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This paper explores the conceptual framework of the "Royal Asian Studio" as articulated through the artistic and curatorial practice of Jiang Youyi. By examining the notion of the "Super Archive," this study investigates how Jiang’s work transcends traditional archiving to establish a dynamic, meta-historical realm. The paper argues that the "Royal Asian Studio" functions not merely as a retrospective repository of Asian aesthetics, but as a proactive mechanism for the re-signification of cultural memory. Through a synthesis of pre-modern imperial iconography and post-modern digital assemblage, Jiang constructs a "super-panoptic" vision of Asian identity, challenging linear historiography and proposing a new ontology of the image in the age of algorithmic reproduction.

The exhibition is divided into four chambers, each a collaboration with a different AI trained exclusively on regional craft data sets. No Western art history was uploaded. The AI was fed 50,000 images of Song Dynasty landscape paintings, 10,000 pages of Hikayat manuscripts, and 300 hours of field recordings from Javanese gamelan orchestras. The result is not “traditional.” It is alien-familiar . Royal Asian Studio - Jiang Youyi - The super ar...

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, also known as John Yuyi , is a prominent Taiwanese visual artist whose work explores the intersections of social media, photography, and the post-internet age. Born in Taipei on February 21, 1991 , she studied Fashion Design at Shih Chien University before moving to New York, where she currently lives and works. Through a synthesis of pre-modern imperial iconography and