CURRICULUM VITAE

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Lushi Liu is an Intra-disciplinary artist and PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, working at the intersections of art, technology, education and philosophy.

Grounded in new materialism and posthumanism, her practice explores how knowledge emerges through the entanglements of human and more-than-human agencies. Working across immersive installations, extended reality (XR), performance, participatory workshops and speculative fiction, she approaches artistic practice not simply as an object of research, but as a mode of inquiry and knowledge production.

Her research engages with diffractive methodologies, material-discursive practices and multidimensional imaginaries, investigating how bodies, technologies and environments continuously constitute and transform one another.

EDUCATION

University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK
PhD in Education | 2024–Present

Research Areas: Practice-as-Research (PaR), New Materialism, Posthumanism, Art and Creative Education.

Royal College of Art | London, UK
MA in Digital Direction | 2021–2023

Beijing Film Academy | Beijing, China
BA in Photography | 2015–2019

RESEARCH & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

PhD Researcher
University of Cambridge | 2024–Present

• Conducting interdisciplinary doctoral research across artistic practice, creative education, posthumanism and new materialism.
• Developing Practice-as-Research methodologies through immersive installations, speculative storytelling and experimental academic writing.
• Investigating material-discursive tesseract, human and more-than-human agencies, and the relationships between embodiment, technology and knowledge production.

Research Assistant
University of Cambridge | 2024–2025

• Contributed to intra-disciplinary research involving art, technology and creative education.
• Supported research activities and the development of digital and XR-related creative practices.
• Engaged with research methodologies informed by posthumanism, new materialism and Practice-as-Research.

PUBLICATIONS & MANUSCRIPTS

Book Chapters

Qiu, Y., & Liu, L. (in press). Hugging as Method: Burst Balloons, Experimenting Beyond Control. Routledge.

Liu, L. (in preparation). From Cyborg to Mycelium: Technology-Entangled Art and Mycelial Meshwork. Book chapter intended for Routledge; first draft expected in early 2027.

SELECTED WORKSHOPS & ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2026

Twice-Trodden Ground: The Moon, Yutu and Lunar Dust
Workshop Leader | Posthuman Reading Group, Darwin College, Cambridge, UK.

Agent Archives
Presentation Facilitator | Posthuman Reading Group, Cambridge, UK.

2025

The Shape of Hugging
Workshop Leader | Kaleidoscope Conference, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK.

The Shape of Hugging
Workshop Leader | Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.

The Self-Invention of Ritual
Roundtable Discussion | London, UK.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & ARTISTIC PROJECTS

2026

Twice-Trodden Ground: The Moon, Yutu and Lunar Dust
Intra-active Art Exhibition | Darwin College, Cambridge, UK.

2025

Becoming Mushroom
Interactive Multimedia Installation | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.

Entangled Future
Commissioned Moving-Image Work | Cambridge Mushroom Festival, UK.

2023

Lost and Ghost
Performance and Augmented Reality (AR) | Royal College of Art, London, UK.

2022

IRCAM Forum
Sound and Digital Art Forum | Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

2017

Golden Foal Cup International University Student Photography Exhibition
Photography Exhibition | Pingyao, China.