Welcome to the Past uses crochet to recreate pixelated elements of early 2000s Windows interface. It reflects on our relationship with the digital world by translating fast, intangible visuals into slow, handmade objects.

Inspired by the Y2K bug and the anxiety of technological collapse, the work explores how physical craft can question digital dependence and the illusion of online presence. Crochet adds warmth and imperfection to sterile screen-based imagery, blurring the line between virtual and real.

By reimagining low-resolution aesthetics in yarn, the project highlights the value of slowness, touch, and human presence in an age of AI and hyper-digital life
Min Jung Tsai is a Taiwanese artist who works across time-based media, interactive installation, projection mapping, performance, ceramics, sculpture, and drawing. Her practices involve religion, existence, feminism, and unusual daily life. She explores the territories of sociology, performance and place with a particular interest in gender politics. Min Jung has a Master’s degree from the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins Department of Fine Arts, and a bachelor’s from National Taiwan Normal University, School of Fine Arts. Trained as a painter, Min Jung has been involved in art projects in the UK and abroad, as well as exhibitions at galleries and art fairs such as the National Gallery Prague; Five Years Gallery, London; Tate Modern, London; Ping Tung Art Museum, Ping Tung; Dequn Art Gallery, Taipei.

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