Yuguan Zhang

Yuguang (YG) Zhang is a New York-based new media / AI artist, a member of multidisciplinary artist collective NUUM, and a lead machine learning technologist at creative studio DE-YAN. He is also an adjunct professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) where he teaches Generative AI.

His current practice, which incorporates interactive media, installation, and live performance, explores the connections we make with the ubiquitous AI systems embedded around us, the surprises and struggles we have when we fully / partially surrender our authorship to intelligent algorithms, and the cultural & ethical shifts that come along in our society when we’re overwhelmed by such “creative” AIs.

He’s a recipient of the S+T+ARTS S2S award and the Re:Humanism Art Prize. His works have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Google AMI, Media Art Xploration (MAX), and showcased internationally at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Italy), Némo Biennial of Digital Arts (France), CVPR, NeurIPS, ML x Art, NYC Media Lab, New Inc., CultureHub, Currents New Media Festival, Movement Research, The Center at West Park, Processing Foundation, Brown Arts Initiative at Brown University, Re-Work Deep Learning Summit, Cycling ‘74 Expo (USA), Beijing Times Art Museum, B·O·N·D International Virtual Live Performance Festival (China), and more.