zzyw — Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi, New York

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.