Xiaowei Wang

Xiaowei R. Wang, PhD is a writer, artist, coder and postdoctoral fellow at UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice. Their work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, ecology and education. Their collaborative project FLOAT Beijing created air quality-sensing kites to challenge censorship and was an Index Design Awards finalist. Other projects have been featured by the New York Times, BBC, CNN, VICE and elsewhere. In 2013, they were a cultural diplomat exchange artist for the US Department of State American Arts Incubator/ZERO1 program. Their most recent project, The Future of Memory, was a recipient of the Mozilla Creative Media Award. They are the author of the book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech In China's Countryside (a 2023 National Book Foundation Science and Literature Program selection). Currently they are one of the lead facilitators of Collective Action School, an organizing community for tech workers, a Senior Civic Media Fellow at USC Annenberg, and faculty member in the Masters in Design for Responsible AI at ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering.

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