Yang Wang is an artist, researcher and engineer based in Brooklyn, New York.
# Email (yang.wang.dec@gmail.com) # Instagram (yangggwanggg) # Github (wangyangwang)
He also formed an art & research collective with his life/work partner Zhenzhen Qi – zzyw:
zzyw.org
Yang WANG is a computational media artist, a researcher and a software engineer based in Brooklyn, New York. Along with his partner Zhenzhen Qi, he has formed the research-based art collective, zzyw, which produces text, software, and simulations as instruments for examining the impact of computing. Their work has been featured at several notable institutions, including the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, the Knockdown Center in New York, and the National Museum of China. In the past decade, Wang has worked with the LAB at Rockwell Group, artist Ian Cheng, and the media art platform OUTPUT. He has also been a member or resident artist of NEW INC, Babycastles, Pioneer Works and EYEBEAM.
Throughout Wang’s practice, computation serves as a tool for art-making and the subject of study. His work utilizes simulation to recreate conditions for critical examination.
Yang Wang holds a BA from the University of Science & Technology, Beijing (USTB) in Artistic Design and graduated from the Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP), New York University, with a MPS in 2014.
| Category | Location | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residency | Spokane, WA | 2016 | Laboratory |
| Membership | New York City | 2019 | NEW INC, New Museum |
| Residency | New York City | 2022 | EYEBEAM |
| Residency | New York City | 2021 | Babycastles |
| Residency | New York City | 2019 | Technology Resident Artist |
| Grant | New York City | 2020 | Brooklyn Arts Grant “Too Art, Too Game” |
| Award | 2022 | 2022 ~ 5th VH Awards, Finalist | |
| Award | 2021 | LUMEN Awards, Finalist |
| Category | URL | Institute | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symposium | https://museum2050.com/symposium/2020-symposium-2/ | Museum 2050, He Art Museum | 2020 | Cultural Alliances, The Imperatives and Challenges of Collaboration |
| Symposium | null | Albert University of the Arts | 2021 | “Computational Haze” @ “Contingent Systems: Art and/as Algorithmic Culture” |
| Book Chapter | null | Ragged Sky Press. | 2017 | Towards A Critique Culture in New Media Education - Art School Critique 2.0 |
| Book Chapter | null | Amherst College Press. | 2022 | “Remaking Virtuality” - Digital Transformation in Design |
| Magazine Article | https://espculturalmag.com/issue-02 | ESP Cultural Magazine | 2021 | “Between Code and Mystery” |
| Web Article | https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/feb/17/architecting-emergence/ | Rhizome,New Museum | 2020 | “Architecting Emergence” |
| Podcast | http://www.macallineart.org/en/podcasts/874/cacotopia | Macallineart Art Center | 2021 | Wandering between the line of Computable and Uncomputable with zzyw |
| Location | Project Included | Curator | Institute | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spokane WA | Untitled | Laboratory | 2015 | The Introspection Game | |
| New York NY | Untitled | Chinatown Soup | 2016 | LENNA | |
| Shanghai | Untitled | Baoyang Chen | West Bund Art & Design | 2022 | Infinity Games: Impossible Improvisation 无限游戏：不可能的即兴 |
| New York NY | Untitled | Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University | 2018 | On Collaboration | |
| Alberta Canada | Untitled | Lisa Lipton, Ashley Scarlett | Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts | 2021 | Contingent System |
| New York NY | Untitled | James (Yuxi) Cao | 3LD Art & Technology Center | 2018 | UNCOMPRESSED |
| Beijing | Untitled,Untitled | Tsinghua University | National Museum of China 中国国家博物馆 | 2019 | As-Helix |
| New York NY | Untitled | CultureHub | 2017 | Selfie | |
| New York NY | Untitled | James (Yuxi) Cao | 3LD Art & Technology Center | 2018 | .Zip S2 |
| New York NY | Untitled | 2015 | Governor’s Island Art Fair | ||
| New York NY | Untitled | Joygill Moriah | BHQFU Gallery | 2016 | Calm Before/After the Storm |
| New York NY | Untitled | Xinyi Ren, Ningjue Lyu, Jingqiu Li | Power Station of Art 上海当代艺术博物馆 | 2018 | Bad Code |
| New York NY | Untitled,Untitled | La Mama Galleria (CutlureHub) | 2018 | Refest 2.0 | |
| South Korea | Untitled | Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum | 2018 | New Texture | |
| Beijing / Seoul / Online | Untitled | Michael Connor | Rhizome | 2021 | World On A Wire |
| Lecturer | Institute | Level | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yang Wang / Zhenzhen Qi | School of Art, Cooper Union, New York | College/Undergraduate | 2022 | Computational Studio: Simulated! |
| Yang Wang / Zhenzhen Qi | Beam Camp, Beam Center, New Hampshire | 2014 | Digital and Analog Game Design, | |
| Zhenzhen Qi | Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY | Graduate School | 2018 | Theory and Practice of Interactive Media I |
| Zhenzhen Qi / Yang Wang | Department of Transmedia Studies, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA), Guangzhou, China | College/Undergraduate | 2017 | Interactive Media and Visual Programming |
| Zhenzhen Qi | City University of New York | College/Undergraduate | 2014 | Introduction to New Media |
| Zhenzhen Qi | Department of Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY | Graduate School | 2017 | Digital Foundations |
| Zhenzhen Qi | Baruch College, City University of New York, NY | College/Undergraduate | 2015 | Programming Interactivity |
| Zhenzhen Qi | City University of New York, NY | College/Undergraduate | 2015 | Multimedia Development |
| Zhenzhen Qi | De Anza College, California | College/Undergraduate | 2007 | Statistics |
| Zhenzhen Qi | Department of Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY | Graduate School | 2017 | New Media New Form |
| Zhenzhen Qi | Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY | Graduate School | 2019 | Theory and Practice of Interactive Media II |
| Zhenzhen Qi | Pi Art Center, New York, NY | 2015 | Introduction to Web Design and Development |