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Gerui Wang
Gerui Wang is a Lecturer at Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies. She teaches media, art, and AI, as well as art and ecology. Her course on art and AI has received the 2024 Stanford Teaching Advancement Award, and was selected to be part of the Stanford Course Design Institute. Her research interests span arts, public policy, environment, and technologies. Gerui leads a digital humanities project: Storytelling with AI at Stanford University. The website will be archived by Stanford Libraries. Her first book Landscape, Governance, and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960-1368CE is forthcoming. The manuscript demonstrates the overlooked ecological thinking in landscape imagery and policy debates that addressed both situations of environmental wellbeing and damage in pre-industrial China. Gerui has published in the Journal of Chinese History and Newsletter for International China Studies. Her current research examines digital media, artistic agency, social equity, and human-machine entanglement in the age of AI. Gerui contributes regularly on topics such as AI ethics, AI’s impact on media, society and culture. Her articles appeared in Alan Turing Institute’s AI & Arts Forum, Australian National University’s Center on China in the World, Asia Times, The Wire China, South China Morning Post, and Forbes. She is also a member of the Teaching Art History with AI group, an NEH-funded workshop at the University of Pittsburgh. Gerui’s research has been supported by the Software Sustainability Institute based at the supercomputing center of the University of Edinburgh, University of California Professional Development Award, Mellon Foundation, Freer Fellowships, Liberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and among others. Gerui holds a Ph.D. in history of art from the University of Michigan.
