Cecilia.Chuan-Jiang


LOCATION: Edinburgh / London
EMAIL: ccincecilia624@gmail.com
https://9iangcc.com/

I make small worlds for things that are difficult to hold: memory, migration, attention, identity, and the feeling of being between places.

These projects move across animation, projection, public campaigns, and interactive systems - but they share one question: how can technology feel more emotional, more human, and more alive?

SELECTED  PROJECTTYPEYR
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Portable Cities Responsive spatial system2025
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The Oracle of Elsewhere AI installation / participatory archive2026-present
03
Film Mixed-media installation / moving image2024
04
MINT Public storytelling2024-2026
05
Vanishing Woman Public storytelling2023

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Yesterday Once More
Animation 2022


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01.    PORTABLE CITIESTYPE: Responsive spatial system 2025
1.1 Portable City No.1: Quzhou -  Forming Only When Remembered in hARTslane Gallery, London, June 2025
1.2 Point-cloud-derived visual of four Chinese supermarkets, in the Edinburgh city-model
1.3 Portable City No.7: Edinburgh: Anchored in the Unseen


A series of projection-based interactive city models exploring migration, urban memory, and emotional geography.

Role: Artist / Researcher / Creative Technologist  
Medium: Projection, real-time animation, 3D models, spatial interaction  
Themes: Migration, urban memory, feminist space, emotional geography

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02.    THE ORACLE OF ELSEWHERETYPE: AI installation / participatory archive2026-present


The Oracle of Elsewhere: Women’s Migration Constellation is an interactive AI-based installation exploring women’s migration, belonging, and imagined urban futures through voice, memory, and spatial visualisation.

Role: Artist / Researcher / Creative Technologist  
Medium: AI voice interaction, generative visualisation  
Themes: Women’s migration, urban memory, belonging, feminist spatial storytelling  
Technical direction: Retrieval-based AI, audience voice input, live constellation mapping, real-time visual environment
03.    FILMTYPE: Mixed-media installation / moving image2024
2.1 FILM inFilm
2.2 Light installation in Venice International Art Fair 2024 - 20th edition
2.3 Moving image exhibited at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing) and Shanghai Mental Health Center
2.4 Displayed at the “Free Youth” Charity Exhibition  (Apr 11 – Jun 11, 2026) organized by the Han Hong Love Charity Foundation and Ant Foundation at Alibaba Center (Hangzhou)

Film is a mixed-media series developed from old family photographs and childhood memories.

The series includes three works: Sweet Dream, Community, and Sunny Day. Across different formats: light installation, moving image, and printed version, the works explore the fragile balance between intimacy and tension within East Asian family relationships.

Works: Sweet Dream, Community, Sunny Day  
Role: Artist / Animator
Medium: Film paper, light, print, moving image  
Themes: Family memory, East Asian parent-child relationships, intimacy, conflict, reconciliation  
Exhibited formats: Mixed-media installation, print edition, moving image

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04.    MINT ON TOUR & MINT CHINESE FILM FESTIVALTYPE: Public storytelling2024-2026
4.1 MINT CFF 2026 Opening, Lake District, England
4.2 Mint on Tour 2024 Web Visual
4.3 Mint on Tour 2024, Glasgow, Scotland
4.4 Mint on Tour 2024 with Confucius Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland


A feminist festival identity and moving-image campaign for cross-cultural film programming across Scotland & England.

Role: Concept Artist / Key Visual Director  
Medium: Illustration, digital painting, motion graphics, festival campaign  
Context: Mint Chinese Film Festival / MINT on Tour  
Themes: Feminist film culture, migration, cross-cultural identity, public storytelling

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05.    VANISHING WOMANTYPE: Public storytelling2023
5.1 Glasgow Female Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland 
5.2 postcards pin, and keychain for the event

To See More Vanishing Women was a feminist film and moving-image project developed in Glasgow, bringing together curation, visual identity, and public engagement around women’s visibility in cinema.

Role: Curatorial planner / Visual artist
Medium: Film curation, trailer, badges, public programme identity  
Themes: Feminist film culture, visibility, public space

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06.    YESTERDAY ONCE MORETYPE: Animation 2022
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6.2 Screenshot from Yesterday Once More
6.3 Yesterday Once More draft


A mixed-media animated short exploring how digital platforms consume attention, blur reality, and quietly reshape ordinary life.
The film imagines attention as wind: a large fan sweeps life away, while a small fan tries to return it.

Role: Director / Animator  
Medium: 2D animation, hand-drawn image, digital painting  
Themes: Social media, attention economy, illusion, ordinary life  
Format: Animated short film

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Cecilia Chuan JiangUK-based creative technologist, animation researcher, and interactive media artist working across animation, Al-assisted tools, projection, spatial interaction, and mixed media. Her practice explores how cities are remembered, lost, and reconstructed through emotional systems for urban memory, migration, identity, and human experience. Her work has been exhibited internationally across China, the United States, the UK, Italy, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru.
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