Network/Web/Internet
SATELLITE IMAGE EXCHANGE
ALL JUST FRESH-OFF-THE-BOAT OR FLOATING
LIANAS
IMAGE_EXCHANGE
ACCIDENTAL PHONE CAPTURE SERIES
Performance (on-site + online)
I’M SORRY: A PERFORMED APOLOGY
边/GRAB AND SHOOT BETWEEN SIDES
THE LAST SHOOT III
WEB CAM DIES IN THE SEA
SHADOW OF THE SHADOW/罔两问景
AI
VITIV
Film/Video
氣/Qi
HUA清池观看游记/HUA QING CHI TRAVEL NOTES
UN-EXPOSING/影像连结
WHERE ARE YOU FROM
SING INTO THE VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK
WINDOW
The FEEDBACK OF LOOKING
FANTASY OF BEING IN EXILE
100 Ft.
Installation
捕/Capture: A Solo Exhibition
降B调的玻璃罩/GLASS COVER IN B FLAT
THE LAST SHOOT
SEEING AND HUMMING
JIYŪ• BUZIYOU 自由·不自由
SEE,AGAIN,THE PASSING OF LIGHT/
再び、見る、消え去る光
Writing
MANIFESTO
FANTASY FOR SOLITUDE
WRITINGS & NOTES
ABOUT
MYSELF, MY PATHS, AND MY WORKS
滑惜子 is my name, or Xizi Hua on official documents; Xizi “Cecilia” Hua at school, Cecilia Hua on jobs and at events; or I could invent a Xi Zi Hua, or a Hua Xi Zi. 滑/hua is a rare last name, 惜子/xi zi means “precious child.” I like hua xi zi better now, but I miss Cecilia. My friends call me cc. I sometimes write it out as c* for online identities.
I work with tools of capturing and projecting images and videos with sound; perform with my own body and bodies in a community (with Grass Stage theater collective); think with the infrastructure of technological productions and internet networks and continue to look for ways to “un-expose” while seeking for alternative yet sustaining methods and aesthetics to connect, to be with, and to co-exist across borders, both virtually and locally, to confront with complex, intense and unspeakable emotions. I have always been aware of and thinking about my fluidity, privilege and limitations when traveling across borders, cultures, ideologies and the firewall. The question I’ve been asking probably centers around: if we can’t opt out from the machines, how do we create the technical protocols of our own while holding power of resistance with agency and co-exist...?
“hua xi zi is an artist and researcher working between productions of images, performances, and network infrastructures. xi zi cares for perspectives between sociocultural, geopolitical, and systematic differences, concerns about agency and control confronting technological development between individuals and the commons. xi zi was a 2024 Summer of Protocols researcher, recently taught a media and net art class at East China Normal University and a member of the ‘Grass Stage’ theater collective.
Her media installations and performance works exhibited at the Pond Gallery in Chengdu (solo show), Hairpin Arts Center and Zhou B Art Center with Asian Improv aRts Midwest in Chicago, the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, the Setouchi Triennale in Takamatsu, Japan, and others; her videos and writing participated in "Our Manifesto II" by Floating Projects Collective and videos collected by Videotage in Hong Kong; film works screened at festivals such as Slamdance Film Festival and SF Cinematheque CROSSROADS, Seattle Asian American Film Festival and others.
hua xi zi received her MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA in Cinema and Media Studies at University of Southern California. xi zi is also an alumna of classes ‘Machine Language,’ ‘Solidarity Infrastructures,’ and ‘Making Mistakes,’ taken virtually at the School for Poetic Computation.”
contact me:
ceciliaxizi<at>gmail<dot>com;
or find me on instagram @ceciliyazi
contact for cv
I work with tools of capturing and projecting images and videos with sound; perform with my own body and bodies in a community (with Grass Stage theater collective); think with the infrastructure of technological productions and internet networks and continue to look for ways to “un-expose” while seeking for alternative yet sustaining methods and aesthetics to connect, to be with, and to co-exist across borders, both virtually and locally, to confront with complex, intense and unspeakable emotions. I have always been aware of and thinking about my fluidity, privilege and limitations when traveling across borders, cultures, ideologies and the firewall. The question I’ve been asking probably centers around: if we can’t opt out from the machines, how do we create the technical protocols of our own while holding power of resistance with agency and co-exist...?
“hua xi zi is an artist and researcher working between productions of images, performances, and network infrastructures. xi zi cares for perspectives between sociocultural, geopolitical, and systematic differences, concerns about agency and control confronting technological development between individuals and the commons. xi zi was a 2024 Summer of Protocols researcher, recently taught a media and net art class at East China Normal University and a member of the ‘Grass Stage’ theater collective.
Her media installations and performance works exhibited at the Pond Gallery in Chengdu (solo show), Hairpin Arts Center and Zhou B Art Center with Asian Improv aRts Midwest in Chicago, the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, the Setouchi Triennale in Takamatsu, Japan, and others; her videos and writing participated in "Our Manifesto II" by Floating Projects Collective and videos collected by Videotage in Hong Kong; film works screened at festivals such as Slamdance Film Festival and SF Cinematheque CROSSROADS, Seattle Asian American Film Festival and others.
hua xi zi received her MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA in Cinema and Media Studies at University of Southern California. xi zi is also an alumna of classes ‘Machine Language,’ ‘Solidarity Infrastructures,’ and ‘Making Mistakes,’ taken virtually at the School for Poetic Computation.”
contact me:
ceciliaxizi<at>gmail<dot>com;
or find me on instagram @ceciliyazi
contact for cv