Ding Ding

Ding is a researcher and artist working in environmental media. Her work examines how scientific observation shapes our understanding of the Earth. She is particularly interested in satellite systems and the terrestrial infrastructures that support them, exploring how knowledge produced at a planetary scale becomes connected to places. This interest extends to field stations, where instruments translate environmental processes into data.

Her artistic practice focuses on transforming scientific data into interactive installations or virtual simulation games. Beginning with data collection, she considers how the conditions of observation influence what can be known about an environment. She then uses interaction to bring audiences into contact with processes that may otherwise remain difficult to perceive. In this work, data becomes a material through which environmental knowledge can be explored and questioned.

Ding has three years of experience in arts education, with teaching and technical roles across the University of Westminster, Creative Computing Institute (UAL) and the University of Roehampton. She currently teaches computational equalities and identities in game, helping students develop practical skills through creative enquiry.