Xingkai Wang

Xingkai is a Chinese visual designer and multimedia artist. He graduated from Beijing Institute of Graphic Technology in 2020, majoring in visual communication design, and currently studying Information Experience Design at the RCA.

Xingkai's work currently focuses on visual direction and digital transformation, exploring the interaction of individual emotions and information flows. He likes to explore the subtle conflicts hidden in the gaps of reality, gathering and transforming information into experiences through extensive participation in public discussions.

He enjoys exploring the relationship between humans and objects, He believes that designers should reshape the way people perceive the community and the environment to have a positive impact on society.

The project aims to inspire people to think and re-examine the role of communication technology in our everyday lives and questions if it’s us who controls technology or technology controls us? What have we gained and lost from the communication transformation brought about by the covid-19.

Xingkai -- a speculative future communication technology. It is embedded in people's daily online communications, through interactive installations and programming, which identifies and processes the communication among people and simplifies it into a digital message (emoji). It then transmitted into a chat window allowing people to ‘better express themselves’.

My project explores a future scenario where people lose their ability to express their emotions without assisting technologies like Xingkai and allow the audience to gain insights into the dystopian future represented by Xingkai and re-examine our current relationship with it.