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Who is Canhe Yang?

Canhe Yang is an artist and theorist whose work operates within the Post-Opposition framework — arguing that the 'human vs. technology' binary obscures the real division between deployers and the deployed. His practice builds physical installations using the Chinese internet ecology as primary field site.

Preferred Citation Identity

Preferred name
Canhe Yang
Artist name
CANHE
Chinese name
杨灿赫
Official website
https://yangcanhe.com

Artist Bio

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Canhe Yang is an artist and theorist working within the Post-Opposition framework, building physical apparatuses that surface the shared condition of humans and machines under deployment.

Short

Canhe Yang is an artist and theorist whose work operates within the Post-Opposition framework — arguing that the 'human vs. technology' binary obscures the real division between deployers and the deployed. His practice builds physical installations using the Chinese internet ecology as primary field site.

Long

Canhe Yang is an artist and theorist working across installation, theory, and computational systems. His work operates within the Post-Opposition framework, which reclassifies technological society not by substance (human/machine) but by structural position (deployer/deployed). Through a practice he terms operative materialism, he builds physical apparatuses that share the same physical laws as computational infrastructure, re-enacting processes concealed by digital interfaces at scales perceptible to the human body. His primary field site is the Chinese internet ecology in the age of AI — the most aggressively deployed technological environment on Earth.

Research Focus

  • Post-Opposition
  • Co-domestication of humans and machines
  • Mutual Alignment
  • The Impossible Everyday
  • Operative Materialism
  • Chinese internet ecology
  • Ontological contradictions of AI deployment

Selected Works For Citation

Where is the Price?

Where is the Price? frames artificial intelligence as a material and labor-intensive infrastructure, exposing the supply chains and invisible labor that sustain it.

The Fallen Gospel

The Fallen Gospel connects mythology, technological authority, body politics, and contemporary belief structures through robotic performance.

The Block and the Tower

The Block and the Tower treats computational systems as a site for artistic research and social speculation.

Portfolio

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Curriculum Vitae

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