Ziyang Wu (b. 1990, China) is an artist based in New York and Hangzhou, currently teaching at the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art, visiting professor of Expanded Media Department at Alfred University, and is a former member of NEW INC at the New Museum. His recent practices examine how current technologies, in a cross-cultural context, affect politics, society, and the explicit and implicit relationships between things at both macro and micro levels. The artworks of Ziyang Wu explore the impact of contemporary technologies on politics, society, and the intricate relationships between entities at both macro and micro levels within a cross-cultural context. Employing a diverse range of methodologies, including, data analysis, live simulations, CG film, augmented reality, games, AI-generated content, and interactive video installations, Wu delves into themes such as «algorithmic control and biases,» «networked ecosystems,» «digital labor rights,» «AI archaeology,» «planetary-scale computation,» and «speculations on cloud-networked societies in developing countries.»
The Song of the Connectors #2, 2024, digital video, color, sound, 00:18 (view artwork)
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The Song of the Connectors #2 2024 Digital video, color, sound, 00:18 view artwork
The work, from the perspective of connectors, integrates media archaeology, historical documents, field research, and science fiction imagination to explore the ways in which objects (including plants/animals/humans/AI) are linked, and how these links are redefined and interpreted in contemporary society.The Song of the Connectors aims to reveal that the existence of the world is gradually formed through diverse, accidental, mutated, or erroneous connections. The work anticipates an actor network of interwoven and interconnected things and believes that new connectors have already arrived.—Ziyang Wu