Dongpu Ling is a Los Angeles, CA-based intermedia artist born in Shanghai, China. She received a B.A. in Intermedia Arts at Arizona State University in 2018, and an M.F.A. in Art and Technology at California Institute of the Arts in 2021.


Dongpu Ling is working at the intersection of interactive installation and performance art. Specifically, her work explores the space among digital and physical entities by creating a multidisciplinary relationship with machine intelligence. Her fascination with the unseen - including things like body senses, data transformations, and theoretical physics, etc. - is various. Her work spans multiple media formats including interactive installation, painting, sculpture, video, and performance art. In her mind and world, time does not exist without a soul or observer, and art does not exist without viewers.

Her most recent interactive installation - Dark Matter (2021) - opens a conversation about the security, privacy, labor, and environmental issues of current technologies, including artificial intelligence and global internet communication. Meanwhile, her painting series - Postview (2021) - centers around the notion of the artificial through the lens of a dystopian future.

Dongpu’s work invites viewers into the conversation and the art itself. This is deeply inspired by Duchamp’s quote: “The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external works by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds their contribution to the creative act.”