An artist, writer and technologist using CGI to simulate alternative science.

My collaborator Darren Zhu, a synthetic biologist and creative technologist, sent me a paper a couple of years ago by Stanford researcher Muyuan Chen about rendering full protein structures inside Unreal Engine. That was a major moment in my intellectual life.
Wendi Yan, Wendi Yan & Karyn Nakamura on the Artifice of Knowledge
Why did I want to make a show of fake science and call it a technology museum? There’s something that feels very generative about deliberately being, "This is not science.” It's kind of like playing with the boundaries of what counts as knowledge, what counts as information.
Wendi Yan, Wendi Yan & Karyn Nakamura on the Artifice of Knowledge