Image Description: Qianqian, a non-binary Chinese person with black short hair, wearing a black tank top, standing next to an apple tree, with a lush garden in the background.
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Qianqian (Q) Ye (she/they) is a Chinese artist, creative technologist and educator based in Los Angeles (Gabrielino-Tongva Land). Trained as an architect, she creates digital, physical, and social spaces exploring issues around gender, immigrant, power, and technology. Their most recent collaborative project, The Future of Memory, was a recipient of the Mozilla Creative Media Award. At the Processing Foundation, Qianqian is the Lead of p5.js, an open-source art and education platform that prioritizes access and diversity in learning to code, with over 1.5 million users. She currently teaches creative coding as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC Media Arts + Practice and 3D Arts at Parsons School of Design. For 2022-2023, Qianqian is a Civic Media Fellow at USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.
Qianqian was born and raised in China and moved to the US in 2012. Her current practice focuses on alternative community building, technology against misinformation, the Chinese language system, and re-imagining gender in a non-western narrative. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Architecture from ZJUT. Her works have been shown at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ecobuild London, Killscreen Magazine and various exhibitions in US and China. She worked at a number of design practices internationally, from the US (NIO, Gehl Studio), Denmark (BIG, SHL), to China (Vector Architects).
Selected Awards and Grants
2022
Civic Media Fellow, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
ITP/IMA Project Fellowship, NYU | TISCH
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, with Future of Memory + China Residencies
2021
Community Building Award, Mozilla Foundation (With Processing Foundation + p5js.org)
CLTC Cybersecurity Arts Grant, University of California, Berkeley
2020
Creative Media Award, Mozilla Foundation (With Xiaowei Wang)
Individual Artist Grant, City of Oakland Cultural Funding Grant (With Tiare Ribeaux + Xiaowei Wang)
2019
Group Exhibitions
2022
Deformation and Reformation: A modern taste of Asian Identities, π»π:π½π π£πππ π© πΉπππ₯ππππ ππ, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, Italy
2021
WORLDING PROTOCOL, Gray Area Festival, Oct, 2021
REPLICANTS, Epoch Gallery, Oct, 2021 - Jan, 2022
Power Of Community: Chinatown Then and Now, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery
Altar-n8 Realm AR Exhibition, SF API Cultural Center United States of Asian America Festival, May 30 - Aug 31, 2021
E-GO, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA, Apr 1, 2021
Pieces of Me, Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
a verb as proxy for place, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Talks, Interviews, Workshops, Press
2022
βPosthuman Bodies in Web3β Panel Discussion, Vellum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Disruption Network Lab: Powers of Truth, Build Your Own Word workshop, Future of Memory, Berlin DE
Mutek Festival, Build Your Own Word workshop, Future of Memory, Montreal CA
Revisions: Decoding Technological Bias, Gray Area + Goethe Institut San Francisco + City Light Book, San Francisco, CA
RethinkAI Summit, on The Future of Memory
Mozilla Festival, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Workshop: Reimagine Gender, Reinvent Chinese Character - at B4Bel4b Gallery , Feb. 2020.
Art Show βε₯³ NΗ: Other Half of the Skyβ - by RADII , Feb. 2020.
2019
Interview with Qianqian Ye - by Google Design Notes Podcast , Oct. 2019.
Workshop: Digital Weaving, Physical Computing - at WCCW, Oct. 2019.
Interview with 2019 Fellow Qianqian Ye - by Processing Foundation, Aug. 2019.
2018~
Issue Twenty-Five: Art - by The Adroit Journal, May. 2018.
ART: Alone Not Alone - by The Offing Magazine, Apr. 2018.
ART FOR AWKWARD AND LONELY PEOPLE - by Forth Magazine, Mar. 2018.
VR Supper Club Interview - by Kill Screen, Jan. 2017.
Planning By Doing - with Gehl, Jun. 2016.
Β‘A todo pedal! - with Gehl, Apr. 2016.
SAM: Super-Agri-Mart - with Droog, Sep. 2014.
To Be Destroyed - by Museum of Contemporary Art, Sep. 2014.