Yiou Wang is a multimedia artist whose practice centers on storytelling and world building across physical and virtual realms. In a fresh and innovative use of real-time and animated mediums, Yiou has developed a unique style “ancient future myth” characterized by biophilia and transformations from a post anthropocentric perspective, forming new visions of interconnected worlds of life we live in. Coming from art and architecture backgrounds, Yiou creates an artistic ecosystem, comprising boundary-less formats from motion capture performances, to VR game, from video to immersive installation to digitally fabricated sculpture, with the goal of having the audience experience the journey and the worlds. Yiou is the co-founder and creative director of Mixanthropy Studio, a multidisciplinary art-tech studio creating ancient future myths in artistic expressions using emergent technologies. Her works have been exhibited at institutions and festivals, including several recent such as SXSW, SIGGRAPH, MIT Museum, Asian Media Arts Festival, and New Museum of Networked Art.

"Dwelling in a hybrid cosmic universe, I am obsessed with animacy. A being, a place—everything is animate and has its own pulsation. As one life ends or enters into a ritual, the soul of its body migrates to a new body—“metempsychosis” and reincarnation in philosophy, motion capture, interaction, and transformation of shapes, movements, and worlds in my universe. There is no alien on the home of Earth. I want to become all things around me, so I practice deep gaze and deep listening. I work jointly between fields of visual media art, immersive experience, and mocap performance, mixing the physical and the virtual, connected to other animate matter. I observe, understand and visualize embodiment of animate matter, the interaction between different beings, amplify them by translating them, reshaping them, and reconceiving them the way that reflects their real-time agency, discover the connections between the self and ecosystem by linking human body to various nonhumans. There are no boundaries, no disciplinary divide in my work. I learn from nature, from myths, from performers, in constant search of the convergence between past and future, where visions of a more-than-human world emerge."