Kaifeng Wu 吴凯风

Kai Wu creates alternative futures for human-technology relationships through both artistic practice and critical intervention. His work exists at the convergence of code, storytelling, design, and functional prototyping to reimagine how emerging technologies shape lived human experience.

As an artist, Wu transforms diverse media into poetic experiences—turning buildings into instruments, rendering cosmic phenomena tangible, and creating interactive environments that invite wonder and reflection. As a maker, he founded ventures like the Mind Palace (an AR knowledge space), Pebble (an intimate communication wearable), and Here (a location-based social platform) that prioritize curiosity, connection, and presence over algorithmic control.

Wu's dual practice emerges from a critical examination of how technology shapes human experience and its underlying power structures. He creates artifacts that remain viable within existing global infrastructures while reimagining their purpose. His work offers alternatives to extractive digital platforms by creating technologies that enhance our relationship with memory, intimacy, physical space, and community.

Wu is currently a PhD student in the Media Arts + Practice program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and holds a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. He co-founded Memory Labs and Someware Games. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Goethe Institut and Yale School of Architecture; and presented at Yale CCAM, UPenn’s Annenberg School for Communication, and the 2022 United Nations Environment Assembly.

Email
kaifengwu001@gmail.com

Phone
+1(475)227-4874‬

Recent Exhibitions:

Featured work “Seed”
Currents New Media Festival
2025

”Pacing Time” Demonstration
SIGCHI Interactions
May 2024

Group exhibition “Machine as Medium”
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media
November 2023

Group exhibition “Geographies of Digital Wasting”
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication
October 2023

Group exhibition “Machine as Medium”
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media
December 2022

Solo exhibition “[ ]side the Box”
Yale School of Architecture Gallery
September - October 2022

Group Exhibition: Ecological Living Module
International competition winner
United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya
February 2022

Group exhibition “The Precarious Field of Optimism: The Re-definition and Re-production of Failure” in “OCAT Research-based Curatorial Project Shortlist Exhibition”
OCAT, Beijing, China
November 2021 - February 2022

Solo exhibition “Houchang Village: A Bubble City”
Goethe-Institut China, Beijing, China.
June - August 2021

Recent Press:

Sixtone, Visualizing Life Inside China’s Tech Bubbles. 2021

腾讯新闻-谷雨工作室,世界上有两个后厂村. 2021

布林客,泡泡终将落在我们每个人头顶. 2021