Zhenhan Chen
I make animation, video installation and interactive work about politics, social arguments and constructed worlds. I also build quantitative models for markets: analyst forecasts, machine learning on returns, and the language of financial news.
Visual Art & Technology (B.A.) and Financial Technology & Analytics (M.S.), Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
Art
- Knights of Babbio AnimationA video of several medieval knights with catapults standing between the pillars of Babbio, a modern building in the artist's college.
- Karma & Phala Video installationKarma & Phala is a video installation in which caricatured renditions of religious and political figures engage in a conversation filled with existential one-upmanship.
- Aim Hero Interactive gameMon Jul 19 2022 The player needs to shoot targets appearing on the screen using a mouse to earn points.
- Shape of Sound PaintingA painting series that visualizes the shape of sound, including the sound of an iPhone alarm , wave and miter saw in the artist's way.
- Winnie on the Beach AnimationA video of Winnie the Pooh, who is supposed to be a cute character, walking slowly to a hamster and attacking it.
- Things Going Away PhotographyA photo series of things that are gradually disappearing around us .
- Archer AnimationA video of an archer attacking a human with a fancy camera perspective tracking the arrow.
- Winnie in the Hallway AnimationThe viewer walks down the hallway of an apartment in a first-person perspective, seeing bloodstains and eerie, terrifying symbols and murals along the way.
Finance
- Reversal Index Capstone researchScores Wall Street analysts on the quarters where earnings change direction, then audits a 20-year backtest out of sample.
- Stock CNN Machine learningPredicts five-day price direction from stock chart images with convolutional neural networks.
- Financial NLP Language & marketsMeasures FinBERT sentiment in 20,550 news articles and tests whether it predicts stock returns.