Mingyong Cheng

Email:

m2cheng@ucsd.edu

Website:

https://www.mingyongcheng.com/

Pronouns:

she/hers

Biography:

Mingyong Cheng, originally from Beijing and now based in California, is an interdisciplinary artist at the intersection of AI, generative art, and environmental research. After completing an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University, she continues her work at the University of California, San Diego, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Art Practice and Art History with a specialization in interdisciplinary environmental research. Mingyong’s work combines visual arts with speculative ecology, treating AI as a collaborative force in the creative process.

Her research investigates how synthetic intelligence can expand human creativity, reinterpreting historical narratives, addressing contemporary issues, and envisioning alternative futures. Through generative AI, she explores art’s capacity to reshape our relationship with nature and the environment. Mingyong’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, the SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community, the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), and the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), as well as in other global art and technology forums.