About

My name is Yimin Chen, and I am a media student with a strong interest in the intersections of art, media, and critical theory.

I have previously gained internship experience in public relations and as a blogger, which provided me with practical insight into how media narratives are produced, circulated, and received. These experiences shaped my understanding of media not only as a tool for communication, but as a cultural structure that frames perception, meaning, and aesthetics.

I aspire to pursue a long-term career in media-related roles within the arts, engaging with contemporary art, visual culture, and theoretical inquiry.

This website serves as an evolving archive of my work and research, where I document ongoing explorations in:

Media art

This section documents my media art practice across multiple forms, including photography and short films.

Through different media, I explore how images function within screen-based environments and how meaning is shaped by processes of mediation. Alongside artistic practice, this section also includes critical reflections on media art and theory, engaging with screen studies and art philosophy.

Screen studies

This section presents my engagement with screen studies as a critical and research-driven field. It brings together analytical writing and theoretical inquiry focused on film, moving images, and screen-based media across historical, technological, and philosophical contexts.

The work collected here emphasizes close analysis, conceptual rigor, and critical positioning. Drawing from film theory, media theory, and visual culture studies, I examine how screens operate as sites of representation, perception, and power—shaping modes of spectatorship, temporality, and meaning.

Rather than approaching screens as neutral surfaces, this section treats them as historically situated and theoretically complex media forms. The writing reflects an academic approach consistent with postgraduate-level study, foregrounding argumentation, theoretical frameworks, and sustained critical reflection.

Art philosophy and media theory

This section brings together my research-oriented writing in art philosophy and media theory, focusing on the conceptual frameworks that shape artistic practice and media culture.

The work collected here engages with philosophical questions concerning aesthetics, perception, materiality, and mediation. Drawing from critical theory, continental philosophy, and media theory, I examine how art and media function not only as objects of interpretation, but as systems that structure experience, knowledge, and forms of subjectivity.

Rather than treating theory as an abstract supplement to practice, this section approaches philosophical inquiry as an active method of analysis. The writing reflects a postgraduate-level engagement with key texts and concepts, emphasizing close reading, conceptual precision, and sustained critical reflection.

Writing, visual analysis, and critical reflections

This section gathers my analytical writing and critical reflections on visual culture, media, and art. Through close visual analysis and reflective inquiry, the work here examines how images produce meaning within specific cultural, historical, and media contexts.

The writing emphasizes observation, interpretation, and argumentation, engaging with artworks, images, and media practices as sites of critical thought. Rather than offering descriptive commentary, this section foregrounds analytical rigor and reflective depth, situating visual phenomena within broader theoretical and conceptual frameworks.

It is both a space for presentation and a record of a developing intellectual and creative practice.