A young smiling Asian woman in a summer dress, walking down the sidewalk. A darkened stage with a whimsical set and two silhouetted figures in front of it. The set has two similar elements on left and right sides and there is a dramatic reflection of the set on the stage floor.

Anna Borou Yu

Anna Borou Yu is a new media artist, interdisciplinary researcher, and dancer. She is the Cofounder and Creative Director of MYStudio, an experimental design group in Boston, integrating humanity, art, performance and technology. She is also a Collaborative Artist at MIT Music and Theater Arts, XR Track Member at NEW INC, Ambassador of Arte Laguna Prize, Judge of 2024 MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon, Judge of 2024 MIT Reality Hack, Reviewer of 2024 IEEE AIART Workshop, selected as AACYF Top 30 under 30 in 2023. She also teaches at Tsinghua University, China Academy of Art and Central Academy of Fine Arts. Anna engages in contemporary interpretation of cultural heritage, embodied exhibition and cognitive performance in extended reality, and translation between media from artistic expression to science research. Her works have been featured at Venice Biennale, Arte Laguna Prize, Hermes Creative Awards, MIT AI Hackathon Best Film, etc. She has worked as Fellow and Project Lead at Harvard FAS CAMLab, and graduated from Tsinghua and Yale School of Architecture.