Zhang Tianyi

Zhang Tianyi is a Chinese artist based in Beijing. She is currently conducting a PhD in Sci-Tech Arts at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA, Beijing, China) and holds a Master’s degree in Art and Technology from the same university. Her creative and research interests mainly involve ecological art and BioArt. Her ecological artworks use interdisciplinary research as a creative method and view technological advances as an important opportunity for ecological restoration. In her practice, she discusses the relationships between humans and ecology in the latest scientific and technological context and the potential of equal ecological relationships of non-anthropocentrism. She is keen to explore new ecological restoration methods by combining machines and ecology, as well as delve into new languages of ecological art.