Canhe Yang is a research-based artist and technical critic. His practice is unified under the conceptual framework of Post-Opposition, which argues that the defining division in technological society is not between humans and machines but between deployers — those who design, own, and operate technical systems — and the deployed: ordinary people and ordinary machines alike, co-trained and co-accelerated by the same optimization functions.

Working across installation, computational systems, and critical writing, Yang renders perceptible what the interface normally conceals: the supply chains behind a finished device, the labor folded into a model's weights, the silence a system is made to perform. His primary field site is the Chinese internet ecology — the most aggressively deployed technological environment on Earth — which he treats as a high-resolution site for claims about the politics of carbon and silicon under platform capitalism.

Yang holds an MA in Art and Science (Distinction) from Central Saint Martins, UAL, and a BFA from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. He is based in Xiamen, China. He was named an Outstanding Reviewer by Leonardo (MIT Press) in 2026 and was nominated for the Maison/0 This Earth Award in 2025.

Research Focus

• Post-Opposition and the deployer/deployed divide
• Carbon-silicon politics and infrastructural visibility
• Chinese internet ecology as field site
• Platform capitalism and co-acceleration
• Computational materiality and AI as political apparatus