About

Mingshi Lin is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and DPhil student at the University of Oxford. With a background in visual arts and Latin American studies, she explores how science-technology, nature, and culture converge and diverge in art, film, and visual culture, particularly from Global South perspectives. Her art practice draws on diverse traditions, including ancient Chinese natural philosophy (the I Ching), Latin American indigenous cosmologies, and posthumanist thought, creating dialogues between human and non-human life, science and spirituality.

Her experience spans leading creative projects for the Olympic Games and international film productions. She was the International Volunteer Representative of the People’s Republic of China, attending the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Medal Unveiling Ceremony at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and awarded the Official Olympic Commemorative Medal from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea for contributions to Olympic initiatives. As an artist, she was also named one of Forbes China’s 2023 Top 100 Young Artists. Her artwork was selected for the Royal Scottish Academy’s 200th Annual Exhibition, while my broader practice has been exhibited across Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and beyond.

Prior to beginning her DPhil, she earned a BFA in Film Directing from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She then completed an MA in Film Studies at University College London, followed by an MPhil in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. 

Research

Her current DPhil project focuses on a constellation of works produced during the Cold War by four artists from Chile and Argentina whose practices sit at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Drawing on science and technology studies, media history, and cultural theory, her research examines how these artists move beyond the category of ‘tech-artists’ to become experimenters of scientific models—not merely responding critically to the geopolitical asymmetries and the dominant technoscientific discourses of Cold War Chile and Argentina, but actively reconfiguring the relationships between human and non-human, nature and the urban, energy and information, producing a form of knowledge that is no longer a stable object, but a material, relational, and continuously emergent practice co-enacted by multiple agents.
 

Selected Film and Global Media Experience

From 2018 to 2021, she worked as a Digital Imaging Technician and Camera Assistant on film and television productions, including Zhang Yimou’s One Second (2020) and Snipers (2022), and Feng Xiaogang’s Only Cloud Knows (2019), filmed in New Zealand, as well as the television drama series Crossroad Bistro (2021). In 2022, she served as Assistant Director on Winners Are Fearless, a short film produced by the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee featuring elite athletes Eileen Gu and Qiaobo Ye. She has also worked in media and broadcasting operations for major international sporting events, including the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 in Australia, and the Lausanne 2020 Youth Winter Olympic Games in Switzerland.

She welcomes collaborations in cross-cultural curation, documentary development, film production, arts and cultural programming.