Mingyong Cheng

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https://www.mingyongcheng.com/

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Mingyong Cheng, originally from Beijing and now based in California, is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of AI, generative art, and environmental research. She holds two BFAs from Communication University of China (CUC), an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Art Practice and Art History at the University of California, San Diego, with a focus on interdisciplinary environmental studies. Mingyong’s work bridges computational media arts and speculative ecology, emphasizing the co-creativity of generative artificial intelligence in the artistic process. Her research explores how generative AI can act as a collaborative partner, producing ecological art that transforms our understanding of and relationship with nature and the environment. By engaging AI as a co-creative force, her practice reimagines the boundaries of creativity and its potential to address contemporary ecological challenges. Her work has been exhibited internationally at leading venues, including ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Creativity & Cognition, the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), and other global art and technology forums. Her work won the Gold Muse Design Award 2025 in the Artificial Intelligence category, was recognized as the winner of the 2025 Digital Arts Student Competition – Speculative Futures, and received the 2025 IEEE TCPAMI Art Award presented by the CVPR AI Art Gallery.