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Ivan Zhao | Material Horse

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Ivan Zhao is a creative technologist with a love for the weird and wacky things in the world.

Exhibited during Fidget Camp 2025, Material Horse is a contemporary revision of the piece Horse In Motion. Made with 14 frames across different materials (riso, beads, marker, tape, paint, pencil, photo, and others), it was exhibited during the end of Fidget Camp in the Mission in SF as a series of prints and an animation. Part horse, part amorphous medium, it's a statement on the power of collaboration, and the range of the human skillset. Material horse is a rebellion against the optimization of artificial intelligence, and a desire to automate the materiality of the human hand. Who are…

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