Wendi Yan & Karyn Nakamura on the Artifice of Knowledge
Wendi Yan and Karyn Nakamura are artists, technologists—and friends. In the following conversation, a glimpse into their everyday “joint psychoanalysis,” Yan and Nakamura discuss the origins of their practices, which circle the same questions from different angles. They cover the inseparability of image- and knowledge-making, knowledge as an artificial construction, and the tools that make them feel like gods.
Karyn Nakamura, Noise Pile (installation view), 2023. Courtesy of the artist Wendi Yan & Karyn Nakamura on the Artifice of Knowledge Wendi Yan and Karyn Nakamura are artists, technologists—and friends. In the following conversation, a glimpse into their everyday “joint psychoanalysis,” Yan and Nakamura discuss the origins of their practices, which circle the same questions from different angles. They cover the inseparability of image- and knowledge-making, knowledge as an artificial construction, and the tools that make them feel like gods. Wendi Yan: I recently started reading…
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