble veins or flowing ink. The lighting is natural and evenly diffused, giving the image a serene, contemplative tone. This photograph is likely a portrait of an artist or designer in her studio environment, emphasizing clarity, simplicity, and an understated aesthetic that aligns with creative professionalism.

Xin Liu (b.Xinjiang) is a multidisciplinary artist and engineer, who creates sculptures, digital experiences and films that feature machinery, genetic material, petroleum, and rocket debris, to explore the verticality of space, extraterrestrial explorations, and cosmic metabolism. Liu has led and successfully launched two International Space Station payloads and one sub-orbital flight payload onboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard system, and flown three parabolic flights.

Xin is an artist-in-residence at SETI Institute and the founding Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative at MIT Media Lab, a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech and an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab.

Currently, she is a resident artist at Somerset House in London. Her work has been shown at Shanghai Biennale, Thailand Biennale, M+ Museum, Yuz Museum, MoMA PS1, MAXXI Rome, Sundance Film Festival, Ars Electronica, and Onassis Foundation, Sapporo International Art Festival, among others.