Ker Chen is a multimedia artist who signals through creating virtual worlds and producing live experiences. Ker explores myths, fortune-telling, and AI algorithms to capture data points from the future and validate the present. Concerned with the simulation of sensations by endogenous chemicals, Ker strives to find elements of control within the invisible and chaotic aspects of existence, looking inward to the body, outward to the surrounding environment, and beyond to the external world.
Artist Interview： NYU Tandon, ShoutOutLA , VoyageLA, CANVAS RBEL, BOLD JOURNEY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Hunting, Official Selection for T-Short Animated Film Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany
2024 Hunting, ONED Art/Experimental Film Festival Official Laurels, Toulouse, France
2024 Hunting, Official Selection for Happy Valley Animation Festival, PA, USA
2024 Ancestor (with Besomethingsoft and KĀ.), humanlab 4.0 , P61 Gallery , Berlin, German
2023 Contact Zone Level 1 (with Miriam Simun), ARE YOU FOR REAL? , IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) , Online
2023 Mercedes VR (with Modesto Flako Jimenez), MAXlive Festival, NY, USA
2023 Gold Pylon (with Jade Charon) Fresh Tracks: New Works, New York Live Arts, NY, USA
2023 Gold Sphere (with Jade Charon), Reel Reflections, World Outreach Center, WI, USA
2023 Raft Of Ker, 2023 mowna Biennial, The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art, online
2023 Hunting, Art Bei Ton, Zion, NY, USA
2023 Hunting, Ripple 涟, A Space & :iidrr Gallery, NY, USA
2023 Swim In Air, Wild Birds Present: One Year Ani Party, Brooklyn Art Haus, NY, USA
2022 Talking Head Ircam Forum, NewYork University, NY, USA
2022 Ancestor (with Besomethingsoft and KĀ.) Cyborg//HYPERMEAT, Grace Exhibition Space, NY, USA
2022 Raft Of Ker, 云雲云 x :iidrr 一蹴｜流体图像：Avatar GIF, Online
2017 Painting works, 葛集, ModernSkyLab, Beijing, China
2017 Rentured Exhibits (Shou Shou Group 抄手小组), 好奇柜 Cabinets of Curiosities, DuoYunXuan Art Center, Shanghai, China
SELECTED PROJECTS
2024 Theater Mitu’s Hybrid Arts Lab Fellowship
2023 Virtual Art Designer & Technologist of Gold Sphere (XR film)
Awards: Best Futurist Filmmaker at Cannes World Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival (US), The Outland Dance Project Festival (NJ), Knowbox Film Festival ( Mexico, Korea, and Texas), Vancouver Black Independent Film Festival (Canada)
2023 3D Artist, Editor, Volumetric & Motion Capture Technologist of Ride The Dice (360 VR music video)
Related Links: Buzz Music， Essentially Pop， Vents Magazine
2023 3D Designer & VR Creator of Mercedes VR (VR Experience)
Related Links: Princeton Lewis Center Arts， Media Art Xploration
2023 Visual Designer and Technician of Gold Pylon (Live Multimedia Performance)
Related Links: New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks 2022/23 Cohort, Fjord Review, The Dance Enthusiast, This Week in New York
2023 3D Artist and Programming of Contact Zone Level 1 (AI-driven animation)
Related Links: e-flux
2017 Initiator of Tattoo Van
Related Links: Vice China Documentary, Be Wild野心，travelling+, 优良Better，别的BieDe
2017 Curator of The Hidden Aura
Related Links： ELEPHOTO，Yanjie
EDUCATION
MS, Integrated Design and Media - NYU Tandon School of Engineering （Received Digital Media Awards）
BS, Economy Management for Agriculture and Forestry - Beijing Forestry University,