Yang Feng

Profile

My doctoral research studies how the digital changes the ways of engaging and participating with/in art for and beyond humans. I am particularly interested in the evolving intersections between art and science, and the expansion of digital participation across multiple domains, which characterises today’s context. In examining this ever-changing contemporary landscape, where the boundaries between artist and participant, human and nonhuman, art and science are increasingly blurred and distilled, I seek to reconsider the roles of both art and the artist from the perspective of an art historian/critic.

Conferences

Power for the People: Art, Protest, and the Archives of Activism, Henry Moore Institute and Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, 2025

Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges:Interdisciplinary Creativity in Arts and Technology, Ionian University, Greece, 2025

Virtual Spaces and New Horizons: Humanities in the Digital Age, SOAS-Tsinghua Symposium, UK-China Humanities Alliance International Forum Serises: World Maps and World Cultures, 2025

Awards

AHC Faculty Research Dissemination Award, 2025-2026

Research interests

• The proliferation and transformation of digital participation

• Participatory and socially engaged art

• Interrelations between artists, participants, and machines

• Nonhuman agency and posthuman perspectives

• Democracy and participation in art and society

Qualifications

• MA History of Art (Modern and Contemporary Art) with Distinction, University of York
• BA History of Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China