Areas of Specialization: Avant-Garde & Experimental Moving Images, Media Aesthetics, Human-beyond-Human (Inter-)Subjectivity, New Materialism
Qianqi Zhang is a Ph.D. student in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University. Her research inquires into how human perception and artistic expression are inspired by and shaped through encounters with the more-than-human world, and how these exchanges are registered in avant-garde and experimental moving images. Qianqi received an MA in Cinema Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, an MA in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Communications from Beijing Language and Culture University.
As a filmmaker, Qianqi (pronounced “Chien-Chi” – like Un Chien Andalou!) recently collaborated with Bradley Eros on X-Ray Eros (2025), which was featured in "Bradley Eros: hẏstéry in every media" at Microscope Gallery, New York. They also worked on a sequel, X-Ray Kats (2026), for INTERCAT 2026, hosted by Spectacle and Film-Makers’ Cooperative. Qianqi is also a translator whose published translations in China include Albert Einstein’s Relativity (first edition, 2017; reprinted in 2019 and 2020) and Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh (2020), a selected compilation of Van Gogh’s letters.