Vivian Xu is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Her work investigates issues at the intersection of biology, material ecology, technology, and cybernetics. Her creative practice is research-driven, process-based, and informed by practices between the arts and sciences that merge methods from the studio and the laboratory.
Xu’s work has been exhibited at various institutions in Asia, the United States, Europe, and Australia. She has also been awarded research residencies at institutions such as SymbioticA in Perth, Australia and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. Her work has also been featured in books such as Climates. Habitats. Environments and The Annual of Contemporary Art of China: 2021 Edition and international media world-wide such as Tagesspiegel (Germany), CLOT (EU), Neural (Italy), and Global China Television (China). In 2022, her work The Silkworm Project was selected for the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology Hua Awards Shortlist hosted by the Serpentine Gallery.
She is currently an Assistant Professor of Media and Art at Duke Kunshan University in China. Along with Benjamin Bacon, she co-directs the Design, Technology, and Radical Media Lab (DTRM), and co-lead the Art, Media, and Cybernetics Working Group under the American Society of Cybernetics.
徐维静是一位跨学科艺术家和研究者，她的作品探讨了生物学、材料生态学、技术与控制论交叉点上的议题。她的创作实践以研究为驱动，注重创作过程，并受益于结合艺术与科学的跨领域实践，将艺术工作室与科学实验室的方法相融合。
徐维静的作品曾在亚洲、美国、欧洲和澳大利亚的多家艺术机构展出。她还曾获得在国际知名机构的研究驻留机会，例如澳大利亚珀斯的SymbioticA和德国柏林的马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所。她的作品也被收录于《气候·栖居·环境》（Climates. Habitats. Environments）及《中国当代艺术年鉴：2021版》（The Annual of Contemporary Art of China: 2021 Edition）等重要出版物中，并被全球多家国际媒体报道，如德国的《每日镜报》（Tagesspiegel）、欧洲的CLOT、意大利的《Neural》以及中国的《中国环球电视网》（CGTN）。2022年，她的作品《蚕项目》（The Silkworm Project）入选蛇形画廊（Serpentine Gallery）主办的“Lumen技术与艺术奖”（Lumen Prize for Art and Technology）之“华艺奖”（Hua Awards）入围名单。
目前，徐维静担任中国昆山杜克大学媒体与艺术助理教授。她与Benjamin Bacon共同领导“设计、技术与激进媒体实验室”（Design, Technology, and Radical Media Lab, DTRM），并与美国控制论学会（American Society of Cybernetics）下的“艺术、媒体与控制论工作组”（Art, Media, and Cybernetics Working Group）共同合作、共同指导相关研究与实践。
