zzyw – an art and research collective formed by Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi in New York, 2017. It produces software application, installation, and text as instruments to examine the cultural, political and educational imprints of computational objects.

Between Code and Mystery
Commissioned by ESP Culture Magazine, issue 2. April, 2021 By zzyw You and I no longer Live in the Same World. In a 2018 lecture titled A Tale of Seven Planets, philosopher Bruno ...
Architecting Emergence Through Computational Simulation: Why We Should Build A Virtual World Together In An Art Museum
published on Rhizome (https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/feb/17/architecting-emergence/) on Feb 17, 2021 Systems may have a tendency to perpetuate their normalized states. Collective actions from within can sometimes generate emergent forces to counter this tendency, ...
How Not To Be Looped
A Step-By-Step Guide on Creating Meaningful Zones of Meaninglessness Today, life seems increasingly prescribed, recursive, narrowing. Stories depicted by mainstream media is increasingly divided. What are the conditions that enabled such ...

The Hazy Chrome Extension
project is under development The Hazy Chrome Extension is a chrome extension that can be installed on any chrome web browser. It is powered by an AI algorithm that is trained ...
The Hazy Corner
Background Computation has become the primary medium for almost all of our everyday communication. Yet we have to recognize the critical difference between computation and the other traditional medium. The computer ...
ThingThingThing
Live Simulation: US server | China server ThingThingThing is a computational system in which entities generated during small-group workshops interact in an ever-evolving three-dimensional world. Each entity was initially defined by ...
LENNA
LENNA is a computing system that produces graphic design on its own. The system is made of multiple software and hardware, including a custom written computer algorithm, running on a ...