Suwen Wang is a London-based artist and design researcher working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital storytelling, and cultural heritage. He holds an MA in Digital Media Arts and a Master of Research in Communication Research from the Royal College of Art. His practice explores how immersive narrative systems and generative technologies can reconnect displaced cultural artifacts with fragmented histories, emotional memory, and geographic absence.
His work critically investigates the “heritage empathy gap” the emotional and psychological distance between contemporary audiences and cultural objects removed from their original contexts through looting, displacement, or archival separation. Through AI-generated voice, text, sound, and immersive spatial media, his practice transforms silenced artifacts into synthetic narrators that exist between historical memory and machine-generated subjectivity. The work challenges static museological representation and proposes alternative forms of digital restitution, speculative remembrance, and posthuman storytelling.
Rather than treating AI as a neutral production tool, he approaches it as a co-author capable of mediating memory, absence, identity, and loss. His installations combine generative systems with curatorial and cinematic sensibilities to create emotionally charged experiences that examine cultural displacement, illicit trafficking, colonial extraction, and the politics of representation. By blending algorithmic processes with affective storytelling, the work explores how machine-generated narratives can reshape public relationships with cultural heritage.
As a researcher, he investigates how design and emerging technologies can restore narrative agency to marginalized objects, forgotten histories, and displaced cultural memory. His broader research advocates for culturally situated and ethically grounded approaches to AI-driven storytelling, positioning digital media not only as a technological interface, but as a speculative space for empathy, reconstruction, and cultural reconnection.
EDUCATION
Cambridge University, Post Master In Data, Art, Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities, Cambridge, UK
Royal College of Art, MRes, Master of Research in Communication, London, UK
Royal College of Art, Master of Arts, Digital Direction Program, London, UK
Ling Tung University, VR/AR Interaction Design, Taiwan
CONFERENCES
GenAI and Creative Practices Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
AI and Heritage in a Digital World Conference, ICCROM UNESCO, Rome, Italy
27th International Council of Museums ICOM Conference, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE
Young Scholars Forum in Art Studies 2025, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
DARIAH-CH Study Day Conference, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
GOSIM Conference 2025 AI for Humanity Spotlight , Hangzhou, China
“Itinerant Space Doctoral Researchers Journal Issue 3” Royal College of Art, London, UK
Excellent Paper Award, "International Conference on Digital Humanities for East Asia Classics" Peking University
“AI Prompt Magazine” Prompt Magazine, July 2025 Issue, No. 15. Padua, Italy
“London Heritage 2025” The Royal Naval College, National Maritime Museum, University of Greenwich, AMPS UCL Press
“ARK Edition 2025 PARRHESIA” Published by Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
EXHIBITIONS
CVPR AI Art Gallery, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Denver Convention Center, United States.
SanctScapes: Spaces of the Sublime, Arts and Cultural Management Conference, The Amerlinghaus Cultural Center, Vienna, Austria.
“Ambition” FutureLab Art and Design Innovation Expo, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
Seoul International Ai Film Festival, enTravel Complex Cultural Space, Seoul, South Korea
FIRST Fantastic Film Festival, Untitled Unit, Beijing Tanko, China
"IDEA! Ecopulse: Energy Pulse" Youth Artists Exhibition, Xu Liaoyuan Museum, Chengdu, China
“2025 Media x Space: Beyond Illumination,” Binus University, School of Design, Indonesia
“Breaking Bourdaries” Tinglan Art Gallery, Shenyang, China
“International Fair on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Digital Innovation,” BolognaFiere, Italy
“MRes Research Journey” Hangar Space, Royal College of Art, London, UK
“Realm of Jade Digital Art Exhibition” The Guan Shine More Lab, Beijing, China
“Lingyuan AI Art and Design Exhibition” China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
“Through The Looking Glass” The Mall Gallery, London, UK
“Doves And Magpies Sharing A Nest” The Forge Gallery, London, UK
“Graduation Exhibition” Darwin Building, Royal College of Art, London, UK
“Environmental Sustainability Exhibition” Art lounge, South Kensington, London, UK
“AcrossRCA” South Kensington, Royal College of Art, London, UK