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DYOLO? (2026)
      For Interactive Installation   

Even As I Am Silent, and Am Not Wont To Speak (2026)
      For Vocal Sextet and Electronics   

The Fallen Leave Falls (2025)
      For flute, bassoon, piano, live electronics and video   

Yesterday Yet To Come 2 (2025)
      For installation, cassette tapes, and live electronics   

When Clouds Are One Cloud Till The Horizon (2025)
      For Mixed String Ensemble   

They Have Only Existence (2025)
      For Solo Percussion, Live Electronics, and Generative Video Score   

The Poetics of Waiting… (2025)
      Installation for Interactive Animations and Spatialized Sound   

Shards of The Untraced (2025)
      For String Quartet and Spatialized Fixed Media   

Events And Results (2024)
      Video Game   

Unsupervised (2024)
      For Electric Guitar Quartet and Light   

Place Each Body Part on the Box And... (2023)
      For Wood, Resin, Print, Force Sensors and 6-channel Fixed Media   

inhere nowhere (2023)
      For Mixed Ensemble, Live-electronics, and Spatialization  

The Forgotten Ones (2020)
      For String Quartet and Fixed Media   

Clouds (2019)
      For Flute and Live Electronics   

Visual

Warp (2025)
      For 4-channel Fixed Media and Audio-reactive Video   

Photography

Cloud of Sound, Sound of Cloud  

B&W

Color

DYOLO? (Do You Only Look Once?) (2026)
 Interactive installation with live cameras
   
Exhibited July 5, 2026, at Musiikin aika Time of Music - Composing Time and Space, Viitasaari, Finland

YOLO, standing for You Only Look Once, is a real-time object detection AI model that locates and classifies every object in an image in a single pass, first introduced in 2015 by Redmon and Farhadi. It's fast, decisive, exhaustive.

The installation invites the audience to observe how the machine processes its data memory of the artist's everyday life in New York, and to see in real time how their own present moment, captured by the live camera, is analyzed and reconstructed through this mechanical apparatus. The audience becomes both subject and viewer of the same mechanical gaze that never returns.
But the algorithm does not know how calm it was on a random summer night, or how a sunset can feel nostalgic. We reconstruct our lives through videos, photos, recordings, texts... We forget, revisit, misremember.

While all the technology around us asks for nothing but efficiency, Do You Only Look Once?






 

YANQI CHEN

last updated July 2026