Ziyi Zhang

Ziyi Zhang is a New York, Singapore and China based new media artist, creative director, and creative technologist working at the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, real-time technologies, and immersive media. Her international and interdisciplinary practice has combined poetic visual language with computational systems to examine how emotion, memory, identity, and existence are reconfigured in the age of AI.

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She holds a BFA (Honours with Distinction) in Design Art (Interaction Design) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and an MPS in Virtual Production from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she was awarded the Unilumin Scholarship. Her training bridges cinematic direction, technical art, AI-driven systems, and immersive environment design.

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Zhang’s practice spans experimental cinematic arts, immersive installations, real-time 3D environments, AI-collaborated generative systems, virtual production, and interactive narratives. Rooted in a foundation of both artistic sensibility and technical practice, Zhang’s work fuses lyrical, poetic expression with emerging media such as real-time rendering, artificial intelligence, and immersive interaction. Her creations explore the complexities of humanity, societal structures, and global concerns—often balancing emotional depth with conceptual clarity.

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Her recent projects—including Digital Soul & Data Metamorphosis, A.I. Grottoes, Clock of Birth, Epitaphs for Chess Pieces, and Hold On, My Last Castle—explore digital identity, memory preservation, eco-cultural crisis, heritage translation, and post-human embodiment. Through generative data-driven organisms, AI-translated heritage architectures, and experimental cinematic arts in flooded cities, her work navigates the tension between human vulnerability and computational systems.

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Zhang’s works have been exhibited internationally across the United States, Singapore, China, and Europe, including Ars Electronica Festival Campus Exhibit (Linz), New York Design Week, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York), Ten Square (Singapore), Rocket NYC, and Media Art Nexus, INDEX at NTU Singapore.

Working Media:
Unreal Engine, TouchDesigner, Artificial Intelligence Art, Machine-learning API, Houdini, Motion Capturing, Virtual Production, GLSL, Python, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Python, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, AR/VR/XR, Unity 3D, Redshift, Octane Render, Ableton Live, Mediapipe, Azure Kinect, 3D Printing, and more.

Fields:
#Real-time3DRendering #Art&CreativeDirection #ImmersiveArt&Technology #XR/VR/AR #VirtualProduction #ArtificialIntelligence #Data #Humanity #CreativeTechnology

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Worked with:

Shiseido Asia, Bios Living NFTs, Singapore National Design Center, Singapore Night Festival, Zhejiang Haining Museum