Yunlin Jiang/ Flow

Yunlin is an interdisciplinary artist and designer working across art, craft, and technology. Through textiles, 3D forms, and interactive systems, she explores how materials and technologies can become expressive, responsive, and engaging. Her work sits at the intersection of hand-craft tradition and emerging digital tools, and that investigates how familiar bodily gestures can be transformed into new forms of communication between the body and the digital world.

LoopScroll

Interactive installation: knitting needles with embedded sensors, monitor, 2025

is an interactive installation and performative device. It built around a single question: what would it feel like if scrolling had to move at the speed of craft, rather than the speed of an swipe? It sits inside the gap between the two flows we live between daily: the rushing current of an endless information feed, and the slow, one-stitch-at-a-time pace of yarn moving through the hands. At its core, two modified knitting needles sense the contact and release of each stitch as it forms. That signal is carried through a microcontroller into a browser extension, where it becomes the scroll itself, knit faster, and the feed moves faster; pause, and it stops. As viewers knit with these needles, the social media page on the installation's screen scrolls in time with their stitches: as knitting time passes, the length of the fabric accumulates beneath the screen, becoming a tangible record of the time spent scrolling. The frictionless rush of the feed is thus transformed into a slow, perceptible rhythm — and the time that passes within that flow becomes something that can be held in the hand, measured, and looked back on.