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Tianjin Curator Team


Ruipeng Wang


MAD Architects, Fab-Union, Fiction and Entertainment

Initiator & Chief Planner
the Evolutionary Space Exhibition YDG Founder


Ruipeng Wang, a new media artist, graduated from the Fiction and Entertainment program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).
With a background in painting, architecture, digital fabrication, and interactive art, he aims to utilize technology to reveal and express issues overlooked by mainstream technology, attempting to establish a new sense of embodiment and landscape that has distanced us from these fundamental experiences.
By connecting physical installations with digital generative entities, he created a series of works to build a rippling world where the digital and physical realms can understand and resonate.
He is also the founder of YDG (Youth Digital Group), and the leader of its new media artists collaborative team, YDG Lab.He is the initiator of this exhibition and the connected person of 706 Youth Space. Initiator statements The Evolutionary Space Exhibition is a platform hosting events and exhibitions with an incredible collective of new-generation talented digital artists. The aim is to establish a bridge in various global cities between communities, artists, and marketplaces through a revolutionary form of digital art exhibition: an annual simultaneous digital art exhibition and art festival from around the globe.

Qiutong Zhang


Brand Strategist, Designer, Curator Fab-Union, SENSO Lab
University of Melbourne MSD

YDG Cofounder

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Qiutong Zhang is a brand strategist, digital fabrication designer and curator with a special interest in the fusion of converging technologies with speculative designs. She received her Master’s degree in Architecture from University of Melbourne MSD, where she investigated in how parametric design and robotic fabrication can shape urban futures. She was the former Director of FUMeta and Marketing & Branding at Fab-Union, leading R&D in Metaverse direction, marketing and branding. She was the lead instructor of FUxMetaverse Workshop, and curated the first Global Metaverse Exhibition of DigitalFUTURES 2022, experimenting new forms of communication and exhibition in post-pandemic era. As R&D output, the team launched MetaPrinter and created FUDesign brand. She lead curation in participation of WRC2022 (World Robots Conference), WAIC2022 (World Artificial Intelligence Conference), West Bund Art & Design Fair 2022, broadly reported by influencial media such as CCTV, People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, 36Kr. Leading operation of FUSpace West Bund Gallery, her team curated the first exhibition of FUDesign brand: “Phygital Twin“. Professional projects involved are exhibited in MachineMade Digital Aura, SUSAS(Shanghai Urban Space Art Season) 2021. Through her career, she grows interest in connecting innovative ideas from talented individuals to platforms and resources, to develop a methodology encouraging future co-creations. In 2023, she co-founds YDAG (Youth Digital Artist Group), and leads operation of the brand incubator, SENSO Lab.

Oneness Zeng


Curator,director

Master of Arts in Language Studies from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Master of Arts in Arts and Cultural Studies from London University of the Arts. He was a lecturer at Savana Rock University in the United States and a visiting lecturer at City University of Hong Kong. Mindfulness MBCT at the University of Oxford, Expression Art Therapist at the University of the Arts of London.
With visual art at her core, she experiments with different mediums, including acting, art direction, and the art of the renaissance scene. She uses consciousness and energy as the main theme, and poetically and spiritually intervenes in the spiritual realm and social issues, exploring the possibilities of dreams and reality, history and memory, body and the universe.
As the director, creator, experimental art short film FLANEUR, and as an art director, the short film "Birds and Birds in the World" has won many international A film festival awards such as the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Golden Palm. The MV directed by the Night Wanderer entered the picture of the best MV at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. As an exhibition of visual artists, the photographic and video installations have been held at the Hong Kong International Film Festival as well as international art exhibitions. As a documentary director, Comrade Ren was selected for the Hong Kong documentary film Narcotics and has been invited to shoot the front and back of the world's major music festivals and musician documentaries.




Shilong Zhu

AIGC Digital Artist, Design Researcher Managing Designer of InnovitionDAO, SCI-Arc

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AIGC Digital Designer, Design Researcher of Design Innovation Institute Shanghai, Lead Designer of InnovisionDAO, Instructor of AIGC program at Baizao Academy. He graduated from SCI-Arc M.Arch2 program, focusing on exploring frontier collaborative work methods in multiple mediums and complex contexts. He has been actively experimenting in the fields of digital fabrication, artificial intelligence design, multimedia art, virtual reality technology, and digital education. His works have been presented at the Digital Design AIGC Builders and Creators Conference in Shanghai, the 2023 Shanghai Design Week series of exhibitions, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2023, and the 2023 World Design Cities Conference. YDG Artist Matchmaking Leader, responsible for contacting and matching digital artists and works from all over the world, and promoting the landing of the exhibition venue in Shanghai.


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