Miao Ying (Chinese: 苗颖; pinyin: Miáo Yǐng; born 1985) is a contemporary artist and writer[1] who is based in New York City and Shanghai, best known for her research based projects addressing her Stockholm Syndrome relationship with the Chinese internet such as The Blind Spot (2007),[2] Chinternet Plus (2016),[3] and online culture inside the Great Firewall.

[6] In order to get into a good art school in China, Miao Ying was classically trained in Russian style Socialist realism paintings and drawings since childhood.

Miao Ying studied with Chinese avant-garde pioneers, including Zhang Peili 张培力 and Geng Jianyi 耿建翌 among others.

"[10] On July 8-August 7, 2015,[11] she exhibited a series of GIFs of websites blocked in China titled "HOLDING A KITCHEN KNIFE TO CUT THE INTERNET CABLE" at the Chinese Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Subsequently, Google ultimately left China in 2010, leading other platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and many other sites to be inaccessible.

It emphasizes the fallacy of a global internet culture while simultaneously underscoring the undemocratic use of networked power in both China and the United States.

More than any of Miao’s previous projects, Hardcore Digital Detox interrogates the dialectical relationship between the Chinternet and the World Wide Web, unspooling and parodying complex issues of global capitalism, online propaganda, and media democracy.

Her new project, "Pilgrimage into Walden XII", explored machine learning software on game engines and created new paintings in the theme of AI.

Using Machine Learning Text Generation Neural Networks and Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, the artist trained the AI to study different styles of writing, including behavioral psychologist, B. F. Skinner’s utopia novel, “Walden Two''; the most popular Chinese online novel style “ 霸道总裁体 ”/ soft-core sadomasochistic Cinderella story depicting a domineering boss; opposing ideological theories; and bible stories.

The artist was able to develop a quest style romantic story between a citizen roach and the AI “The Sophisticated King of the Night, Brain L1t3rat1”, who is monitoring her behavior.

On the surface of the folding screen, there are digital icons created by the artist from computer, the elements are things that forbidden and romance; such as chins, fences, wire, roses, etc.