Yiou Wang (pronounced E-O) is a media artist, researcher and designer creating worlds enacted as living systems. Spanning game, CGI, and kinetic sculpture, they construct synthetic organisms and responsive environments whose behavior emerges through movement, local rules, sensing, rhythmic coupling, and physical constraint. Drawing on backgrounds in architecture, psychology, and biology, Yiou investigates agency beyond representation through creature, architecture, and environment substrate.

Yiou holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University and is founder of Mixanthropy Studio, an interdisciplinary platform for immersive installations and holographic beings. Their work has been presented internationally at SXSW, SIGGRAPH, Athens Digital Arts Festival, C-Lab Taiwan, The BLANC Gallery, and the New Museum of Networked Art. They received the ArtPrize 2025 New Media Public Vote Award and the iF Design Award 2026, and was among the shortlist for the S+T+ARTS Prize’s Repairing the Future.

What is a two-way gaze — logo

什么是双向注视

A private reference to the monocular that shaped a way of seeing years before painting, architecture, or media art entered the frame. Where the two fields cross, they resolve into a single dense form: exogenous gaze and endogenous gaze, arriving at the same point.

Also, an eye emerges in between an eclipse.

Further, from two fields’ overlap, a subject is highlighted. Yiou has a long-term creative interest in ecologies shaped by contextual relationships. No individual-environment dichotomy, in which environment is a backdrop; environment is composed of infinite agents in a relational web. Society is ecology; ecology is society. We are each other’s environment (read more).