About Me

Wenyi Zhang is a multidisciplinary artist investigating the porous boundaries between computational logic, immersive environments, and the political economy of images.

Trained in architecture, photography and computer arts, I work with generative systems and spatial storytelling—not to celebrate technology's precision, but to expose where it fails. My practice asks: What happens when "ultra HD" becomes cheap? When algorithmic perfection reveals itself as statistical approximation? When the tools meant for architectural exactness produce only blurry JPEGs?

Using VR, real-time engines, and procedural systems, I create experiences that refuse the binary between commercial visualization and critical art. Projects span interactive installations, generative environments, and research writing—all exploring how images circulate, degrade, and acquire political meaning in their compression.

Currently developing work on AI-era aesthetics and the afterlife of "poor images" in an age of cheap exquisiteness.

Based between New York and virtual spaces.