Wendi Yan

Wendi Yan is a New York-based artist, writer and technologist. She constructs speculative epistemologies through research-driven worldbuilding and metafictional simulation. She uses CGI technology, game engines, conceptual sculpture to probe the artifice of knowledge, examine the boundaries of the scientific self, and imagine alternative historical timelines in the psychogeography of the East and West. She also collaborates frequently with scientists and engineers, from synthetic biology to astrophysics, to explore the frontier between science and entertainment, between imaging and imagining. Yan’s work has been exhibited internationally, including ArtScience Museum Singapore, HEK Basel, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Ars Electronica Festival, and MU Hybrid Art House. Yan holds an A.B. in History of Science from Princeton University. She was an inaugural Steve Jobs Archive Fellow, the Grand Prix recipient of the 6th VH Award by Hyundai Motor Group, the inaugural resident at A24 Labs, and an Honorary Mention recipient for CERN’s Collide Stockholm residency. She directs the Revival Fund at Analogue Group.