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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).

The New Museum of Networed Art, Cologne DE – The Anthropocene Foundry, Quito EC

Yiou and Alina’s work “Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go” participates the Anthropocene Project, an inter/trans-continental collaboration between:

The New Museum of Networked Art in Cologne, Germany, July 13 – Aug 8 & MIVA Expanded Narratives Experimental Video Art Festival, in Quito, Ecuador, Aug 23-24 @ National Cinematheque Quito/Ecuador. Selection curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne.

PLAY TIME: AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE AT PALMER BLOCK PARTY

Aug 10, 2024. Yiou did an audiovisual live performance at “a line” installation and Palmer Block Party organized by Snobs Institute, at Palmer Street near Harvard Square, Cambridge MA, 8PM – 12AM, August 10th. 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.

Exhibition of MORPHAI as part of Sociability of Sleep, MONTREAL

July 2023. Exhibition “InSomnolence” by art collective Sociability of Sleep in Montreal will feature two-channel video + sleep pod installation MORPHAI as the result of the SoS project and residency.

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.

Hackathon Demo of LIVE MOCAP PERFORMANCE Pipeline

October 2022. Through a single cell phone camera, Mimetik is a mocap-driven real-time pipeline that enables real-time performances and concerts online, crossing the borders between reality and virtuality. Among 500+ participants and 100+ teams from the top universities in the world we got  1st in Entertainment track and the Meta award for Best Metaverse Innovation.

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