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ZZYW (Yang Wang & Zhenzhen Qi) is a New York-based art and research duo who examines the cultural, political, and educational imprints of computation. Their work ThingThingThing (2019), included in the ongoing exhibition “World on a Wire” at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing and online at worldonawire.net, is a computational system made for collaborative worlding, resulting in a live simulation in which entities generated by users interact in an ever-evolving three-dimensional world. The below essay explores the history and thinking behind ThingThingThing. You can see the work itself here.

ZZYW (Yang Wang & Zhenzhen Qi) is a New York-based art and research duo who examines the cultural, political, and educational imprints of computation. Their work ThingThingThing (2019), included in the ongoing exhibition “World on a Wire” at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing and online at worldonawire.net, is a computational system made for collaborative worlding, resulting in a live simulation in which entities generated by users interact in an ever-evolving three-dimensional world. The below essay explores the history and thinking behind ThingThingThing. You can see the work itself her