gems Wang

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.

Get in touch with me and let's create something amazing together!

Projects

Everybody's Dead!

Music video directed by me and improvised on-the-spot by the cast and crew.

An abstract background with the text "The Silver List: 2021".

The Silver List

A prestigious list of 47 emerging photographers, chosen by hundreds of curators, educators, scholars, and critics

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

Realities

Grappling with separation, comparing realities

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

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

A boy sits in the back seat of a car, looking out the window to a foggy hillside. The window holds the remnants of a handprint formed from condensation.

A Year

Evidence of a forgotten year

Shame

What if I don't need to apologize for my existence?

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

Earlier Work

Photography from before 2019

Additional Info

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

Instagram — Are.na — Resume

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