Canhe is a cross-media artist and researcher whose practice interrogates the entanglement of technology and human life. Working at the confluence of critical theory, media studies, and artistic experimentation, his work examines how contemporary technologies intervene in, reshape, and restructure everyday experience. He is particularly concerned with the shifting position of ordinary individuals within social structures under the dominance of grand technological narratives.

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Yang’s trajectory has recently moved from the position of a critical observer to that of an active constructor. He advances the speculative framework of temporary alliances between “ordinary humans” and “ordinary machines”—a counter-hegemonic imagination that challenges the monopolization of creativity and agency by technological elites. This concept is being developed textually and will be tested through practice, as Yang seeks to confront the intensifying dynamics of digital colonialism and technological hegemony in the globalized present.

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His practice spans a wide range of media—from installation and sculpture to interactive systems—reflecting a refusal to be confined by disciplinary boundaries. Beyond his artistic production, Yang has provided digital art services for leading institutions including Adidas International, the National Museum of China, Alibaba, and Cosmo magazine. In 2022, he became a contracted digital artist with Output. Currently, he directs R&C Design Studio, an experimental design practice exploring how generative AI intersects with material culture to reimagine the mechanisms of cultural heritage reproduction.

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Yang is also active in pedagogy and knowledge exchange. He has taught as a visiting lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, delivering courses on GenAI-enabled cultural heritage innovation and technologically driven art and design. He is now affiliated with the School of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University, where he supports the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) teaching team in courses on media art, spatial narratives, and design foundations.

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In both practice and theory, Yang’s work insists on making visible the infrastructures and ideologies embedded in contemporary technologies, while opening speculative pathways toward more egalitarian human–machine futures.

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能祂是一位跨媒介艺术家与研究者，其实践聚焦于技术与人类生活的缠绕关系。在批判理论、媒介研究与艺术实验的交汇处，他探讨当代技术如何介入、重塑并重构个体的日常经验，尤其关注在宏大技术叙事主导下，普通个体在社会结构中的位置转移。

近年来，能祂的研究路径从批判性的观察者转向积极的建构者。他提出了“普通人类”与“普通机器”之间的临时性联盟这一推测性框架，作为对抗技术精英垄断创造力与能动性的想象。当前，这一理论正在通过文本建构，而下一个阶段，他将通过实践进一步验证，以回应全球化语境下日益加剧的数字殖民与科技霸权。

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他的艺术实践涵盖装置、雕塑、交互系统等多种媒介，呈现出对学科边界的主动突破。除个人创作外，能祂亦为诸多机构提供数字艺术服务，包括Adidas国际、中国国家博物馆、阿里巴巴及《时尚COSMO》等。2022年，他成为Output签约数字艺术家。目前，他运营实验设计工作室“反观设计（R&C Design Studio）”，聚焦生成式AI与物质文化的交织方法论，探索文化遗产在当代表达中的再生产机制。

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在教育与知识传播方面，能祂曾以客座教师身份于中央美术学院与北京服装学院授课，教授以生成式AI赋能的文化遗产创新设计，以及基于新技术的艺术与设计课程。当前，他加入厦门大学创意与创新学院，协助英国UCA教学团队开展媒介艺术、空间叙事与设计通修等课程。