02- INNER CARBON01 - MAMMOTH TECHNOLOGY00- PRIMORDIUM
InformationExhibitions
WritingsSpeaking
Interviews
脊石循息 The Cosmos Breathes through A Porous Body (2026)
Video
Video
Film
Grand Prix, the 6th VH Award by Hyundai Motor Group
Film
The Inner Carbon Classic (2024)
3D Game + Animation Film
3D Game + Animation Film
Biotopy (2024)
Bio-digital Interface, Game Installation, Writing.
Bio-digital Interface, Game Installation, Writing.
Video
Solo show. Hurley Gallery, Princeton, NJ.
Wendi Yan is an artist, writer and technologist. She uses CGI software to simulate alternative scientific progress through videos and games, and writes about the history and future of scientific discovery.
Wendi was an inaugural Steve Jobs Archive Fellow and the Grand Prix recipient of the 6th VH Award by Hyundai Motor Group. She directs Research Revival Fund, an experimental fund restoring illegible research to active circulation.
Wendi was an inaugural Steve Jobs Archive Fellow and the Grand Prix recipient of the 6th VH Award by Hyundai Motor Group. She directs Research Revival Fund, an experimental fund restoring illegible research to active circulation.
| 26.5.12 Berlin | diffrakt, "Trees and Termites, Ghosts and Goddesses", Screening | EXHIBITION |
| 26.3.25 Hong Kong | K11 | Kai Tak Art Week, Panel with Jiabao Li and Connie Butler, Panel with Sougwen Chung, Yuyang Wang and Scott Moore | TALK |
| 26.3.24 Hong Kong | LACMA, Digital Art Conversation | TALK |
| 26.3.21 Singapore | ArtScience Museum Singapore, "Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy", Opening Symposium | EXHIBITION TALK |
| 26.3.17–29 Hong Kong | Kai Tak Art Week, 脊石循息 The Cosmos Breathes through a Porous Body, West Bridge (Kai Tak Sports Park) | EXHIBITION TALK ✦ |
| 26.3.16 | Le Random, "Wendi Yan & Karyn Nakamura on the Artifice of Knowledge" | INTERVIEW |
| 26.3.10 New York | "XTRTRRSTRLS", The Wythe | EXHIBITION |
| 26.3.8 Berkeley CA | 120710, "One Molecule Said Yes to Another" | EXHIBITION |
| 26.3.6 New York | Projekt Blank, "Unstable Systems", conversation with Ivana Dama and Ben Shirken | TALK |
| 26.3 Los Angeles | LA Central Library | EXHIBITION |
| 26.3 New York | Google, Flow Session Artist | RESIDENCY |
| 26.2.28 | TITLES, "Do AIs Long for a Self-Generating World?" | PUBLICATION |
| 26.2.28 Los Angeles | "Code Name: Doll House" | EXHIBITION |
| 26.2.7 online | Future Finds, "Beyond a thermodynamic energy future", conversation with Kelsey Chen | TALK |
| 26.2.5 | Interact Fellowship, Interview | INTERVIEW |
| 26.1.20 Singapore | Artspace @ Helutrans Gallery 1, "The 6th VH Award", Singapore Art Week | EXHIBITION |
| 26.1.9 Shanghai | BANK, "New Earth" | EXHIBITION |
| 25.12.4 | China Academy of Art, Guest artist talk, Open Media Department, online | TALK |
| 26.3 online | University of Pennsylvania, Guest artist talk | TALK |
| 25.12–26.1 New York | A24 Labs, Storyhacking Resident | RESIDENCY |
| 25.11 Buenos Aires | Valerie's Factory, "Cafe.exe", curated by Alice Scope, co-presented with Serpentine FAE and Artdao | EXHIBITION |
| 25.10.28 | CIFRA TV, "Wendi Yan on Worldbuilding, Extinction & Feeling Things for Mammoths." | INTERVIEW |
| 25.10.21 New York | Lux AI Summit, Spring Studios | EXHIBITION |
| 25.10.17–30 Shanghai | TANK Art Center, "The Electrified Kids", The 8th International Intermedia Festival | EXHIBITION |
| 25.10.11 Los Angeles | SV Studios, "New Syntax", curated by Alice Scope | EXHIBITION |
