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A Short Walk Through Jinyao’s Alley

Learn more about the Taiwanese multidisciplinary artists

Kaloh
3 min readMar 6, 2022

Jinyao Lin is a Taiwanese multidisciplinary artist with over twenty years of experience. Throughout his career, he has combined technology and art in different forms like audio, installations, drama, and film. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from National Taiwan University, a Master of Fine Art, and a Bachelor of Music from Taipei National University of the Art.

In 2021, Jinyao discovered NFTs thanks to his friend Aluan Wang (@IOivm) and hasn’t stopped creating since then. Some of his drops are frequently mentioned when discussing the most iconic FxHash collections.

Distortion City #01 is Jinyao’s audiovisual genesis piece on FxHash.

I was attracted to Jinyao’s work when one of my friends showed me his Alley collection. I like simplicity, and the Taiwanese artist produced a fantastic effect by using just lines on p5js.

Staying in the little alley.
Narrow view, but enough.

Alley by Jinyao Lin.

Alley by Jinyao Lin.

Although I love the simplicity behind Alley, his most famous work up to date is Forsaken, which has commanded over 9k Tezos (~$40k) in total volume. The 150 pieces…

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