As the culminating event of her artist residency at Northwestern, Quan Zhou will present a prototype of Linaje (Lineage), a transmedia installation that reconstructs the artist’s lost ancestry through AI-generated histories and artifacts—photographs, documents, drawings, and heirloom objects.
In this public talk, Quan will discuss fundamental questions faced by first-generation descendants of migrants whose genealogies are erased, fragmented, or illegible. She'll invite the community into a dialogue at the intersection of memory, migration, and digital speculation, expanding the possibilities of what it means to reclaim and reimagine ancestry in the AI age.
Quan Zhou is the Spring 2026 Artist in Residence of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Kaplan Humanities Institute.
Cost: Free and public welcome!
Jill Mannor
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