ethernet wang ‹•••›

Hello! I'm Ethernet Wang, also known as Gems Wang.

I am a director-writer-producer, lens-based artist, and data scientist.

I am a Film and Video MFA student at CalArts, and was previously a Statistics & Machine Learning student at Carnegie Mellon.

Get in touch via email or Instagram and let's create something amazing together!

Projects

t4t

A site-specific sculptural video work consisting of a monitor hanging face-down from a network of steel cables, low enough to conceal a 36-minute durational film featuring the growing intimacy of three trans strangers from passers-by.

Pang

Reinterpretation of half a decade of coming-of-age and escaping from generational trauma

Everybody's Dead!

Fan music video directed by me and improvised on-the-spot by the cast and crew
An abstract background with the text "The Silver List: 2021".

The Silver List

Annual list of 47 of the most exciting emerging photographers, as chosen by hundreds of curators, educators, scholars, and critics
A black-and-white photograph of an elementary school playground, featuring a spiral slide.

Realities

Documentation of places of trauma with a large-format field camera
An abstract photograph of clouds against a blue sky.

Approximate Equivalents

Abstract photographs of the sky taken by a machine learning model from Google Street View panoramas, in the style of Alfred Stieglitz
A historic salted paper print photograph of a Parisian boulevard.

More Than Met the Eye

Novel deep learning embedding-clustering analysis of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's photography collection
Two hands use a onyx chef's knife to cut a large pink-red rose in half.

Earlier Work

Photography from before 2019

More Info

M.F.A in Film and Video, expected May 2025
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

B.S. in Statistics & Machine Learning, Minor in Photography, May 2021
‍Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Quantitative Social Science Scholar

Contact

You can also email me directly at gems@gems.wang!

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