Lee Yun (b. 1998, Taiwan) is a media artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans film, video installation, and real-time audiovisual systems. Working at the intersection of experimental cinema, media archaeology, and performance, Yun’s practice explores how figures and gestures in moving images can be translated across temporal, spatial, and cultural contexts. His projects interrogate themes of memory, identity, historical rupture, and diasporic longing.

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Originally trained in narrative filmmaking, Yun’s practice evolved towards more experimental and research-driven forms during his MFA studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, following a B.A. in Creative Media from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. Grounded in editing as both a formal and philosophical act, his work often employs repetition, fragmentation, and media translation to destabilize linear narrative structures.

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Recent projects include Faces of Sadness (2025), a media installation reinterpreting the historical trauma surrounding Taiwan’s 228 Incident through rephotographed film sequences and layered temporalities; Rueli Woods (2024), a poetry film exploring loneliness and emotional dislocation through collage-style editing and environmental sound; and One Who is Willing (2022), a narrative short meditating on aspiration and myth within the context of a Taiwanese fishing village. Yun’s ongoing research into audiovisual systems has also led to the development of a real-time flicker-based editing tool, used in both installation contexts and live performances with his audiovisual ensemble, WNTSAD.

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Yun’s work has been exhibited and screened internationally at venues such as Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elastic Arts, Comfort Station, and Fotoaura Institute of Photography. His films have received recognition from Festival Tous Courts, Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart, Florence Film Awards, and the Rome Prisma Film Awards. Beyond his artistic practice, Yun has contributed to media education, teaching video workshops at National Cheng Kung University and working across cinematography, post-production, and installation design for fellow artists and filmmakers.

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Currently based in Chicago, Yun continues to investigate how cinematic gestures can activate spaces of translation, between bodies and images, history and present, presence and absence.