Metamin Narratives
Metamin Narratives is a New York/Beijing–based creative studio working across literature, emerging technologies, and cross-media production. Through original works and interdisciplinary collaborations, we explore how stories, ideas, and world models take form and evolve across media, tools, and communities.
Creative Infrastructure
Our current focus is creative infrastructure, developed through practice-led research. Each project—from Mu Ming’s essays and fiction to collaborative world-building and cross-media productions—is both a work in its own right and a site of inquiry. Patterns emerging across these projects are distilled into frameworks, tools, and shared knowledge systems, then returned to practice to be tested and revised. Through this recursive process, we investigate how creative systems can retain memory, incorporate difference and feedback, and expand the space of possible decisions without prescribing a single way of making.
- Works
- Sites of Inquiry
- Patterns
- Frameworks / Tools / Shared Knowledge
- Return to Practice
Congyun Gu / Mu Ming
Metamin Narratives was founded in 2019 by Congyun Gu, who writes under the pen name Mu Ming. A Chinese speculative fiction writer, creative technologist, and independent researcher based in New York, she was trained in machine intelligence and computer science and previously worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Google. Her fiction has appeared in leading Chinese literary magazines as well as Tor.com, Clarkesworld, and Samovar, and has been published in Chinese, English, Italian, and French. Her Chinese collection The Serpentine Band (2023) was selected for China Books Review’s Best China Books of the Year.
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