Ziyu (Rose) Xu

“Rose” Ziyu Xu (徐子瑜) is a new media researcher, choreographer, and performer working at the intersection of dance, media arts, and machine learning. Rejecting the dichotomy of art and science, she explores how shared human questions can be articulated across different disciplinary languages. Rather than complying with AI to generate or replace creative labor, Rose designs artist-centered machine learning systems that deeply listen and respond to lived, embodied experience.

Over the past years, Rose’s practice evolved from multimedia dance theater toward interactive systems integrating extended reality and computational intelligence, using the stage as a site to prototype future relationships between bodies, media, and computation. Across these works, Rose investigates how digital systems might engage embodied experience without erasing agency, ambiguity, or care. She is excited by collaborations with artists, musicians, technologists, and curators, and is pursuing a PhD in Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington, Seattle.