In Vitro

In Vitro, a multi-media artist duo co-founded by Xiyue Hu and Xing Xiao, engages in media art, 3D filmmaking and development based on game engines, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Their creations centered around biology, complex systems, and artificial intelligence, involve interdisciplinary collaborations with archaeologists and biologists. In Vitro holds the view that modern science and humanities are intertwined, not independent or irreducible fields. Utilizing game engines, they craft real-time simulations of complex systems mirroring ecosystems. They attempt to expand their explorations to discussions on the mechanisms of biological organization, social and economic organization, drawing parallels between the two.

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Education

• Xiyue Hu
  Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, avec les félicitations du jury, 2023–2025
  Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, 2° Livello, 2017
• Xing Xiao
  Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, avec les félicitations du jury, 2023–2025
  École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Post-Master Papillon, 2022
  École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, avec les félicitations du jury, DNSEP, 2020

Solo Exhibitions

• Le Dernier Jour du Cambrien, 5UN7 Gallery, Bordeaux, France, 2021

Group Exhibitions

• Desert Star – Panorama 27, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France, 2025
• Nature naturante – Panorama 26, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France, 2024
• A-Real Engine – The 18th Digital Art Festival Taipei, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 2023
• The 4th ARTEX, French National Centre for Scientific Research – Institute Systems Complexes (CNRS – ISC-PIF), Paris, France, 2023
• L'Art préhistorique, de l’Atlantique à la Méditerranée, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France, 2023
• Jeu de Mondes 2.0, Château d’Eau – Antre Peaux, Bourges, France, 2023
• Chongqing Light and Shadow Art Festival Invitation Stage, Chongqing, China, 2022
• Chongqing Holographic Fragments, Chongqing Times Art Museum, Chongqing, China, 2023
• Fluid Identity 流动的身份, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2022
• Digitale Caverne, Galerie des Tables, Bordeaux, France, 2021
• Bu Liang Ti Tai | What’s Up the Body, online NFT exhibition, YeahDAO, 2021
• From Fake Mountains to Faith & The Colonial Warehouse, Bordeaux Archives, France, 2020
• Eye of Storm 台风眼, Ultramontane Gallery, Hangzhou, China, 2020
• Night Mess, Espace Saint-Rémi, Bordeaux, 2019

Lectures & Workshops

• 2023 – Complex Science × Art Series Seminars, Swarm Club, Online
• 2022 – Guest lecturer of workshop “The pursuit of technology” of media arts at Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China