hua xi zi “cecilia” is an artist and researcher working across image productions, performances, and network infrastructures. xi zi cares for perspectives floating between systems of sociocultural and geopolitical structures, concerns about agency and control confronting technological development in situated environments, and observes tactics, aesthetics, and memories formed between individuals and coordinated publics.
xi zi is participating in the Xu Bing Space Art Residency (in collaboration with Patrick O'Shea as a newly-formed collective), 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" and "D-NORMAL/V-ESSAY" 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