MU Yuxin Ysaline
Based in Hong Kong / Beijing / Helsinki
New Media Artist / Filmmaker / Designer / Curator
MU Yuxin Ysaline is a multi-media artist working across bioart, speculative design, and alternative photography. Her practice explores posthuman identity and algorithmic decay, using organic materials and obsolete technologies to question presence, memory, and the boundaries of digital archives.
MU Yuxin Ysaline is a multi-media artist working across bioart, speculative design, and alternative photography. Her practice explores posthuman identity and algorithmic decay, using organic materials and obsolete technologies to question presence, memory, and the boundaries of digital archives.
2025
Cameraless Photography
Series of four cameraless photographs, 13.8 × 19.7 inches each
24-page A5 photography book, 5.8 × 8.3 inches
遗忘的痕迹
2024
Multimedia Photography
Various Sizes
2024
Medium: Biotechnological Art Installation
A future is envisioned where facial blurring caused by AI face swapping abuse will give rise to unique totems cultivated from hair bacteria, representing new identities.
Ongoing
Individual Documentary
My aunt Mu Chunlan's journey reveals a quiet heroine embodying China's transformation. She sacrificed her education for her brother, worked in factories, and raised daughters without complaint. Three generations of women reflect on how our definitions of freedom, purpose, and self-fulfillment have evolved over time.
2024
1-Minute Mini Documentary
Digital Video, 16:9, Color, Stereo Sound
1:00
This poetic portrait distills time into a single contemplative frame rather than linear progression. Documenting the office of a respected academic mentor at City University of Hong Kong, the work examines time's sedimentation through material traces: annotated calendars, worn furniture, and the quiet rituals of scholarship. By focusing on the present results of temporal accumulation rather than its passage, the film transforms institutional space into a meditation on legacy, guidance, and the unquantifiable impact of kindness across generations. The project originated as an exercise in conceptualizing time through non-narrative cinema.
2023
Narrative Video
3:13, Color, Stereo Sound
An autobiographical fragment exploring youthful infatuation through diary entries and symbolic imagery. The film's bifurcated visual language contrasts documentary immediacy with metaphorical sequences (red dress, ocean waves) to articulate the tension between reality and unspoken longing.
2022
Digital slideshow with original soundtrack
4:05 min loop
An intimate archive of pandemic isolation, capturing the paradox of constraint as creative space. The work’s serial structure mirrors the ritualistic passage of quarantine days, each frame finding variation within repetition.
2022
Sound photography installation
5:15
Dual-channel documentation capturing Beijing's Summer Palace through simultaneous photography and field recordings. The work reveals dynamic interactions between visitors and ancient architecture, where modern life reverberates through historical spaces. A meditation on how cultural heritage lives through contemporary encounters.
2023-24
Computational art, Installation
Machine-learning generated emotional botany
Custom Python image processing merges leaf morphology with human affect data
2023
Physical Computing Project, Multi-media Installation
A planet beyond human imagination and exploring the idea of AI as an Mechanical Turk
This is a project which I developed from my UAL summer school final project, combing Arduino with p5.js
2021
Astrosonic composition for Joyce Ge's project
Converting orbital data from life-bearing exoplanetary systems into piano music using Kepler's harmonic principles. A cosmic translation where planets sing through Baroque-inspired melodies.
Leading Curator
8 August – 14 September 2025
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre (M3301 & M3351)
Presenting ten emerging photographers in a groundbreaking exploration of photographic voids. Featuring experimental techniques from cyanotypes to wet plate collodion, the exhibition redefines negative space as active terrain—where shadows speak louder than light, and absence becomes the most powerful presence.
2025
Generative graphic design series
Currently developing dynamic visual systems for Xav's ambient-electronic project—translating algorithmic composition structures into evolving graphic forms. The work explores parametric design as a visual counterpart to generative music.