CONTACT INFO
Email: tongwumedia@gmail.com
Instagram: tonggg_wu
Tong Wu is a researching creative technologist and multimedia artist raised on the Internet. She now co-exists with her digital doubles in New York and the Chrome browser. Her practice, which incorporates interactive installation, AI models, web, creative design, and workshops, explores the subtle yet dynamic connections we make with ubiquitous AI systems embedded around us and the societal or cultural shifts that come along.
Wu graduated from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University and the photojournalism program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has exhibited her work internationally, including INDEX Biennale 2022 in Braga, Portugal, Koganechō Art Management Center in Yokohama, Japan, CURRENTS New Media Festival in New Mexico, U.S., International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) DocLab Session in Amsterdam, Netherlands, CultureHub & La Mama experimental theater club in New York, U.S., SandBox Immersive Festival Acceleration Program in Hangzhou, China.
Her art practice and work projects have received international awards and nominations, including nominees of the IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-fiction and Digital Storytelling, and winner of the Digital Dozens Special Jury Awards by the Digital Storytelling Lab of Columbia University.
Wu is currently a User Experience Engineer with Google, focusing on socio-technological research and prototyping.
// AWARDS
shortlisted 30 artist | Allegro Prize 2021, Polandfrom 1601 applications, submitted from June to September 2021 from 90 countries, the pre-selected jury of Allegro Prize selected 30 finalists for Allegro Prize 2021
Daily Dividuals - One Man Band | personal project, 2021official selection, Toronto International Woman Film Festival 2021
Semi-finalist, Venice Shorts California 2021
Sylvia | work project, 2020winner, Lumen Prize for Art and Technology in the Still Image category, 2021
winner, Special Jury Awards of the Digital Dozen Awards, Digital Storytelling Lab, Columbia University, 2021
award nominee, Immersive Non-Fiction & Special Jury Award for Creative Technology, IDFA DocLab / info page, 2020
Panopticon | personal collaborative project, 2019winner, Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant 2019, Message In A Photo (MIAP) Foundation, 2019
award nominee, Immersive Non-Fiction & Special Jury Award for Creative Technology, IDFA DocLab, 2019
“Second Chances” by ViewFinder of the Philip Merill College of Journalism | personal collaborative project, 2016The 58th National Capital Chesapeake Bay Regional Emmy Awards, 2016
// Exhibitions / Talks
Solo & Duo Exhibition:
April 2021 - Solo Exhibition “Daily Dividuals 再分体日常” at LATITUDE Gallery, New York, United States
Nov 2023 - Duo Exhibition “We May Be in This Together” at :iidrr Gallery, New York, United States
Group Exhibitions:
Oct 2023 - Code:ART Interactive Media Art Festival, Palo Alto, California, United States
May 2022 - INDEX Biennale 2022, Braga, Portugal / online
March 2021 - Re-Fest 2021, CultureHub, New York, United States
Nov. 2020 - [work project] “Sylvia” at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) DocLab, Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 2020 - Downtown Variety Take 7, CultureHub, New York, NY, United States
Nov. 2019 - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(IDFA) DocLab, Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 2019 - CURRENTS New Media 2019, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
March 2019 - Re-Fest 2019, CultureHub, New York, United States
Jan. 2019 - “A New Art Project and Cultural Heritage from Quanzhou” / 泉州市の文化的遺産と新芸術計画 , Yokohama, Japan (Japanese)
Nov. 2018 - Pop Up Windows 2018, New York, United States
Oct. 2018 - “Spirits-list”, performance, Maker Faire, New York, United States
Artist Talks:
March 2022 - Artist Talk - Interactive Media Arts(IMA) Class “Chatbot for the Sake of Art”, New York University, New York, United States
March 2021 - Panel Talk - Virtual Collaboration Hubs: A Discussion with CultureHub, Mozilla Hubs, and Arium, RE-Connect Online Performance Festival, Virtual
March 2021 - Artist Talk - How do we (dis)connect, Emerson College, Boston, United States
Nov. 2019 - Artist Talk - (face)(body)(human), DocLab: Artificial Futures, IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam, Netherland
July 2019 - Panel Talk (Chinese) - Am I a human? Examining Social Relationships in the Digital Age through New Media Art, Online, Zuibishe WeChat Platform
June 2019 - Artist Talk - The Observed and the Observer, CURRENTS New Media Festival, Santa Fe, United States
Jan. 2019 - Artist Talk - New Media as the Medium and Method, Artist Talk, Xiamen, China (Chinese)
// Publications & Press:
Oct. 2021 - Jucan, Ioana B., Roopa Vasudevan, Anthony Glyn Burton, Tong Wu, and Yuguang (YG) Zhang. “Performing Left and Right.” Theatre Journal 73, no. 3 (2021): E-9-E-14. muse.jhu.edu/article/807846.
June 2021 - “Tong Wu: Diving and drifting, staring and distracting”, The Paper.cn 澎湃新闻 (in Chinese)
June 2021 - “Young Artist Tong Wu: Daily Dividuals, the existence of me and me”, Southern Art 南方艺术 (in Chinese)
May 2021 - “Exhibition Review of Tong Wu's 'Daily Dividuals' Solo Exhibition,” ARTRON 雅昌艺术头条 (in Chinese)
Sept. 2019 - Critique by Lisa Jamhoury with Adobe Machine Intelligence Design, The Future of Design, Pt. 2: Machines as Collaborators
June 2019 - 纽约最出名的新媒体艺术家都在这毕业 | 纽约大学ITP毕业展 J, Zuibishe new media platform (in Chinese),
June 2019 - Interviewed by Zuibishe new media platform for master thesis “Daily Dividual”, Video and Text (Chinese)