Bio

Jiabao Zhao is a Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist, design computation specialist, and creative technologist working across sculpture, installation, animation, and immersive spatial environments. His practice explores the relationship between cultural memory, symbolic structures, material transformation, and contemporary urban experience through both digital and physical forms.

Working between computational systems and tactile material processes, Zhao develops sculptural and spatial works that combine digital fabrication, ceramic processes, moving image, and spatial design methodologies. Drawing from architectural thinking, procedural generation, and speculative visual language, his practice investigates how abstracted forms can function as imagined artefacts, ceremonial structures, or future relics situated between mythology, civic space, and contemporary culture.

Alongside his independent artistic practice, Zhao has over a decade of professional experience in advanced computational design and fabrication workflows across large-scale civic and infrastructure projects throughout Australia and Asia. This intersection between artistic experimentation, fabrication logic, and public spatial thinking informs works that balance technical precision with atmospheric and material sensitivity.

His recent practice includes public art commissions, exhibitions, and collaborative installations spanning sculpture, moving image, and spatial environments. Zhao also operates through RandomPlayer Lab, an interdisciplinary platform exploring collaborative approaches to contemporary art, public space, design, and emerging technologies.

Randomplayer Lab is an interdisciplinary creative studio and collaborative platform operating across art, design, and emerging technologies. The lab brings together artists, designers, and technologists from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds to explore new forms of spatial storytelling and contemporary visual expression.

Working through collaboration and co-creation, Randomplayer Lab develops projects shaped by dialogue between disciplines, places, and perspectives. The studio embraces cultural plurality, celebrating diverse aesthetic traditions while seeking shared visual languages that can resonate across communities and contexts.

The practice spans installation art, visual art, animation, and both digital and physical sculpture, often combining computational systems with material processes. Projects move fluidly between virtual and physical environments, treating artworks as evolving experiences rather than fixed objects.

Community engagement forms an essential part of the studio’s approach. Through participatory processes, workshops, and collaborative development, Randomplayer Lab positions artistic creation as a space for exchange, learning, and collective imagination, contributing to more inclusive and meaningful public environments.

Guided by experimentation and interdisciplinary dialogue, each project develops its own visual logic shaped by context and collaboration. The studio’s work explores how art and design can create moments of reflection and connection within the rhythms of contemporary urban life, reflecting the layered diversity of shared human experience.

Contact: Jiabao.zhaoo@gmail.com