Faculty of Arts & Science
Digital Futures
Meet the Artist
Yixuan
Xiao
Digital Futures, Integrated Media
“My work sits at the intersection of technology, perception, and the human body. I’m interested in how digital systems—especially AI and real-time visual tools—shape the way we experience time, space, and ourselves.”
Yixuan Xiao is a multidisciplinary designer and artist with a focus on postmodern philosophical speculation. Xiao works with GAI research, product design, illustration, video, and sound. Xiao’s projection works has been exhibited at the 2024 OCAD Digital Futures Open Show. Xiao’s intellectual property images has been showcased at the 2025 Global Licensing Expo China (LEC) and 2025 China Licensing Expo (CLE). Xiao is currently studying at OCAD University in the Digital Futures program with a minor in Integrated Media. Xiao was a visual researcher and a designer at N7 Interactive (Shanghai, China) and was an intellectual property designer at WELFUN (Guangzhou, China).
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Integrated Media
Minor Completed, 2026
Generative Art Interactive Media AI Creative Systems Data-driven Design Speculative Design Intellectual Property Illustration Installation
2026, GradEx 111
100 McCaul St.
2025, China Licensing Expo (CLE)
SNIEC, Shanghai, China
2025, Global Licensing Expo China (LEC)
National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai, China
2024, OCAD Digital Futures Open Show
205 Richmond St W, Toronto, ON
2020, Outstanding International Student Award
HCDSB
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