Wendi Yan

Wendi Yan

Los Angeles, she/her

About

Wendi (b. Beijing) builds research-based worlds through game engine, film and sculptures. She strives to mold mythological companions for coping with contemporary disorientations around technology and history. To achieve this, Wendi brings historical storytelling to future-oriented simulations, making art as constructive philosophy and critical believing.

Contact

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Education

2018 — 2023
A.B. in History of Science, certificate in Film at Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

magna cum laude, high honors in History

met with top VCs and founders with Silicon Valley Tiger Trek, got weekly dinners with Peter Singer through Human Values Forum

2019 — 2019
3D Game Art Production at Escape Studios
London, UK

12 week full-time professional training

Work Experience

2023 — Now

The SJA Fellowship is a one-year, nonresidential program for young creators who are working at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

2021 — Now
Artist at -

The Arctic Circle Art & Science Residency, Svalbard, 2022.

2023 — 2023
3D Artist (Freelance) at Anicka Yi Studio
New York/Remote

Prototyping and 3D research for artist Anicka Yi's museum shows

2023 — 2023
Contract researcher at Antikythera

Art direction, film editing, 3d modeling for two Antikythera projects

Projects

2023

A collection of (glass) sculptures, prints, installations and an animation film, curated into a solo exhibition

2022

Riso cards imagining identities in a postdisciplinary world

2021

A scent collection & installation about imaginary travels during the pandemic

Writing

2024

The story of how artemisinin was discovered through an ancient Chinese medical manuscript

2022
2019
Neuroscience Informs Design, Now What? Towards an Awe-inspiring Spatial Design, Conscious Cities Anthology: Conscious Cities Anthology: Science-Informed Architecture and Urbanism

Exhibitions

2022
Interact Symposium
Vinegar Hill, NY
2022
Mammoths and the Post-Anthropocene at Interact Symposium
New York

Awards

2023
Horace H. Wilson Senior Thesis Prize in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology from Princeton University

Awarded for the best thesis in the field of History of Science, Medicine and Technology

2023
Lucas Award in Visual Arts from Princeton University
2023

Interview with Oscar Salguero for my first solo show, "A Tiny Museum of Mammoth Technologies"