Hi :) I'm Xiaowei R. Wang. I make work that centers around community empowerment, technology and ecology. My work is driven by a deep seated belief in the political power of being present, in dissolving the universal and categorical. What keeps me up at night: what it means to live in an age of technological anxiety.

I try to cultivate and nourish community, make public art,, data visualization and hold community art workshops. I believe in the constantly collaborative process of research, design and knowledge building. Occasionally I make objects, but Douglas Huebler's words reasonate for me in "The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more."

Recently/past few years: Steward on Collective Action School (fka Logic School), a grassroots, community driven organizing school for tech workers. Gave a TED talk on rural innovation (with more than 1.7 million views!). Published Blockchain Chicken Farm (read a New York Times review of the book here), received my PhD at UC Berkeley, wrote a piece for Carrie Hott's solar powered internet server project, released the Semiconductor Field Guide, worked on An Archive of Witch Fever (with the support of University of Washington DXArts Softlab & Eyebeam), on view at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

Previously, I've worked at Mapbox as a software engineer, Meedan, and Situ Research as a designer. I am currently a Mancosh Pathways to the Professoriate Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University in the School of Communication. I hold a PhD from UC Berkeley and a BA from Harvard University.

Some of the prior projects I've worked on have been a finalist for the INDEX Design Awards, featured on CNN, NYTimes, Method Science Quarterly, VICE Magazine, NYTimes, IEEE Spectrum,Harvard Design Magazine and the BBC. Or, watch me ramble about the type of things I'm interested in like the future(s) of the internet(s) for IAM@Tate Exchange, talking about neoliberalism, China, the internet and economics speaking at the Asian Art Museum and babbling about citizenship, protest and kites on CNN. I've been fortunate enough to be in residency at places like Headlands Center for the Arts to work on a speculative fiction about invasive species, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Finland, and travel to Mongolia as a ZERO1/US Department of State AAI artist.

You can zoom and rotate the landscape or press "R" to toggle colors, "W" and "S" to toggle between plan and section view. The terrain model is Landers, CA (34.2661° N, 116.3922° W), a place at the intersection of many ley lines. The elevation information is from ASTER GDEM