Xiaowei R. Wang is an artist, writer and educator. They are the author of Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside, selected for the 2023 National Book Foundation Science and Literature Award Program. Their research and creative practice critically examine the entanglements between technology, racial capitalism, modes of care, and environmental justice - taking form through speculative fiction, prose, nonfiction, sculpture and textiles.
Their writing has appeared in TANK, transmediale, The Nation, and other publications. They have shown work and given talks at places including SFMoMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Palazzo San Giuseppe Polignano a Mare, Taipei Design City Exhibition, Beijing Design Week, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and IxDA Switzerland.
While at MacDowell, Wang worked on chapters for the non-fiction book, Great is The Matter of Life and Death. The book looks at how technology has changed our understandings of care through specific turning points in time — the early 1900s, the 1960s and the late 1990s.
