{
  "zzyw": {
    "long": "",
    "short": "zzyw, founded by Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi in New York in 2014, is a research and art initiative that serves as an umbrella name for both of their collaborative and individual projects. zzyw leverages critical technical practice and speculative inquiry to challenge hegemonic technological constructs. Through software prototypes, writing, and pedagogical initiatives, zzyw explores computational modernity — how software, AI, media, and technical infrastructures reorganize world, memory, judgment, and subjectivity — while envisioning alternative, more communal and ethical technical futures."
  },
  "yw": {
    "long": "Yang Wang 汪洋 (b. 1989, Zibo, China) is an artist, writer, researcher, and coder based in New York, where he has lived and worked since 2012. His practice operates at the intersection of continental philosophy, experimental engineering, design, and media art. Formally trained as a designer and professionally shaped by software engineering, he uses computation as both a creative medium and a critical subject, building simulated environments and inscriptive systems that examine how technical systems shape the conditions under which human beings perceive, remember, judge, dwell, speak, and act. Drawing on phenomenology, critical theory, and speculative inquiry, his writing and projects investigate computational modernity — how software, AI, media, and technical infrastructures reorganize world, memory, judgment, and subjectivity. Through zzyw, a collective co-founded with Zhenzhen Qi, Wang challenges dominant technological constructs through software prototyping, interactive systems, philosophical writing, and teaching. He describes his ongoing body of work as Autonomous Practice and Critical Experiments.\n\nWang's creative and critical work has been exhibited at institutions including the New Museum/Rhizome (New York), Ars Electronica (Linz), Haus der Elektronischen Künste (Basel), Elektra (Montreal), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), National Museum of China (Beijing), Times Museum (Guangzhou), Today Art Museum (Beijing), Museum MACAN (Jakarta), and HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), among others. He has held residencies at Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, BabyCastles, NEW INC, the New Museum's art-and-technology incubator, and the Counterstructural Commons Residency, organized by Rhizome and the Mozilla Foundation. He has presented at academic conferences including the College Art Association Annual Conference (2025) and the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities Conference (HKADH, 2026), and has given talks and lectures at institutions such as Duke Kunshan University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Times Museum, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His essays and criticism have appeared in LEAP, Rhizome, The Thinker Weekly (信睿周报), Beijing Literature and Art Review (北京文艺评论), and ESP Cultural Magazine, and his writing has been included in the Onassis Foundation publication _Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition_.\n\nWang has developed and taught courses on technology critique, experimental computing, worldbuilding, interactive art, and media art at Cooper Union, China Academy of Art, and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. His pedagogy combines neural network building with phenomenological inquiry, establishing computation as a medium for collaborative creation and critical reflection. He maintains an industry presence to sharpen his critical inquiry into emerging technology — previously as a senior software engineer at Snap Inc., working on creative and engineering challenges in augmented and virtual reality; as a senior creative technologist at Rockwell Group's LAB; as an interactive designer at Potion; and through freelance technical roles in New York's creative technology sector. He holds an MPS from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (2014).\n\nWang previously used the alias 黄瓜 (huáng guā, \"cucumber\"), a name that originated during his teenage years playing strategy games online in the early 2000s, and now uses his formal name exclusively. Outside institutional and project contexts, he is open to writing and teaching engagements around critical computing, creative technology, and the culture of computation from technical, computer-science-oriented, and philosophical perspectives.\n",
    "short": "Yang Wang 汪洋 (b. 1989, Zibo, China) is an artist, writer, and coder based in New York. His practice operates at the intersection of continental philosophy, experimental engineering, and media art, using computation as both a creative medium and a critical subject. With Zhenzhen Qi, he co-founded zzyw, a collective producing software, installations, and philosophical writing on the cultural and ontological dimensions of digital infrastructure. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum/Rhizome, Ars Electronica, Power Station of Art, Times Museum, and National Museum of China, among others. He is an alum of Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NEW INC (New Museum), and the Counterstructural Commons (Rhizome × Mozilla Foundation). He holds an MPS from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program."
  },
  "zzq": {
    "long": "Dr. Zhenzhen Qi 漆贞贞 (b. 1983, Ürümqi, China) is an artist, educator, and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. She is an assistant professor at the Digital Media Design (DMD) program at the University of Connecticut, researching software simulation as a mode of collective re-making and un-looping. Since 2014, she has taught courses on theory and practice of interactive media, web, and game development at Cooper Union, Teachers College at Columbia University, City University of New York (CUNY), and the University of Connecticut, among others. She has been invited to speak at public events including the College Art Association Annual Conference, Electronic Literature Organization, mAI dAI Conference, K11 Kulture Academy, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York Creative Tech Week, and Museum 2050. She is the recipient of the Creative Technology Fellowship and Macy Research Fellowship at Columbia University, and the Humanities Institute AI Seed Grant at the University of Connecticut.\n\nQi co-founded zzyw, an artist and research collective which produces software applications, installations, and texts as instruments to critically examine the cultural, political, and educational effects of computation. Her computational art has been curated by leading cultural institutions around the world, including the New Museum/Rhizome (New York), Ars Electronica (Linz), Haus der Elektronischen Künste (Basel), Elektra (Montreal), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), National Museum of China (Beijing), Times Museum (Guangzhou), Today Art Museum (Beijing), Museum MACAN (Jakarta), HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), and Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai), among others. She has held residencies at Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, BabyCastles, NEW INC, the New Museum's art-and-technology incubator, and the Counterstructural Commons Residency, organized by Rhizome and the Mozilla Foundation, and was a research artist at co-matter's Networked World program in Berlin. Her writing has appeared in Rhizome, BLINK Magazine, and ESP Cultural Magazine, and has been published in _Art School Critique 2.0_ (Ragged Sky Press), _Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition_ (Onassis Foundation), and _Digital Transformation in Design_ (Independent Academic Publishing). She is the co-founder and director of PowerNap Studio, a New York-based experiential production lab.\n\nZhenzhen holds a BS from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master's degree from New York University, and a doctorate from Columbia University.\n",
    "short": "Dr. Zhenzhen Qi 漆贞贞 (b. 1983, Ürümqi, China) is an artist, educator, and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. She is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut's Digital Media Design program, researching software simulation as a mode of collective re-making. With Yang Wang, she co-founded zzyw, a collective producing software, installations, and texts that critically examine the cultural and educational effects of computation. Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum/Rhizome, Ars Electronica, Power Station of Art, Times Museum, and National Museum of China, among others. She is an alum of Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NEW INC (New Museum), and the Counterstructural Commons (Rhizome × Mozilla Foundation). She holds a BS from UC Berkeley, a Master's from NYU, and a doctorate from Columbia University."
  }
}