https://jingtianz.com jingtian zong Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:03:43 +0000 https://jingtianz.com en https://jingtianz.com/Homepage Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:03:43 +0000 jingtian zong https://jingtianz.com/Homepage Jingtian Zong is an artist-researcher who roams the wormholes of memory, displacement, censorship, and invisible bodies. Jingtian graduated from NYU Shanghai with a BS in Interactive Media Arts (IMA) in 2019, reflecting on interactivity<img width="2717" height="3508" width_o="2717" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aa41b62625917219552d1db0b3e09aee80b512615470c44682b26f2b0d47014/mirror-resized.png" data-mid="196426538" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3aa41b62625917219552d1db0b3e09aee80b512615470c44682b26f2b0d47014/mirror-resized.png" /> and queer representation<img width="2500" height="1402" width_o="2500" height_o="1402" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7724ef46ab794df883c83f69c585eb478ac63c2af35564e924499bfb7332ab9/tang-long-2500px.png" data-mid="208320304" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7724ef46ab794df883c83f69c585eb478ac63c2af35564e924499bfb7332ab9/tang-long-2500px.png" />. Awarded an IMA fellowship, they continued their residency in Shanghai, during which they&nbsp;recalled<img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4efacc02748833d8265102f576084ecd7ccb0a88ba8e470bc49155d7fe4e648/china-memories-preview.png" data-mid="196316438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4efacc02748833d8265102f576084ecd7ccb0a88ba8e470bc49155d7fe4e648/china-memories-preview.png" /> erased faces in socialist China, played<img width="2717" height="3508" width_o="2717" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50c127412cba5bed00bfc6a16418526d2fb4ec07faebd871d981e2b79c2e2b05/nocode-resized.png" data-mid="196426327" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50c127412cba5bed00bfc6a16418526d2fb4ec07faebd871d981e2b79c2e2b05/nocode-resized.png" /> on unoccupied post-pandemic streets, gathered<img width="2717" height="3508" width_o="2717" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e44920d8064262e421fa9a87babb6f19a26225ecb183d31400079da75307f1e8/beacon-resized.png" data-mid="196426618" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e44920d8064262e421fa9a87babb6f19a26225ecb183d31400079da75307f1e8/beacon-resized.png" /> signs of micropolitics in local neighborhoods, and bantered<img width="2717" height="3508" width_o="2717" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bb9e5da8068c90197f11a8c6f741ec2c3e678c20109fedfa894fc998c1a9525/iaaa-resized.png" data-mid="196426537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bb9e5da8068c90197f11a8c6f741ec2c3e678c20109fedfa894fc998c1a9525/iaaa-resized.png" /> with academic red tape.In the summer of 2022, Jingtian relocated to California for her MFA studies in Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) at UC Santa Cruz. As part of their migration, they lived and investigated cracks<img width="2717" height="3508" width_o="2717" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8228207ddfc8168bb6d9f0c112a6df93065854490a08ae55b49ed19ff8efd034/crack-resized.png" data-mid="196426323" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8228207ddfc8168bb6d9f0c112a6df93065854490a08ae55b49ed19ff8efd034/crack-resized.png" /> in the American highway dream.&nbsp;Lately, Jingtian is teaching and researching&nbsp;feminist technologies and speculative histories.<img width="2500" height="1416" width_o="2500" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1f2912e41d74a2431b73c67cd4abd74b823ff2e6f8ce41653241e618301c202/Screen-Shot-2023-10-28-at-02.07.15-copy-2.png" data-mid="196218646" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1f2912e41d74a2431b73c67cd4abd74b823ff2e6f8ce41653241e618301c202/Screen-Shot-2023-10-28-at-02.07.15-copy-2.png" /> &nbsp;CV&nbsp;༊*·˚ Born in Hefei, Anhui, China. Currently based in San Francisco Bay Area, California. + EDUCATIONUniversity of California Santa Cruz (MFA Candidate Environmental Art and Social Practice)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2022-2024New York University Shanghai (BS Honors Interactive Media Arts)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2015-2019New York University (study abroad)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2017-2018University College of London (summer programme) &nbsp; &nbsp; 2017 + PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE&nbsp; Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz, CA&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2022.09-2024.06 Science Internship Program Mentor (project), UC Santa Cruz, CA&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;summer 2023 &amp; 2024 Interactive Media Arts Fellow, NYU Shanghai, SH&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2019.09-2022.08 Transmedia Art Instructor, Oriental Danology Institute, SH&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2019.07-2020.09 Winter Teaching Camp Mentor, PEER China, Hunan &nbsp; &nbsp; 2015.12-2016.01 + CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE Research Assistant &amp; Gallery Host, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, SH&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2022.02-2022.07 Curatorial Intern (project), Himalayas Museum, SH&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2016.12-2017.02 + SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2024 Search Party, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz 2023 Futurescapes, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz 2022 Stepping Through, Gravy Gallery, Santa Cruz2021 Identity Removing System, Hefei Museum of Contemporary Art, Hefei2021 Beacon of Signs, Free-Down Space, Shanghai2021 Unlinked, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai2020 Console.log, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai2020 Periferias Festival, Marvão, Portugal 2019 IMA Capstone Show, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai 2019 CINEMQ Screening No.28: KIN, Shanghai 2019 Critica Festival, Shanghai + CONFERENCE &amp; WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media. University of Pittsburgh, September 23–24, 2023. Decolonizing Digital Archives. Critical Media Lab, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, August 21-25, 2023. + PUBLICATIONSMsGlitch403. Co-created with Irayna Lin, Susan Chen, Lydia Pochueva, and Joey Ye. Cyberfeminism Index,&nbsp;2023.&nbsp; Project NoCode. Things will Work Out Tomorrow: A Growing Collection of StepBackForward Methodologies. Hong Kong: StepBackForward.art, June 2021. Project NoCode. StepBackForward, Hong Kong, 2021.&nbsp; + FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS &amp; AWARDS 2023 Create Grant, Arts Council Santa Cruz County 2023 Arts Dean’s Fund for Equity and Excellence, UC Santa Cruz 2022 Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures, UC Santa Cruz 2022 Arts Research Institute Graduate Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz 2019 Latin Honors: Magna Cum Laude, NYU Shanghai 2019 Founders’ Day Award, NYU 2019 Audience’s Choice Award, NYU Shanghai Undergraduate Research Symposium 2017 - 2018 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Scholarship, NYU Shanghai 2015 - 2018 Dean’s List for the Academic Year, NYU Shanghai 2015 Freshman Merit Scholarship, NYU Shanghai + OTHER EXPERIENCE 2021 Peer Reviewer, NIME Conference, Shanghai ｡･ﾟﾟ･　　･ﾟﾟ･｡ Full CV available upon request.&nbsp; ｡･:*˚:✧｡ Email