Ruiqi Zhang
张瑞麒








































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Ruiqi Zhang
张瑞麒

He is a multimedia artist and educator based in Richmond Virginia. His practice and research press on sensitivity to digital technology when engaged in issues of online identity, media discourse, Internet culture, and critical surroundings. His initial awareness of digital power was formed by and linked through video art, which prompted his further exploration of ideology and cross-cultural experiences in 3D software, moving images, and video installations.

He employed a meandering narration approach to redirect his focus to the potential of reconfiguring autonomy, confrontation, and imagination. Through the organization of various irrelevant materials (3D objects, quotes, found images, theories, and scattered factors) in random juxtapositions, a hybrid stimulus is generated for snap meditation. His idea/method emulates the platform-based algorithmic mechanism, cultivating a non-human-centered perspective to reexamine the locus of our language.

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Ideal Home
Virtual Reality Experience, Meta Quest 3, 2025
Art Director: Ruiqi Zhang, Weitong Sun
Sound Artist: Jared Duesterhaus
Quest XR Technical Support: Gu Lin, Jiaqi Yang, Yufan Yao
Script Co-Writers: Rasim Bayramov, HWIY, Xinyue, Weitong Sun, Ruiqi Zhang, etc.
Editor: Artists-trained AI (GPT-4)

Ideal Home is an extended-reality (XR) narrative project exploring how immigrant experiences and the concept of home are reshaped through emerging technologies. Immigrant writers were invited to co-create a text archive of memory and displacement. A fine-tuned GPT-4 model rewrote it into a unified script, transforming cultural symbols into something unexpected.

By embedding the script into a game engine, the project blurs oral history and generative fiction, offering an alternative mode of engagement. A ghostly AI avatar drifts through layered interfaces, landscapes, and symbols, guiding players through flickering memories and cultural echoes—co-authoring a new language of belonging with machine intelligence.