Wendi Yan (b.1999) is an artist, researcher and filmmaker who is fascinated by the liminal realms of everything. She works with diverse mediums to interrogate the solidity of selfhood, (de)construction of identities, and the boundaries of nature, magic and technology.

Wendi currently studies History of Science and Film at Princeton University.

residency/collaboration/affiliation

Arctic Circle Art & Science Residency 2022.6

Kernel Fellowship 2021.9-12

arts letters & numbers residency 2021.8
[project + show]

Reassemble Lab: Weaving With Worlds 2021.6-7
[project]

NYU Tisch ITP Camp 2021.6

Interact Fellowship 2021

Arquetopia Honors Alumni Residency 2020.11-2022.5

The Gotham Institute 2020.6-7

Qualia Research Institute 2020.4-8

Arquetopia Foundation Artist Residency 2020.2-3
[work] [my blog] [featured on Arquetopia]

U of Penn Positive Psychology Center
2019.6-8
[publication] [gallery]

coverage

︎︎︎ A Biede (previously VICE China) article about my art. 2021.5

︎︎︎ Podcast at Trespass跃界 about my coliving program. 2020.9

︎︎︎ Podcast at 豆浆油条 about my gap year. 2020.8

︎︎︎ A New York Times article that mentioned the coliving program I organized for Chinese students taking remote classes in Beijing. 2020.8

︎︎︎ Photoshop, Premiere, XD, Maya, Blender, Lightform projection mapping, Substance Painter

︎︎︎ Unreal Engine 4, TouchDesigner, Substance Alchemist, InDesign, Illustrator

︎︎︎ Rhino, Substance Designer, Houdini, Processing, Max/MSP, Ableton

English, Mandarin, Latin, Java, R

Clifton Strengths top 5:
Ideation, Connectedness, Input, Adaptability, Empathy

︎ ︎ ︎ ︎
me@wendiyan.com

CV [2021.9]
CV of failure [2020.7]
journeys [2017-2019.5]

coursework

History of Ecology and Environmentalism, Space History, History of Chinese Medicine, Technology and Society, History of Psychiatry, History of Contemporary Science, AI and Public Policy, Critical Approaches to Human Computer Interaction
Transformations in Engineering and the Arts, Feminist Technoscience, Cyborg Psychology, Documentary Filmmaking, Sculpture, Fundamentals of Bioengineering, Cinema in Times of Pandemic, Intro to Data Science, Functional Neuroanatomy, Intro to Architectural Design, Intro to Architectural Thinking

When Nothing Mattered