WATER ALWAYS GOES… MAKES ITS WAY TO ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

Jan 5, 2025. First time showing in Africa, Yiou Wang and Alina Tofan’s collaborative piece Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go, participating in The Anthropocene Foundry Addis Ababa @ Addis Video Art Festival Addis Ababa from 26 December 2024 – 01 January 2025 curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. Full program see: https://foundation.nmartproject.net/foundation-screening…/

WATER ALWAYS GOES… EXHIBITS AT SYLIA “METEMPSYCHOSIS.”

Nov 1-2, 2024. Yiou Wang and Alina Tofan’s collaborative piece Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go is exhibited at “Metempsychosis” curated by SYLIA. The exhibition and talks aim at celebrating the intersection of art, design, science and ecology, to inspire new ways of thinking and reconnect us to the environment. Metempsychosis, the idea of mind transmigration, serves as a metaphor for the transformative journey of creating virtual worlds and bodies with motion capture, which not only serves as a medium but actively participates in the creative process. See more at Instagram @sylia_world // syliaworld.com

CO-LIFE/CO-DEMISE PREMIERES AT UAAD FESTIVAL JUKEBOX OF DISSONANCE, NEW YORK

Oct 19-20, 2024. Commissioned by UAAD Festival in August 2024, Co-Life/Co-Demise is a multimedia audio-visual performance synthesizing dance to craft live animation interpreting life progression in between human, landscape and AI by Yiou Wang (animation) and Hsiao-Chu Hsia (performance). Debut: Oct 19, Alt. ver: Oct 20. Read press release. Watch trailer. The work is under further development in 2025.

BATOPIA VR COMES TO MIT MUSEUM

Sept 12, 2024. Cambridge/Boston will have a chance to play test 🦇Batopia VR🦇at MIT Museum, second floor, Thursday September 12th. Batopia is a VR first-person adventure game developed by Trans Species Collective where a bat navigates the acoustic world in the midst of nocturnal routines, other bats, and anthropogenic challenges. Immersed in the world of an animal with sensory modalities very different from our own, the player evades obstacles by echolocation, hunts insects midair, experiences other singer bats’ dialects, combats sensory distraction by urban noises, and unlocks hidden quests by exploration.

BERLIN SCREENING, SILENT GREEN KUPPELHALLE

Aug 27, 2024. BERLIN: 🌊Water Always Goes Where It Wants To Go🌊 the video created in collaboration with Yiou Wang (sound design by Ștefan Blănică) will be screened in Berlin as part of Ecologies of Collapse, Tuesday 27th of August and will start at 19:30PM at Silent Green Berlin in the Kuppelhalle (Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin).

WATER…. NOW GOES TO QUITO, ECUADOR: THE ANTHROPOCENE PROJECT X MIVA VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2024

Aug 23-24, 2024. Yiou and Alina’s work “Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go” participates the Anthropocene Project, co-organized by MIVA Expanded Narratives Experimental Video Art Festival, in Quito, Ecuador, at the National Cinematheque Quito/Ecuador. Selection curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne.

THE ANTHROPOCENE PROJECT, THE NEW MUSEUM OF NETWORKED ART, COLOGNE DE

13 July – 08 September 2024
@ The New Museum of Networked Art. Yiou Wang & Alina Tofan (China/Romania) – Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go, 2024, 05:02. You find the complete program for each week on Alphabet Art Centre https://alphabet.nmartproject.net

PLAY TIME: AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE AT PALMER BLOCK PARTY

Aug 10, 2024. Yiou VJ’ed an audiovisual live performance at “a line” installation and Palmer Block Party organized by Snobs Institute, at Palmer Street near Harvard Square, Cambridge MA. The DJ was Georine Pierre.

BATOPIA VR SHOW COMES TO NEW YORK

July 26 – 27, 2024. “BATOPIA” premieres as a VR game and installation at :iidrr Gallery, New York. 30-minute VR game reservations are open during daytime on the 26 to the 27. The Opening which includes our Project Creation Story and a panel is at 6pm, July 26. Panelists include Laura Alvear Roa, Ker Chen, Allen Lu, and Yiou Wang.

IV INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FILM FESTIVAL

January 2024. CG Short film “WATER ALWAYS GOES WHERE IT WANTS TO GO” will participate in the IV International Ecoperformance Film Festival in Romania. This project also participates in Watering Words, at AgitLab in Portugal, a hydrofeminism platform of poetry and various arts, later this year.

NEW WORK PRODUCTION

January 2024. “WATER ALWAYS GOES WHERE IT WANTS TO GO” a collaboration between actress and dancer Alina Tofan and media artist Yiou Wang is under production at the fusion of performance and virtual scenography. An ongoinig conversation and lifelong research on the corporealities of art and of environment, a work in sync with my thoughts on puppetry and shamanism.

INTERVIEW BY FREUDE.FOREVER, MAGAZINE OF BMW

September 2023. Featured Mixanthropy in the II issue of FREUDE.FOREVER: THE NEW NEUE, on the duo’s creative journey integrating futuristic innovations with ancient storytelling.

TALK AT SIGGRAPH 2023; LOS ANGELES

August 2023. Talk at the 50th ACM SIGGRAPH “METEMPSYCHOSIS IN MEDIA, SLEEP AND CHOREOGRAPHY” presenting the art concept, methodology, and result of MORPHAI.

ASIAN MEDIA ARTS, KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL CANADA

June 2023. “TRAVELING SOUL” invited to be screened at Dazibao Gallery as part of Asian Media Arts of the 10th Korean Film Festival Canada, in Montreal. CG virtual retelling of an Indian myth integrating animal motion capture, TRAVELING SOUL won the Cloud Award by audience choice.

CURATION OF ALTERNATIVE IMMERSIVE SHOW

May 2023. Opening of Yiou’s first co-curated immersive online art show “TIES THAT CANNOT BE UNBOUND,” as a co-curator, jury member and designer along with UAAD. Featured in New Art City media arts festival. Explore.

SOUTHERN SWEDEN DESIGN DAYS

May 2023. In collaboration with Sweden-based artist Jingbei Zheng, Mixanthropy premiered a series of computational biophilic sculptures and corresponding animation video titled “IN-BETWEEN EMERGENCE.”

INTERVIEW ARTICLE ON UAAD

April 2023. In conversation with Amy Jiang, UAAD, about my practice and recent projects focused on animacy of individuals, organisms and architecture. Read.

ARTICLE AT YOUNG VISIONS, “CROSSING BORDERS”

March 2023. In conversation with Ardennes Ornati, Young Visions, on Mixanthropy’s creative journey creating boundary-fluid myth archetypes as well as living as boundary-fluid individuals. Read.

MIXANTHROPY PREMIERE AT SXSW

March 2023. “Mixanthropy” premiered as a time-based installation of a forest of shapeshifters in SXSW curated by Aimée Everett, made possible by SXSW art grant. Watch exhibition trailer. Read on SXSW site.

Sleep’s Other Selves Workshop

February 2023. Artist and MITACS scholar Yiou Wang has been working on the project Morphai as part of Sociability of Sleep. This workshop is a live demo of the artwork, accompanied by Yiou’s talk on the concept and methodology of this work and her general practice at the intersection of the ancient and the futuristic, and followed by a discussion involving audience participation in using the augmented cognition avatar system she is developing.