Electronic Womb: Cyber Discipline and Nüwa’s Awakening

Electronic Womb: Cyber Discipline and Nüwa’s Awakening / Yuxuan Cai, Dian Song, Handan Wei, Yutong Xie, Zilin Zhao, Zhihua Zhou - Photo: Zilin Zhao

Exhibit

Electronic Womb: Cyber Discipline and Nüwa’s Awakening

Yuxuan Cai (CN), Dian Song (CN), Handan Wei (CN), Yutong Xie (CN), Zilin Zhao (CN), Zhihua Zhou (CN)

This multimedia project explores cyberfeminism, dissecting how digital systems discipline female experiences while offering paths of resistance. It fuses an AI reimagining of the Chinese goddess Nüwa to challenge stereotypes, a live AI censorship battle that alters “inappropriate” content into absurd forms to bypass media censorship, and an interactive game that grounds surveillance concepts in the social perceptions of women who smoke. The project highlights cyberfeminist strategies for reclaiming identity in digital realms.

Credits

Electronic Womb: Cyber Discipline and Nüwa’s Awakening consists of three pieces: 1. Nüwa by Yuxuan Cai 2. BLACK LUNG STORY by Dian Song, Handan Wei, Yutong Xie, Zhihua Zhou 3. Rules and Resistance Duet by Zilin Zhao

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