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Edited: June 22, 2023
Xin Xin
a Han-Taiwanese nonbinary person with almond-colored skin, short black hair and purple highlights stands in front of the California desert landscape.
Pronouns
They/them
Date and place of birth
b. 1986, Taipei, Taiwan
Current location
New York, NY
Year(s) of residency and/or fellowship
2020, Rapid Response Fellow

Xin Xin (林心瑜) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and organizer currently making socially-engaged software that explores the possibilities of reshaping language and power relations. Through mediating, subverting, and innovating modes of social interaction in the digital space, Xin invites participants to relate to one another and experience togetherness in new and unfamiliar ways.

As an artist and designer, their work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, DIS, Gene Siskel Film Center, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Machine Project. They were an Eyebeam Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow and a Sundance Art of Practice Fellow. As an organizer, Xin co-founded voidLab, a LA-based intersectional feminist collective dedicated to women, trans, and queer folks. They serve on the Processing Foundation board and directed Processing Community Day 2019.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Massachusetts, United States, Xin identifies as a cross-cultural, non-binary, anarcho-feminist and will probably always have a genre-nonconforming practice. Xin received their MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts and teaches at Parsons School of Design as an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design.

Rapid Response Project

Togethernet is an open-source communication software that invites groups of 10 or fewer participants to build community archives through practices of consent. Designed around the ethos of data transparency and consent, TogetherNet’s goal is to transform digital rights policies such as the right to be forgotten into an embodied practice through re-imagining software architecture and user experience.

Togethernet is an open-source tool built for people who work under the broad umbrella of art and technology and invites users to contribute, remix, and pluralize the source code and guidelines in an effort to create a truly horizontal tool reflecting the needs of its users. It provides a glimpse into the potential for a new kind of grassroots software development that centers digital rights and community building from the outset.

This tool and initiative stands on the shoulders of Consentful Tech Zine by Una Lee and Dann Toliver and Design Justice Network Principles ⁠— by considering transparency and consent every step of the way, the source code serves as both a technical and a moral document that seeks to uncover systems of power and uncertainties embedded in network technologies.

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