Portrait of Xin Liu
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SETI Institute

Xin Liu

  • 2025
  • Participant
  • Art & Science

Xin Liu (b.Xinjiang) is a multidisciplinary artist and engineer, who creates sculptures, digital experiences, and films that feature machinery, genetic material, petroleum, and rocket debris, to explore the verticality of space, extraterrestrial explorations, and cosmic metabolism.

Xin is an artist-in-residence at SETI Institute and the founding Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative at MIT Media Lab, a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech and an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab.