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Linyun Song
Artist-researcher
Linyun Song is an artist-researcher working across sound, moving image, interactive installation, participatory archives, and community-based research.
Her practice draws on feminist listening, social design, and practice-led fieldwork to explore migration, women’s labour, memory, and everyday forms of storytelling.
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Current Focus
Education
- MA Computational Arts
- Goldsmiths, University of London, Distinction, 2024–2025
- BA Public Art
- Qingdao University of Science and Technology, 2020–2024
Selected Projects
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I Want to Speak with You
Interactive installation, 2025. A three-channel participatory installation using a red pushable cart, IMU sensor, sound, video, and symbolic objects to explore cross-generational silence, women’s resilience, and mediated dialogue.
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Kitchen Echoes / Camberwell Chinese Restaurant Women’s Workshop
Fieldwork, prototypes, and web-based sound archive, 2025. A web-based sound archive developed from fieldwork, sound-visual experiments, and tactile listening prototypes with Chinese migrant restaurant communities.
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Dāo Dao
Experimental social practice and storytelling initiative, 2025–ongoing. Dāo Dao is an experimental social practice and storytelling initiative co-founded by Linyun Song and Xiyu Du. It began with fieldwork and workshops around Chinese migrant restaurant communities in Camberwell, using food, listening, sound recording, and informal conversation as methods for social connection.
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Presence and Absence
Generative audiovisual system, 2025. A computational sound-visual work translating everyday immigrant soundscapes into abstract visual flows through TouchDesigner and sound analysis.
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What We Leave Behind
Collaborative immersive theatre project, 2025. An audience-led immersive narrative using RFID memory cards, AI-generated outputs, projection, sound, and collective decision-making to explore memory and identity.
Project Archive
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Ocean Cruise
Extended reality work, 2024. Imagines a future care community through research into elderly life, ageing, family care, and speculative retirement living.
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Sower
Augmented reality experience, 2024. Developed from rural women’s life stories, using AR as a speculative archive for memory, labour, and intergenerational women’s narratives.
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The Lonely Game
Interactive audiovisual work, 2024. Uses Kinect and TouchDesigner to explore social aphasia, failed expression, non-verbal communication, and embodied interaction.
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Acne
Interactive installation, 2022. Explores adolescent appearance anxiety, red dots, body politics, and feminist public art.
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The Spectator
Video work, 2021. Explores online interaction, media images, spectatorship, mediated looking, and the relation between viewer, image, and narrative.
Writing / Research
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Mediated Listening When Interviews Fail: Feminist Sound Practice in Chinese Migrant Restaurant Spaces
Working paper / conference abstract, 2026.
Developed from practice-led fieldwork with Chinese migrant restaurant spaces in Camberwell, London, examining mediated listening, feminist sound practice, ethnographic observation, and the ethics of partial representation.
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Empowering Future Designers: Embedding Multi-Scale Social Analysis in Social Design Pedagogy Value Practices
Conference paper, Social Design Network Conference, Lucerne, 2025.
Co-authored with L. Zhang, L. Song, X. Du, Z. Duan, and Y. Luo. Published in the conference proceedings Reassessing the Social – Understanding Transformation.
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Interactive Installations as Feminist Public Art: A Case Study of Pimples
Unpublished undergraduate dissertation, BA Public Art, 2022.
A study of interactive installation as feminist critique of adolescent appearance anxiety, body politics, and social norms.
Writing sample available on request.
Selected Feature
- Selected Artist, The Curator’s PickWomen United ART MAGAZINE, Issue XIV: Summer Edition, 2026