| 25.10.3–26.2.1 Warsaw | Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, "If/then", curated by Sara Szostak, Marta Grytczuk | EXHIBITION |
| 25.10 | British Council, "China Art and Technology Report" | PRESS |
| 25.10 | Numero Magazine (China), "会见空腔" | INTERVIEW |
| 25.10 | Berggruen Press, "Science in the Unhomely Clouds", in Proxima Kósmos: Volume II, ed. Claire Webb | PUBLICATION |
| 25.10–11 France | Château du Feÿ, Glitch art/tech residency | RESIDENCY |
| 25.9.12–26.1.4 Berlin | Stiftung St. Matthäus, "Lights Off Lights On", curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers | EXHIBITION |
| 25.9.12 Berlin | Hamburger Bahnhof, "Videoart at Midnight," Berlin Art Week Garten | SCREENING |
| 25.9.11–10.31 Shanghai | BAM, "Cosmic Arclight", curated by Iris Long | EXHIBITION |
| 25.9.5 Spain | SOLO AI Award, Finalist, Onkaos | AWARD |
| 25.9.3–7 Linz, Austria | Ars Electronica Festival, Artist talk at the Expanded Conference, VH Award Presentation, Deep Space | EXHIBITION TALK |
| 25.9 | Monopol Magazine, "Watchlist", written by Elke Buhr | INTERVIEW |
| 25.8.23 San Francisco | "Visions of Phosphine Earth", Slash | EXHIBITION |
| 25.8.6 | Ars Electronica Blog, Son Hyerim, "The 6th VH Award: A Dream That Wanders as If It Were Real" | INTERVIEW |
| 25.8.1 Idyllwild CA | "Visions of Phosphine Earth", FWB Fest, with Berggruen Institute | EXHIBITION |
| 25.8 New York | NEW INC, Y12 Extended Realities Track | RESIDENCY |
| 25.7.24 Beijing | VH AWARD Salon, Speculative Worldbuilding with AI, conversation with Robin Mallick, Beichen Yang and Ziyang Wu, Hyundai Motorstudio | TALK |
| 25.7.16 | 艺术商业, "《胡桃宫梦志》：当我们在思考"假如"的时候，我们究竟在思考什么？" | INTERVIEW |
| 25.7.12 | Sursuma Magazine, "Wendi Yan" | INTERVIEW |
| 25.7.11 | 新周刊, "这些创作者，并不惧怕AI的到来" | INTERVIEW |
| 25.7.9 | Berggruen Institute, "Daoist Diagram for Carbon Alchemy", in Future Wunderkammer, ed. Claire Webb | COMMISSION WRITING ✦ |
| 25.7.9 | Artisle 艺术岛屿, "VH AWARD —— 新媒体艺术的悖论与可能" | INTERVIEW |
| 25.7.2 | Meta Eye, "颜文笛 | 当一位道士改写现代科学" | INTERVIEW |
| 25.6.29 | Xiamen University, Guest artist talk, "Bodies of Water" by Giulia Colletti | TALK |
| 25.6.25 | Spike Art Magazine, "The 6th VH Award at HEK" | PRESS |
| 25.6.20 | Ocula, "The Art World This Week: 20 June 2025" | PRESS |
| 25.6.19 | Serpentine, Future Art Ecosystems 5: Art x Creative R&D, Contributor | EDITORIAL |
| 25.6.18 | ArtAsiaPacific, "The VH Award Announced Grand Prix Recipient and Exhibitions of the 6th VH Award" | PRESS |
| 25.6.18 | e-flux, "Sixth VH AWARD Grand Prix recipient and exhibitions" | PRESS |
| 25.6.18 | Hyundai Motor Group, The Sixth VH Award, Grand Prix, Press: e-flux, ArtAsiaPacific, Monopol, Spike | AWARD PRESS |
| 25.6.16–8.31 Beijing | Hyundai Motorstudio, The 6th VH Award Exhibition | EXHIBITION |
| 25.6.16–22 Basel | House of Electronic Arts (HEK), The 6th VH Award | EXHIBITION |
| 25.6.6 | Hyundai Artlab, "Q&A with Dawn Chan and the 6th VH AWARD Finalists: Technological Mythmaking", written by Dawn Chan | INTERVIEW |
| 25.6.6 New York | NEW INC DEMO 2025, conversation with Darren Zhu | TALK |
| 25.6 | South Park Commons, Member Residency | RESIDENCY |
| 25.5.4 New York | Rhizome World, Survival Strategies: The Dao of Planetary Breath, conversation with Yunuen Rhi, Banyi Huang and Zandie Brockett | TALK |
| 25.5.3–8.23 San Francisco | Slash, "Lagrange Point", curated by Ninth Planet | EXHIBITION |
| 25.4.29 | Princeton University, Visual Arts Panel, Alumni Day | TALK |
| 25.4.22 | Rutgers Design Lecture Series, Artist talk, New Brunswick NJ | TALK |
