Mingyong Cheng is an interdisciplinary artist and creative technologist working with generative AI, computational media, and interactive systems. Her practice spans immersive installations, multimedia performance, and real-time audiovisual environments that explore how artistic experience emerges through the interaction of human bodies, machines, and environmental signals. She approaches AI not simply as a tool but as a creative collaborator that reshapes perception, cultural memory, and ecological imagination.  

Cheng is currently completing a PhD in Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego, following an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. Her work has been presented internationally at venues including ACM SIGGRAPH, ISEA, NeurIPS, CVPR, and ACM Creativity and Cognition, and in exhibitions and commissions at institutions such as the San Diego Museum of Art and Jacob’s Pillow’s Doris Duke Theater.