About Us
We are Harvard FAS CAMLab.

Integrating humanistic inquiry with cutting-edge technology and design, CAMLab explores innovative, interdisciplinary ways of showcasing art and culture through immersive installations, exhibitions, films, digital publications, and other multimedia forms.

What We Do
CAMLab creates and curates multimedia storytelling.

CAMLab creates and curates forward-looking, experimental work that explores enduring questions of human consciousness. Using cutting-edge multimedia storytelling and multi-sensory technologies, we model cultural and historical experiences that engage and transport participants beyond the here and now, across the continuum of time and space.

Guiding modern audiences through these immersive, imaginative spaces, we enable them to discover and access forms of knowledge that are otherwise impossible.

Our Story
We combine humanistic inquiry with cutting-edge technology and design.

No two CAMLab projects are the same—but each is grounded in a process that incorporates both expansive research and groundbreaking creative practice.

In some instances, digital technology and sensorial techniques breathe new life into an archival record. In others, it’s the archival record that lends form, substance, and nuance to projects that begin as aesthetic concepts.

CAMLab Cave
Public Visits

Located at 485 Broadway—just outside Harvard Yard—CAMLab Cave opened in the fall of 2022. It serves as a hub of innovative forms of knowledge production, pedagogy, and sensorial media practice. During Public Visits, Harvard FAS CAMLab welcomes audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies.

September 27, 2024 – November 24, 2024 | Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays | Hourly tours 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Advance reservation is required.

Location: Lower Level | 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

All are welcome. Tickets are pay-as-you-wish, with a suggested $10.00 for non-Harvard visitors. Proceeds directly support CAMLab’s future research and projects.

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Founder Story
Eugene Yuejin Wang
汪悦进

Founder and Director

Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. A Guggenheim Fellow (2005), he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2004). His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema. His book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005), explores Buddhist worldmaking; it received the Sakamoto Nichijin Academic Award from Japan. His current research focuses on cognitive study of art and consciousness as well as biocentric art that integrates visual, biological, and ecological systems.

He is also the founding director of Harvard FAS CAMLab that explores the nexus of cognition, aesthetics, and mindscape. The CAMLab projects he heads explores multimedia storyliving and immersive artistic-cum-spiritual experience, integrating humanistic research and sensorial media practice.

Co-founder Story
Chenchen Lu
吕晨晨

Co-founder and Associate Director

Chenchen Lu stands as a pioneering figure at the intersection of multiple disciplines, seamlessly blending her skills as an architect, art historian, media artist, filmmaker, and musician. At the helm of CAMLab’s innovative projects, she leads the team in transforming scholarly insights into multi-sensorial experiences that engage audiences in story-living digital theaters. Her current academic research delves into the Buddhist architecture of Medieval China, examining the intricate relationship between Buddhist mental practices, rituals, and the architectural landscapes of Buddhist caves, temples, and pagodas. Additionally, she investigates the world of music in Early China, focusing on the intersections of music theory, cosmology, and design principles. Before co-founding CAMLab with Prof. Eugene. Y. Wang, she practiced architecture in Zaha Hadid Architects and TeamMinus Atelier. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in architecture with honors from Tsinghua University in 2010 and went on to receive her Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University in 2015. Currently, she is furthering her academic journey by pursuing a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She received the Distinction in Teaching Award from Harvard University in 2018.

Executive Team
Lorna Campos

Financial & HR Manager

Ariel Qinru Hou

Project Manager

Simone Levine

Assistant Curator

Chenchen Lu
吕晨晨

Co-founder and Associate Director

Eugene Yuejin Wang
汪悦进

Founder and Director

Alina Yijia Yang

Project Manager

Advisory Board
Rob Li

Board Member

Jie Lu

Chair of Advisory Broad

Snow Qin

Board Member

Core Team
Vanessa Cai

Research Assistant

Menglan Chen

Research Associate
Project Manager

Valerie Doran

Fellow

Lilian Handlin

Senior Fellow

Elaine Yilin Huang

Project Manager

Sébastien Labrunie

Collaborative Artist

Sophie Xiaofei Lei

Research Associate
Project Manager

Chai Yee Leow

Post-doc Fellow

Dorothy Ruixi Li

Fellow

Lei Li

Fellow
Sound Artist

Yiyi Liang

Fellow
Research Assistant

Icey Lin

Research Assistant

Yiwen Liu

Post-doc Fellow

Ally Yanxiu Luo

Project Manager

Yao Meng

Research Associate

Michael Norton

Research Associate

April Xueyang Peng

Research Associate

Dimitri Thouzery

Collaborative Artist

Curry Sicong Tian

Visual Artist

Julia Qingye Wang

Research Associate

Mona Chuzhe Wang

Fellow
Designer

Joy Xiaolu Wu

Research Associate

Caren Wenqing Ye

Collaborative Artist

Alan Chun Shing Yeung

Fellow

Weidi Zhang

Collaborative Artist

Hui Zhao

Visual Artist

Fletcher Liujiyi Zuo

Fellow

CAMLab Associate and Visiting Scholar
Steffani Bennett

Associate (2022-2023)

Huizhong Bin

Associate (2020-2023)

Xiaojing Feng

Lecturer (2020-2023)

Rey-Sheng Her

Associate (2019-2023)

Yangxing Huang

Associate (2022-2023)

Yang Jiao

Visiting Scholar

Renjun Li

Associate (2022-2023)

Lijun Ma

Visiting Scholar

Xi Pan

Visiting Scholar

Wenhua Shi

Associate (2019-2022)

Bo Sun

Visiting Scholar

Chao Sun

Visiting Scholar

Zhuonan Wang

Associate (2020-2022)

Nan Wang

Associate (2019-2022)

Chuanbo Wang

Visiting Scholar

Yifeng Xie

Associate (2021-2023)

Aiban Yan

Associate (2020-2023)

Shunlai Yao

Associate (2019-2022)

Jingni Zhang

Visiting Scholar

Qin Zhang

Associate (2022-2024)

Jie Zhu

Associate (2022-2023)