Carrie Chen

Carrie Chen is an artist and educator, working across CGI animation, real-time simulation, and installation. Moving between the US and China, her practice draws on non-Western ontologies while critically engaging with intercultural narratives, identity, and digital bodies. With a transdisciplinary approach, she explores what she terms the “productive uncanny,” examining the entanglements of culture and technology through immersive and speculative forms. Alongside an international exhibition and public art practice, she is also active in education, teaching advanced visual communication and 3D arts within media and design programs.

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​Primavera 春 is a digital simulation in which the artist depicts herself at multiple stages of life coexisting within a blossoming spring landscape, using early AI facial-aging filters combined with archival images of maternal ancestors to generate hybrid portraits that form the textures of fully modeled, motion-captured 3D avatars. These figures inhabit alternate timelines and imagined histories, interacting within a floral meadow through gestures of dancing, running, swimming, observing, and embracing—allegories of childhood, pleasure, beauty, and renewal. Drawing on and recontextualizing archetypes from Renaissance and Romantic art, the work challenges male-dominated Western art-historical narratives by asserting a body and lineage long excluded from view. As a meditation on time, ancestry, and becoming, Primavera 春 proposes life as a cyclical journey in which multiple narratives coexist, echoing across past, present, and future.

"Primavera"

2023