CURATED: ZIYANG WU

Ziyang Wu is a New York-based artist whose recent practices examine how the invisible forces of the virtual world, data, and algorithms ubiquitously micro-alienate and reconstruct humans in the highly globalized post-Internet society. His artistic tools include Artificial Intelligence, user-based internet algorithms, and episodic video. 

Ziyang Wu currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Experiment on Art and Technology Track at NEW INC, New Museum.

A WOMAN WITH THE TECHNOLOGY – CARNIVAL is a complicated method that examines the "Filter Bubble" phenomenon using machine learning (a situation in which an Internet user encounters only information and opinions that conform to and reinforce their own beliefs). Both the title and the video script are generated by an AI-Chatbot that was trained over a 90-day period utilizing all of the artist's social media data (Instagram, Facebook, etc.). This chatbot could be thought of as an artificial intelligence counterpart of the artist. It might also be interpreted as the Internet algorithm's "guess" as to who the artist is and what he is interested in. They "collectively generated" a ludicrous video script as a result of their chat with this AI Chatbot. Based on this AI-generated script, Ziyang Wu created a 12-episode animated video. 
The original 3D models from Episode 5, multiple dancing figures with surveillance camera heads, and large billboard screens exhibiting stills from Episodes 1, 3, 5, 6, and 9 are juxtaposed in A WOMAN WITH THE TECHNOLOGY – CARNIVAL.
Ziyang Wu is an artist based in New York, currently teaching at the School of Visual Arts and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is a member of the Experiment on Art and Technology Track at NEW INC, New Museum. His recent practices examine how the virtual world, data and algorithm as invisible forces ubiquitously micro-alienates and reconstructs human in the highly globalized post-Internet society.
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A Woman with the Technology – Carnival

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New York-based artist Ziyang Wu spends his time exploring the invisible forces of the virtual world. Data and algorithms ubiquitously micro-alienate and reconstruct humans in the highly globalized post-Internet society. In his practice, the artist uses Artificial Intelligence, user-based Internet algorithms, and episodic video to create cutting-edge NFTs. Ziyang Wu currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Experiment on Art and Technology Track at NEW INC, New Museum.

Margaret Murphy, Head of Community, spoke with Ziyang Wu about his creative process with AI, the ever-looming presence of the algorithm, and what he looks forward to in the future of Web 3.0.

AI AND WEB 3.0

ZIYANG WU: INVESTIGATING THE ALGORITHM

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17 artists explore the vast potential of future relationships between AI and creative expression to hypothesize on the not-so-distant future through digital art, video art and AR. In collaboration with VerticalCrypto Art in Berlin.

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