Tony Zhou
周雨桐
うきり


E-mail zhouyt.tony2018@gmail.com
Instagram ukiri.z

Tony is an artist-researcher exploring symbolic systems as living structures. Working across visual language, embodied media, and worldbuilding, he develops languages, games, and electronic artifacts that guide flows of meaning, vitality, and experience.

Rooted in early Chinese cosmologies, craft traditions, and contemplative experience, his practice reimagines symbols not as abstract vehicles of representation, but as things to manipulate, inhabit, and think through.

His work is an ongoing search for a living script: rule-bound yet fluid, constructed yet organic, symbolic yet inhabitable.


桐是一名活文字的探索者。
他的创作游走于视觉语言、具身媒介与世界构筑之间,通过构造语言、游戏与器物,引导意义、生命力与经验的流转。

他的实践扎根于中国早期宇宙观、工艺传统与内观经验,并试图重新想象符号:它并非只是某种抽象媒介,而是可被摆弄、栖居、体会与玩味之物。

这是一场对「活文字」的恒久探寻——
它有法度,却不僵死;
它为人所构,却自有生机;
它为象征,而人可居游其中。