Nanao (2021) — Marshall

Marshall/Meixuan Wang is an independent graphic designer and a new-media artist based in Brooklyn.

As a graphic designer, she works with local merchandises and artists, creating brand experience that forge connections and shift cultures. She sees thoughtful design as a sensory experience that enhances community and amplifies brand’s impact.

As a new-media artist, She’s inbetween system, aesthetics, simulacra, and the reality we nest in.
Her works explore the lacunae and precariousness of digitality, and searching dissonant chorus in the natural and constructed world through moving images.

Marshall is currently working as a freelance designer. Previously she worked at MIT Media Lab and Kinestry. Marshall also co-founded Sequence, a New-York based art collective exploring gesture of care through indie-publishing and design goods.

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Emailempacymachine@gmail.com

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ART FAIRS and CREATIVE EVENTS
Jersey Art Book Fair, 2025
Press Play at Pioneer Works, 2024
Offset Book Fair, 2024
Brooklyn Art Book Fair, 2024
New Art Dealers Market, 2024
IBM Quantum Design Jam , 2023
MIT Reality Hack, 2023

Exhibitions
In Good Company, Flowing Space, NY, 2024
Spiraling Ashore, The New School, NY, 2024
Neuraliminal, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, MA, 2023
A Moving Images Experience, IIDRR Gallery, NY, 2023
Play As Social, National Gallery of Denmark,
Denmark, 2023
Neura Futures, MIT Media Lab, MA, 2022
It’s Not the End!, CalArts, CA, 2021

Talks and Press
Rebel Mag
Voyage LA
Ace Art & Edu
Design Live Graduate Talk
Young Blood Talk Series
CIAD Contemporary Art and Design
TNS Parsons First Year Program

Client
Nike Swim, Renault France, MeowWolf, Bestore Co. Crocs, Qingdao Brewery, Titeuf, Parsons School of Design, REDCAT, Studio Dimitri Chamblas, MIT Media Lab, CalArts School of Dance

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NANAO

Music video title lettering for GILA and Kloxii’s song NANAO.

‘NANAO’ is a rumination on unrequited love, dreaming of finding common ground but soon realizing you are stuck, alone and vulnerable.

The music video is a haunting tale of two lovers who find themselves drowning in toxic cycles of entanglement and codependency. Inspired by the ancient Chinese mythological book ‘The Classic of Mountains and Seas’ (山海经 ~300 B.C.), two dancers portray ‘MANMAN’（蛮蛮) a mythical beast formed of two conjoined one-eyed birds. As the video spirals, the two halves undergo a violent process of merging with flashes of fleeting intimacy and tenderness.

Role
Graphic Design, Lettering

Tool
Glyphs, Photoshop, After Effect
Credit

Writer/Director/ Cinematographer: Jay Swuen
Editors: Jay Swuen & Jas Lin
1st AC: Christopher Felix
Lead Dancers: Jas Lin, Jaclyn Chu
Ensemble Choreographer: Diana Schoenfield
Ensemble Dancers: Reese Taylor, Sakura Amano, Delaney Davis, Rachel Odebunmi, Ulara Amano, Jordan Mendelsohn, Kira Bartholomew
Graphic Designer: Marshall Wang
Stylist: Xiyu Lin
Makeup Artist: Justine Fang
Foreword Quote: "In The Mirror" by Zhang Zao

NANAO Official Music Video

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