12/11/2024
Jiawen Wang, a media artist, audiovisual creator, and performer hailing from Hainan, China, currently works and lives in Berlin, where she explores the intersection of technology, time, and Chinese Cosmotechnics in her artistic pursuits.
Her artistic focus lies in interactive algorithmic time-based composition within audiovisual transpersonal performances and installations. With a profound interest in the philosophical aspects of technics and time. Jiawen’s multidisciplinary approach incorporates site-specific collective storytelling, computer music, interactive games, video, and light design, creating immersive sensorial spaces that invite audiences into a unique world of storytelling. Her work prompts viewers to question the layers of reality interwoven with the fusion of body and technology.
In her recent artistic endeavors, Jiawen integrates the concept of „Cosmotechnics,“ as articulated by Chinese media theorist Yuk Hui, into her practice. Drawing inspiration from Taoist philosophy, she seeks to embody the „Unity of Qi (tool) – Dao (tao)“ in the contemporary discourse on techne-body relationships.