Ziyang Wu
Mark Ramos
Networked Ecosystem
About the Item
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Networked Ecosystem is a live-simulation environment that presents an ecosystem built of a variety of digital senses. Originally commissioned by NEW INC at the New Museum, Rhizome and Nokia Bell Labs, Networked Ecosystem takes machine vision and sensing data collected by Bell Lab’s experimental robots and sensors and repurposes it to drive a 3D environmental simulation. In Networked Ecosystem, natural phenomena have been replaced by digital and artificial systems as forces that drive development: Electricity/battery = sustenance, WIFI signals = nutrition, Lidar data = fire/heat. Data organisms populate this digital ecosystem as native life forms in the form of bots, AI’s, and avatars. Visitors to this networked landscape develop new kinds of digital senses to experience data as environmental changes, and interact with the simulated world and each other in an ever-changing online environment.
About the Artist
Ziyang Wu is an artist based in New York and Hangzhou, currently teaching at School of Visual Arts and the School of Design and Innovation at China Academy of Art, and is a current member of New Museum’s art and technology incubator NEW INC. With an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, his works have exhibited internationally, including Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia, Rhizome at the New Museum in New York, Walker Art Center and Rochester Art Center in Minnesota, Academy Art Museum in Maryland, Today Art Museum, Times Art Museum and Song Art Museum in Beijing, Ming Contemporary Art Museum and Powerlong Museum in Shanghai, Medici Palace in Florence and Milan Design Week. Recent awards and residencies include “Kai Wu” Interdisciplinary Studio Residency at Media Art Lab at Times Museum, Residency Unlimited (RU) , MacDowell Fellowship, Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) at Alfred University, Art(ists) on the Verge Fellowship by Northern Lights and Jerome Foundation, AACYF Top 30 under 30 (Class of 2021), the AICAD Teaching Fellowship by Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design.
Mark Ramos is a Brooklyn-based new media artist. Mark makes fragile post-colonial technology using web/software programming, physical computing (using computers to sense and react to the physical world), and digital sculpture/fabrication to create interactive work that facilitate encounters with our own uncertain digital futures. Mark is deeply committed to the ethos of open source: the free sharing of information and data + creative uses of technology. Mark has exhibited his work and lectured widely both online and AFK including as part of Rhizome's First Look: New Art Online with the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Times Museum in Beijing, the Sichuan Biennial, Arebyte Gallery in London, and at the Peter Weibel Institute for Digital Culture in Vienna. He teaches Art after the Internet in the MFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts, Form and Code at Pratt Institute, as well as Web Programming and Computer Principles in the Computer Science Department at NYU. You can also find him playing drums for various bands in Brooklyn.