| 25.4–5 | Fuser Residency | RESIDENCY |
| 25.3.19 | NYU Shanghai, Guest artist talk, "Baby by Design" by Flora Weil | TALK |
| 25.3.11 | Steve Jobs Archive Fellowship, Year-end talk, recorded at Skywalker Ranch, October 2024 | TALK |
| 25.3.9 Austin | SeedAI House at SXSW, "Bio-Digital Play", conversation with Will Freudenheim | TALK |
| 25.3.2 Los Angeles | Now Instant Image Hall, "Kevin Peter He, Wendi Yan, Alice Bucknell: Cinematic Engine" | EXHIBITION |
| 25.2.8 | M+ Museum and Design Trust, Design in Rising Winds, research atlas by Flora Weil | EXHIBITION |
| 25.2.3 New York | APOSSIBLE, "Wendi Yan, Artist" | INTERVIEW |
| 25.1.20 | Princeton History Department, Alum interview | INTERVIEW |
| 25 Shanghai | BAM, Cosmic Arclight Residency | RESIDENCY |
| 24.12.31 Shanghai | TANK Art Center, "GAME OM" | EXHIBITION |
| 24.11.15 | Caldo Worldwide, Essay on Biotopy, in Interplay | PUBLICATION |
| 24.11.2 Beijing (virtual) | Assembly 拆东西研究所, "Labour, Choices, and Intention: AI & Art Through Two Texts", conversation with Yilun Li, Ziyang Wu, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Tinghao Zhou and Iris Long | TALK |
| 24.10.26 New York | NEW INC Creative Science Dinner #4: Rewilding, Biotopy (game) | EXHIBITION |
| 24.10.25 New York | HEART 442 Broadway, Lavender Town | EXHIBITION |
| 24.10.19 New York | "Tale of the Mammoth Goddess", Cinema Village, Science New Wave Festival | EXHIBITION |
| 24.9.22 Spain | Evaristo Valle Museum, "Cyborg Horizons" | EXHIBITION |
| 24.9.14 San Francisco | Gray Area Festival 10, "Putting History into the Future" | TALK |
| 24.9–12 New York | Eyebeam Residency | RESIDENCY |
| 24.9 Tokyo | MESH Studio, Digital Architecture Lab | GRANT |
| 24.8.26 Seoul | The 6th VH Award, Finalist, Hyundai Motor Group | AWARD |
| 24.6.8 New York | Artifice, "Deus, Sex, Machina" | EXHIBITION |
| 24.5.28 | Trust, "Mammoth Technology: Worlding R&D Aesthetics" | TALK |
| 24.5 San Francisco | Cosmos Ventures, Prototypes for the Philosophy of Technology Grant | GRANT |
| 24.5 | Ethereum Foundation, Summer of Protocols | GRANT |
| 24.4.9 | Asimov Press, "Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao's China" | PUBLICATION |
| 24.3.28 | WeTransfer and Co-Matter, "Networked Worlds: Research Memo" | WRITING EDITORIAL |
| 24.3.22 Cambridge | Harvard University, Unfiguring: Experiments in Art and Science | TALK |
| 24.3.15 Los Angeles | Last Projects, "Dear Beings" | EXHIBITION |
| 24–25 New York | NEW INC, Y11 Creative Science Track | RESIDENCY |
| 23.11.4 Beijing (virtual) | X Virtual, "A Mammoth Gathering", X Museum | TALK |
| 23 Brooklyn NY | Interact Symposium, "Mammoths and the Post-Anthropocene" | TALK |
| 23 online | Stanford HAI Generative AI Working Group, "Beyond Imitation: Alien Worldbuilding with AI" | TALK |
| 23.9.18 | Wallpaper, "The Steve Jobs Archive announces the first recipients of its creative fellowship" | PRESS |
| 23.7 | Coeval Magazine, "Wendi Yan", written by Oscar Salguero | INTERVIEW |
| 23.5 Princeton NJ | Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, "A Tiny Museum of Mammoth Technologies" | SOLO EXHIBITION ✦ EDITORIAL |
| 23.5.1 Princeton NJ | Friend Center for Engineering Education, Princeton University, "Art of Science" | EXHIBITION |
| 22.7–8 New York | Interact Residency | RESIDENCY |
| 22.6 Svalbard | The Arctic Circle, Art & Science Expedition | RESIDENCY |
| 21 virtual | EyeJack Gallery, "Prosthetic Reality V.2" | EXHIBITION |