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Alice Yuan Zhang 张元

I am a Chinese-American media artist with a professional background in brand strategy and skills across design (graphic, web, and spatial), coding, communications, research, cultural production, writing and teaching.

These days, I am mostly focused on running an interdisciplinary project room called Plot in Chinatown Los Angeles. If you happen to be in town, come by for an upcoming event or reach out to pitch a collaboration!

File Name Description Institution(s) Date
Artwork
/Returns to Dust, Dust Rises Again (复扬尘也) Installation of clay sculptures appearing as fossil negatives of computational parts, resting on a bed of bentonite sand. Forming the backdrop is a large drawing depicting a stratified view of the Earth in fabulist style, inspired by early Chinese surveys of natural phenomena that blur the line between the mythical and analytical. UCLA Conditional Studio / Getty PST 2024
/Reconnecting... Visual narrative on the underbelly of global digital dependencies. arebyte x Chronus Art Center 2023
/Becoming Infrastructure Year-long research research sandbox and public experiments on composting and remaking sociotechnical infrastructure. 0x Salon, Trust, Processing Foundation 2022-2023
/Anatomy of an Intergenerational Router Interactive 3D scan as self-portrait, illustrating the body as a site for socioecological connectivity. Oyoun 2022
/1:1 Protocols for Remote Connection Browser-based card game on ways to connect remotely with a partner, both digital and analog, tangible and speculative. Co-created with Bhavik Singh (Soft Networks). The Digital Review 2022
/Open Garden Durational performance experimenting with the potentiality of our online attention and the labor of digital sovereignty, hosted on the decentralized web. CultureHub, Solar Protocol 2021
/Remembering Our Roots Immersive storytelling experience through augmented reality, featuring three "plant ancestors" of the artists' lineage. Adobe Aero 2021
/Eat Me Immersive meditation experience on digital consumption. New Art City 2021
/Requiem for Lost Plants Web-based and site-specific AR installation featuring native plants in the Los Angeles area, with 3D soundscape by Alex Kaye. NAVEL / 3HD Festival 2020
Cultural Production
/Plot 田 Interdisciplinary project room in Chinatown Los Angeles, with weekly programs on art, design, and contemporary culture offered in experimental formats. 2025
/Virtual Care Lab Series of creative experiments in remote connection, co-organized with Sara Suárez. NAVEL 2020-2021
/Terms That Serve Us Collective definitions (inversion of "Terms of Service") surfacing from a series of public discussions as part of a residency on digital placemaking. Virtual Care Lab / The Bentway x From Later 2021
Writing
/Cyclical Time as Antidote Reflections on natural lifecycles in context of the pursuit for technological progress. Re:Arc Institute 2024
/Spacetime Diaspora Weavings anecdote and theory across diaristic and universal scales, this short essay explores the simultaneous "invention of the shipwreck and the shipwreck". Place Settings, Tiny Tech Zines 2023
/Sea Change Critique of Forkonomy, a project by Tzu Tung Lee and Winnie Soon that proposes a decentralized ownership model for the South China Sea. Outland 2023
/Wild Domesticity Musings on the practice of home-making amidst post-digital topologies of locale and social relationing, referencing Friedenscreich Hundertwasser's "Five Skins" framework. Are.na Annual 2023
Teaching
/Solidarity Infrastructures Curriculum and learning community focused on alternative networked tools & strategies, co-created/taught with Max Fowler. School for Poetic Computation 2023-ongoing
/Taoism and Techne Outdoor group exploration of Taoist perspectives on technology through clay-drinking, parables, and discussion. UCLA Conditional Studio / Getty PST 2024
/Digital Matterealities Learning group on the aesthetics and cultural implications of digital media, culminating in a virtual group show on Mozilla Hubs NAVEL 2020

You can reach me at intrinsicolor[at]gmail.com.

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