Di Xin

Have you ever yelled at your computer when it went on strike? Will you chat with Siri on your phone? Have you treated the objects surrounding you as humans? Have you already felt their new life, even if it is just an electronic device? The development of electronic technology has become a contemporary theme, and our world is continually advancing and developing in the direction of digitisation. In Di’s opinion, jewellery is a kind of living art. It carries information about the wearer's life, such as their temperature, smell and magnetic field. Here, Di's research-led practice investigates the kind of spark that can be produced by the two life forms of jewellery and electronics as they collide in contemporary contexts.  

People often impose different definitions on different things in terms of what is alive and what is inanimate. We habitually use our power of thought to consider and judge things around us. If we think about it from another angle,  i.e. whether everything has its own life, we can see that each individual has a different life form. Jewellery has a profound historical background, which not only carries the information about each owner (including their stories and physical energy) but it also acts as a bridge and medium for communication between people. As well as offering a connection between people's emotions and the spiritual world. Jewellery is a witness to human civilisation and a part of the evolution of human civilisation: some jewellery pieces live even longer than a person's existence in this world. They have maintained their appearance, characteristics, and functionality for decades, or even hundreds of years. From this perspective, they have an even tougher vitality than humans. On the other hand, in the contemporary digital era, many technologies and electronic products have penetrated our lives and become an indispensable part of us, and also show their vitality. In many science fiction movies and story legends, the origin of (life), living electricity has been widely referenced. In real life, electricity also plays a role in restarting life in the field of medicine and scientific research. The field of literature and art has often focused on works created by computers,  so the question of whether computers have their own creativity is a question without a standard answer. In this case, the forms of traditional jewellery will be impacted, and Di is thus imagining the future potential of jewellery. This combination of methods comes from her exploration of human beings and life in a broader sense. 

How to balance the relationships between people and their surroundings and live in harmony with them is the concept she would like to convey.