Dream of Walnut Palaces (2025). Film.

Visions of Phainoterra (2025). Film.

The Inner Carbon Classic (2024). 3D Game + Animation Film.

Biotopy (2024). Bio-digital Interface, Game Installation, Writing.

A Magnetist Dreams of Universal Healing (2024). Video.

Tale of the Mammoth Goddess (2023). Video.

A Tiny Museum of Mammoth Technology (2023). Solo show. Hurley Gallery, Princeton, NJ.

Wendi Yan is an artist and writer. She uses CGI software to simulate alternative scientific progress through videos and games, and writes about the history and future of scientific discovery.


25.6	Upcoming group shows: Samsung Vision Hall (Seoul), Hyundai Motorstudio (Beijing).	EXHIBITION
25.6.16-22	The 6th VH Award, House of Electronic Arts (HEK), Basel, Switzerland	EXHIBITION
25.6.6	Talk with Darren Zhu, NEW INC DEMO 2025, WSA 180 Maiden Lane, New York	TALK
25.5.3	“Lagrange Point” opens at Slash, San Francsico	EXHIBITION
25.4.29	Visual Arts Panel, Alumni Day, Princeton University, NJ	TALK
25.4-5	Fuser Residency	RESIDENCY
25.4.22	Artist talk, Rutgers Design Lecture Series	TALK
25.3.19	Artist talk, NYU Shanghai	TALK
25.3.11	Year-end talk, Steve Jobs Archive Fellowship,. Recorded at Skywalker Ranch in October 2024	TALK
25.3.9	“Bio-Digital Play”, with Will Freudenheim, lightning talk at SeedAI House at SXSW, Austin	TALK
25.3.2	“Kevin Peter He, Wendi Yan, Alice Bucknell: Cinematic Engine,” Now Instant Image Hall, Los Angeles	EXHIBITION
25.2.8	Design in Rising Winds, research atlas by Flora Weil, M+ Museum and Design Trust	EXHIBITION
25.2.3	“Wendi Yan, Artist”, APOSSIBLE Interviews, New York	INTERVIEW
25.1.20	Alum interview with Princeton’s History Department	INTERVIEW
25	Cosmic Arclight, BAM, Shanghai	RESIDENCY
24.12.31	“GAME OM,” TANK, Shanghai	EXHIBITION
24.11.15	Essay on Biotopy published in Interplay, Caldo Worldwide	PUBLICATION
24.11.2	“Labour, Choices, and Intention: AI & Art Through Two Texts, 劳动，选择，意图：从两篇文章聊人工智能艺术,” conversation at Assembly 拆东西研究所, Beijing (virtual)	TALK
24.10.26	“Biotopy (game)“, NEW INC Creative Science Dinner #4: Rewilding, New York	EXHIBITION
24.10.25	Lavender Town, HEART 442 Broadway, New York	EXHIBITION
24.10.19	“Tale of the Mammoth Goddess” screening at Cinema Village, Science New Wave Festival, New York	EXHIBITION
24.9.22	“Cyborg Horizons”, group show, Evaristo Valle Museum, Spain	EXHIBITION
24.9.14	Gray Area Festival 10, San Francisco	SPEAKING
24-25	NEW INC Y11 Creative Science Track, New York	RESIDENCY
24.9-12	Eyebeam Residency, New York	RESIDENCY
24.9	MESH Studio, Digital Architecture Lab, Tokyo	GRANT
24.8.26	The 6th VH Award (Finalist), Hyundai Motor Group, Seoul	AWARD
24.6.8	“Deus, Sex, Machina”, group show, Artifice, New York	EXHIBITION
24.5.28	“Mammoth Technology: Worlding R&D Aesthetics”, Trust.	SPEAKING
24.5	Prototypes for the Philosophy of Technology Grant, Cosmos Ventures, San Francisco	GRANT
24.5	Summer of Protocols, Ethereum Foundation	GRANT
24.4.9	“Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China”, Asimov Press	PUBLICATION
24.3.28	Networked Worlds Memo, WeTransfer and Co-Matter	PUBLICATION
24.3.22	Unfiguring: Experiments in Art and Science, Harvard University, Cambridge	SPEAKING
24.3.15	“Dear Beings”, group show, Last Projects, Los Angeles	EXHIBITION
23.11.4	“A Mammoth Gathering,” X Virtual, X Museum, Beijing (virtual)	TALK
23.9.18	”The Steve Jobs Archive announces the first recipients of its creative fellowship,” Wallpaper	PRESS

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