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Viv Qiu is an artist and designer based in the Bay Area. They draw from their work as a researcher, curator, tattooer, and creative technologist to expand the shape of memory and the ways it is revisited.

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Viv Qiu is an artist, designer, and creative technologist based in the Bay Area, co-parented by Chinese immigrants and the internet. Their focus lies in access and archival. Interested in how technology and institutions mediate memory, they think about what gets recorded, how it is kept, and who gets to see it. Compelled by nostalgia, Qiu explores the aesthetic, and philosophical notions of remembering and forgetting. They use tattoo and new media to explore tender technology, permanence as a spectrum, multimodality, and ephemera. As a cultural worker, Qiu interrogates how memory is subject to hegemonic standards of rigor and at risk for subsumption. Their work bridges object and theory, aesthetic and systemic.

Qiu holds a BA in Industrial Design with a concentration in Intelligent Environments from Carnegie Mellon University and runs Output Field (an art organization gathering a database of people, collectives, & projects in experimental arts & research). They have been featured for their work in experimental arts, new media, and network cultures at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California College of the Arts, The Lab, Gray Area, New Art City, Melrose Botanical Garden, and soon, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. Their work has been publicized on TTTism, Collide24, and Clot Mag.

Feel free to contact me for collaborations, lectures, or freelance experience design work: talk@vivqiu.com.