Computation & Design Speakers Series: Artist & Curator: Ziyang Wu

Wednesday, April 9th

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Performance Café

Ziyang Wu is an artist and curator based in New York and Hangzhou. His recent practice examines how current technologies, in a cross-cultural context, affect politics, society, and the explicit and implicit relationships between entities at both macro and micro levels. He is the vice department head of the Open Media Department at the School of Intermedia Art at China Academy of Art, an adjunct professor at the BFA Fine Art Department at the School of Visual Arts, and a former member of NEW INC at the New Museum.

His works have been exhibited locally and internationally, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia, Rhizome at the New Museum, Walker Art Center, Rochester Art Center, PinchukArtCentre, Hek Basel, Konschthal (organized by Elektron) Luxembourg, SIGGRAPH Asia, SXSW, Mesh Festival, Civa Festival, ifa Berlin, Medici Palace, Art Dubai, Annka Kultys Gallery, M+ Museum, K11, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Long March Space, Today Art Museum, By Art Matters Museum, Song Art Museum, Inside-Out Art Museum, How Art Museum, Times Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, and Ming Contemporary Art Museum. His recent fellowships and residencies include being shortlisted for the “Future Generation Art Prize” (2023-2024); receiving “The Randall Chair” award at Alfred University (2022-2023); participating in the “Kai Wu” Interdisciplinary Studio residency at Media Art Lab, Times Museum (2021); being recognized as AACYF Top 30 under 30 (2021); completing a residency at Residency Unlimited (2020); receiving the MacDowell Fellowship (2019); serving as artist-in-residence at the Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) (2019); and winning The ROCI Road to Peace by the Robert Rauschenberg Art Foundation (2015).