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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 the 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. Currently, she is a resident artist at Somerset House and Delfina Foundation.
Her work has been shown at Shanghai Biennale, Thailand Biennale, M+ Museum, Yuz Museum, MoMA PS1, MAXXI Rome, Sundance Film Festival, Ars Electronica, and Onassis Foundation, Sapporo International Art Festival, among others.
A Book of Mine 2025
DNA and astrology are both used to seek answers about oneself. And yet these questions might never be answered.
In December 2018, the artist Xin Liu sampled and sequenced her entire DNA genome. The reads were mapped to the Human X chromosome reference sequence UCSC hs38. The bases covered by her sequencing are annotated in black, and those uncovered in grey.
For this installation, A Book of Mine is available as a print-on-demand publication, though printing it in its entirety is a nearly impossible task. In its sheer scale, the project illuminates the possibilities and limits of genetics as a form of self-knowledge and ownership.
Collaborator: Ross McBee
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