Yumin Zhang

Information Experience Design (MA)

10055943@network.rca.ac.uk

In the future, being offline means being erased. The creation utilised AI-generated segments, special effects created with Touch Designer, and models created with Blender.

Fold-9: Posthuman Citizenship and The RIght to be Read — Where systems calculate rather than govern, Fold-9 envisions in 2070 future Hangzhou quietly ruled by algorithms. Here, identity is conferred through continuous streams of data; to be offline is to be invisible. The project reflects on the emergence of a society where absence is not resistance, but erasure. Rooted in speculative storytelling, glitch aesthetics, and multisensory installation, Fold-9 explores what it means to exist at the edge of computational legibility. It centers on those whose lives unfold in silence — unreadable, uncounted, and quietly skipped over by the logic of the machine. A fully digitised future is no longer distant — it seeps quietly into the present. In the silent blue, Fold-9 invites viewers to confront the architectures of visibility, value, and control — and to reflect on the systems we live within, and the systems we may yet become.

LUCIA: A Trinitarian System of Governance — LUCIA governs not through authority, but through computation. (1)The Archive of Consciousness Uploaded human minds, memories, and desires — harvested from the living, preserved for governance. The system remembers, not emotionally, but structurally. (2) The Core Algorithmic Logic A self-evolving intelligence that recalibrates governance based on predictive behavioral modelling. No decision is made — only calculated. (3) The Sentiment Interface Emotional feedback from citizens, tracked via biometric and neural signals, forms an affective loop. Governance becomes affect-aware, but never empathetic. Together, these three dimensions constitute a seamless, post-human regime: one that sees without eyes, listens without empathy, and governs without presence.

Graphic Design and UI Design — Used for graduation design exhibitions and promotional posters.

About

YUMIN ZHANG
Artist & Researcher | Currently based in London

Yumin Zhang is a London-based artist and researcher. She graduated from the UAL _(BA) Costume design and will complete an MA in Information Experience Design at the RCA in 2025. Then, she continues her journey into the landscape of code and algorithms through further studies in Creative Computing.

Her practice lies at the intersection of speculative writing, handcrafted costume and object-making, and immersive, multisensory installation. Drawing from her background in stage design and narrative construction, Yumin’s work explores the fractures in our digital futures — where quiet lives exist within systems that render them both visible and illegible.

A fully digitised future is no longer distant — it seeps quietly into the present. Within this unfolding historical process, this project aims to offer not solutions, but a moment of pause—a subtle prompt to reflect on the futures we are shaping.

It does not prescribe answers. Instead, it invites observation. In the silent blue, we are asked to confront the architectures of our current condition — and the systems we may yet become.

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