WEILU GE
Weilu Ge is a composer, media artist and undisciplined scholar based in Cambridge, MA. She works with various media forms, from concert music, installation, performance to video and innovative technology. Her works explore theatrical expressions of sonic, visual and spatial media, taking composition as critical means to examine relationships between power, system, body, and technology in a social-cultural context.
Situated at the intersection of music, art, technology, media theory, STS, and speculative design, her research-creation investigates creative and critical applications of listening across disciplines. Her dissertation theorizes performative listening and play as social and tactical media practices that intervene in the dominant mechanisms of surveillance capitalism, psychopolitics, and algorithmic control. She is an active member of IMUU, an artist collective specializing in working with intermedia narratives to create interactive and immersive experiences.
Weilu’s works have been presented at festivals and conferences internationally. Her recent music has been performed by ensembles including airborne extended, Duo XAMP, catinblack ensemble, collective lovemusic, and ensemble recherche among others. Her recent spatial compositions and media art creations have been presented in numerous planetariums and immersive spaces around the world including Artechhouse NYC (US), SAT Montreal (CA), Museum of Science Boston (US), MUTEK (MX), Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (FR), Melbourne Planetarium (AU), C-LAB (TW), Berlin Zeiss Planetarium (GE), Chromosphere (PL), Des Images Paris (FR), Fiske Planetarium (US), Planetarium 1 (RU) among others.
Weilu holds an Interschool MFA in Art and Technology & Composition & Experimental Sound Practice with a concentration in Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts, and an MM in Computer Music from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry at Harvard University. As part of her research and practice, she is actively engaged in cross-disciplinary dialogues and art-science collaborations among departments, research labs and artist communities across and beyond the Harvard/MIT campuses.