about
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Kim Ying [METAL_UPA] is a Singapore-born, London-based artist working in sound, light and kinetic machines. Rooted in electronic club culture, dance and game worlds, her work translates immaterial bodies into interactive, fleeting encounters, where data and archival systems become spatial choreography.
With a background in interaction design, she questions what an interface is and what it conceals, treating digital infrastructure, planetary movement and natural forces as participatory bodies that can be listened to.
Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Copeland Gallery, Meanwhile Festival at Gaffe and Softer at The Art House by Acrylicize.
She co-runs Cooked.wav, a food and rave collective, and is co-founding Reciprocity, a techno-spirituality collective, with its performance piece Coded Rituals. She is also a guest lecturer in Interaction Design at Ravensbourne University London and holds a Master of Architecture in Design for Performance and Interaction from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
Contact: kimverlyn@metalupa.xyz / Instagram: @metal_upa
exhibitions and panels
⎯Upcoming
27 Aug, Algofund, Peckham Digital Fundraiser, Vespers Club
20 Sep, Spatial AV Installation, Meanwhile Festival at Gaffe
27 Sep, Perspectives
1 - 3 Oct, Coded Rituals, SOFTER Copenhagen
⎯2026
Net.murmuring, Supermoon, Goodman Arts Centre
AV Set, Loam, Autumn Three
Asian Futura Ambient AV set, in collaboration with COOKED.wav, Meanwhile Easter Festival, Gaffe
⎯2025
Internet Checkpoints, BIT ROT with Phreaking Collective, Copeland Gallery
Field Guide for Oddkin, Nature KwenTour by ESEA Green Lions, Museum of the Home
Audiovisual set with Holy Tongue, specctra 003, Vespers
Audiovisual set with Half East Collective, the waiting room N16
Ambient Sauna AV set with DJ Stella Zheng, Sauna Social Club
Blue MV, BYOB Currents, Tusitala, Singapore
Energy Systems, SOFTER, The Art House at Acrylicize, London
⎯2024
Sonic Hues, Ars Electronica, Austria
Ambedo Field, KIKK Festival, Belgium
Ambedo Field, London Festival of Architecture: Bartlett in Situ, London
Your Spectrum, SOFTER, London
Let’s Glitch Nature Worldbuilding Tech Panel, Garden of Tomorrow Festival, London
memory, point, cells, Crossroads: Random Access Memory, To New Entities, Digital Billboard, Singapore Art Week
⎯2023
Imperfectly Perfect World of AI, GOFY x GIF Fest, National Design Centre Singapore
Five Phases, GOFY For Art's Sake, Singapore