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Lucy Siyao Liu is a Lecturer in the Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning. Her work interrogates the intersections of imaging technologies, cultural production, and natural systems, particularly through experimental drawings and animations. Notable projects include A Curriculum on the Fabrication of Clouds (2017), an installation blending historical and contemporary methods of cloud representation inspired by Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. She co-founded PROPS PAPER, a weekly publication exploring image-making processes with collaborators from diverse fields.
Her research examines the political and poetic implications of technological systems, focusing on how representational techniques—from Alexander Cozens’ 18th-century blotting methods to algorithmic plotter drawings—reflect colonial and modernist epistemologies. Exhibitions include Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Harvard’s Carpenter Center, and Beijing Design Week. Liu holds degrees in architectural design and fine art from Rhode Island School of Design.
Publications include contributions to Art in America (2019) and RISD Architectural Press. Collaborations with scholars like Tung-Hui Hu explore parallels between artistic and computational approaches to 'cloud' metaphors, questioning the materiality of digital infrastructure and historical archives.
