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Episode 22: Jiayin Chen

Jiayin Chen shares her very contemporary and fascinating knowledge of our new world with NFTs, Web3, and the blockchain, as well as many other topics.

Website: https://jiayinchen.com/

Bio: Jiayin Chen is a writer, curator, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of art and technology. With a strong track record in digital art and entrepreneurship, she has also written extensively about NFTs and the art market for global publications including Financial Times China, Initium, The Art Newspaper (TANC), Artnet News, and many more.

Having worked in both museums and art fairs, she has extensive experience working with artists and designers from different disciplines, ranging from traditional media to moving image and immersive technologies. 

Her curatorial projects have showcased artists in New York, Miami, Taipei, Busan, Beijing and Berlin. She won the Digital Art Open Call by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2015 and curated the group exhibition “The Real Thing”.

Jiayin is the co-founder of the online art bilingual magazine SCREEN, a platform focusing on art, technology, and beyond. SCREEN was featured in various interviews and articles internationally and has collaborated with major art institutions including Art 021, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Art Taipei, as well as top galleries and art foundations. In 2016, SCREEN was a finalist of the NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Art Business Incubator.

Her op-ed articles have appeared in multiple publications including The Financial Times China, artnet News, The Art Newspaper China (TANC), Taipei Biennial, the Art Trade Journal, etc.