Art Technologist & Educator
for an equitable future
:: Julius Yls ::
Julius Yls is a strategic advisor, researcher, and creative technologist with over 20 years of international experience at the intersection of art, technology, and education. His career has ranged from pioneering online education to managing metaverse products for global tech firms. Today, he focuses on high-level advisory work, helping founders and organizations navigate the "rules of the game" in emerging technology and strategic system design.
Based in Xiamen, China, Julius lectures within the UK–China Digital Media Arts programme, a role that also places him at the centre of the country’s fast-moving AI and emerging-tech scene. Teaching keeps him in daily dialogue with a new generation of creators, while his off-campus time is spent prototyping tools, advising start-ups, and stress-testing cross-cultural ideas before rolling them out globally.
His current focus is a unified methodology of AI-assisted systemic analysis used to decode human and institutional data. This framework is applied through two core initiatives: 13Collections (13C), which explores spatial perception in art, and The Living Archive, which uses AI to optimize the long-term effectiveness of institutional education systems. These projects represent his commitment to high-impact, simplified strategies that bridge the gap between complex research and real-world results