
This evening welcomes a new generation of Chinese and Swiss artists whose practices move freely between cultures. They work with slime moulds and satellite data, with insect fieldwork and architectural research, with living façades and shifting weather fronts. What connects a mould learning to navigate a maze, an insect repaired with gold lacquer after a collision with artificial light, a building that breathes through its skin, and a monsoon that arrives earlier each year? Each is a form of knowledge that exceeds the human, and each asks us to pay attention differently.
Across two countries and very different traditions, these practitioners are discovering something shared: that the more-than-human world is not a concept to be applied but a neighbour to be met.
Program
Moderator: Yuting Huang, Researcher, BY ART MATTERS
18:30-19:00 – Registration
19:00-19:05 – Opening Remarks
19:05-19:10 – Where the Cloud Lands: Seeing AI Infrastructure through Art and Architecture – Yiqiu Liu, Lecturer and Project Co-Lead, ETH Zurich and TU Munich
19:10-19:15 – A chimeral duet towards the end of time – Sulamith Tamborriello, Artist, ZHdK
19:15-19:20 – Sympoietic Entanglement: Slime Mold, Machines, and the Weaving of the Material-Semiotic Poetry – Jue Wang, PhD Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
19:20-19:25 – Small Lives, Big Histories – Shuai Liu, Artist
19:25-20:00 – Panel Discussion
Speakers
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Bio
Yiqiu Liu
Lecturer and Project Co-Lead, ETH Zurich and TU MunichDr. Yiqiu Liu is an architect and urban researcher working on AI infrastructure and its territorial impacts. At ETH Zurich and TU Munich, she initiated and co-leads The Production of Cloud, a research, teaching and policy programme on the spatial and environmental consequences of data centres in China, Europe and the United States, supported by the Swiss Network for International Studies. She holds a doctorate from ETH Zurich (2023, nominated for the ETH Medal) and a BA and MA in architecture from Southeast University, Nanjing. In practice, she advises public and private stakeholders on spatial development between China and Europe. Her award-winning work includes Drawer Courtyard, built in the historical heart of Beijing, and the Gunan Street conservation project, honoured with an Award of Distinction at the 2024 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. She is an associated researcher at the ETH AI Center and a selected fellow of the European Talent Academy 2026.
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Sulamith Tamborriello
Artist, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)Sulamith Tamborriello’s artistic practice revolves around intersections where ecological crisis, climate justice, and political participation meet. Working with transdisciplinary research and collective action, she creates demonstrations, participatory exhibitions, and interactive readings that often give rise to artistic objects serving as catalysts for further dialogue. Her work seeks to connect human and non-human forms of life through living processes of care. She currently lives, studies, and works in Zurich.
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Jue Wang
PhD student, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)Joanna Jue Wang is a cross-media artist and researcher pursuing a PhD in Computational Media and Arts at HKUST(GZ). Operating at the intersection of biosensing, computational art and spatial narrative, her practice combines expanded cinema, interactive art and hybrid placemaking to render new materialism tangible.
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Shuai Liu
ArtistLiu Shuai is an artist and insect researcher. His practice grows from long-term observation of insects, birds, plants, and other life. Starting from the perceptual modes and temporal scales of different species, he reconsiders realities where society, history, and nature intersect.
Grounded in sites, his work combines fieldwork, experiments, and local knowledge. Through biological and material traces, he examines how human interventions persist in environments and shape relationships between humans and other life forms.His practice spans installation, video, writing, and public projects.
Liu Shuai was shortlisted for the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year in the Art & Science category and selected for the One-Way Street Foundation’s Sailor Program. He has received the RANRAN Exploration Award, Bio Art & Design Award, and Prince Claus Seed Award, with support from the Goethe-Institut’s “Local Knowledge and Pluralistic Ecological Perception” program
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Yuting Huang
Researcher, BY ART MATTERSYuting Huang is a researcher and curator based in Hangzhou, China. She currently works at BY ART MATTERS, where she contributes to exhibition research, curatorial development, and public programs. Her research interests focus on contemporary art in Asia, artist-led and self-organized practices, urban experience, and the ways exhibitions produce and circulate knowledge.




