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haunted home. 2022, video game installation. 2022 Degree Show. UCL Slade School of Fine Art. London

common cold. 2022, multi-media installation. JUDD, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London

My work set out to make space to gather and make home in digital or other unexpected places. I make kinetic sculptures, videos, video games, and websites. The core of my practice revolves around exploring the intersection of gender queerness and diasporic queerness, with a focus on themes of mobility and the search for a sense of belonging. In my research, I delve into the material foundations of Technology, while celebrating the transformative nature of queering as a technological force. For instance, I have created retro-2D maps that challenge conventional ideas of artificial intelligence, exhibited at the EU Digital Future conference. I have also utilised glitch techniques to compile information on non-binary computing in an open-edit Google doc for the Toolkits for Counterparts project. My works have been showcased in various exhibitions and festivals. Notably, my video installation 'a play' explores the experiences of trans individuals and the vulnerability of our bodies, exhibited at Tomorrow Maybe Gallery as part of the Per.Platform #3 Fluidity & Impermanence Festival. Additionally, my film '绝对有错误翻译的情书/ بالکل غلط ترجمہ کے ساتھ محبت خط/a love letter that must have been mistranslated in parts' examines the complexities of lost love in translation, presented at the everywoman biennial in New York.

Yifan He makes kinetic sculptures, curates, and makes video games. They received the City of London x Set Studiomakers Prize 2022 and served as artist in residence for the Sustainable Physical and Digital Spaces for Education and Research at UCL East 2020, Spur Residency at Chaos Magic 2020-2021, and Posthuman Research Art Residency with ForeignObjekt 2022. Their recent work involves research-driven collaborative projects such as participating in the Conference on EU Digital Futures, Toolkits for Counterparts, CTM Festival 2021, and Margate Now 2020. Yifan's artwork has been exhibited worldwide, including the upcoming Frieze Corridor commission, London, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, ASC Gallery, London, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, D-Unit, Bristol, Superchief Gallery, New York, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Temporary Art Center, the Netherlands, and Tomorrow Maybe Gallery, Hong Kong. Yifan He makes kinetic sculptures, curates, and makes video games. They received the City of London x Set Studiomakers Prize 2022 and served as artist in residence for the Sustainable Physical and Digital Spaces for Education and Research at UCL East 2020, Spur Residency at Chaos Magic 2020-2021, and Posthuman Research Art Residency with ForeignObjekt 2022. Their recent work involves research-driven collaborative projects such as participating in the Conference on EU Digital Futures, Toolkits for Counterparts, CTM Festival 2021, and Margate Now 2020. Yifan's artwork has been exhibited worldwide, including the upcoming Frieze Corridor commission, London, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, ASC Gallery, London, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, D-Unit, Bristol, Superchief Gallery, New York, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Temporary Art Center, the Netherlands, and Tomorrow Maybe Gallery, Hong Kong.