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Contemporary Art Practice (MA)

Yiwen Tang

2017-2020 BA Mathematics, Colorado College, United States

2021-2023 MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom

Yiwen Tang, based in Shanghai, is a Chinese digital visual artist working across moving image, photography, and 3D modeling.

Based on her academic background in mathematics and other scientific disciplines, such as chemistry, biophysics and computer, Yiwen Tang is always trying to reach out to more media for expression, such as moving images, wearable machinery, JavaScript programming, 3D modelling using virtual cameras and so on, to detailedly present the parts that every subject intends to convey. Through organically unifying multiple media symbols together, Yiwen Tang applies mathematical logic and ideas to sociology and philosophy to interpret and analyze the exceptions of this society. 

Yiwen Tang

Thinking of society as a perceptual result of continuous interactions between human factors, including physical and cultural ones, and external environments, Yiwen Tang believes that Contemporary Art should take on the responsibility of integrating these fragmented perceptual representations and rewriting the reality rather than merely copying and delivering it. With mass communication and digital images being the backbone of social life, Art is experiencing a spiritual dissonance, especially as the contemporary culture is moving towards visibility and visuality but gradually ignoring the invisible language, logic, and authenticity of contents. In the face of this situation, Yiwen Tang devotes to enriching the bidirectional spiritual communications, transformations, and fusions between self and others and to constructing further critical interactions between the public and the reality they ignore, such as cyber ideological control, techno-Populism, political propaganda, and medical empathy.



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Medium:

Digital Human
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