Nine artists share responses to prompts that aim to interrogate and help situate digital arts practice.
Xuan Ye
Xuan Ye 叶轩 (CN/CA) works across various contexts of art, music, and technology through research and creation. They make publications, installations and performances as media poetry that synthesize language, code, sound, body, image, data, light, and time.
The artist has been featured and exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Venice Architecture Biennale (IT), MUTEK (CA), Centre de Design de l’UQAM à Montréal (CA), Fonderie Darling (CA), Varley Art Gallery (CA), the Art Gallery of Ontario (CA), Inside-out Art Museum (CN), the Goethe-Institut (Beijing & Montreal), ArtAsiaPacific, KUNSTFORUM(GE), among others. They have received grants from the Arts Councils at three levels in Canada. They are a recipient of SSHRC scholarship and a finalist of 2018 EQ Bank Digital Artists Award.
As a musician, X is techne agnostic and genre eclectic. They have been commissioned by Edmonton New Music (2021), and the Canadian Music Centre (2020). They have performed at numerous experimental music festivals and DIY shows, sharing programs with Phew, Pharmakon, Chris Corsano, Carl Stone, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Xylouris White, GOOOOOSE, etc. Their live performances and music releases have received critical accolades from Bandcamp, Musicworks and Exclaim! [www.a.pureapparat.us/]
Xuan Ye’s Working Title response is a Twitter bot titled @wysiwygbot; an extension of the long-term project W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. (originally stands for what you see is what you get) giving it new meanings every day.