Milia Xin Bi is a curator and writer based in Glossop, UK. Her research residency at esea contemporary centres on the unexpected—accidents and workarounds—as generative forces within technology-mediated everyday life. Through the lens of reverse engineering, it explores how technologies are adapted, misused, and reassembled within specific cultural contexts: moments where systems are bent, repurposed, or quietly subverted, revealing alternative logics of agency that emerge from the friction between technology and lived reality.
By engaging with communities and practitioners—both locally and beyond—Milia aims to explore how technological knowledge is shared, improvised, and reimagined in everyday settings—while also seeding a local culture of shared curiosity that can continue to grow beyond the residency.
During the residency, Milia will organise a series of public events—workshops, screenings, and gameplay sessions—exploring how we live with technologies: a question that is at once profound and deeply mundane.
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Milia Xin Bi is a curator and writer based in Glossop, UK. Her curatorial practice explores how artistic practices can question the instrumental logic of technology and propose alternative narratives for how technology might be lived with. Her research explores multi-temporalities, manifold materialities, and mediated agency emerging from complex systems.
Milia was most recently Curator-in-Residence at FACT Liverpool (2025–2026), where her residency exhibition Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? was presented. Alongside this role, she has been an integral part of Chronus Art Center (CAC) since 2017, where she has led and contributed to numerous interdisciplinary projects. She is also the recipient of the Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2022.