Yiou Wang (pronounced E-O) is a multimedia artist, experiential designer, and creative technologist who thrives in hybrid realms—from worldbuilding-driven art to experiential design and creative technology industries, crafting narratives through emerging technologies. Through pioneering R&D of real-time and animated mediums, she weaves “ancient future myths” of transformation and becoming, fusing cutting-edge tools with cross-dimensional storytelling to reimagine infinite worlds within the world. Drawing from a background in art and architecture, Yiou develops interdisciplinary projects that integrate motion capture, video, mixed realities, immersive installations, digitally fabricated sculptures and innovative theatrical productions.

Through the lens of performance capture and game engines, Yiou in her artistic works investigate themes of animism, ecological thinking, fluid time and hybrid identities through deep cross-disciplinary collaborations and art form fusions between visual, performance, music and ritual. She offers an ancestrally inspired and futuristic worlding framework as a response to the present.

Yiou graduated from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has worked as a freelance technical artist and experiential designer. Her work has been exhibited and awarded at multiple international festivals and institutions, including SXSW, The BLANC Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, SIGGRAPH, MIT Museum, Asian Media Arts Festival, and the New Museum of Networked Art. Yiou has received multiple awards and honors, including the Muse Gold Design Award, and a S+T+ARTS Prize Shortlist nomination, among others. Alongside her artistic practice, Yiou is the Co-founder and Creative Director of Mixanthropy Art Tech Studio, a collective focused on event commissions, and digital and physical experience productions.

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