Hello! I'm Gems Wang, also known as James Thomas Wang.

I am a data scientist, lens-based artist, and interdisciplinary researcher.
In other words, I work at the union of machine learning, statistics, photography, and film.

I am a Film and Video MFA student at CalArts, and was previously a Statistics & Machine Learning student at Carnegie Mellon.

Get in touch via email or Instagram and let's create something amazing together!

Projects

t4t

A site-specific sculptural video work consisting of a monitor hanging face-down from a network of steel cables, low enough to conceal a 36-minute durational film featuring the growing intimacy of three trans strangers from passers-by.

Pang

Reinterpretation of half a decade of coming-of-age and escaping from generational trauma

Everybody's Dead!

Fan music video directed by me and improvised on-the-spot by the cast and crew

The Silver List

Annual list of 47 of the most exciting emerging photographers, as chosen by hundreds of curators, educators, scholars, and critics

A black-and-white photograph of an elementary school playground, featuring a spiral slide.

Realities

Documentation of places of trauma with a large-format field camera

An abstract photograph of clouds against a blue sky.

Approximate Equivalents

Abstract photographs of the sky taken by a machine learning model from Google Street View panoramas, in the style of Alfred Stieglitz

A historic salted paper print photograph of a Parisian boulevard.

More Than Met the Eye

Novel deep learning embedding-clustering analysis of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's photography collection

Two hands use a onyx chef's knife to cut a large pink-red rose in half.

Earlier Work

Photography from before 2019

More Info

M.F.A in Film and Video, expected May 2025
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

B.S. in Statistics & Machine Learning, Minor in Photography, May 2021
‍Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Quantitative Social Science Scholar

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